Amazing digital collection of scroll paintings for online viewing The University of Chicago Center for the Art of East Asia scrolls.uchicago.edu/search - code available github.com/charlescrable/… #digitalarthistory

Also, while not directly related to the argument, the author's claim that the Ottoman "Hanafi legal establishment, the backbone of the empire, ensured that such claims remained within the Sufi lodges" plays on the old trope of legal vs. spiritual in the Ottoman Empire.

It's about time that false dichotomy is put to rest. In the Ottoman Empire, sufis were jurists and jurists were sufis. Period. To pit them against each other only tells us about our own 21st century conceptions of spirituality and ritual law, not historical reality.

Molla Şemseddin Fenari, traditionally regarded as the first grand mufti of the Ottoman Empire, was a sufi in the vein of Ibn Arabi. He wrote on Hanafi legal theory and Akbarian philosophical Sufism. He wasn't an exception. The dichotomy isn't real.

While it's important to note the numerous faults and short comings of the nation-state model, as this article rightly does, that should not be done at the cost of historical accuracy.

Especially when it comes to the caliphate, Muslims have romanticized and ahistorical view of the past. Papers like this should be working to correct these misconceptions, not perpetuate them.

@DandiaAsad Yaqeen Institute We all have frameworks through which we understand our surroundings. It becomes a problem when we impose that framework on something it wasn't designed to explain.

Nothing worse than a whiny T-Rex.

dan_abramov "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" Shows how to build a programmable computer starting with a basic electrical circuit with one light and reads like a thriller. It's fundamentally a book about the nature of abstraction in computer science.

So ein Mist! Die meisten Linken in meinem Umfeld haben nichts mit der DDR und der SED zu tun. Ich soll sie trotzdem so behandeln, als wenn sie keinen Rechtsstaat wollen und an Mauern Leute erschießen würden. Und die, die das tatsächlich wollen, mit denen soll ich reden. Verrückt!

#CSU-Verkehrsminister #Scheuer führt das Verkehrsministerium genauso schlampig, wie er auch seine kleine Doktorarbeit in #Prag abgeliefert hat. welt.de/politik/deutsc… /TN #PKWMaut #ÖPP

De Noormannen en Heinric van Breda - In het Middelnederlandse gedicht "Denensage" komen historische namen uit de 9e eeuw terug: Godfried = Goðfrið Haraldsson, Eeraert = Everard Saxo en Heinric van Breda = Henric van Babenberg, de hertog die in 885 de Denen uit Holland verjoeg.

In #Trautenstein im #Harz hat man "aus zeitgeschichtlichen Erwägungen" das während der NS-Zeit errichtete Dorfgemeinschaftshaus wieder mit einem NSDAP-Parteiadler versehen, der - überraschenderweise - nicht verboten ist. Genehmigt von der Stadtverwaltung. volksstimme.de/lokal/werniger…

You may have heard from an article in Nature Human Behaviour that there is strong stylometric evidence for Beowulf being a creation of a single author. In our replication study, led by Petr Plecháč @versotym we show it is quite unlikely. Pre-print here: arxiv.org/abs/1910.12927 /1

Interesting! Some Norwegian staf churches were dated using a new method of dendrochronology that “viser for eksempel at en del av Urnes stavkirke som var anslått til før år 1100, ble bygget av tømmer fra år 1069 og 1070. Den litt yngre delen av Urnes er datert til 1129-1130.“

"Der Einzelbewerber auf #CDU-Liste sehe „keine Veranlassung, bezüglich des Adlers zu intervenieren“. ... Die Holzfigur sei lediglich als Schmuck gedacht, damit würden keine politischen Ziele verfolgt, so Vogel auf Volksstimme-Anfrage."