Excited to announce the first event of the Premodern Islamicate World Lecture Series. Valentina Grasso will be giving a talk titled "The Emergence of Islam in Its Arabian Context" on October 12 @ 12:30 NY time. All talks for this series are hybrid! For details see poster below

On 04-10-2023, we present our first version of #htr transcriptions of 5 million scans from the Dutch East India Company archives. It makes accessible copied documents (OBP) from the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago that provide a lens on world history GLOBALISE

Divya Cherian @dillivali on her new book Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (University of California Press (is on Bluesky)) this time with the NB Islamic Studies 📚 team superstar SherAli Tareen for the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/divya-cherian-…

Quite simply, Travis Zadeh's gobsmacking Wonders and Rarities is a watershed entity in the study of the Islamic (and Non/Human) Weird -- his book talk today at 1 pm online is not to be missed! mei.columbia.edu/mei-event/book…

This special issue on ‘Print and Islam in South Asia’ is finally out after years of hardwork and wait. I have co-edited it with @tuhfatulhind & Layli Uddin. There are 8 fantastic essays and a co-authored introduction. Do read and share this rich volume.😊 brill.com/view/journals/…

“Persia and Its Kings” “Know that Persians are amongst the oldest and strongest nations of the world, and those which much traces on Earth”

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🎊 The 2023–24 academic year is officially underway! The international IAS community, which this year hails from 47 countries and 105 institutions, is united across disciplines by a common cause to push the boundaries of knowledge. Read more: ias.edu/news/2023-24-w…

An entire 18th-century Ottoman Damascene room has just come on the market, after 70+ years (?!) in a private UK home. Would love to see it in a public institution in Syria.... christies.com/lot/lot-644569…

🚨 IAS application deadlines are approaching for the 2024–25 academic year. School of Historical Studies: 10/15 School of Mathematics: 12/01 School of Natural Science (physics & astrophysics): 11/15 School of Social Science: 10/15 More information: ias.edu/news/institute…

Thrilled to be running the Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium (PISC) this year with amazing friends and colleagues @athinapfff, @matghy, Ahmed Elbenni, & Fatima Zaraket! Join us in person or over Zoom by signing up here: tinyurl.com/pisc2023. And give us a follow Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium (PISC)!

Saddened to hear about the passing of my former Professor, Brinkley Messick. An extremely kind and humble intellectual. May his memory always be a blessing.

The complete set of Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology so far. Thanks to the Edinburgh University Press team, Nicola Ramsey Rachel Bridgewater, all the editorial board members, reviewers and authors. Here’s to many more great books (including some already in press)!

Colleagues and friends remember Christopher Brick, a history professor in the University Honors Program and head of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project who died in August, as a kind person who went out of his way to ensure students excelled at GW gwhatchet.com/2025/09/08/che…