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Journal of Middle East Medievalists (@mideastmedieval.bsky.social), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal on the medieval Middle East. Edited by Zayde Antrim (zaydeantrim.bsky.social) & Alison Vacca (@medievalqabq.bsky.social)
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The Editors of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social endorse @mesa1966.bsky.social's March 13 Statement on the repression of academic freedom and March 28 Joint Statement regarding Columbia.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

New article alert! Explore the history of 15th-century Diyarbakır with us today! This new article relies on literary & epigraphic sources to tell a story of Aqquyunlu rulers & their relationship to the famous Armenian bishop, painter, & poet Mkrtičʻ Nałaš [shown here: remains at nearby Ergani]

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

New article alert! We invite you to explore a text composed in the northern reaches of the Caliphate in 744: the Armenian martyrology of Vahan of Gołtʻn. This article includes a translation and intro that analyzes the text’s construction of the Umayyad world and Armenian experiences within it

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

New article alert! Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima offers the most extended reading of a series of maps known from medieval literature. In this article, Alfred Hiatt parses Ibn Khaldūn’s text alongside manuscripts of al-Idrīsī’s 12th-cent. geography, prompting questions about Ibn Khaldūn’s art of history

submitted 160 days ago • 3 comments

We close out the 2024 issue with a thousand and one thanks to our authors, reviewers, & readers! 618 pages of research articles, thought pieces, pedagogy file, conference reports & book reviews. here is a master thread that describes them all! 🧵⬇️ Share & follow because 2025 is going to bring more!

submitted 184 days ago • 1 comment

Check out Stephen Rapp’s pedagogy file on medieval Georgian coins to use in undergraduate classes! This example combines familiar format: “there is no god but God alone, who has no associate; Muhammad is the messenger of God” in Arabic, w/ Georgian margin “Christ, exalt Bagrat, king of the Apʻxaz”

submitted 185 days ago • 1 comment

UW announces the publication of its first-ever roundtable! it showcases a variety of perspectives on the Global Middle Ages—its possibilities, perils, & problems—from fields associated w/ Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies.

submitted 186 days ago • 1 comment

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: 🧵⬇️

submitted 188 days ago • 1 comment

New article alert! 10th-c. traveler Ibn Faḍlān describes non-Muslim Rūs: “When the chieftain dies, the members of his household ask his jawārī and ghilmān, ‘Who will die with him?’ One answers, ‘I will.’” Arabic texts suggest most funerary sacrifices among the Rūs were women

submitted 217 days ago • 1 comment

al-Usur al-Wusta articles reached readers in 108 countries this year alone! Could we all agree to send an article to our friends in Turkmenistan in 2024??

submitted 570 days ago • 0 comments