I have read two biographies of the Prophet Muhammad over the years. For Ramadan 2026, I am reading two recently published biographies. Muhammad and the…
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Month: March 2026
Cairo Geniza—Part 1
The term “Cairo Geniza,” to the initiated, refers to a repository of priceless ancient texts found in 1896 in a synagogue in Cairo. These texts…
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Lord Denning The Judge and the Law, 1984
Lord Devlin, in an insightful foreword to this book of essays on Lord Denning’s contribution to the law, said, in the beginning paragraph, that there…
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Hankow, Shanghai and Chinese Society in the 18th century
Hankou, also spelled Hankow, is one of the three Imperial towns (the other two are Wuchang and Hanyang) that merged to become modern-day Wuhan City,…
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Names chosen for military operations – Part 1
The name given to a military operation is taken very seriously. The US military strike on Iran on 28 Feb 26 is named Operation Epic…
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Years That Changed China
1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (1982) by Ray Huang is a winner of the American Book Award for History.…
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