Dr. Elaine van Dalen

Assistant Professor of Classical Islamic Studies @Columbia. Graeco-Arabic philology, classical Islamic medicine. Tweets my own.

[Dr. Elaine van Dalen @elainevdalen]

@TommyHilfigo Congratulations!

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@mszarepour same conflict for me :)

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@Irvan_IQ You got them :)

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@agha164 Yes

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@agha164 Fra-sui

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@akasper331 Of course :)

[CMA: Islamic Art @cma_islamic]

Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, Three physicians preparing medicine, from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides, 1224 https://t.co/LWxiroWcKr #clevelandartmuseum #museumarchive

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@HiskeVersprille jawbreakers in alle kleuren, bubblicious kauwgom, salmiaklollies, en zakjes dropsleutels en zure matten voor 30 cent in de jaren '90

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@RachelSchine Oh I missed this. Congratulations that's awesome!🎉

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@WinstonEBlack @stfxuniversity Congratulations, sounds like a wonderful project!

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@kaohu11 Amazing! Congratulations 🎉

[Justin Stearns @kaohu11]

Next week I am excited to be looking forward to speaking on "Religion, Contagion, and Plague in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World" to the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture! All are welcome!
https://t.co/9Mln38nRZj

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@AbbasiRushain Congratulations Dr. Abbasi!

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@RachelSchine I’m sorry that’s awful. You’re amazing and deserve something great 🧡

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Transliteration troubles. Here Lynn Thorndike lists every variant he encountered of the name of the Sabian scholar Thābit Ibn Qurra (ثابت بن قره).

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

Cairo in the 11th-13th centuries was the international capital of take-out food. But what did the menus look like? Wonder no more.

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@RachelSchine @MENALibAHS @nadooshfattoosh @SaadiaYacoob @kecia_ali @zaydeantrim @waraqamusa @mrustow @Troutt1 @MyrnePernilla Thank you that means a lot coming from you!!

[Matt Melvin-Koushki @mmelvink]

All are welcome to this two-day history of science confab next week, featuring Dimitri Gutas, @FancyNahyan, Jane Murphy, Michael Noble and Hannah Erlwein, plus this poor wretch. There will be plenty of occult goodness, of course!

https://t.co/1MC4vHaRU6

[Dr. Elaine van Dalen @elainevdalen]

@takiyuddinrasid Awesome. We should have!

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We looked at this in my Islamic medicine class today. Ceramic bowl depicting a bloodletting, Seljuk, 13th century

Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin Inv. Nr. I.4350