Matthew Melvin-Koushki- Islam, the Mongols, and "the West"

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Matthew Melvin-Koushki is an associate professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in early modern Islamic intellectual and cultural history. Melvin-Koushki discusses his research on Islamic occult sciences, and the impact of the Mongols in blending Eastern and Western intellectual thought. He also problematizes notions of "the West," and argues that it should be defined as a synthesis of both the Hellenistic and Islamic worlds.