—Mosque Monk (!?)—

Ask the beauty in the black veil:
what did you do to the worshipful monk?
He had just tucked up his robes to pray
when he saw you standing at the mosque’s door.

—Saʿīd al-Dārimī (Mecca, d. 767)

Some thoughts on a monk in a mosque in the thread 🧵

Fantastic Interview about Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's Merits of the Plague with scholar-translators Joel Blecher and Mairaj Syed on the NB Islamic Studies 📚 network

Worth a listen!

Link below

Thursday 21st March 2024
One of the biggest floral spectacles in Cambridge has just come into blossom for the first time at St John’s College. Lining both sides of Limes Avenue are expanses of Narcissus Jet Fire and February Gold Daffodils intermixed with Chionodoxa Blue Giant…

#Ottoman #Nusayris #Alawis #Druze #Alevis #Beirut #Syria
Non-Sunni Muslims in the Late Ottoman Empire: State and Missionary Perceptions of the Alawis
Necati Alkan
I.B. Tauris, 2022
Introduction available on author's Academia
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academia.edu/69612266/Non_S…

It's only a few days until Seth's talk on slavery at the #Syriac Studies in the UK: Past, Present, Future conference. See the programme here: sites.google.com/view/conferenc…

A common problem in academic writing generally. Citations should first direct an intrepid reader to the evidentiary basis of one's claim, not send them down the rabbit hole of endless appeals to authority or consensus.

#Fatimid #Ismaili #Caliphate #Esotericism #Shīʿī #Cairo #Festivals #Al_Ḥākim #Dhimmīs #Abbasid #Umayyad #Ibāḍī #NorthAfrica
The Fatimids
Select Papers on Their Governing Institutions, Social and Cultural Organization, Religious Appeal, and Rivalries
Paul Walker
Brill 2023

#papyrus #Quranic_Manuscripts #HamburgCollection
#Paleography #Codicology
The Book of the Cow
An Early Qurʾānic Codex on Papyrus (P. Hamb. Arab. 68)
Mathieu Tillier, Naïm Vanthieghem
BRill 2024
academia.edu/110266427/The_…
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csmc.uni-hamburg.de/hamburgs-schri…
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quran-earlyislam.com/The-Book-of-th…

South America elevation tile map.

In the International Women’s Day, I share an old colophon from the 10th century about two women: Hannah and her fellow 'Azizto, who donated a 9th century manuscript for the Syriac Church in Jerusalem.

Coming this August
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Awesome:

Smells Like Teen Spirit Cover In Classical Latin (75 BC to 3rd Century A... youtu.be/PbEKIW3pUUk?si… via YouTube

The sun tumbled into the west
blushing as red
as a glass spilled
from a wine-bearer's fingers.

—Ibn Sahl al-Andalusī (Andalus, d. 1251)

Early Islamic history rears its head (h/t Simon Wolfgang Fuchs)

Join us at our upcoming event!

How Zoroastrians Argued with Muslims in the Early Islamic Period

In-Person Lecture in Royce 306 (Zoom option available)
Registration Required: pourdavoud.ucla.edu/event/pourdavo…

friends, I invite you to download & read an 8th-cent Armenian history of the Caliphate, published open access just this morning. it includes an intro, edition, translation, reading notes, & commentary. what are the stakes? 🧵⬇️

isac.uchicago.edu/research/publi…

Now published: A Companion to the #EnvironmentalHistory of #Byzantium , edited by Adam Izdebski and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller. Brill 2024, 570 pp. - very happy that is out after many years of preparation :).
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IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences, #Byzanzforschung , MPI-GEA Jena

What a crazy New York story

Epigraphy can be dangerous! A quick tall tale from the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī (d. 1229) about how an epigraphic discovery in Palmyra led to fall of the Umayyad caliphate…
The story is told by a grandson of Khālid al-Qasrī named Ismāʿīl. He recounts ...

When astrolabes make half a page on The Times The Times and The Sunday Times Cambridge University Cambridge History #astrolabe #histsci #histastro