📢Reminder📢 The hybrid Indian Ocean World Archaeology Conference returns to Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) this Dec. Abstracts welcome on all things archaeology, material culture, heritage, from East Africa to Japan, 1st mill BC to now. Submit via iow-arch.com **Deadline 16th May**

Throughout history, the magnificent elephant is much loved & an integral part of cultures around the world.   To mark #WorldElephantDay here are wonderful depictions of elephants in Islamic art & culture, starting with Al-Jazari's ingenious elephant clock invention   A thread...

Since the start of the pandemic @Professor_MSyed and I have been translating Ibn Hajar’s *Merits of the Plague* for Penguin Classics — excited to announce it is finally coming out March ‘23!!!

📢Job Alert📢 The Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in the history of the Middle East at the rank of Assistant Professor. Any time period is welcome to apply! h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…

We are hiring! The Kevorkian Center seeks a talented professional with 5+ years of experience in Middle East studies and program administration to join our team as the Center's Assistant Director. Applications are now open. ✍️:uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/11032/ass…

Bath Short Story Award 2023. Open for entries now! Closes April 24th 2023. £1750 in prizes. Up to 2200 word #shortstories. Judge Farhana Shaikh 🍉. bathshortstoryaward.org/2022/12/09/bat… via @bathstoryaward

Today’s Arabic etymology: Why do we call them “tabby cats”? A tabby cat is any domestic feline with striped, dotted, flecked, or swirled shapes, resulting in a familiar blotched or marbled pattern of fur. To refer to such patterns, the word “tabby”… 1/5

The Humanities Faculty at Utrecht University is recruiting to 40 new Assistant Professor positions, including eight new jobs in Philosophy. (Feels unimaginable that a UK university could do this.) uu.nl/en/organisatio…

Today my new book, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism, a global and longue durée history of Sunni-Shii relations, is officially released. Thanks to everyone who helped me along the way... US: tinyurl.com/2a7msknk UK: tinyurl.com/497v459f Oxford Academic

I am advertising a three year postdoc position here in Munich to work on the philosophy of the Baghdad School! Deadline for applications is June 16. Details here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/222…

DUE MAY 1: ASMEA 2023 Research & Travel Grants... Apply Now! - mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/…

UPDATE: Over the last few hours, the attacks against Al-Shifa Hospital have dramatically intensified. MSF staff at the hospital reported a catastrophic situation inside just a few hours ago: channel4.com/news/i-cannot-….

Honour the dead by stopping the killing.

BREAKING: Right-wing protesters shouting 'England 'til I die' clash with police ahead of pro-Palestinian march news.sky.com/story/fighting…

While the two minutes’ silence was marked respectfully and without incident on Whitehall, officers have faced aggression from counter protestors who are in the area in significant numbers. The counter protestors are not one cohesive group. There are different groups moving away

#GAZA At the time of writing, our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the Al-Shifa hospital.

My upcoming book, "The Integrity of the Qurʾan: Sunni and Shiʿi Historical Narratives," is scheduled for publication by Edinburgh University Press. It will be available through open access in early 2024.

International Law will not protect us if it does not also protect our enemies. That’s the point of justice: It’s for everybody. A reminder to those abetting war crimes.