Al-Madaniyya

The scholarly electronic bulletin, Al-Madaniyya: Keio Bulletin of Middle Eastern and Asian Urban History attempts to shed new light on the history of politics, economy, society, culture, and thought in the cities of Islamicate civilization centered on the Middle East and of Asian civilizations centered on China. The contributors of the articles written in English, Chinese, and Middle Eastern languages here are researchers who have had experience either giving lectures or studying at the Department of Asian History, Faculty of Letters, Keio University, which places particular emphasis on urban history studies in the Asia and Middle East. In publishing this bulletin, we are receiving support from designated donations for the purpose of developing historical research on the Islamicate world on Mita Campus of our university.