The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West Maghribi Round Scripts and the Andalusi Identity Umberto Bongianino. Edinburgh Univ Pr 2022 #OpenAccess Author's PhD Diss The origin and development of Maghribī round scripts ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f… oxford.academia.edu/UmbertoBongian…

Finally! After ~4 years of writing, edits, and teamwork, our book on the Morisco diaspora is out with Brill 🎉 Honored to be part of this with amazing scholars. Book: brill.com/display/title/… My piece on ‘Powerful Moriscos’ in Tunisia in 17th c. Tunisia: brill.com/display/book/9…

My colleague Raashid Goyal is running a four-day instructional course on digital tools for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Tübingen, October 6th–9th, 2025, so I thought I would spread the word! Participants will learn how to: · effectively use basic and advanced

Big news from HMML: we've now completed scanning our library of microfilms from Ethiopia (EMML), and the images are available for free viewing in our online Reading Room.

15th century Timurid Qur'an copied on Chinese paper from the Ming Dynasty.

Do folks know any calligraphers who recreate this distinct East African Arabic script, as opposed to the more popular Nastaliq / Thuluth? ارشدوني يا جماعة الخير هل في أي خطاط حديث بيكتب بهذا الخط القديم من شرق إفريقيا؟ يعني ما بس ثلث أو نستعليق. smarthistory.org/quran-manuscri…

Le deuxième colophon nous donne une idée de la circulation des savoirs dans la région il y'a 200 ans. Comment une copie du "Khatima fi-tassawuf" du savant mauritanien Muhammad Yadali (mort en 1753), rédigé par un natif du Fuuta Jalon vers 1823-4,

A thread on this particular copy of the Quran: This 15th century Timurid-era Quran is one of the only four Quran’s which exist today on Chinese wax paper. The relationship b/w the Timurids & the Mings is interesting, but is a story for another time.

Today i walked in Cordoba, Andalucia 🌷🌿

What Luwian hieroglyphics looked like. Luwian was the main language spoken on the western coast of Anatolia in the Bronze Age, and was likely the language of Homeric Troy. This inscription was found in Hattuša, the Capital of the Hittites.

I’m an English professor at William & Mary & for the first writing assignment in all my classes, I tell students to give me their version & a version written by AI. I tell them not to indicate which is which & I grade them both & make a guess. it’s never been hard to tell.

Thank you to The Conversation for sharing the open letter calling for @albomp to repeal Job-Ready Graduates. theconversation.com/top-australian…

Once a hub of Ottoman culture, Süleyman Efendi’s library was scattered by conquest. In our PhD Research Series, Rawda El-Hajji shows how tracing these manuscripts helps reconstruct lost communities and reveals the fate of cultural heritage in conflict: uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji

#OpenAccess Wit and wisdom in classical Arabic literature : Leiden lectures on Arabic language and culture Petra M. Sijpesteijn et al. Leiden Univ Pr 2015 …rlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/41… hdl.handle.net/1887/41257 PDF 🎯 …rlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A…

In the late 1400s, a Latin humanist in Ottoman Constantinople wrote a poem to Sultan Bayezid II. It praises Muhammad as “divine and holy” and dreams of a single world empire under the Sultan. Here’s the story of one of the most unusual Renaissance poems you’ll ever read 🧵

🇪🇬 Egyptian Mickey Mouse comic book covers, 1960s.

#Sufism #Taoism #Toshihiko_Izutsu Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts Toshihiko Izutsu. Univ of California Pr 1983, 2016 PDF 🎯 archive.org/download/izuts…

Sayings of Pythagoras, 13th century manuscript signed by Abbasid vizier and calligrapher Yaqut al-Mustasimi. (ALT for the translation, except for the first sentence of the second page)

For #WorldHumanitarianDay we're sharing a manuscript that speaks to the long history of care and healing: Qutb al-Din Mahmud Shirazi’s commentary on Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine. Written in early 14thC in north western Iran, this text is one of the most celebrated

#OpenAccess The Maghrib in the Mashriq Knowledge, Travel and Identity eds. Maribel Fierro, Mayte Penelas. De Gruyter 2021 degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… PDF 🎯 degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…