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Jonathan Parkes Allen

Islamicate Architecture Tuesday returns with a look into one of the best known architectural and artistic components of the Islamicate world, muqarnas (a word of uncertain etymology), in its origin

The Goal of the Sage (Ghayat al-Hakim)

Some sources to supplement the episode on Islamic(ate) astrology on @AbbasidHistory podcast.1) Abū Maʿshar, Kitāb al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilā ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm (The Great Introduction to Astrology), edited and translated by

Kathleen E. Kennedy

n/m I'm not done.been thinking about global medieval studies and sources and wondering how fast we can get better nuance in our debates.and I'm about to dig myself a proper

This is excellent! I read the tale of prophet Ibrahim’s clash with king Namrud/Nimrud in qasas-ul-anbiyya during my school days, along with his conflict with his idol worshipping father, &

I use the term ``Philosophy in the Sanskrit cosmopolis'' (``Sanskrit philosophy" for short) in order to cover all philosophical texts produced in a world in which Sanskrit was a major

Embedding Conquest Team

While working on this 5th/11th-century contract of sale of a share of a mill in al-Ashmunayn (ancient Hermopolis) in Middle Egypt it struck me how many expressions and phrases are

Ali Karjoo-Ravary علی کارجو راوری

I'm excited about this, even if somehow, tens of thousands of years in the future, Hollywood thinks jihad is taboo. Herbert defined jihad as a crusade and saw them as

Tweeting Historians

Good morning, today is MAP DAY! #historicmap #cartography #Twitteristorian #twitterstorians 1/8 Although chronicles+geographic texts mention all kinds of maps that had been created before the 10th c. (strategic maps to

Excellent interview of ⁦@JonathanACBrown⁩ on his recent book, Slavery and Islam. Some thoughts: 1) He points out how much Islamic legal tradition borrows from pre-Islamic Roman & other traditions, but

I just wrapped up teaching an undergraduate food history course & want to share a handful of non-scholarly pieces that I've taught or plan to teach that showcase how much

There's been a slew of editorials in prestige publications) about Bollywood's inclusive values and how Modi are destroyed it. This is the wrong way of looking at it. Bollywood has

Aslisho Qurboniev

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I am reading Ahmed El Shamsy’s recent book on the impact of #printing on modern discourses on #Islamic scholarship. Like his previous book, it is extremely readable and insightful. I

Yusuf A Ahmad Ansari یوسف انصاری

Today marks the 495th anniversary of the first Battle of #Panipat, fought between a Timurid army led by Zaheer-ud Din Mohammad #Babur and the Afghan king Ibrahim Lodi.This engagement had

For medieval Muslim astrologers, the goat-fish Capricorn would come to represent a sign of change and stability simultaneously. A mixed omen, it would become one of the more important Zodiac

pro trans, pro queer, pro abortion

Today, Islamic Studies Twitter's talking about myths, history, & the gendered ways both get deployed, both #onhere & off. I have some thoughts, especially on the point of what kinds