Marina Rustow

Cairo Geniza specialist, professor of Near Eastern Studies & History, director of the Princeton Geniza Lab. Deciphering, often with great difficulty, since 1996

[Princeton Geniza Lab @GenizaLab]

Princeton Geniza Lab has joined Bluesky! We hope you will connect with us at our profile over there! 🦋→ https://t.co/GfBJZ0EZOy

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

I’m moved 😢 All I knew about the life of this ancestor of mine were the books, the Garibaldi campaign and the dramatic ending. @Roelkonijn this was brilliant!

[Dr Roel Konijnendijk @Roelkonijn]

I study early scholars of Greek warfare.

Most of them are obscure teachers and professors.

Only one is found in the letters of Mazzini, Bismarck, Garibaldi, Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln.

That's right, Twitter. It's time to talk about Wilhelm Rüstow, born #OTD in 1821.

[Princeton Geniza Lab @GenizaLab]

Medieval Judaeo-Arabic manuscript recording how to say "OMG" in fifteen languages.

If you happen to know Samaritan, Nubian, Rusian, {A}rmenian, Oghuz, Coptic, or any of the half dozen mystery languages here, please advise!

https://t.co/hqKb2k3c1o

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

A hybrid panel at @CBL_Dublin on A. S. Yahuda featuring @a_el_shamsy, @eckropf and Moya Carey, moderated by your humble servant.

This coming Wednesday, 28 June, 13h EDT, 18h local in Dublin. All welcome.

https://t.co/pzOBEWG876

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

Another opportunity to work with my amazing @genizalab team!

[Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser]

Just posted! Apply to be a Senior Research Software Engineer. Help tackle fascinating and challenging research & technical problems related to the Princeton Geniza Project; work with the wonderful @GenizaLab team.

#Princeton #RSE #job https://t.co/KLged18Tk6

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

Fun opportunity to work with me!🦸‍♀️🦹‍♀️📜✍️ 🧑‍💻 If you're less than 4 years post-PhD and into digital humanities *and* premodern textual artifacts (manuscripts, archives, coins, inscriptions, etc), please apply for this postdoc. Deadline: May 7, 2023. https://t.co/S8X2GoSWpZ

[Princeton Geniza Lab @GenizaLab]

A monumental new Fragment of the Month from @GenizaLab's own Yosef Ginsberg on new fragments of Sefer Tagin ("The Book of Crownlets")

https://t.co/hETPb0rSiL

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

Fun opportunity to work with me!🦸‍♀️🦹‍♀️📜✍️ 🧑‍💻 If you're less than 4 years post-PhD and into digital humanities *and* premodern textual artifacts (manuscripts, archives, coins, inscriptions, etc), please apply for this postdoc. Deadline: May 7, 2023. https://t.co/S8X2GoSWpZ

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

Absolutely stunning document

[Evrim Binbaş @EvrimBinbas]

The Timurid Iskandar b. 'Umar Shaykh's farman in The David Collection is an outstanding Persian document Persian. Will Kwiatkowsky and I edited, translated, commented on this magnificent scroll. Our article is now available on my academia page. 👇🏽
https://t.co/29jfpbtsFj

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

@NPosegay @JewishStudiesUK @OpenBookPublish @LeverhulmeTrust @Gates_Cambridge @UChicagoAlumni I just now ordered a print copy anyway. You know, for the beach. (More like: for the couch and the NYC subway.) I can’t wait to read it!

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

@GenizaLab @medievalqabq!!

[Dan Gallaher @DanGallaher1]

@GenizaLab This looks like an extract from an edition of the tenth century History of Yovhannēs Drasxanakertc‘i.

[Reading Islamic Texts @islam_texts]

We still know little about how medieval Islamic law worked in practice, despite having access to many legal documents.

By analyzing legal texts in creative ways, Dr. Marina Rustow (@mrustow) is shedding new light on the role of judges (qadis) & how they worked.

A thread. 🧵

[Xin Wen @xwen0113]

Today is the official publication date of my book The King's Road. It is widely available now, but if you order from PUP website https://t.co/xkISgjfjuK, you can use the code P321 for 30% off!

[Princeton Geniza Lab @GenizaLab]

Ever wonder what kind of stuff you'd find on the shelves of a pharmacy in medieval Cairo? Wonder no more!

https://t.co/TqGx2Inv2N

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

@GenizaLab In my experience geniza letter-writers are the most magnificent guilt-trippers

[Princeton Geniza Lab @GenizaLab]

New join for this letter from a disconsolate mother to her son in al-Ushmūnayn (Upper Egypt), 1146–54 CE. Found by @OdedZinger!

https://t.co/w86PRW7eew

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

@yakabikaj @dxrsam_0 Italian: se mio nonno avesse avuto tre palle sarebbe stato un flipper. If my grandfather had had three balls, he would have been a pinball machine.

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

@DavidRSelis https://t.co/w8XjuWdhr3

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

Menahem Schmelzer, JTS’s librarian, examining geniza fragments in 1969 with Anna Kleban, a rare books librarian and former assistant to Alexander Marx (d. 1953). For your #fragmentfriday

[Marina Rustow @mrustow]

@Leonie_Rau_ @FBGotha It seems this was discovered after Charles Perry’s LAL edition. Do you know who discovered it?