Alexander Jabbari

COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand-year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajector...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Alexander Jabbari's "Cosmopolitan Philology and Sacred Grammar" for #PhilologyNow explores "the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology."

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Mood in minneapolis right now

Thank you ❤️ I know you guys had to deal with this already in Chicago. Just awful everywhere.

Awful. Is that the one they claimed was a suicide?

Confirmed dead. A murder.

ICE shot and likely killed another observer here in Minneapolis this morning.

Today I finished cataloging 36 Arabic manuscripts from Eyes on Heritage, a cultural institution in Gaza. These manuscripts were photographed before the Israeli invasion in 2023, but the team was only recently able to send these digital images to @visithmml.bsky.social's partners in Jerusalem

Not just Bangladesh but India and Pakistan as well

In the Aures, yesterday was Pharaoh Day, ass n Ferɛun.

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In local tradition, it's the day Pharaoh is thought to have drowned in the Red Sea as he pursued Moses, and the agricultural (Julian) New Year's Day.

This was calqued from a lunar calendar to a solar one:

Finally deleted my Twitter account for good (long overdue)

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

I'd love it read it but link seems broken

Our December 2025 "Philology Now" theme issue, edited by Valeria López Fadul and Courtney Weiss Smith, is out!

Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

PHILOLOGY NOW: EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION In this introduction to the “Philology Now” theme issue, we make a case for “philology” as a useful sign under which to consider the ways historians are already working with words in their efforts to...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: #PhilologyNow editors Valeria López Fadul and Courtney Weiss Smith "make a case for 'philology' as a useful sign under which to consider the ways historians are already working with words in their efforts to understand the past."

Read their introduction: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

Moritz Steinschneider Prize According to their call, the Moritz Steinschneider Prize is “specifically aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral students and postdoctoral researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the develo...

Moritz Steinschneider Prize is “specifically aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral students and postdoctoral researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the development and analysis of Jewish primary sources in their research."
#jewishstudies
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Fuck

Any semantic connection between this and falāḥ "success"? (Fruit of plowing the land, maybe?)

Philology Now – Volume 64, Number 4 — History and Theory History and Theory, Volume 64, Number 4

It’s here! I’m delighted to share a new theme issue of @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social, “Philology Now.” Valeria López Fadul and I edited this issue, featuring smart contributions by Emily Apter, Peter de Bolla, Alan Durston, Cymone Fourshey, Claire Gilbert, Anthony Grafton…

historyandtheory.org/64-4

@ajab.bsky.social Alexander Jabbari, @helgejojo.bsky.social Helge Jordheim, Alexandra Lianeri, David Lurie, Nancy Partner, and Ronit Ricci.

Come think with us about the relationships between and among languages, histories, and methods!

Email your representatives: No War with Venezuela! I just wrote a letter to my congressional representatives to urge them to oppose Trump's illegal war with Venezuela. Can you join me? https://admin.actionnetwork.org/letters/email-your-representative-...

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woohoo! uc press cover design, fall 2026 insha'allah. ✨

No Blood for Oil

Yes!

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Yes this is it, it's a form of ramal. Used here to pad out the rhyme, I guess.

Marx's Capital and Rumi's Masnavi

My two main reading groups this year

I'm so excited for this!

my book, _Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty: Genres of Tradition in Muslim South Asia_, will be published by @undpress.bsky.social in June 2026

i'm going through the proofs, and don't see any typos in the epilogue, so sharing this 3-page essay here

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