By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 May 2026
Below is the reproduction of an article from British Mandate Palestine in 1936.
Continue readingAmerican Travellers in British Palestine in 1936
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John Wansbrough’s Review of ‘Hagarism’
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 June 2025
In 1978, shortly after Patricia Crone and Michael Cook published their book challenging the traditional story of Islam’s origins, Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, it was reviewed for the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies by John Wansbrough, their mentor and the most important figure in the “Revisionist” movement that arose in Islamic Studies in the 1970s. Wansbrough’s review is reproduced below.
Continue readingA Note on the Family of Elagabalus and Roman Rule in Syria
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 February 2025
When Septimius Severus became Roman Emperor in 193 AD, his wife, whom he had married in 187, was Julia Domna, a native of Emesa (now Homs), meaning Rome had its first Syrian Empress.
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