I see my husband and me after retirement in this photo ... and I love it!
01.02.2026 21:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don't understand how some academics can write harsh critiques attacking the academic integrity of their colleagues when they engage in the same behavior they criticize. How can one have such a lack of self-awareness?
#academicsky
30.01.2026 18:31 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I would love to learn more about Fāṭima al-Kūrāniyya, an apparently older lady and ḥadith scholar who taught younger male scholars (and who was seemingly not related to Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī). If anyone has time to write about her, i'll be your reader! :)
20.01.2026 17:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Khizāna Nāsiriyya, MS 82/260.
Al-Sibāʿī returned to Morocco with a copy of al-Kūrānī's Itḥāf al-Dhakī, a risāla on a text by Muḥammad b. Faḍl Allāh Burhānbūrī (d. 1029/1620). He had collated this copy at al-Kūrānī's home in Medina, evidenced by a collation note I discovered in Tamgrūt.
20.01.2026 17:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Those present included Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690) and the Moroccan scholar Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī al-Sibāʿī (d. 1138/1726), who recorded this samāʿ in his al-Shumūs al-mushriqa. Al-Sibāʿī studied under Maḥammad b. Nāṣir al-Darʿī and later taught at the Nāṣiriyya lodge in Tamgrūt.
20.01.2026 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries
17.01.2026 06:41 — 👍 475 🔁 91 💬 12 📌 2
Call for Applications: Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course
Between 29 June and 3 July, the International Summer Academy Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course will take place in Münster. Organised jointly by...
16.01.2026 09:33 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
21.01.2026, 5p.m (online)
Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University)
How to read a genealogical text: The Persianate nasab tradition as cultural archive and social practice
orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
15.01.2026 05:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Mirrors of Empire
And another Alam-Subrahamanyam is also arriving in Feburary...a feast for historians of the Mughal world!
sunypress.edu/Books/M/Mirr...
12.01.2026 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal World
Cambridge Core - South Asian History - Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal World
Absolutely cannot wait to see this come out next month. The editors - Asad Ahmed and his students at Berkeley - are doing groundbreaking work on the intellectual history of the Timurid/Mughal period...
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
12.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
For all the newcomers interested in book and manuscript history here is a handy starter pack
go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo
12.01.2026 17:41 — 👍 63 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 2
Vortrag in Münster am 22.01.2026 um 18 Uhr
Wenn Genealogie sichtbar wird: Stammbäume im frühneuzeitlichen Nordafrika
@fb09public.bsky.social
06.01.2026 15:57 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Manuscript Culture Workshops V: Endowment Notes | Yazma Eser Kültürü Atölyesi V: Vakıf Kayıtları
Date: Saturday, 10 January 2026 (10 am–1 pm, in person and online)
Organisation: Yazma Eserler Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (Istanbul)
06.01.2026 15:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That's my goal for the second half of 2026—after I've submitted my doctoral thesis! 😆
02.01.2026 19:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Oh no, I was still hoping for the second volume of the Discourses by al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī, translated by Justin Stearns... 😕
02.01.2026 09:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
©️Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
No need to stress about picking the best seat at the Christmas table, for my latest publication comes to the rescue: "The Art of Picking the Best Seat: From Seating Positions at a Muslim Majlis to Hindu vāstu śāstra," International Journal of Divination & Prognostication 6 (2025): 191-254.
08.12.2025 11:16 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
MORGEN
Vortrag von Nadine El-Hussein über "Political Poetry in al-Andalus and the Maghreb during the Almohad Period" bei der 💻 hybriden internationalen Konferenz "Poetry and Knowledge" an der @uni-muenster.de
🗓️ 22.11.2025
⏰ 11:00 Uhr
🔗 Informationen & Link zur Online-Teilnahme: is.gd/bApwZI
21.11.2025 02:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Starting today at 2:30 p.m. CET. Registration for online participation is still open!
20.11.2025 07:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is a 18th-c. ceramic from Çanakkale, I'm told. Does anyone recognize the shape above the number 25? (or is it 35, manuscript-like?)
13.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
[12.11.2025] 'Poetry and Knowledge': Internationale Tagung vom 20. bis 22. November
Um
Zur internationalen Konferenz "Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)" lädt das Institut für #Arabistik und #Islamwissenschaft @uni-muenster.de alle Interessierten vom 20. bis 22.11. herzlich ein. Teilnahme vor Ort oder via Zoom: uni.ms/vdk9w
12.11.2025 11:13 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Illustration of two mice in an Arabic manuscript, one of the mice is on its back while the other drags it by its tail towards its den.
Ever been overwhelmed by remembering how to do your laundry, make inks, *and* keep mice out of the house?
I‘ve got you covered with some fun rhyming recipes!
recipes.hypotheses.org/26676
31.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Münster?? Really!!!? At the Institute of Arabic Studies?
26.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
cc @fb09public.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de
22.10.2025 11:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hybrid Conference: “Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)”
Nov 20–22, 2025 | Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Münster
Program & registration: uni.ms/poetry-and-knowledge
You are warmly welcome to join us - on site or online!
22.10.2025 11:44 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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If any one would be willing to write a letter of support explaining the value of these educational tools - I would very much appreciate it and would add it to my tenure packet. Reach out to me in a message if you are able to help with this!
19.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
(1/2) Hi folks, haven't posted in a bit as things have been a bit fast paced this term.
However, I have a favor to ask - I am going up for Tenure at CCSU this year and I know over the years that many people have used The Hajj Trail (or even the Seyahat Demo) in their courses...
19.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Sociologist & Historian, Global History of West Africa & Afro-Ottoman Studies
https://www.keremduymus.uk/
https://afroglobalresearchnetwork.hcommons.org/
Islamic Studies
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/pieter-coppens
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Ex v_lemire sur X-Twitter, Professeur d’histoire à l’Universite Gustave Eiffel, directeur du projet http://www.openjerusalem.org, auteur de la BD Histoire de Jérusalem (Les Arènes 2022).
Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst.
Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn Press, forthcoming). http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
Mark Andrews Fellow in #BookScience, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
historian and philologist
rare books and manuscripts cataloguer
putting the t back into incunabula since 2025
wahlwienerin / teilzeitberlinerin (in ausbildung)
Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Medievalist 900-1200ish England and Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier in the south of England when not in Wales. Usually tired. Trustee @castlestudies.bsky.social. She/her.
Insta @katherineweikert
Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Friendly, non-threatening rewriter of medieval history. Operates out of the Low Countries. Purveyor of Fine Puns.
Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS| palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | karaoke | food | ucu nec | @ucucommons.org
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Autism moon | ADHD sun | OCD rising
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Historikerin und Mediävistin an der Universität Potsdam, forscht zur mittelalterlichen Kultur-, Geschlechter- und Stadtgeschichte sowie der Geschichte religiöser Gemeinschaften
Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country UPV/EHU - Coordinating Editor of Early Medieval Europe - Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (2025-2026)
