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Contents

Sierra Lomuto / Belle da Costa Greene and the Undoing of “Medieval” Studies / 1

Part 1. Cui Bono: Who Is the “Medieval” For?

Raha Rafii / Making Islam (Coherent): Academic Discourse and the Politics of Language / 33

Julie Orlemanski / What Is “Postmedieval”? Embedded Reflections / 57

Michelle R. Warren / The Medieval of the Long Now / 83

Part 2. Disciplinary Dilemmas

Adam Miyashiro / Race, Medieval Studies, and Disciplinary Boundaries / 107

Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh / Fighting for the Middle: Medieval Studies Programs and Degrees within Higher Education / 123

Christopher Livanos and Mohammad Salama / A Bridge Too Far? Ludovico Marracci’s Translation of the Qurʾan and the Persistence of Medieval Biblicism / 145

Part 3. Critical Possibilities

Mariah Min / Undoing Medieval Race Studies / 173

Anne Le / Different and Familiar: Les enfances Renier and the Question of Medieval Orientalism / 189

Shoshana Adler / Spoiled History: Leprosy and the Lessons of Queer Medieval Historiography / 211

Elizabeth J. West / Afterword: In and beyond the Boundaries of Medievalism / 233

Contributors / 247