It is an Open Letter to the Head of the Assembly of Experts & the Responses to the letter, assessing the Supreme Leader’s 21 Years in the Office: Speaking as an Iranian citizen, I accuse the leader of the Islamic Republic ...

The story of Khamenei’s sole marja’iyyat has four parts. First, he was the capable orator serving the regime, with no claim to ijtihad, and wouldn’t even dream of Leadership and marja’iyyat: Hojjatol-Islam wal-Moslemin Khamenei. ...

Copyright and other types of laws regulating intellectual property create an increasing concern for contemporary scholarship. The digital environment has created exciting new opportunities and possibilities for scholars ...

Part Two of A Senior honors thesis at Harvard College, awarded High Honors/Magna Cum Laude. A comparison of the social organization of orisha worship in Nigeria and Brazil.

Part One of Senior honors thesis as Harvard College, awarded High Honors and Magna Cum Laude. A comparison of the social organization of orisha worship in Nigeria and Brazil.

This book, as the second volume of “Islam and Human Rights Series,” attempts to establish that freedom of religion, in particular the freedom to turn away from a religion (abandoning Islam, choosing another religion, or ...

Elvira Vilches examines economic treatises, stories of travel and conquest, moralist writings, fiction, poetry, and drama to reveal that New World gold ultimately became a problematic source of power that destabilized Spain’s ...

Chinese immigrants are a diverse and growing group whose members provide a unique opportunity to examine within-immigrant group differences in adaptation. In this paper, we move beyond thinking of national-origin groups ...

Part One of Master's thesis in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, award the Roy D. Albert Prize for Excellence in the Study of Anthropology. Concerns the history of vessels and metaphors of containment and "mounting" ...