As of this year, the two issues of JLAIBS will appear separately in early March and early September, respectively. The first issue of volume 4 (2025) is now available online with some exciting content as always. Edinburgh Classics Edinburgh University Press

Coming this summer: Nora K. Schmid, The Ascetic Qur’an and Its Kharijite Readers, Brill, 2025. An important and interesting book brill.com/display/title/…

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Walid Saleh, "The Qur’an and Communal Memory: Q. 85 and the Martyrs of Najrān," Journal of Qur'anic Studies euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…

Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo Archives, Waqf and Society By Daisy Livingston Examining the relationship between waqf endowments and archiving based on the waqf archives of sultan al-Ghawrī, the largest from pre-Ottoman M.E. Edinburgh UP (May '25) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-managing-…

Aaron Koller, "Three Polemical Qurʾanic Citations of the Mishnah and Their Historical Significance," JQS 32 (2025): 99-116 …rsiebeck-com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/artikel/three-…

Newly discovered polemical treatise against Jews and Muslims written by Timothy I (d. 823), the famous patriarch of the East Syrian Church and one of the heavy-hitters in early Abbasid society. By Sergey Minov: academia.edu/128831367/_Tim…

Exciting new article by Teresa Bernheimer and Lorenz Korn: "Eleven Islamic Tombstones from Egypt: A Window into the Histories of Early Islamization and of Modern Dislocation," Der Islam 102 (2025) degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…

My most recent article: "The Early Aramaic Toledot Yeshu and the End of Jesus’s Earthly Mission in the Qur’an," SLA 9.2 (Summer 2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-ab…

The Founders would be astonished that in the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence, the Bishop of Rome would be... an American.

Prophetic words from Bishop Robert Barron the day before the election of Leo XIV: "I remember Cardinal George [of Chicago] often said that, 'There will not be an American pope until we go into political decline.'" 🇺🇸🇻🇦 (link to the key part of the interview: youtu.be/PTbx6KAc1_w?t=…)

New article: Andrew Wilson (Oxford), "The Linguistic Landscape of Late Antique North Africa," Antiquité Tardive 32 (2025) brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.148…

The journal "Religion and Society" has just published a nice collection of short essays about Peter Brown (including one by Peter himself). Mine is a personal reflection about Peter's time in Princeton. You can read them here (open access): berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

A new warden for New College: new.ox.ac.uk/news/election-…

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Pope Benedict XV's prayers for peace during World War I, in Neo-Aramaic and Arabic

JOB OPPORTUNITY Departmental Lecturer in Classical Arabic Literature, University of Oxford, from January 2026 to June 2027, to cover for Professor Tahera Qutbuddin, who will be on research leave. Deadline to apply is August 14 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

📢Job announcement 📢 U Oxford: The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies aims to appoint a Departmental Lecturer (DL) in Classical Arabic Literature, for 18 mos

A carnelian seal depicting Ali seated on a horse with a sword in hand: the design is an Arabic inscription comprised of the names of the 12 imams written in the form of a horseman holding a split sword (Dhu l-Fiqar). britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…

Mabrook, Josef!