Der Islam Journal

Founded by Carl Heinrich Becker in 1910, the journal Der Islam provides a forum for the study of the pre-19th c. history & culture of the Middle East.

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Did you know that @DerIslamJournal publishes a companion book series called "Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East"? https://t.co/XzJMDciRDS #MedievalTwitter

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New book: "Faire revivre l’ashʿarisme chez les Mālikites
Édition critique, traduction et étude d’un manuscrit inédit du Ḥathth ʿalā l-baḥth d’al-Ashʿarī commenté par al-Ṭurṭūshī," by Ilyass Amharar @ilyassamharar https://t.co/jrto67BRtx

[Marinos Sariyannis (sariyannis.bsky.social) @sariyannis]

Just read this fascinating piece. A translation of Psalms commissioned by the agha of the harem! Jewish literary and scientific (incl. occultist) production in the Ottoman context seems like the next big thing.

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Şeyma Benli’s “Debīrī: The 17th-Century Jewish Poet who Translated the Psalms into Ottoman Turkish”
https://t.co/qiA8WzKhoZ

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For the April 2026 issue (103.1) of Der Islam, we present eight new articles and ten book reviews.
https://t.co/iAvGihoKEP

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Omar Gamal Mohamed Ali, Said Aljoumani (@SAljoumani), and Konrad Hirschler’s “Archival Practices and the Codex: A Mamlūk Protocol on Regulating Markets in Damascus and Its Ottoman Afterlife”
https://t.co/v96JkU6qA2

[Yusuf Celik @suufy]

Forthcoming Series: Digital Humanities in Islamic Studies

https://t.co/UbX1EkTLsZ

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

Academics in Belgium have started an open letter criticising @VUBrussel for failing to stand up for free speech when they succumbed to the Zionist lobby and revoked my contract over perfectly legal posts.

If you work in academia (or similar sectors), please sign and share.

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#OpenAccess
#Articles
#NewRelease
Islamic Intellectual Traditions
Volume 1: Issue 1, 2026, Brill
https://t.co/pOWzSvGBWJ

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@shahanSean Olivier Bouquet, "Firewood Provisioning in the 17th-Century Ottoman State"
https://t.co/undVCaAXeT

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Der Islam 102.2 is hot off the press! First up:
[open-access] Ana Davitashvili, "Sealing and the Root kh-t-m in the Qurʾān and pre-Islamic Christian Literature: On the 'Seal of the Prophets' and Disbelievers Having 'Seals on Their Hearts and Hearing'”
https://t.co/heb4m0a8TF

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@shahanSean Frédéric Bauden, "Bandar al-Ṭūr. A Port on the Red Sea and Its Development in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century"
https://t.co/zcHXNyhPOM