Now an assistant professor and director of Bryn Mawr College’s Middle Eastern, Central Asian and North African Studies ...

The royal adoption of Indic garb was more than a deliberate campaign to cement control – it was a sign of a deeper form of ...

The Mughal Empire, spanning from the early 16th to the 18th century, left a lasting legacy through its blend of Persian, Indian, and Islamic influences. Key emperors like Akbar, Shah Jahan, and ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Meanwhile, the launch of the inaugural Bukhara Biennial later this year will mark a pivotal moment in the country’s emergence ...

On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

Known as the Taghbach, this group migrated south from the Mongolian steppe and ruled a multiethnic and multicultural empire from Luoyang ... majestic Buddhist architecture. Perhaps seen by ...

He founded the Timurid Empire and, over a period of 32 years ... Timur did in fact usher in a period of rebirth after 150 years of Mongol rule. Samarkand, which we reached two days later, was ...