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💻 Register now for an online seminar with Dr Viola Allegranzi, who will be speaking on 'Architectural Inscriptions from 10th- to 13th-Century Afghanistan as Recorded in Photographic Archives': bit.ly/RethinkHistory 🗓️ Thu 13 Mar, 12pm Toronto/4pm UK time. #Afghanistan #medievalsky #skystorian

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next on my pile of interesting books to read! if you're in NYC, please come to hear the authors present their newly-published book on 24 March!

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Back on campus for the day, this was the first thing to greet me as I walked in

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AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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The only person I want to see us all get behind for President in 2028 is AOC. The rest of the Dems are mostly feckless, spineless and useless

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So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!

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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]

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If you see this, post an archer [14th-cent depiction from Spitakavor Church, showing the Proshyan prince Amir Hasan. I love this one bc it has a glyph above the horse's head that combines the letters ԱՄՐ to render the name Amir with just one letter; to the right is ՀԱ, the start of his name Hasan]

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for anyone in the New York area: Nzhdeh Yeranyan will give a talk on "The Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict: Challenges in Preserving Cultural Heritage" on 10 February

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excited to see Umayyad Armenia in UW!

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And so we begin 2025! Check out our new article abt how Ibn Khaldun uses al-Idrisi's maps!

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I once heard someone refer to Columbia as "the social justice ivy"...

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this is a really striking installation at the Peabody Museum: Eternal Cities is an "urban palimpsest" created by Mohamad Hafez from 3D prints of the museum's objects. a Sasanian incantation bowl becomes a satellite dish; a cuneiform inscription serves as minaret; a cylinder seal is a water tank

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Open access 🔥 Sean W. Anthony and Stephen Shoemaker, Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...

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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”

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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.

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Today, I'm leading 20 Members of Congress to demand that the Biden Admin withhold offensive weapons from the Israeli military. U.S. law is clear: if the Netanyahu government does not allow sufficient food & medicine to enter Gaza, then the U.S. cannot send weapons.

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New volume of Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists Vol. 32 (2024) journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al... @alusuralwusta.bsky.social #openaccess @medievalqabq.bsky.social

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this week we will be posting about each section in the 2024 issue of UW. to start us off: the master list of peer-reviewed research articles! with many thanks to the authors, reviewers, and readers!

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He's with the soul of his soul now. (Artist: Awni Ishtiwi)

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Testing BlueSky’s capacity for historical threads! A thread about my recent paper on Ibn Fadlan, (not) the Vikings, & 10th c. Eurasian trade & diplomacy. Read if you like medieval history, Middle Eastern history, Iranian history, numismatics, economic history, & investigative historiography! 1/?

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thanks 😁 this was for a volume on Arabic & multilingualism that was published earlier this year. the contributions are interesting, check out @robhaug.bsky.social on trilingual coins (Arabic, Bactrian, & MP) & @sasanianshah.bsky.social on Middle Iranian languages

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Behold, a think-piece! (You should hear that in stentorian a Matt Berry-as-Cravensworth the vampire voice.) Part of a lovely round-table organized by Al-'Usur al-Wusta. I am very gung-ho about global political history and #historysky #medievalsky journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...

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I've only read two of these roundtable contributions so far (it's a Friday afternoon and my first week of freedom, that's already loads) and they are excellent. Excited to read the rest as soon as I can manage it. Well worth a look.

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more specifics to come, but for now: 618 pages, hot off the press!! check out the new issue of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social I'd go take a nap to recover, but we already have three articles in production and some more in the pipeline. 2025 is going to be fun!

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Alright, I wrote a rant about my feelings about the Global Middle Ages as institutional, historiographical, and moral paradigm. You can read it here. journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...

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There is nothing like taking part in a meeting of such brilliant scholars (i.e., Middle East Medievalists). It is a balm for the academic soul. Helps recharge the batteries after a trying year.

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There is something so sickeningly brazen about the way universities are persisting with their persecution of pro Palestine student protesters from the summer and before- even as it is becoming clearer and clearer that the students were right.

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new exhibit on Madinat al-Zahra, once a capital of Umayyad Spain. the exhibit is free to the public at ISAW in New York. 🧵w/ just a few favorites: [shown here: limestone inscription from the Friday mosque, 333AH/944-5CE: "Abd al-Rahman Commander of the Faithful, may God grant him a long life"]

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2.7 lbs. of Winter Break reading material just arrived today. Including an article by yours truly. Thanks to @sasanianshah.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute.

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I don't really have any more words, but words won't suffice anyway

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some of my recent work on kingship, sufism, manuscripts and visual culture can be found here: academiccommons.columbia.edu/search?f%5Ba...

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Georgian ambassadors to the US, Czech Republic, Lithuania have resigned.

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when you don't get your box bc your buddy needs a paw-pillow

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...and Armenia didn't make the map even tho Armenian Studies is typically part of NELC/MES departments

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