Call For Applications: Mongol Connections! Supported through a Connecting Art Histories grant, The Courtauld is hosting a three-year (2025-2027) research network project and travelling seminar. They will have short information session on January 6, 2025 at 2 pm GMT. Email

Applications from early career (post-doctoral) and advanced doctoral levels for a three-year (2025-2027) travelling seminar project entitled Mongol Connections. Mongol Connections is made possible with support from Getty through its Connecting Art Histories initiative.

A rich and diverse library and archive of sources by women creatives from the Ottoman Empire & Turkey. A true find for researchers looking to diversify their sources! #ottomanstudies #turkishstudies kadineserleri.org

It is very gratifying whenever I see people learning from and sharing this translation, it is exactly what I had hoped would happen when I first had the idea to publish it in English after reading the original, and began work to make it happen.

Congratulations to Dr Amanda Leong #MongolConnections Getty Postdoc Fellow The Courtauld on the publication of “I'd rather be married to someone I can control”: Female Javānmardī in Gulbadan Begum's Humayunnamah as a Mirror for Princesses’ Cambridge University Iranian Studies journal.

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of "A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909⁠–⁠1910" with Indiana University Press. A translation and study of one of the earliest travelogues by a Muslim woman, you won’t be able to put this one down.

Achaemenid Wild Boars 1: Sardis ⤵️

"Ruler of all the world, though you’ve aged and matured through all the hardships you’ve endured. White hair makes you fairer—wisdom’s sign, perfected in the bearer."

The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750–1400 John W. Chaffee. Cambridge Univ Pr. 2018 Partial #OpenAccess PDF on author's Academia academia.edu/92364047/The_M… independent.academia.edu/JohnWChaffee Front Matter PDF 🎯 assets.cambridge.org/97811070/12684…

Today, on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate Miriam al-Asturlabi, a pioneering 10thC astronomer and astrolabe maker from Aleppo, in present-day northern Syria To honor her legacy, we’re showcasing this Syro-Egyptian plate from a planispheric

Rani of Natore, Rani Bhawani was one of those rare women zamindars who not only weilded power but weilded it well. She has left behind a heritage of secular and religious structures. She was famed for her philanthropy and general generosity, combined with an austere personal

So sad to hear that the first openly gay Imam was assassinated as he attended a wedding. He saved many lives by rejecting Queerphobia from an Islamic lens. The global rise of this fascist movement is terrifying but we'll keep fighting it. May Allah SWT accept Muhsin's martyrdom.