Join Dr. Zaur Gasimov in The Wild Field in an exploration of "entangled intellectuals" as a conceptual framework of study, and learn about 20th century connections between Poland, Turkey, Crimea, and Azerbaijan.

Join Dr. Zaur Gasimov in The Wild Field in an exploration of "entangled intellectuals" as a conceptual framework of study, and learn about 20th century connections between Poland, Turkey, Crimea, and Azerbaijan.

Join Paulina Dominik in The Wild Field to learn more about a little-known episode in the shared history of East Central Europe and the Islamic world at the turn of the 20th century as we explore the intersections between declining empires and emerging Pol

E068 | Conventional wisdom on the history of nationalism tells us that nations are of recent construction, and this has often been the case within the historiography of the modern Middle East. With the example of Palestine, some have denied the significan

E070 | Ottoman life was deeply embedded in the countryside and rural production, and thus, issues of irrigation and ecology surrounding the production of staple food crops ranked high on the list of imperial concerns. In this episode, Alan Mikhail explain

E088 Part 3 | The discovery of the malaria parasite and the mosquito as its vector changed human understandings of the disease and gave rise to scientific and medical approaches that mixed new and old practices. The twentieth century saw a great push to e

E088 Part 2 | Malaria was present in much of the Ottoman Empire throughout its six centuries of existence; yet, the relationship between humans and the disease environment was anything but unchanging. In this second part of our three part series on the hi

China is home to one of the world's largest Muslim populations, and the history of Islam in China is almost as old as the religion itself. In this episode, Kelly Hammond offers an overview of the history of Muslims in China, their links to the greater Mus

Poland is not always remembered among the great imperial rivals of the Ottoman Empire such as Safavid Iran, the Habsburgs, and Muscovy within discussions of early modern European history. Yet, the longstanding and continuous interactions between the Polis