Since the start of the pandemic @Professor_MSyed and I have been translating Ibn Hajar’s *Merits of the Plague* for @PenguinClassics — excited to announce it is finally coming out March ‘23!!!
Colleagues and friends remember Christopher Brick, a history professor in the University Honors Program and head of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project who died in August, as a kind person who went out of his way to ensure students excelled at GW https://t.co/gLtlLNbWE4
The complete set of Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology so far. Thanks to the @EdinburghUP team, @NicolaRamsey1 @RachelBridgewa2, all the editorial board members, reviewers and authors. Here’s to many more great books (including some already in press)!
Saddened to hear about the passing of my former Professor, Brinkley Messick. An extremely kind and humble intellectual. May his memory always be a blessing.
@tabisamra @athinapfff @matghy @AElbenni@PISCPrinceton I seem to recall Intisar and Tamer presenting their work at PISC the year @Professor_MSyed, Luke Yarbrough, Amin @venjara and I founded it. Glad to see it coming full circle so many years later, and that it is still thriving!
Thrilled to be running the Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium (PISC) this year with amazing friends and colleagues @athinapfff, @matghy, @AElbenni, & Fatima Zaraket! Join us in person or over Zoom by signing up here: https://t.co/9sJmPNiCV8. And give us a follow @PISCPrinceton!
🚨 IAS application deadlines are approaching for the 2024–25 academic year.
School of Historical Studies: 10/15
School of Mathematics: 12/01
School of Natural Science (physics & astrophysics): 11/15
School of Social Science: 10/15
More information: https://t.co/WZqCy0BoS1
@dr_anasekulic @PrincetonHist The loss of the sycamore gap tree also has me thinking of those grand leafy creatures in my life… this European beech shades the @wiko_berlin library… you can almost imagine it peering in with its own research project
ty @RobGMacfarlane!
the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree could also be understood within a much longer history beyond the UK...
see @dr_anasekulic's history of the sudden felling of a willow tree near a stream in Kresšvo, Bosnia in 1779 & the 'chaos and suffering' that ensued
@dr_anasekulic collects many such examples in ch. 6, 'the many trees of osman' in her award-winning @PrincetonHist dissertation, 'conversion of the landscape: environment and religious politics in an early modern ottoman town'
On 04-10-2023, we present our first version of #htr transcriptions of 5 million scans from the Dutch East India Company archives. It makes accessible copied documents (OBP) from the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago that provide a lens on world history @_GLOBALISE
An entire 18th-century Ottoman Damascene room has just come on the market, after 70+ years (?!) in a private UK home. Would love to see it in a public institution in Syria....
https://t.co/xqHrCPCmI7
🎊 The 2023–24 academic year is officially underway! The international IAS community, which this year hails from 47 countries and 105 institutions, is united across disciplines by a common cause to push the boundaries of knowledge. Read more: https://t.co/UiTepS5non
This special issue on ‘Print and Islam in South Asia’ is finally out after years of hardwork and wait. I have co-edited it with @tuhfatulhind & Layli Uddin. There are 8 fantastic essays and a co-authored introduction. Do read and share this rich volume.😊
https://t.co/tbonhPNrvK
Quite simply, Travis Zadeh's gobsmacking Wonders and Rarities is a watershed entity in the study of the Islamic (and Non/Human) Weird -- his book talk today at 1 pm online is not to be missed!
https://t.co/CCKuCqj1o9
Divya Cherian @dillivali on her new book Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (@ucpress) this time with the @NewBooksIslam team superstar @SheraliTareen for the @NewBooksNetwork#podcast
https://t.co/68n0DkDxiQ
Excited to announce the first event of the Premodern Islamicate World Lecture Series. Valentina Grasso will be giving a talk titled "The Emergence of Islam in Its Arabian Context" on October 12 @ 12:30 NY time.
All talks for this series are hybrid! For details see poster below