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In the thirteenth century, an edict of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan ordained that the Ismaili Muslims, who had hitherto resisted all attempts at subjugation, be utterly destroyed. Shafique Virani examines the most obscure portion of this period, from the mid-thirteenth century to the end of the fifteenth century....

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less        well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Hoffmann        has thought and written extensively about a wide variety of other topics, such as        chemistry's relationship to philosophy, literature, and the arts, including...

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Christian Theology in Historical PerspectiveChurch historian and op-ed writer David Steinmetz examines problems in the present by using the perspective the past affords - primarily, though not exclusively, the church's past....

The Hagiography of the Female Saints of ElyFrom the tenth century, the monastic community at Ely venerated a group of female saints: AEthelthryth, its founding patroness, who died in 679, supposedly a virgin despite two marriages; her sister Seaxburh; another supposed sister Wihtburh, whose remains had been stolen by the monks of Ely from her tomb...

This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems - many of which are presented here for the first time in English translation - were written from the early eighteenth century up to the contemporary period. They represent the unique Bengali tradition of goddess worship...