Zubair’s Bookshelf
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The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 2: Medieval Science
Was the Middle Ages really a “scientific dark age”—or is that one of history’s most enduring myths?
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Published 2013, The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 2: Medieval Science, edited by David C. Lindberg and Michael H. Sha...
On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar: Studies in the History of Medieval Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib
How did medieval Islamic astronomy reach Europe, and why did some of the Islamic world’s greatest scientific breakthroughs never make the journey west?
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Published 2020 (paperback edition, 2025), On Both Sides of the Strait of...
The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity’s Most Devastating Pandemic
How did a single disease reshape civilizations from England to China—and why has the story of history’s deadliest pandemic been told far too narrowly for centuries?
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Published May 2026, The Black Death: A Global History of Hu...
Ǧibrīl ibn Nūḥ al-Anbārī, The Kitāb al-iʿtibāṛ fī l-malakūt: The Reception of Aristotle in a Ninth-Century Christian-Arabic Theodicy
Before medieval thinkers debated faith and reason, how did a Christian scholar writing in Arabic use philosophy, medicine, and everyday observation to argue that the universe itself points to one Creator?
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Published June 2026...
Ethno-Religious Interaction in the Late Medieval Iberian World
How did medieval societies manage religious diversity, and why did some systems of coexistence endure while others descended into violence and exclusion?
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Coming June 2026, Ethno-Religious Interaction in the Late Medieval Ibe...
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