I am glad to announce the imminent publication of the new issue of the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts which includes a paper of mine on a second (!!) coded Qur’an ms. Hope you will enjoy the whole issue!

I just had a new piece published on the surprising number of Roman portraits that are uncritically treated as ancient objects but were likely manipulated in modernity. Please check it out! brill.com/view/journals/…

🔓𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗘𝘂𝗽𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗲 𝟱𝟮 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰) 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 More info: bit.ly/44fY8cr #ClassicalStudies #Greek #Latin #Languages #Literatures #Philology

Next week!

Looking forward to this book event!

If you want to listen to me speak about Turoyo Neo-Aramaic for about 20 min in English, listen to this podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tur…

𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝗵𝗮 𝟯𝟰 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯, 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰) More info: bit.ly/44kl2PV #Bible #EarlyChristianity #ChurchHistory #ReligiousStudies #Christology #Theology

Pre-Doc (#PhD)-position in #byzantinestudies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMAFO Austrian Academy of Sciences) at #Byzanzforschung with Prof. Claudia Rapp (deadline for application 15 July 2025): oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=q2cm95…

HMML's first ever copy of the Hippocratic oath in Arabic

Later today! There is still time to register if you have not yet!

And here's the recording! youtube.com/watch?v=FLhXTb…

#CallForPapers: "The #Euchologion beyond #Byzantium: Priestly Prayers and Peoples’ Concerns in the #ChristianEast." Conference at IMAFO Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 27–29 November 2025 (email to: [email protected], deadline: 31 July 2025) #Byzanzforschung

#OpenAccess Concepts of Authorship in Pre-Modern Arabic Texts eds. Lale Behzadi, Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila. Univ of Bamberg Pr, 2015 PDF 🎯 fis.uni-bamberg.de/bitstreams/6cd… nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb… fis.uni-bamberg.de/entities/publi… fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/4…

There is a new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna, offering both Senior and Early-Career 1-year fellowships for 2026/27. Deadline 1 Sept 2025. Have a look! vicas.univie.ac.at

Partytime in Egypt 2270 years ago: "at the last party, someone took off all my clothes and stole them, please, Pharaoh, help me investigate their whereabouts to get them back or recieve compensation" Petition to Ptolemy II Medieval Manuscripts Papyrus 2974

15th- century holy books of Ethiopian Jewry – the oldest found to date, via EurekAlert!! eurekalert.org/news-releases/… Sophia Dege-Müller

Exhibition of 15 Syriac manuscripts at KU Leuven on Thursday 11 September 2025 at 4 PM at the Maurits Sabbe Library in Leuven: "Treasures from the East: Syriac Manuscripts in the Collection of the Maurits Sabbe Library" Registration: bib.kuleuven.be/msb/over/nieuw…

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