В Узбекистане запустят фонд для поддержки малого и среднего бизнеса по принципам шариата. Как это повлияет на предприятия? gazeta.uz/ru/2025/06/13/…

This is an excellent essay on "decolonizing knowledge." Although initially well intentioned, the idea of "de-colonizing scholarship" has been very damaging to scholarship and scholarly collaboration. On the one hand, the decolonizers ignore productive scholarly collaborations +

Egypt through the frames, Denis Dailleux

Escaping from Charjoy/Çärjew, Jumaqul runs away from the Bukharan emir and his henchmen, to embrace Russian assimilation. On conversion as escapism in early-20th-century Central Asia oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-blog… #islam #russia #colonization

"Muslim" is an English spelling convention brought to you by pedantic Orientalists and their obsession with transliteration. You're welcome.

Fancy coming to Vienna and working with me on a project of your own choice for 6 months? The Austrian Academy of Sciences has just opened a call for application for incoming fellowships! stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/stipendien/…

Marking the beginning of what hopefully will be a long-standing cooperation between yours truly and Dr. Shamil Shikhaliev... cambridge.org/core/journals/…

This is the initial installment in a series of four essays devoted to the history of Islamic law in the USSR islamiclaw.blog/2025/07/03/sav…

We are excited to welcome the ISLAMICLAWblog's July Guest Blogger, Dr. Paolo Sartori! buff.ly/X95BZXs

Central Asian History fans! The new fascicle of the Journal of Central Asian History is out!!! #CentralAsia #history brill.com/view/journals/…

Islamic law enthusiasts around the world: here's my new essay for the Harvard Islamic Law Blog! Apocalypse in the Tian Shan: Or the Story of a Wasted Fatwā islamiclaw.blog/2025/07/10/apo… #centralasia #islam #USSR #soviet #fatwas #sharia

Read Dr. Paolo Sartori's recent essay on the blog titled "Apocalypse in the Tian Shan: Or the Story of a Wasted Fatwā" today! buff.ly/JPJfhFp

La bellezza dei manifesti delle cooperative dell’ex manicomio triestino. La prima, nel 1972, fu la Cooperativa Lavoratori Uniti, intitolata a Franco Basaglia. [Franco Rotelli, L'istituzione inventata. Almanacco Trieste 1971-2010]

Another essay about sharia and qadis in the USSR in the Harvard Islamic Law Blog by yours truly. islamiclaw.blog/.../qa%e1%b8%8… #islam #russia #caucasus #sharia #dagestan

Read Dr. Paolo Sartori's latest essay on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Qāḍī by Necessity: Muḥammad al-Khartikunī against the “Wahhabis” in 1980s Dagestan" today! buff.ly/UltHuO9

My fourth and last essay for the Harvard Islamic Law Blog on Sharia in the Soviet Union islamiclaw.blog/2025/07/24/and… #islam #sharia #ussr #dagestan #caucasus

On a lark, I trained (rather fine-tuned) my first model this week: Persian meter identification. It needs more data, but it works! All I gave it so far is the ~7k ghazals of Ṣāʾib, a badly skewed sample. Still, it's clear this is a solved problem.

Viva #martinaoppelli

Explore the project "The Jewish Triangle" run by the Oriental Institute's Thomas Loy. Learn more about Bachaev’s memoir. It recounts, for example, the crushing of the short-lived Kokand Autonomy, as seen through the eyes of a Bukharan Jewish child: buff.ly/q4kBLyy

Just published by Nurlan Qabdilhaq: "Sultans, Merchants, and the Issue of Islamic Patronage on the Kazakh Steppe (1820s–1850s)" mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/8…