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Job alert! 🎯
4 days until the deadline: research fellow in North African medieval history, full-time, based at UCL's Institute of Archaeology. 👇

8 days to go until the application deadline! Research fellow in North African medieval history, based at UCL and working on an ERC project studying the 'medieval green revolution'. 👇

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Great job opportunity: full-time research fellow in North African medieval history, fixed-term (10/25-07/28), UCL Institute of Archaeology, ERC Synergy project "MEDGREENREV" (medgreenrev.com). Excellent Arabic + background in medieval Islamic history. Apply by 29/07/25.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Great job opportunity: full-time research fellow in North African medieval history, fixed-term (10/25-07/28), UCL Institute of Archaeology, ERC Synergy project "MEDGREENREV" (medgreenrev.com). Excellent Arabic + background in medieval Islamic history. Apply by 29/07/25.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Today at 4pm CEST on Zoom: Salah Bahmani on Ibadi rebellion in medieval North Africa! ⚔️
Email us at score.aai@uni-hamburg.de for access details! 👇

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Our lecture series is back with a talk on Ibadi rebels! ⚔️
Tomorrow, 15 July, 4:00 pm CEST on Zoom: Salah Bahmani, "The Nukkaris: An Ibāḍī Protest Movement in North Africa under the Rustumids (8th–9th CE / 2nd–3rd AH)". To register, email us at score.aai@uni-hamburg.de. 🎯

MEM at the International Medieval Congress

Are you attending the International Medieval Congress in Leeds (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) next month?

We've compiled a handy list of all the panels addressing key themes in the medieval Islamic world including the panels we are sponsoring.

www.middleeastmedievalists.com/mem-at-the-i...

The Practical Agency of the Shīʿī Imams By Edmund Hayes In my first essay, I raised the question: was there an early Imāmī Shīʿī legal system? In order to think about this question, it is convenient to think of the Imāmī community as hav…

Part 3: The Practical Agency of the Shīʿī Imams

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Demokratische Grundwerte stehen im dt. Wissenschaftssystem längst unter Druck. Bsp.: Missachtung von Gremien für den #ExStra​-Erfolg, wie von #Lenzen vorgeschlagen, & der Kulturkampf, den sich Oliver Günther in den USA abgeguckt hat. Gegenrede aus Hochschulleitungen: Bislang Fehlanzeige. Mehr dazu:

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

"Trump is Trump... But the problem predates him: a political establishment of ostensibly liberal, reliable custodians of stability that has no moral compass, and no care for the norms it constantly claims to uphold."

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Welcome to our June Guest Blogger: Edmund Hayes Edmund Hayes is a University Lecturer in the History of Islam at Leiden University. His research focus is the social history of early Shīʿa Islam, especially in its Imāmī and Twelver strands, givin…

Ed Hayes, the PI of our project is the guest blogger of the Islamic Law Blog of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard University (@shariasource.bsky.social) this month.

islamiclaw.blog/2025/06/05/w...

Check out the instalments of his series of posts on the early Imāmī Shīʿī Legal System.

This afternoon: online lecture on the prosopography of Zaydi rebellion in the early Islamic period! Tues, 17 June, 4:00 pm CEST, on Zoom. Register by emailing score.aai@uni-hamburg.de! 👇

Keine Spitze ohne Berg: Zum Begriff des „Spitzenforschers“ Der Begriff des Spitzenforschers degradiert das Gros der Wissenschaftler_innen als zweitklassig und stützt einen Geniekult, der der Arbeitsrealität in der Wissenschaft weder angemessen noch zuträglich...

Sie ist überall: die Rede vom #Spitzenforscher. Nur: Was soll das überhaupt sein? Über einen Begriff, der das Gros der Wissenschaftler_innen als zweitklassig degradiert & einem Geniekult zuarbeitet, der der Arbeitsrealität in der Wissenschaft weder angemessen noch zuträglich ist. ⬇️ #ArbeitInDerWiss

Book cover of Daisy Livingston's Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo

📖Just published: Daisy Livingston's book on the archival history of the Mamluk sultanate of Cairo📖
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Tomorrow! Join us for a talk by SCORE team member Natalie Kontny-Wendt, who will give us some tantalising insights into her on-going research on "The Prosopography of Zaydi Rebellion"! Tues, 17 June, 4:00 pm CEST, on Zoom. Email score.aai@uni-hamburg.de for the link! 👇

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Interested in early Shiʿi rebellion? Our doctoral researcher Natalie Kontny-Wendt will present her research on "The Prosopography of Zaydi Rebellion" in our online lecture series next Tues, 17 June, at 4:00 pm CEST! To attend on Zoom, just email us at score.aai@uni-hamburg.de. 👇

Interested in early Shiʿi rebellion? Our doctoral researcher Natalie Kontny-Wendt will present her research on "The Prosopography of Zaydi Rebellion" in our online lecture series next Tues, 17 June, at 4:00 pm CEST! To attend on Zoom, just email us at score.aai@uni-hamburg.de. 👇

Fascinating read on the landscape in which the Zanj rebellion took place!

Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo

Excellent new publication on Mamluk legal and documentary culture, focusing on waqf deeds in the largest extant pre-Ottoman archive available today! Daisy Livingston, "Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo: Archives, Waqf and Society".
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-managin...

Big Oil Is Fueling a Rise in Cancer in Iraq’s Basra A New Lines investigation reveals the human cost of the petroleum industry, as officials and companies seek to hide an alarming surge in medical cases

NEW: In Iraq’s Basra, age is a luxury. Residents live under a constant cloud of pollution from oil flares, causing a surge in cancer cases, while the government colludes with oil companies to dismiss the crisis, reports Margaux Seigneur for @newlinesmag.bsky.social.

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It uses Bing and can be a little hit and miss, but usually you'll get there eventually. If not, you can 'search' for another search engine and still generate revenues for trees. It's also very good on privacy/security, doesn't steal/sell your data! Overall, the advantages outweigh the downsides.

www.ecosia.org doesn't have AI (yet) and also spends its proceeds on reforestation, so a double win! :)

There's also Brünnow/Fischer, "Chrestomathy of Classical Arabic Prose Literature". This may be useful as well: origin.web.fordham.edu/halsall/sboo....

Anything specific? I [Hannah] have used sections from Palmer et al., "7th Century in West-Syrian Chronicles", esp. the Syrian caliphal lists skipping Ali; Hurvitz et al., "Conversion to Islam"; Calder et al., "Classical Islam"; Penn, "When Christians First Met Muslims"; all great sourcebooks. 👇

New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Krista Dalton about her book, How Rabbis Became Experts. newbooksnetwork.com/how-rabbis-b...

It's one of a handful of Islamicate manuscripts that I think qualifies as "well-known," albeit perhaps within fairly limited circles, still Wellcome MS Persian 474 always repays a look, just an incredible monument of book artistry: