In this forthcoming book with UNC Press, Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst write Omar Ibn Said, the author of the only known autobiography in Arabic by an enslaved person in the US, back into history. This story is going to be a game changer and I cannot wait to see it exist in the world.

My Punjabi translation of J.M. Coetzee’s short story, The Dog, is out in the new issue of Pancham Magazine. Coetzee is one of the finest writers I’ve ever come across, and his work means so much to me.

Monday morning with manuscripts of a private collection

BOSTON!! I am here with these AMAZING scholars! Please come and hear us!!

What a lovely time working with such fantastic people and scholars. #AAS2023 Yael Rice Megan Eaton Robb

Brilliance from Megan Eaton Robb about colonialism, gender, power, and transformation. And keep an eye out for the accompanying digital project, Unstable Archives—the article and digital archive would make a great pairing in the classroom!

going straight into my cats of Islam thread

“In the late 18th century, a Mughal woman named Sharaf un-Nisa lived with and bore children by the first Company Supervisor of Purnea. She followed him to Britain, changed her name to Elizabeth, and converted to Christianity.” Read more by Megan Eaton Robb. doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rh…

I wrote on #RanajitGuha last year. His work will continue to be one of the greatest influences on mine.

Brilliant paper from the legendary Tahera Qutbuddin on why Nahj al-Balagha has been polemically and erroneously classified as a “Shi’i” text rather than a classic of Arabic lit revered by Sunnis and Shi’is alike. Here are her concluding thoughts 👇

What a way to start the week! An advance copy of Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst’s “I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said’s America” arrived! Can’t wait to revisit America’s past through Omar’s eyes.

Officially out and available for online purchase today, with many thanks to the wonderful team at Columbia Univ Press.

I am excited to discuss SherAli Tareen's book at Conf. on South Asia next month! Congratulations SherAli on publishing what promises to be a thrilling read - sitting down to read it this week.

New article by Layli Uddin, available #OpenAccess: "Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth-century South Asia." Layli argues "for the importance of Islamic Socialism in thinking beyond Islamic literalism." doi.org/10.1111/hic3.1… #SouthAsia #twitterstorians

The Festschrift for Francis Robinson, published as a JRAS special issue & edited by Mitra Sudipto,Megan Eaton Robb, Eve Tignol, & Claudia Liebeskind, really looks like a "Who's Who" in the study of South Asian Islam. Check out the ToC-what an achievement! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

It's insane that Google's OCR is capable of this for handwritten Arabic

#Bangladesh this month lifted ban on #Jamaat-e-Islami while an offshoot of party founded in British #India has fielded independent candidates in Kashmir marking its return to electoral polls after 37 years in Himalayan region Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Megan Eaton Robb wp.me/p9QT6X-202

I’m excited to announce my partnership with the Digital Lab for an online Arabic calligraphy workshop! Over 3 weeks, we’ll explore the beauty of the Diwani script, from individual letters to crafting elegant sentences.

Qur’an annotated by Cambridge’s first Professor of Arabic, Abraham Wheelock (1593-1653), who studied the text alongside several Latin translations and two Islamic commentaries, in Persian (the "Cambridge Tafsīr") and Arabic (al-Bayḍāwī). Cambridge University Library, ms Ll.5.27