On June 4, our workshop Motherhood and Unfreedom took place at the Allard Pierson Museum, 8 powerful papers, 20+ participants, and rich discussions from poetry to concubines to afterlife slavery. Grateful to @socmedimedit.bsky.social, Juynboll Foundation & our museum partners!
26.06.2025 11:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Session 220: Embodied Imamate II: Tracing Networks Across Islamicate 'Worlds of Learning', featuring Ed Hayes @aramadhan.bsky.social, and @lpecos.bsky.social from our project, and Jeremy Farrell (Leiden)
26.06.2025 11:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Our team will be presenting over two panels:
Session 120: Embodied Imamate I: Bodies of Knowledge, featuring Aila Santi and Zahra Azhar from our project and Simon O'Meara (SOAS) and George Warner (Institute of Ismaili Studies)
26.06.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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...
26.06.2025 10:21 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 3
Just over two weeks until the International Medieval Congress (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) in Leeds where we are sponsoring a number of panels!
We will be having a reception on Tuesday 8 July between 13:00 and 14:00 in the Little Woodhouse Room of University House. Come by and say hello!
24.06.2025 13:05 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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.
18.06.2025 13:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
We have two panels at this year's International Medieval Congress: 120 and 220. Let us know who will be around!
21.05.2025 14:54 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to request submissions for its biennial prize for best book on the medieval Middle East (ca. 500-1500 CE). The prize will be awarded at the 2025 annual meeting. Books published between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2025 are eligible.
11.04.2025 02:32 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
New Approaches to Khārijite History
CfP: "New Approaches to Khārijite History" (Hamburg, 16-17 Oct 25)!
Delighted to announce this workshop, which aims to re-assess 7th-10th-century Khārijite revolt as a historical rather than doctrinal/confessional phenomenon! Abstracts due 15/04; details here: www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forsch...
17.03.2025 16:05 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 3
We're thrilled to announce our lecture series: Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿīsm, starting on March 28 2025. Join distinguished scholars as they reveal how materiality, art, architecture, and space speak volumes about the identity of pre-Safavid Shīʿī community.
14.03.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Middle East Studies Lectures - Leiden University
The Middle East Studies Lectures are organized throughout the academic year.
If you are in Leiden this Spring come along to the Middle East Studies Lectures featuring the PI of the
@embodiedimamate.bsky.social
ERC project! Full schedule below:
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/serie...
07.03.2025 09:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
They had a fantastic time hearing so many insightful talks and engaging in thought-provoking discussions. Huge thanks to the organisers for such a productive and enriching experience! 🙌
01.03.2025 21:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The workshop was organised by Enki Baptiste, @clementsalah.bsky.social, and @athinap.bsky.social of Projet Faire société dans les islams minoritaires (University of Lyon 2) and was hosted by the Università L’Orientale di Napoli in beautiful Palazzo Corigliano.
01.03.2025 21:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yesterday wrapped up an amazing two-day workshop, “Policing the Prayer in Sectarian Islam: Spaces, Temporalities, Coercion (7th–15th Centuries),” which three of our team members participated in.
01.03.2025 21:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
The Embodied Imamate team spent a very enjoyable couple of days in Hamburg with the @rebellionuhh.bsky.social team for a workshop on 'Zaydī' networks organised by Natalie Kontny-Wendt.
01.02.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are honored to welcome @nhaider.bsky.social as the keynote speaker for this workshop. The @embodiedimamate.bsky.social team will be well-represented in it. Can’t wait to hear @aramadhan.bsky.social on prayer leadership in the Early Imami Community!
28.01.2025 15:40 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I am thrilled to announce the workshop “Policing the Prayer in Sectarian Islam: Spaces, Temporalities, Coercion (7th–15th centuries”, taking place in Naples on February 27–28, 2025, which I am co-organizing with Enki Baptiste and @athinap.bsky.social
28.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
In case you missed this: our open-access volume on rebellion in the early Islamic period is now out with @edinburghup.bsky.social! It transcends traditional boundaries within and between (the) field(s) by studying Muslim and non-Muslim, Shiʿi, Kharijite, Ibadi, and Sunni contention!
27.01.2025 14:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The IMBOD team will be making their way to @imc-leeds.bsky.social in July with two exciting panels on Monday 7th (panel 1 is from 11:15-12:45).
Excited to catch up with colleagues and discuss the project!
@mideastmedieval.bsky.social
23.01.2025 11:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to our postdoctoral researcher @lpecos.bsky.social for this co-authored piece!
20.01.2025 09:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in early Shi‘ism, conflict, and community making? Join us tomorrow for a talk by Ed Hayes (Leiden), PI of @embodiedimamate.bsky.social, on "Legitimate Punishments in Early Islam"! Tues, 14 Jan, 4:00 pm CET on Zoom. Register by emailing score.aai@uni-hamburg.de!
13.01.2025 14:47 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Exciting talk alert! Next Tues, 14 Jan, 4:00 pm CET on Zoom: Ed Hayes, PI of @embodiedimamate.bsky.social, on "Legitimate Punishments in Early Islam: Execution, Exile, Excommunication (with Special Attention to the Imami Shiʿa)". To register, simply email score.aai@uni-hamburg.de.👇
07.01.2025 20:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
We are hosting an exciting workshop today to delve into the different uses of the term 'Imam' and near synonyms in an effort to understand how, if at all, the different uses of the term have influenced or been influenced by each other.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
15.11.2024 09:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post-Doc IMBOD ERC (Leiden) | Historian of Early Islam and the Medieval Middle East
Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Project website: invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk
Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org
Emmy Noether research group, 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)', Hamburg. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html. "Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World" (EUP, Dec 2024, OA!). Shared account.
Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
Journal of Middle East Medievalists (@mideastmedieval.bsky.social), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal on the medieval Middle East. Edited by Zayde Antrim (zaydeantrim.bsky.social) & Alison Vacca (@medievalqabq.bsky.social)
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Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
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editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social
historian of Umayyad & early Abbasid rule in Armenia & Caucasian Albania
currently working on marriage and matriliny in the Khazar Khaganate
associate prof at Columbia University
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Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
علي کا ملنگ؛ intellectual historian; global; decolonial; foodie
Islamic Studies
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/pieter-coppens
Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer for Team18k
Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. openiti.org
Account managed by @jparkesallen.bsky.social
Research centre and library for Egyptology (including Coptology), Assyriology (including Hittitology), Near Eastern archaeology and connected studies.
https://www.nino-leiden.nl
Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. News about research 🔍, teaching 📚 and events ✨.
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