Alexander Key

philologist

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

Mohsen Zakeri, 1954-2024. A great philologist and a generous colleague, perhaps the first scholar to seriously investigate the premodern Persian-Arabic literary-historical interface in a series of fundamental articles on translation, aphorisms, and history https://t.co/C1nlm7OVwW

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

"The translation itself was magisterially prepared by Anna Bailey Galietti, translator extraordinaire. Anna was an ideal choice as a formidable Francophile and a fellow scholar of early Islam."

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[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

@ibn_kato Is that person M. Telegram?
https://t.co/1tR7WVbw4r etc...

[Mohamed Yunis Ali محمد محمد يونس علي @mohamedyunisali]

اشتهر ابن تيمية بإنكاره لوقوع #المجاز في اللغة، بيد أن النظرة الفاحصة لآرائه في الموضوع تكشف عن تبصّر فلسفي في مقاربته لثنائية #الحقيقة_والمجاز، التي هي أعمق مما يبدو من النظرة السطحية لمعارضيه في سوء تصورهم لرأيه على أنه مجرد إنكار تعسفي لوقوع المجاز

https://t.co/hiEA05D2yC

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

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[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

@LoehrNadine @peter_tarras @Stanford @UsaybiaNet The Déroche reference is in the Tehran article.

One could guess that this passage in Ibn Abi Usaybi'a might have been the impetus for the - otherwise idiosyncratic? - choice of thick paper and big thick letters??

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

Radiocarbon dating confirms fake "Hunayn b. Ishaq" signature at the University of Tehran. So ... not just @Stanford ☺️

https://t.co/ThyVhkSJ99 by Aghaei, Bahrololoumi, Hajdas, Jafarian, Kordavani, Marx

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

@LoehrNadine @peter_tarras @Stanford @UsaybiaNet Thank you @LoehrNadine! The authors of the Tehran study are confident on the radiocarbon dating to 1526-1796 CE, and Déroche agreed with Daneshpazuh and Badawi that this ms looked fake - so presumably the forgers must have been familiar with this passage from Ibn Abi Usaybi'a ?!

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

@Alsonamyhart @shahanSean @Stanford وكذلك العالم....

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

@bla222 @CellardEleonore @AnnaBigelow786 @Stanford PS: Behnam Sadeghi, whose groundbreaking work on the San'a palimpsest changed the world of Islamic and Quranic studies, never had any illusions about these manuscripts in our collection 👊🏻👊🏻 https://t.co/vzdfUEtr0p and https://t.co/XAfkaFdOvw

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

@CellardEleonore @OsmanliSeyfo @bla222 We've never had good accession data on these, as @bla222 and I have discussed #California_Mysteries. I'm sure some enterprising forger profited :) *So good* to have expert confirmation of the forgery from @CellardEleonore and thanks to @AnnaBigelow786 for making it happen.

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

@Elegantprocess8 @SabreenSafiyyah and poems: https://t.co/3KgfOjZfoO. I attempted to stress along the same lines as your tweet that Hallaj didn't call himself a Neoplatonist: https://t.co/atiInFLW3S. Is this all secularization? Hopefully not? Or not in an incompatible way?

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

@Elegantprocess8 @SabreenSafiyyah It can be quite a useful label - so long as one remembers it is exactly "a very recent Western practice" as you say. There is a great recent collection of articles: https://t.co/tlccndfGcx

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

فنظر كليب حواليه وتحسّر... وذرف دمعة وتعبّر

Signup link: https://t.co/5HXX9V6mGk #لا_تصالح #أمل_دنقل

[Alexander Key @AlexanderMKey]

Schopenhauer to Houellebecq is literally from the sublime to the ridiculous

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

BRB, going to upload the collected works of Plato, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Houellebecq, and Agamben into an AI and watch it burst into tears.

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[Elias Muhanna @QifaNabki]

This is how far Diyab had to travel in order to write this book, but all you have to do is click here to get a copy: https://t.co/LnVen0qGHr