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This excellent article persuasively identifies an intermediate style between the early Arabic petition and the high Fatimid style I researched for The Lost Archive. I feel fortunate to have an interlocutor like @LevEDub

My favorite thread EVER

A glimpse of trade networks in Aden (Yemen) in 1155–56 CE: "Travelers arrived in these two years in ships from every sea: from all the lands of Hind and its provinces, from the land of the Zanj and its provinces, from the inland region of Berbera and Abyssinia.... 1/

What in the actual Fancy a paleographic challenge? I'm getting tax receipt or other fiscal doc, early Mamluk but ... ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯ Princeton Geniza Lab @stluescher amel📜 Yusuf Umrethwala @TobiasScheunch1 Tamer el-Leithy Dr. Amanda H. Steinberg Marijn van Putten Lorenzo Bondioli M. Ballan

A little while ago I wrote a book. I guess a few people liked it, because it just won the BIAJS Annual Book Prize. It’s also free: doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0… #BIAJS2022 #openaccess #syriac #arabic #hebrew Open Book Publishers The Leverhulme Trust Gates Cambridge UChicago Alumni

Ever wonder what kind of stuff you'd find on the shelves of a pharmacy in medieval Cairo? Wonder no more! geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

New join for this letter from a disconsolate mother to her son in al-Ushmūnayn (Upper Egypt), 1146–54 CE. Found by oded zinger! geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

Today is the official publication date of my book The King's Road. It is widely available now, but if you order from PUP website press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…, you can use the code P321 for 30% off!

We still know little about how medieval Islamic law worked in practice, despite having access to many legal documents. By analyzing legal texts in creative ways, Dr. Marina Rustow (Marina Rustow) is shedding new light on the role of judges (qadis) & how they worked. A thread. 🧵

Absolutely stunning document

Fun opportunity to work with me!🦸‍♀️🦹‍♀️📜✍️ 🧑‍💻 If you're less than 4 years post-PhD and into digital humanities *and* premodern textual artifacts (manuscripts, archives, coins, inscriptions, etc), please apply for this postdoc. Deadline: May 7, 2023. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

A monumental new Fragment of the Month from Princeton Geniza Lab's own Yosef Ginsberg on new fragments of Sefer Tagin ("The Book of Crownlets") lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/de…

Another opportunity to work with my amazing @genizalab team!

A hybrid panel at Chester Beatty on A. S. Yahuda featuring Ahmed El Shamsy, evyn kropf #لا_للتطهير_العرقي 🍉 and Moya Carey, moderated by your humble servant. This coming Wednesday, 28 June, 13h EDT, 18h local in Dublin. All welcome. chesterbeatty.ie/whats-on/abrah…

Medieval Judaeo-Arabic manuscript recording how to say "OMG" in fifteen languages. If you happen to know Samaritan, Nubian, Rusian, {A}rmenian, Oghuz, Coptic, or any of the half dozen mystery languages here, please advise! geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

I’m moved 😢 All I knew about the life of this ancestor of mine were the books, the Garibaldi campaign and the dramatic ending. Dr Roel Konijnendijk this was brilliant!

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