Belated Antiquity

Historian, PhD | Interests: Medieval Islam, late antiquity, Middle East & South Asia | Tweets: manuscripts, print culture, miscellanea

[Sarah Osment @sm_osment]

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

@theodorebeers I couldn't agree more! A humanist of the finest order.

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

@_mahdichowdhury jinn punk?

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

Most accurate @CNN headline before the event yesterday!

[Musheغ Asaտրyan @AsatryanMushegh]

My book Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam was just released on open access, help yourselves: https://t.co/63Xt7oE6Le

#ghulat

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

I don't think I've thought about the Avignon papacy since comps in grad school.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.

Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

[Amir-Hossein Karimi @amirhkarimi_]

During an online PhD interview, the candidate pauses to say:

“Sorry… they're bombing here. I'm a bit stressed.”

Some realities shouldn't exist. 😞

[Georgy Kantor @GeorgyKantor]

Deeply sad news (from her son's FB post) that the great late antique and Byzantine historian, Averil Cameron, died this morning. The towering figures of Oxford of my youth are passing away.

[Roose @RuNoseP]

i do not care if Trump's comments result in nothing tonight. no one who even thinks of saying the phrase "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" should be allowed to operate an ice cream stand, nevermind the most powerful office on the planet

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

@bhatoti @_mahdichowdhury There's also a nice little sign at Fresh Pond on its history of ice shipments to India.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

BBC has now changed this quote without an editor's note or correction. That is egregious journalistic malpractice that needs an explanation.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

I have an awful feeling I haven’t felt since the first week of March 2020

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

So it's official.

[Ali Larijani | علی لاریجانی @alilarijani_ir]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم

ملت عزیز و سربلند ایران!
الشعوب المسلمة وأحرار العالم:
«بنده‌ی خدا، به خدا پیوست.»
لقد لحق عبدٌ من عباد الله بربّه شهيدًا.

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

@akkhan81 @landlawlahore My impression is that the pendatic argument is partly also against some nativists who decided to insist on Farsi. But certainly makes for an interesting contrast with other cases, like below: (someone else also mentioned the "Bharat, not India!" discourse) https://t.co/Eh7bwfuung

[Evrim Binbaş @EvrimBinbas]

While my Iranian/Iranist colleagues fight for the use of the term Persian in English, some of my Turkish compatriots push for the use of “Türkiye” in all languages. We should leave the languages alone. I’m for Persian and Turkey.

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

@akkhan81 @landlawlahore Yes, weird but I think precisely because it's a pedantic losing battle against everyday speech, which probably began to change with more Iranian immigration to the West and their endonym slipping into Enligsh.

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

@landlawlahore @akkhan81 it's confusing, for sure! lol

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

@landlawlahore @akkhan81 *neatly, I mean

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

@landlawlahore @akkhan81 It doesn't seem to correlate nearly with politics (if anything, some of those described actually prefer to say Farsi). My sense is that it began as an academic attempt to discipline changing colloquial usages. https://t.co/k0i6nI38A3

[Belated Antiquity @afzaque]

The East is a dinner.

[Gus Carter @GusCarter]

Extraordinary email from Paul Bremer, the US bureaucrat who ran Iraq from 2003-4, to his wife.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).