Nir Shafir

I'm speaking next week at UCLA about the origins of their collections and how researchers should approach the "Islamic manuscript archive" through the analogy of geology and archeology. Should be a good conference for those interested (and who live in the area)!

www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events...

The Order and Disorder of Communication | Stanford University Press The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates wa...

If anyone wants or even needs a hard copy of my book, it's on sale directly from Stanford University Press for 50% off until Sep 8! (Full cover comes with more than just feet and legs:)

www.sup.org/books/middle...

Two tweets back to back: Tweet 1 — The White House * @WhiteHouse • 4h Christopher Columbus is so back. • • Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump I'm bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes. The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much. They tore down his Statues, and put up nothing but "WOKE," or even worse, nothing at all! Well, you'll be happy to know, Christopher is going to make a major comeback. I am hereby reinstating Columbus Day under the same rules, dates, and locations, as it has had for all of the many decades before! Tweet 2 — 贝 jackie luo @jackiehluo • 7h ... just had a surreal experience at urgent care where i paid $100 to explain my issue to a doctor and then watched him nod, turn to his computer, navigate to some kind of chatgpt website for doctors, chat with it about my issue, and report back the conclusion to me verbally

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15 months of genocide thanks to a feckless and immoral American administration

We can talk about everything terrifying & infuriating with Trump all day. I certainly could. But you are rapidly losing moral high ground if you can’t say point blank that the suffering Biden willfully inflicted on Palestinians every step of the way isn’t soulless & inexcusable

A Deadly Apathy | David Shulman A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel's collective conscience.

David Shulman on Israel’s indifference

hmmmmmmmmff 🍷

This new technique, twigstats, could be great for figuring out the population changes of medieval Anatolia

[Tearing up while cutting onions]
Mother used to cut onions.

I notice that since i reject all cookies, these remember me log-in things don't work anymore (predictably)