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MPhil Islamic Art and Architecture, Oxford. Ottoman architecture and the lands of Mâverâünnehir. Ertegun Graduate Scholar in the Humanities, Khalili Research Centre+St Cross College. Also translator, Hindi and Urdu to English. very 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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New from Rumeysa Ozturk's lawyer: Rumeysa hasn't been accused of any crime & "DHS has not produced any evidence" that she did anything unlawful. Rumeysa wasn't able to speak to her lawyer for 24+ hours & not until after she was in Louisiana — despite a court order that she not be moved from Mass.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

yeni yılınız hayırlı olsun oomflar

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

The classic policing of cultural institutions and spaces in India is quite surprising to say the least. Even spaces such as the vaunted Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi refuse to allow people to take pictures of an architectural marvel designed by Joseph Allen Stein.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Our first post is dedicated to Mica Ertegun, our benefactor, who passed away a year ago today. The Ertegun Alumni Society organised a memorial event at the end of October, with the help of @ox.ac.uk to celebrate Mica's life.

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

I 'speak' 9 languages: -English -Panjabi -Urdu -Hindi -Spanish -French -Persian -Turkish (and Ottoman Turkish) -Hungarian (a tiny bit)

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

One small story of return. 1974 Christie's auctioned this Asante hat decorated with gold leaf. 'The Property of a Lady...Taken by Lt Cowan...from the dressingroom of Asantehene Kofi Karikari, 1874'

submitted 137 days ago • 2 comments

An era of universities crippling the future of the humanities and social sciences for digital slop is an incredible thing to watch unfold as a humanist.

submitted 138 days ago • 12 comments

Arkadaşlar, arkadaşlar: working on a list for scholars working in Ottoman Studies. Please ask to be added!

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

ʿĀşıḳpaşazāde being an icon. "Savâl: Bu Bektaşiler iderler kim «yeñiçerilerün başındaki tac Hâci Bektâşiñdür» dirler" "Cevap: yalândür."

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

It's here! A very incipient starter pack for the art, architecture, and archaeology of the Islamic world. This is just a first quick effort, please let me know if I can add you or others so we can build up this community!

submitted 141 days ago • 12 comments

Just described the hiring freeze in UKHE as "so hard you could drive a truck on it" and now I'm imagining nice little ice-fishing huts, each sheltering its own job-seeker watching their bright flag in the dark water, someone out with a cart selling coffee and donuts. Really make it festive.

submitted 140 days ago • 1 comment

Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners) www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 139 days ago • 53 comments

The description for our public "Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigotry" blocklist has been updated to include accounts which amplify hateful content posted by others. bsky.app/profile/brex...

submitted 140 days ago • 6 comments

autumn and oxford; yet another love letter.

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

Y’all @grantls.bsky.social brought over his old iBook to donate to @skeuomorph.bsky.social - not only is it in beautiful working order, it has some og digital humanities projects on it, like this interactive edition of the Bayeux Tapestry

submitted 140 days ago • 4 comments

Ikincîsî, selâtîn ve egnîyânlaruñ merkad-ı purnürleri üzerine bîna mâmur ile kubbâb sürîye(?)den olan türbe-i purnürler binâ itmîşlerdir. "Second, sultans and rich men built illuminated mausolea consisting of splendid buildings and remarkable domes over their light filled graves." trans. Z. Yürekli

submitted 140 days ago • 1 comment

#Intro: Hello, I'm yutyrannus! (i dont like my real name up here, but iykyk) I am a queer man from India, living in London these days for my postgraduate degree. I do tech policy and regulation irl, but on here I want to mainly talk about pop music, books, telugu culture, dinosaurs and birding!

submitted 142 days ago • 5 comments

RT — looking for fellow Ottomanists, Islamic art historians and Central Asianists. Eyvallâh!

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

I'm trying to build a feed that highlights the diverse voices in the literary world, particularly those involved in literary translation (all language combinations). So, #literarytranslators out there, help me complete this #starterpack and let me know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/SurjbAj

submitted 141 days ago • 29 comments

Mughal historians – please stop saying 'Turkish' when you mean Chaghatai instead of Ottoman, or one amongst a myriad from an entire language family.

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

Nominations for the 2024 Dan David Prize are open 📢 Nominate exceptional early or midcareer scholars & practitioners - in any discipline - whose work illuminates the human past in bold and creative ways. Winners will be awarded $300K each Deadline: Oct 11, 2023 dandavidprize.org/nominate/

submitted 574 days ago • 0 comments

The wholesale destruction of centuries-old funerary complex – awful news. www.worldofinteriors.com/story/city-o...

submitted 589 days ago • 0 comments

The loss of twitter means loss of years-long cultivated academic communities, climate communities across researchers-practitioners-activists-citizens, Global South/BIPOC communities & so much more. Learning, sharing, building solidarities & kinship all fractured now. That’s the real tragedy to me.😢

submitted 595 days ago • 20 comments

what's wild is not seeing promoted tweets and ads; I'd gotten so used to filtering them out after a point.

submitted 597 days ago • 0 comments

repost for visibility! looking forward to finding more translators, art historians, south asians and generally cool folks here✨

submitted 597 days ago • 0 comments

shifting to another platform is so exhausting for having to re-assemble the same shattered online communities. BlueSky also doesn't seem to have a lot of amazing blue bird folks from South Asia yet either 🥲

submitted 597 days ago • 0 comments