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Erik Wade ( @erik_kaars ) again, back with a short thread on the love of my life: penitentials. Penitentials are medieval manuals for confessors. They basically list sins with suggested

SECOND THREAD: SENDERO LUMINOSO AND THE PERUVIAN INTERNAL ARMED CONFLICT. After 12 years of military rule, Peru held presidential elections on May 18, 1980. Months before, a national assembly had

Erik Wade here! Back with my 1st research thread as this week's host! I want to talk about early medieval sexuality studies. I focus on the earliest English writing on

The collected poems of al-Mutanabbi (d. 965), the most celebrated Arabic poet ever, were first printed not in Cairo or Beirut, but Calcutta in 1815.The editor, Shaykh Ahmad, was Yemeni.

Hi from @_SimonLeese. This week I’ll be tweeting about Arabic literature and multilingualism in 18th/19th century North India. I’m interested in how Arabic writers imagine their place in a larger

This is @PieterCoppens8 again, tweeting about my research on Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi this week. Let me share a case study on Qasimi today, on which I wrote an article that

So, why was Walid Saleh essential? His works were the first to address the ideological problems in our understanding of the history of tafsir. If you ask people about the

WORLD WAR I IN THE MAHJAR special feature: Military mobilization in the mahjar.During the First World War, some 10,000 Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian men from the Americas joined one of the

MAHJARI PRINT CULTURE: Now, let's talk about Syrian serials in this diaspora.Yesterday I described the problems in locating migration history in state records when states are invested in migration control.Thankfully,

Hey, @DavidOBowles here. I'm back to finish talking about the invasion & conquest of the Aztec Empire through the life of its last emperor, Cuāuhtemōc. As the city recovered from

Hi! @DavidOBowles, back in the saddle for day 2 of our examination of the invasion & conquest of Mexico, seen through the lives of its last emperor & empress. Yesterday

Hey everyone! My name’s Evan aka @LevineRx & I’m talking over #twitteristorian to tell you about the #archaeology of #Greece’s Cycladic islands! I just docked on #Naxos for 2 weeks