Joel Blecher

studia islamica | fellow @wiko_berlin | history professor @GWtweets | translator @PenguinClassics | author of *Said the Prophet of God* @ucpress

[Joel Blecher @joelxblecher]

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!!!

[Sean W. Anthony @shahanSean]

February 2026
https://t.co/rILN5xvGDD

[Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ @abhistoria]

Forthcoming. Looks like a great study of a hugely important theme in early Islam: speech in public discourse.

[The GW Hatchet @gwhatchet]

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

[Ramon Harvey @RamonIHarvey]

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)!

[Yusuf Umrethwala @yusufumrethwala]

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.

[Joel Blecher @joelxblecher]

@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!

[Tom Abi Samra @tabisamra]

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!

[Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) @the_IAS]

🚨 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

[Joel Blecher @joelxblecher]

@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

[Joel Blecher @joelxblecher]

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

[Joel Blecher @joelxblecher]

@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'

[Matthias van Rossum @MatthiasRossum]

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

[Kristina Richardson @krisrich]

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

[Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) @the_IAS]

🎊 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

[Priyanka.Basu @BPriyanka_KCL]

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

[Joel Blecher @joelxblecher]

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[Fatimid History @fatimid_studies]

“Persia and Its Kings”

“Know that Persians are amongst the oldest and strongest nations of the world, and those which much traces on Earth”

[Matt Melvin-Koushki @mmelvink]

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

[Kristian Petersen @BabaKristian]

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

[antonio musto @deepcutiqtibas]

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