The extravagant Hajj caravans of the sultans’ wives

Through extravagant processions led by palace women, the Mamluk state projected a message of power and prestige at home and abroad, turning the Hajj obligation into a soft-power tool

Yasmin Abdallah

Crude World

[escenic_image id="5511454"] Peter Maass Alfred A Knopf 2009 In The Pearl, the 1947 novella by the American novelist John Steinbeck, an impoverished Mexican diver named Kino scoops up an…

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The Die is Cast

[escenic_image id="5510968"] Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan Penguin Group 2006 Everything is subject to testing including the intangible. Michael and Ellen Kaplan argue that probability is a tool…

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