🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

On the Virtues of the Flea [الطرثوث في فوائد البرغوث] A delightful treatise by al-Suyūṭī (d. 1505 CE) in which he expands on a similar earlier work by Ibn Ḥajar (d. 1449). Link to complete manuscript [Azhariyya, 249/130] upload.wikimedia.org/wikisource/ar/…

Absolutely charming view of Ottoman Cairo from an 18th c. copy of Pirî Reis' 16th c. atlas Kitāb-i baḥriye, love the little pyramids in the top right corner (Walters Ms. W.658):

It is still September, and we have September's Fragment of the Month for you. Yehuda Seewald looks at the blurring of lines between Saadya's biblical exegesis and polemic: lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/de…

A Judaeo-Arabic text about Alexander the Great with the text of a letter from the Persian king Darius ("king of kings and master of the nations of the world") commanding Alexander to submit to him geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/4…

Not to be missed! A landmark new book in Arabic documentary legal studies by Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem. Includes many previously unidentified Cairo Geniza fragments. pictured: geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

"When I parted from you, I intended to sail to the island of Cyprus, but a strong storm diverted the boat to Tarsus. I was very much afraid that the king would take hold of me and detain me. . . ." Letter from Alexandria to Cairo, ~1212 CE geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/8…

New Syriac AI translator! The results are surprisingly accurate and good for AI translation. There’s still room to improve, but this tool is already a major step forward. It won’t be long before Syriac can be translated as seamlessly as other languages—a huge development for the

Princeton Geniza Lab has joined Bluesky! We hope you will connect with us at our profile over there! 🦋→ bsky.app/profile/geniza…

A gorgeous prayerbook (maḥzor) for the high holidays copied in Mallorca(!) in 1332 CE, recently spotted by PGP researcher Tani Robinson. geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/4…

Obsessed with this poem about rats which starts, optimistically, with 'I comawnde alle þe ratones þat are here abowte' 🐀 Found in Ox, Bod, Rawl. C. 288, f. 113v (flyleaf), and in prose in Cam, Gonville & Caius College, 457/395, f. 1v (with sad upside down man)