Explorations of Early Islamic History & Civilization (EEIHC)

The Letter via Bostra: How Geography Proves Heraclius Was in Northern Syria in 630 CE

The Trader and the 'Caesar': How Abu Sufyan Met the Wrong Heraclian—And Why It Matters

The Caucasian Kings of Egypt: How Shahrwaraz and Cyrus Became 'Al-Muqawqis'—And Why It Changes Everything

Paper, Parchment, and Prophecy: The Real Story of the Prophet Muhammad’s Letter to the Negus

The Messenger's Tale & The Emperor's Gold: Dissecting Islam's Two 'Lost' Heraclius Traditions

The Puppet's Rage: al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Shamir's March 630 CE Ultimatum and the Collapse of Roman Frontier Politics

From Parchment to Coinage: Which Aksumite Kings Were the Two Neguses?

Bowstring, Stone, or Sword: Who Killed Yazdgird III? (651 CE)

A Verse-by-Verse Reconstruction of the Qur'an's Targeted Combatants

The Killings That Islam Came to Annihilate: Honor Killings and the Jurisprudence of Divine Justice

The Cut That Was Never Commanded: A Forensic Examination of FGM, Its History, and its References in Islamic Sources

The First Arrow Against the Queen of Cities: The Forgotten First Arab Siege of Constantinople (654 CE)

The Polymath and the New Order: How Jacob of Edessa Observed Muslim Practice in the First Islamic Century (684–708 CE)

The Chronicle of 775: When a Syriac Chronicler Wrote the Caliphs as Rome's Legitimate Successors

The Chronicle of 724: A Syriac Translation of a Umayyad-era Chronicle

The Chronicle of 705: How Syriac Christians Began to See the Caliphate as a Kingdom

The Numbers That Fit: Why Jacob of Edessa Gave Muhammad 7 Years and 'Umar 12 — A Bishop's Theological Response to 51 Years of Muslim Rule (691 CE)

The Old Book of Tang: What Tang China's First Dynastic History Reveals About Early Islam

The East Syrian Witness: The Anonymous Chronicle of 660 and the Earliest Account of Islam's Triumph Over Rome & Persia

The Caliph at Golgotha: Muʿāwiya in Jerusalem and the Earliest Maronite Witness to Islam (664 CE)