Islam
“There is One God”: Teaching Sikhism and Syncretism
A discussion of how to teach the Hindu and Islamic influences on Sikhism.
“Filled with Various Races”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Long Nineteenth Century
A discussion of how to teach the Indian Ocean exchange network in the nineteenth century.
“Entered Malabar and Built Mosques”: The Spread of Islam in Southern India
A discussion of how to teach about the spread of Islam in the Indian Ocean
“Merchants From All Quarters”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network, c.1000 - c.1500
Discussion of how to teach the Indian Ocean exchange network between 1000 and 1500 C.E.
“Live in the Vale of Peace”: Religion and the Mughals During the Reign of Aurangzeb, 1658-1707
A discussion of how to teach the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb using paintings and primary sources.
“A Devotee of Dervishes”: The Mughal Empire During the Reign of Jahangir, 1605-1627
A discussion of how to use paintings of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir to teach about the Mughal Empire in the seventeenth century.
“Marvelously Regular and Geometric Gardens”: Babur and the Founding of the Mughal Empire
A discussion of Babur, the first Mughal Emperor, as a gardener.
“Each is the child of his mother”: Historical Imagination and Gender in Medieval West Africa
A discussion of the challenges of teaching gender in medieval West Africa and how we can use historical imagination to help students understand different perspectives.
“In Conformity to Mecca”: Islam and Medieval West Africa, c.1000 - c.1600
A discussion of how to teach arrival of Islam in medieval West Africa.
Healing the Sick Man of Europe
If the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was going through a period of transformation, rather than beginning a 400-year decline, it would seem that the Empire, which collapsed in 1922, had to be declining in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While it’s true that the Empire
