A recent article of mine was selected as the article of the month over at The Mediterranean Seminar. The article is "Rethinking Poetry as (Anti-Crusader) Propaganda," my attempt to rethink both the content of Zengid-Ayyubid poetry and how it circulated. mediterraneanseminar.org/2023-june-arti…

From the abstract: “This article focuses on an account by the Mamluk-era scholar Ibn al-Ḥāǧǧ (d. 737/1336) of contemporary Egyptian women’s systematic cultivation of ample bodies…”

Bye bye bye washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Feels like last day of school or somethin’. Before my phone updates to X gotta throw a little🍸 💣 . Catch me over on the Blue app as DrKeegan bsky.app/profile/drkeeg…

Happy to have helped in a tiny way with this translation of Leo Africanus’s Cosmography, in which there is a glancing reference to a commentary on Al-Hariri’s Maqamat… that thing I wrote my dissertation about.

Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition Edited by: Scott Reese De Gruyter, 2022 [open access] degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Oh wow. I cannot wait to read this.

My book is officially out today!

Carl Ernst in conversation with SherAli Tareen on his new book with Mbaye Lo, I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, & Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America (UNC Press) for NB Islamic Studies 📚 New Books Network 📚 #podcast | Sonya Bonczek Helen Kyriakoudes newbooksnetwork.com/i-cannot-write…

A colleague informed me that the website of Knut Vikør, which offered for download the American Diacs keyboard layout and the Jaghbub font, has gone offline. I'll host the two key files on my own site, at least as a backup measure. Links in replies… org.uib.no/smi/ksv/Jaghbu…

Next up in our Best of 2022-2023 & Roundtables in Review series is Islamic Legal Literature! Check them out today! buff.ly/3reKJC2

Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Literary Spectacles of Sultanship (De Gruyter Medieval Studies, September 2023) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… degruyter.com/document/doi/1… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalsociety #medievalhistorioghraphy

Coming soon to a bookstore near you. And in academic contexts, soon means next year.

An exciting new work on Arabic poetry! Out next year.

This Friday. Come as you are.