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A 17th c. (probably) fāl-nāmah (guide to bibliomancy using the letters of the Qur'ān) in Arabic with a Latin interlinear, written in a Western European hand, only a handful of folios and concluding with a vocabulary list, quite the odd little manuscript (BnF Arabe 2721):

The Critical Urbanism Program, U of Basel, the Urban Institute, U of Sheffield, and Soc-Cultural Anthropology, Leiden will conduct a School of Urban Popular Economy in Nairobi from Feb 2-6, 2026. Fully funded opportunities for 11 early career scholars. If interested contact:

The Moon of Muharram 1st, 1447AH

جب کربلا میں داخلہ شاہِ دیں ہوا دشتِ بلا نمونۂ خلدِ بریں ہوا Madame Noor Jehan recites a marsiyah titled "Maidan e Karbala" written by Mir Anees.

📢 HRCP invites academics, legal practitioners and human rights practitioners to submit abstracts for its upcoming national conference, which seeks to critically interrogate the historical foundations, contemporary manifestations and potential trajectories of Pakistan’s legal

رو رو کے پوچھتی ہیں بانو شہِ زمن سے کڑیل جواں کی میت کس طرح لائے رن سے The soul-shattering noha/elegey titled "Ro Ro Ke Puchti Hain Bano Shah e Zaman Se" featured in Muzaffar Ali's film "Gaman (1978)" Poet: Mir Alim Wasti Chanteuse: Chhaya Ganguli

حسین (ع) جب کہ چلے بعد دوپہر رن کو نہ تھا کوئی کہ جو تھامے رکاب توسن کو Lata Mangeshkar recites a marsiya in the memory of the Imam Hussain (AS) written by Mir Anees featuring in Yusuf Naqvi's film "Shankar Hussain (1977)"

کیست درین انجمن محرم عشق غیور؟ ما همه بی‌غیرتیم، آینه در کربلاست بیدل

With an article by David Brophy “The Boundary Disputes of Villagers”: the Qing Empire and the Micropolitics of the Pamirs The Pamir Archive has of course images, maps and documents of the places dealing in the article. Original place of the Qing stele, now in Khorog:

A friend’s recent publicaton on Satpanth #Ismaili Ginans brilliantly shows how Islamic ideas like Nabuwat & Imamat were spread through Gujarati oral poetry—challenging what counts as “Islamic literature” and expanding its linguistic and cultural scope. degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…

New Master’s Program “Histories and Societies of the Islamic World”, Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität #Berlin. Deadline for application: 15 August 2025. More information: tinyurl.com/463a7uxy

Some words go together like jelly and peanut butter… wait, that sounds super weird. A pair of words that is used in a fixed order in an idiomatic expression is called an ‘irreversible binomial.’ ‘Peanut butter and jelly’ is an example of an irreversible binomial. 🧵⬇️

me yesterday when I figured out what was wrong with my wheelchair