Islamic History as Global History

The latest issue of the Journal of Global History (vol. 2, no. 2) is devoted to the Islamic World (links are to article abstracts):

William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Editorial – Islamic history as global history

Hayrettin Yücesoy, Ancient imperial heritage and Islamic universal historiography: al-Dinawari’s secular perspective

Amira K. Bennison, The peoples of the north in the eyes of the Muslims of Umayyad al-Andalus (711–1031)

Nelly Hanna, Literacy and the ‘great divide’ in the Islamic world, 1300–1800

Már Jónsson, The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain in 1609–1614: the destruction of an Islamic periphery

Scott C. Levi, The Ferghana Valley at the crossroads of world history: the rise of Khoqand, 1709–1822

B. D. Hopkins, The bounds of identity: the Goldsmid mission and the delineation of the Perso–Afghan border in the nineteenth century

Isis Focus: Science and the Law

The summer issue of Isis is here and features a set of articles on the intersection of law and science (links are to the article abstracts):

D. GRAHAM BURNETT: Introduction: Cross-Examination?

SILVIA DE RENZI: Medical Expertise, Bodies, and the Law in Early Modern Courts

DANIEL J. KEVLES: Patents, Protections, and Privileges: The Establishment of Intellectual Property in Animals and Plants

ALISON WINTER: A Forensics of the Mind

SHEILA JASANOFF: Bhopal’s Trials of Knowledge and Ignorance