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—On Resistance— Here's a poem by a political rebel who doesn't want to fight because he's afraid of what will happen to his daughters. ʿĪsā ibn Fātik was a Khārijite, one of the early Islamic rebels known for their intense piety and political violence.

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Excited to announce I'll be editor for a new series at @archumanities.bsky.social, The Afro-Eurasian Middle Ages, presenting 'the integrated study of the Afro-Eurasian “Old World”, in its formative millennium'. Share widely, & get in touch if you have ideas! www.arc-humanities.org/the-afro-eur...

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This Arab-Sasanian drachm of ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Zubayr has a curious inscription. On the obverse margin, after the Arabic بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ (bismallah) is a Middle Persian word transliterated as bplwy. Many of ibn al-Zubayr's coins have variants of bpl/bplw/bplwy/bplwyn on them. 1/ #Sasanian #Numismatics

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Today!! Hassan Bouali on "Rebellion and State-Building in Early Islam"! 4:00 pm CET on Zoom. Details on how to register below! 👇

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Tomorrow: "Rebellion and State-Building in Early Islam: The Case of the Zubayrid Caliphate"! Come join us on Zoom to hear Hassan Bouali (Paris Nanterre) present his research - Tues, 11 Feb, 4:00 pm CET. To register, email [email protected]. 👇

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"Rebellion and State-Building in Early Islam: The Case of the Zubayrid Caliphate" Join the next talk in our lecture series to hear Hassan Bouali (Paris Nanterre) talk about the second fitna and the Zubayrid polity! Next Tues, 11 Feb, 4:00 pm CET on Zoom! Email [email protected] to register!👇

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Open Access Book: Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity: China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium. Download here: brill.com/display/titl...

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The Embodied Imamate team spent a very enjoyable couple of days in Hamburg with the @rebellionuhh.bsky.social team for a workshop on 'Zaydī' networks organised by Natalie Kontny-Wendt.

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In case you missed this: our open-access volume on rebellion in the early Islamic period is now out with @edinburghup.bsky.social! It transcends traditional boundaries within and between (the) field(s) by studying Muslim and non-Muslim, Shiʿi, Kharijite, Ibadi, and Sunni contention!

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Co-authored by one of our own! Alasdair Grant is our postdoctoral researcher, working on rebellion in 8th-century Armenia!

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Thrilled to announce publication of our multi-author volume, "Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World", with @edinburghup.bsky.social in open access: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-between...! 14 exciting case studies and one conceptual introduction - happy browsing! 👇

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Interested in early Shi‘ism, conflict, and community making? Join us tomorrow for a talk by Ed Hayes (Leiden), PI of @embodiedimamate.bsky.social, on "Legitimate Punishments in Early Islam"! Tues, 14 Jan, 4:00 pm CET on Zoom. Register by emailing [email protected]!

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Sayyida Zaynab is among the most important shrines in Syria. Though these shrines are today conceived as "Shi'i" spaces, they in fact thrived over centuries precisely because they were revered, and patronized by, powerful Sunni rulers. HTS is another Sunni group to follow this ecumenical tradition.

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Exciting talk alert! Next Tues, 14 Jan, 4:00 pm CET on Zoom: Ed Hayes, PI of @embodiedimamate.bsky.social, on "Legitimate Punishments in Early Islam: Execution, Exile, Excommunication (with Special Attention to the Imami Shiʿa)". To register, simply email [email protected].👇

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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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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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Friends, fellow late antiquity fans! The news are out! We are starting a new journal together with the amazing team at LUP. We want to foster interdisciplinary and exciting articles in essay form as well as peer-reviewed editions and translations of texts. Extremely excited about this!

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"Those who have been attacked are permitted to take up arms because they have been wronged—God has the power to help them. "

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Tomorrow on Zoom: Philip Grant, 'Was the Zanj Rebellion a 'Slave Revolt?' Tues, 10 Dec, 4:00 pm CET. To register, email [email protected]. It's going to be a great talk so come join us for some pre-Christmas excitement! :) 👇

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'Was the Zanj Rebellion a 'Slave Revolt?' Delighted to resume our lecture series next Tues, 10 Dec, 4:00 pm CET on Zoom. Philip Grant (University of California, Irvine) will present his research on the famous Zanj revolt in 9th-century Iraq. To register, simply email [email protected]. 👇

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'Was the Zanj Rebellion a 'Slave Revolt?' Delighted to resume our lecture series next Tues, 10 Dec, 4:00 pm CET on Zoom. Philip Grant (University of California, Irvine) will present his research on the famous Zanj revolt in 9th-century Iraq. To register, simply email [email protected]. 👇

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This looks excellent! Publication is imminent, and will be open access via Cambridge Core! Ed Hayes & Petra Sijpesteijn, eds.: Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire (2024). www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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This looks excellent! Publication is imminent, and will be open access via Cambridge Core! Ed Hayes & Petra Sijpesteijn, eds.: Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire (2024). www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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Alright cracks knuckles let's do this! Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first: What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects

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Open access: Alexandra Cuffel Shared Saints and Festivals among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean Arc Humanities Pr 2024 library.oapen.org/viewer/web/v...

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ok medievalists. people here beat me to attempting to make enormous/comprehensive/broadly defined "Medievalists" starter packs. (thank god it's someone else's turn.) HOWEVER in case people are falling thru the cracks--the original problem with medieval Twitter--here's this go.bsky.app/6x5g4yD

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_Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration_ now has a cover! Forthcoming August 2025. (Cover explanation in next post)

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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. Tell Everyone www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

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The delightful "Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements" (2021), edited by Muhammad Afzal Upal and Carole M. Cusack, is available for free as a downloadable PDF, due to its being an open access title. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... #islamicstudies #religion #religiousstudies #brill

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A court deed from Cairo, probably 1209 AD. Nūr al-dīn ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa buys from the Coptic patriarch a ruined property in maṣūṣa in Fustat. He then sells it to Ibrāhīm b. Sayyār, the Karaite Jew (al-yahūdī al-qarā).

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New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity (8.4) is now online. Always great stuff in it: online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/8/4.

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Shane Bobrycki's The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages shows the importance of collective behavior in early #medieval Europe. Out now! Learn more about the history of crowds during the five hundred years between the age of circuses and the age of crusades: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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FYI the Library of Arabic Literature is now On Here at @libraryarablit.bsky.social.

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What a thought-provoking project! Can't wait to read the book and engage with its arguments in depth!

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This looks excellent!

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Happy to find Maribel Fierro @mifierro.bsky.social here!

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New York University hosts exhibition on Islamic Spain https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/new-york-university-hosts-exhibition-on-islamic-spain/ #museums #NewYork #andalus

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Did you know that we have an online lecture series? :) It resumes tomorrow (Tues, 19 Nov) with a talk by Giulia Casella (Hamburg) on 'Unspoken Rebellion on the Red Sea: The Case of Kāleb and Abraha in the Sixth Century'! To register for the Zoom event, email [email protected]. 👇

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I've fully migrated, so it's time for an intro skeet. I work on early Islamic Iran & Central Asia. Wrote a book on frontiers. Working on a social history of the conquest of Khurasan & Transoxiana through the biography of Abdallah b. Khazim al-Sulami. Find my work here... uc.academia.edu/RobertHaug

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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

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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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Postdoctoral fellowship in Palestine Studies, at the University of Toronto! Apply by 6 January 2025.

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Hey y'all, I just converted the Islamic Studies starter pack into a list/feed. Pin and use to see what list members are posting. Here's the link: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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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!

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A really interesting recent article: it gives several convincing examples of deliberate alterations made to the wordings of hadiths, caused by differences in theology and doctrine among Muslim groups of the first centuries, such as the Shīʿa, Ahl al-Raʾy, and Muʿtazila

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