Robert Morrison, Bowdoin’s George Lincoln Skolfield Jr. Professor of Religion, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation to pursue a book on Islamic influence on the ...

It began with a tweet. On April 16, 2019, a day after the Notre Dame Cathedral had been engulfed by flames in Paris, Middle East scholar Diana Darke noted on Twitter that the great icon of French ...

The Moors built dazzling mosques and palaces with intricate designs and calligraphy. Muslim Moors ruled Spain and Portugal for centuries and that civilization was a bright spot as much of Europe was ...

Medieval cuisine came into being with the Crusades. During that time, Europeans conquered Jerusalem and neighboring principalities. They conquered and plundered Constantinople. At the same time, the ...