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Woman holding book

My book was a Finalist for two awards at this year’s German Studies Association conference: the David Barclay Book Prize, and the DAAD/GSA Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences.

Link to download the open access PDF below 👇

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Most of the image is of a white mosaic and the top part is small pumice stones

That magical moment when the pumice is gently cleared away revealing, for the first time in nearly 2000 years, a white mosaic.
#MosaicMonday #Pompeii

Tiny orange balls that look like salmon roe growing out of a decaying tree.

A cluster of frilly orange jelly growing amid some green moss on a decaying spruce tree.

Fun finds in the forest this morning. - 1) Salmon eggs slime mold and 2) Orange jelly fungus. Two very different organisms, but equally cool. 🌿

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

Here is a leftover comic from the #IODP Expedition 405 from last year.

This one is about sampling parties!

#comic

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Here is a leftover comic from the #IODP Expedition 405 from last year.

This one covers IODP core centers~
Bonus images are snapshots from the Gulf Coast Core Core Repository (GCR).

#comic

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The Beauty and Value of Eastern Bilingual Manuscripts of the Bible Christianity, which originated in the Middle East, has remained deeply rooted among its diverse communities to this day, despite the rise and dominance of Islam. This enduring presence is reflected…

The Beauty and Value of Eastern Bilingual Manuscripts of the Bible by a (brilliant!) KU Leuven colleague Maxime Maleux
alongthesilkroad.com/2025/09/12/t...

Kampusa öğrencilerle beraber yoğun sigara dumanı da gelmiş. #notacomplaintjustobserving

Merhaba ve şlomo #klasiksüryanice / #süryanice derslerine @muglaedutr Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üni’nde Kasım’dan itibaren Salı akşamları online olarak başlıyoruz. İlgilileri bekliyoruz: muyom.mu.edu.tr/course/klasi...

Aramaic and the Making of the Gospels | Bible Interp Contact Us

Aramaic and the Making of the Gospels bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/ara...

The Royal Danish Library: A Case Study in the History of European Islamic Manuscript Collections Paul Babinski examines the provenance of Islamic manuscripts held in the Royal Library in Copenhagen, tracing the genesis of the collection and its historical contexts from the library’s founding in t...

Here’s the link for the talk, “The Royal Danish Library: A Case Study in the History of European Islamic Manuscript Collections”, 25 April, 12:00 PM EDT: www.library.upenn.edu/events/royal...

Ms. 3406, Süleyman Efendi’s endowment deed on folio 1r. Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna, ms. 3406 © 2023 by AMS Historica is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Rawda El-Hajji visiting the Church of Our Lady of Buda Castle, Budapest. © Ashraf Sarip

Once a hub of Ottoman culture, Süleyman Efendi’s library was scattered by conquest. In our PhD Research Series, Rawda El-Hajji traces these manuscripts, showing how they help reconstruct lost intellectual communities and reveal the fate of cultural heritage in times of conflict:
uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji

Can you say more about it being called “The Dusty” in Diyarbakir? Somewhere along the way the term غبيراء moves in Arabic from describing fermented millet drinks to describing weed. 🤪

Just Call It Weed: On Arabic Edibles | Center for the Study of World Religions Drifters might call it “the Sufis’ well-known.” Women singers call it “branches of bliss.” Others call it “bush of rapture” and “bush of understanding.” The use of cannabis or “hemp” for rope making w...

I'm working on some of these texts now 🌱 (Rosenthal was also my Doktorvater's Doktorvater)

Franz Rosenthal's 1971 monograph, The Herb: Hashish Versus Medieval Muslim Society

The Orientalists probably had much more messy, high-as-fuck fun than we give them credit for.

Study Syriac Online with us!

Tomorrow we begin our 3rd year of Syriac language study, and there are still a couple of open spots in the class. Follow the link to see the syllabus, and send a DM for more information.

tinyurl.com/CPECsyriac

YouTube video by Ancient Rome Live Caracalla’s Citizenship Edict: Enfranchising an Empire

(515) Caracalla’s Citizenship Edict: Enfranchising an Empire - YouTube
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YouTube video by Rezan Has Müzesi Anadolu Dilleri ve Kültürleri Panel Serisi IX, 2025

#aramice #süryanice #klasiksüryanice diye bir şeyler duydunuz mu? Anadolu Dilleri ve Kültürleri Panel Serisi IX, 2025 youtu.be/x7JU_MGW1w8?si… via @YouTube Hüseyin Sami Öztürk @OzturkHS Hoca ve @RezanHasMuzesi Evsahipliğinde Anadoluda Kayıp Dillerin Fısıldadıkları

Demokratik Türkiye!

Pedagogical mice are _always_ a good idea.

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

✒️ Kastamonulu Mehmed Hamdi Efendi

✒️ Ottoman Calligraphic Wall Panel, 1865

“My God, Your disobedient servant has come to You,
Acknowledging his sins and calling upon You.
If You forgive, You are most worthy of it;
And if You drive [him] away, who will show mercy besides You?”

A Happy Byzantine New Year 7534 to you all.

And Indiction 4, I might add. 😆

Kadıkalesi/ Anaia kazısı 22 Ağustos’ta İbramaki Sanat Galerisinde ilgililerle buluşuyor. Bu 5. Çalıştayın kapanış oturumuna Kuşadası’na bekleriz!

An illustration of the sun holding a sword and shield

It is very warm, the sun is especially cruel this week

Many many thanks to David Michelson on effectively making this happen.

My piece is “Visiting Places Only to Visit Them Again”