Explorations of Early Islamic History & Civilization (EEIHC)

570 CE, Elephants and Omens: Tracing the Date of the Prophet’s Birth

The Year of the Elephant (570 CE): Reconstructing Abraha’s Expedition and Its Consequences

The Prophet Muhammad’s Revolutionary Rejection of Imperial Power: How He Rejected the Rituals, Clothes & Colors of Rome & Persia

Deconstructing 'Hum Minhum': Collateral Damage, Moral Anguish, and the Prophetic Pastoral Response

The Prophet Who Did Not Conquer: Dismantling the Claim That The Prophet Muḥammad Led the Islamic Conquests

The 'Threefold' Verse: Re-Reading Qur'an 5:72-77 and its Critique of Late Antique Trinitarian Debates

The Patriarch and the Pen: Athanasius of Balad and the Church in Sufyanid Syria

The Quadrifecta of Prejudice: Deconstructing The Origins of Anti-Blackness in Islamic Civilization

The Canons of Coexistence: How George I Rewrote Christian Law for Islam’s New World

"Your Women Are a Tilth For You": Reclaiming the Agrarian Metaphor in Qur'an 2:223

From Household to Community: Women as Engines of Islamization in the First Century AH