David Drennan

Researcher in Middle Eastern and Northwest African history, Islamic studies, Islamic law, Arabic language and literature.∞🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺

[David Drennan @DavidDren]

Happy to finally share that I have completed my PhD at Charles Sturt University within its Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation. This was after attempting elsewhere between 2010-14 and needing to withdraw due to life changes. Link available here: https://t.co/19MSBwQBlZ

[David Drennan @DavidDren]

@herazhar Congratulations, amazing achievement!

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#NewRelease
#OpenAccess
Pre-Modern Arabic Documents
A Concise Introduction into Reading and Publishing
Andreas Kaplony, De Gruyter , 2026
https://t.co/CmvpECb5bS
PDF 🎯
https://t.co/TQUvG7bCYL

[David Drennan @DavidDren]

@salwanajmart I hope you and your family are safe, looks bad!

[David Drennan @DavidDren]

@nnnnnnxox Sounds like you're going above and beyond... The same height as that bookcase! 😆

[Dr. Éléonore Cellard @CellardEleonore]

Preview of ADER’s Islamic Art sale, taking place today in Paris

https://t.co/LE41vvrU6t

[Dr Sadek Hamid @SadekHamid]

Five year Fellowship opportunity in Qur’anic Studies at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies https://t.co/YXZa122Tgl

[Paul Babinski @Paul_Babinski]

A Turkish manuscript translation of the Gospels at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney, which appears to be independent of the ʿAlī Ufḳī/Kieffer translations. Notably, it uses both Coptic and Vulgate chapter divisions, and renders “Jesus” as ايسوس (Īsūs). ms L1/B.

[David Drennan @DavidDren]

@nnnnnnxox Totally know the feeling! I have journal articles to finish writing/editing and little to no energy or motivation to do so right now. 🥲

[Dr. Éléonore Cellard @CellardEleonore]

Some pictures of the manuscripts in the forthcoming sale Vermot & Associés tomorrow in Paris: an impressive Mushaf from Harar, an An‘am-i Sharif with very interesting iconography and a North African prayer book with Dalā’il al-Khayrat.

[David Drennan @DavidDren]

@nnnnnnxox Amazing! You should totally do that, free from the mt dramas 🙃

[Dr Sadek Hamid @SadekHamid]

Join us for an inspiring event next Saturday in Oldham with Prof Mustapha Sheikh and Dr Sofia Rehman, authors of A Treasury of Ibn Taymiyyah and A Treasury of Aishah.

✅ All welcome
✅ Free entrance

Please register using the link below:
https://t.co/wsYLKhiGS2

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#NewPublication
The Ottoman Ulema and the Quest for an Islamic Constitution
Revolution and Revelation
Yakoob Ahmed, Edinburgh University Press, 2026
https://t.co/fPqCu7djLI
https://t.co/UBepV6yWwQ

[David Drennan @DavidDren]

@nnnnnnxox I'm so glad you've developed your interests in all those areas you mentioned ages ago on here!

[Mayank Vora @aiwithmayank]

Yale built the entire Open Yale Courses project around one stubborn idea: that a real liberal arts education should not be locked behind a quarter-million-dollar tuition bill.

The woman who launched it is a Yale art history professor named Diana Kleiner.

I only learned her name after going down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why these courses felt so different from everything else online.

Here is what she actually built. Not a preview. Not a stripped-down sampler. The genuine Yale courses, recorded in the real Yale College classroom, released in video, audio, and full searchable transcripts, with the original syllabus and reading lists attached. Free, under a license that lets anyone download, share, and remix the material.

Her stated mission was simple. Expand access to educational materials for everyone who wants to learn, and protect the values of a liberal arts education that goes beyond memorizing facts toward independent thought.

So she put Yale's best introductory courses online and asked nothing in return. No fee, no registration, no certificate dangled to make you pay.

You can audit the same courses Yale students pay over $65,000 a year for, right now.

The hardest part was never getting in. It was knowing the door was already open.

https://t.co/bKiUyWfo2Z

[David Drennan @DavidDren]

@joebradford Very cool to know someone did it in the end, we are getting old!

[Josh Mugler @J_mugs]

If you're an expert in South Asian Islamic manuscripts, specifically in Urdu and Persian (and Punjabi?) HMML is hiring!

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#OpenAccess
Neo-traditionalism in Islam in the West
Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics
Walaa Quisay, Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2023
PDF 🎯
https://t.co/GnOXc54QOQ
https://t.co/n5cpf6aTr8

[Houssem E. Chachia حسام الدين شاشية @ChachiaE]

This remarkable open-access volume on migration in the early modern Mediterranean will be published this month. I’m delighted to contribute and to help recover the often-overlooked voices of displaced Sephardic and Morisco communities—an act, I believe, of historical recognition.

[Naoki Yamamoto @NaokiQYamamoto]

My new book is now available from Fons Vitae:

Naoki Yamamoto. The Harmonious Unity · Liu Zhi’s Sino-Islamic Interpretation of the Five-Fold Path. Fons Vitae. 2026.

https://t.co/KjH0s731Xa