Since we are new(ish) to Bluesky, we want to make sure you did not miss all of the wonderful articles we published this year! We publish as soon as articles are through peer review and copyediting, so these have rolled out over the past 12 months: 🧵⬇️ - ThreadSky

alusuralwusta.bsky.social • 187 days ago

Since we are new(ish) to Bluesky, we want to make sure you did not miss all of the wonderful articles we published this year! We publish as soon as articles are through peer review and copyediting, so these have rolled out over the past 12 months:
🧵⬇️

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alusuralwusta.bsky.social•187 days ago

Mathieu Tillier provides an overview of the work of an overlooked historian, Muḥammad b. Khalaf al-Ḍabbī, known as Wakīʿ (d. 306/918). The marginal role he assigns to the Abbasid capital suggests that this period of inquisition (miḥna) had a profound impact on Islamic historiography

alusuralwusta.bsky.social•187 days ago

The execution of al-Ḥallāj (d. 309/922) and Ghulām Khalīl’s (d. 275/888) inquisition against Sufis loom large in historiography. this article by @amusto.bsky.social explores how Sufis presented this miḥna in texts from the 3rd/9th century on & the place of tribulation in their “universe of meaning”

alusuralwusta.bsky.social•187 days ago

Kristof D’hulster describes divinatory lot books (qurʿas) that were once owned by Qāniṣawh al-Muḥammadī, an early 10th/16th-cent governor of Mamluk Damascus. The article includes a transcription, translation, & instructions to make your own!

https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/uw32dhulster

alusuralwusta.bsky.social•187 days ago

Said Aljoumani & Benedikt Reier present audition attendance lists (awrāq al-samāʿ) that preceded the better-known audition certificate (samāʿ). This article studies an audition attendance list produced in the 9th/15th cent in Cairo for a transmission of the Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī.

alusuralwusta.bsky.social•187 days ago

Enki Baptiste investigates the famous khuṭba of Abū Ḥamza al-Shārī. The first part is devoted to the history of Ibāḍism in the Arabian Peninsula during the 2nd/8th century. The second part contains an extensive translation based on a longer version of the khuṭba preserved by Ibn Sirḥān al-Izkawī.

alusuralwusta.bsky.social•187 days ago

Samet Budak & Michael Pifer explore multilingualism at the 15th cent Ottoman court w/ a hexaglot grammar in Persian, Ottoman Turkish, ancient Greek, Byzantine Greek, Latin, & Armenian. they bring in additional mss to present a place where the Armenian vernacular not only survived, but even thrived.

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