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Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
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Organizing a medievalist panel for MESA 2025 (DC, Nov 22-25)? MEM board of directors is now inviting submissions for MEM sponsored panels at MESA. Submit panel abstracts with individual paper abstracts by Feb 5 to [email protected] MESA submission deadline is Feb 13th!

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Deadline alert: Feb 5 Organizing a medievalist panel for MESA 2025 (DC, Nov 22-25)? MEM board of directors is now inviting submissions for MEM sponsored panels at MESA. Submit panel abstracts with individual paper abstracts by Feb 5 to [email protected]

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Organizing a medievalist panel for MESA 2025 (DC, Nov 22-25)? MEM board of directors is now inviting submissions for MEM sponsored panels at MESA. Submit panel abstracts with individual paper abstracts by Feb 5 to [email protected] MESA submission deadline is Feb 13th!

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"My friend, we’ve food aplenty and a pot bubbling away, As much good talk as you like, and an endless supply of jokes. The wine, when poured, is like a lightning flash on a rainy night."

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The Caliphal Finances project is inviting authors to contribute to their Handbook of Fiscal History in the Early Islamic World (7th-10th century)! Abstracts due 15 January 2025. See the linked post for more details. blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfina...

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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!

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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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1/2 If you'd like to explore Arabic MS yourself, you can do so on Digital Bodleian. Sheri looked at: MS. Pococke 400, a 14th C. illustrated copy of Kalilah wa-Dimnah: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8fac... MS. Marsh 178, an early fragment of the Qur’an: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/c5eb...

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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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Your MEMbership in MEM supports all the great work being done at @alusuralwusta.bsky.social Check out what they've been up to this past year and then become a MEMber. www.middleeastmedievalists.com/membership-f...

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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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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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BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

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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...

submitted 77 days ago • 23 comments

The MEM Business Meeting is starting now.

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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

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DISSEMINATING AL-ANDALUS Check out "Al-Andalus y la Historia", an online free journal with the voices of experts such as M. Fierro, B. Catlos, A. García-Sanjuán, E. Cardoso, S. Kimmel, J. Bellver, G. Wiegers and much more New English section thanks to Ann Christys. www.alandalusylahistoria.com

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What more could you want from the Middle East Medievalists Bluesky than a Middle East Medievalists starter pack? Connect with Middle East Medievalists MEMbers on Bluesky. If you are a MEMber of MEM and want to be included, let us know. go.bsky.app/PFgkbsW

submitted 103 days ago • 16 comments

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025. Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects Deadline for submission: October 1, 2024

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