Invisible East

Invisible East

@invisibleeast.bsky.social

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 Funded by EU's ERC Horizon 2020 R&I programme (851607).

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This Wednesday, Arezou Azad speaks with Matteo de Chiara @inalco.fr about his 'Dictionnaire Pratique Pashto-Français' and introduces 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.

#pashto #Afghanistan #Barmakids #edinburghuniversitypress

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6 days ago

and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'. The latter is an annotated translation, with Pejman Firoozbakhsh, of a Persian MS held in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. An expert panel, chaired by Prof Yasmin Khan, took questions from an enthusiastic audience.

#barmakids #documents #Afghanistan #NewPersian 2/2

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6 days ago
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A great launch at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for our Programme Director @arezouazad.bsky.social's latest volumes in @edinburghup.bsky.social's Islamicate East series. The assembled guests enjoyed an overview of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan - Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' 1/2

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1 week ago
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Join us to mark the publication of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan - Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.

Tuesday 3 March, 5.30pm, at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social

🎟️ bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch

#barmakids #manuscriptmonday #bamiyan #medievalmonday

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1 week ago
3 book covers: The Warehouse of Bamiyan, Persian World Histories in the Mongol Era and The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids

🎉The first 3 books have now published in The Islamicate East series, edited by @arezouazad.bsky.social, Hugh Kennedy and Teresa Bernheimer🎉 @invisibleeast.bsky.social
Find out more at edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-i...

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2 weeks ago
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Next Tuesday we'll be @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for a book launch 🎉

Join our expert panel to explore 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'. Register at bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch

#Bamiyan #Barmakids #documents #manuscripts

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2 weeks ago
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Join us at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social on 3 March, to celebrate the launch of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.

Book your free ticket now at bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch

#Bamiyan #medievalsky #Barmakids #booklaunch

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2 weeks ago
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Join us tomorrow, from 5pm GMT, to hear Jennifer Jenkins speak on 'Archaeology as National Archive: Herzfeld's History of Iran'.

Part of the 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' online seminar series.

Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorians #iran #herzfeld

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2 weeks ago
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📢 February's Document of the Month is live on our project website.

📚 Read Bogdan C. Smarandache's fascinating piece 'Travelling in Troubled Times: A Latin Letter of Safe Passage for a Muslim Merchant Issued during the Frankish-Fatimid Wars' at bit.ly/DotMFeb26

#medievalmonday #manuscriptmonday

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3 weeks ago
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OpenITI Release, version 2025.1.9 Citation: please use the citation information (available to export in various formats) on the publication page.

Delighted to share that documents from our digital corpus now appear in the latest version of the OpenITI corpus, available at Zenodo. For more information see: kitab-project.org/OpenITI-Rele...

Let us know how you are using this new functionality!

#Documents #digitalcorpus #digitalhumanities

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1 month ago

Gorgeous coat(s)!

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1 month ago
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jennifer Jenkins' seminar in the 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' series, due to take place tomorrow, has now been postponed to Wednesday February 25.

Register at bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#seminar #archives #history #iran #herzfeld

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1 month ago
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Join us @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, on Tuesday 3 March, to celebrate the launch of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan', with Edinburgh University Press.

Book your free ticket now at bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch

#Bamiyan #Barmakids #medievalmonday #manuscriptmonday

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1 month ago
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Look what's arrived in our office...

Get your copy at bit.ly/TheWarehouseofBamiyan and enjoy 30% off with code NEW30 at checkout!

#medievalsky #skystorians #edinburghuniversitypress

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1 month ago
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Join us for 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives & Documents’, with Jennifer Jenkins of @utoronto.ca on 'Archaeology as National Archive: Herzfeld’s History of Iran'.

Next Wednesday 11 February, 12pm EST/5pm GMT.

Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#archives #iran #herzfeld

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1 month ago
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Join us on Tuesday 3 March, @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, to launch new books in @edinburghup.bsky.social series The Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History, with Arezou Azad & an expert panel.

Book your free ticket now: bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch

#booklaunch #skystorians #medievalsky

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1 month ago
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Valentine's Day is less than two weeks away, so we thought we'd give you a hand... Thank us later. 🤗❤️

We'll just leave the link here: buff.ly/5FbM758

#ValentinesDay #ShortCourses #ValentinesMemes #RelationshipMemes #OxfordLifelongLearning

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1 month ago
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Document of the Month 1/26: A Commercial Letter from Mount Mugh

#Sogdian
@invisibleeast.bsky.social

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1 month ago
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#ICYMI January's 'Document of the Month' is live at bit.ly/DotMJan26.

Alisher Begmatov writes 'From Mount to Manuscript: Revisiting Commodity Terms in a Mugh Document'.

#medievalsky #documents #mountmugh

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1 month ago
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Delighted to share that team member Nabi Saqee will be writing a paper "Studying the Role and Status of Women in the Ghurid Empire, based on the Firuzkuh historical papers" for the Afghanistan Research Initiative at the University of Central Asia.

#documents #women #medievalsky

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1 month ago
Photograph is of a document written in black ink on cream-coloured leather, set on a black background. The leather has black ink writing in Sogdian script.

In the spring of 1932, a shepherd fortuitously discovered a wicker basket containing a manuscript at Mount Mugh, Tajikistan...

Read more at bit.ly/DotMJan26 where Alisher Begmatov explores a commercial letter from Mount Mugh in our 'Document of the Month'.

#medievalsky #skystorians #documents

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1 month ago

Great to see team member Mateen celebrating #MuseumSelfieDay with our department @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social

Do you have a favourite museum? We are spoilt for choice with amazing museums here in Oxford. Some of our favourites are @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social and the History of Science Museum!

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1 month ago
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Join us on 28 March @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for 'Treasures of the Medieval Islamicate World'.

Including manuscript and document viewing — with grateful thanks to our colleagues at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Places are limited: bit.ly/Saturdaycourse

#medievalsky #skystorians #studyatoxford

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1 month ago
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Monday's virtual book launch, hosted by the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at @utoronto.ca, with the Toronto Book Club, has been postponed.

Please visit our project website - invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk - to stay up-to-date on events.

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1 month ago
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'Afghanistan Through the Ages — Voices in Stone, Script, and Story', convened by Arezou Azad and Matteo de Chiara @inalco.fr, continues tonight with Laurianne Sève on ‘Nouvelles Recherches sur Aï Khanoum’. Use QR code for Zoom link. bit.ly/Afghanistanseries

#seminarseries #Afghanistan #aikhanoum

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1 month ago
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Tomorrow’s seminar, in the 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' series, has been postponed.

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1 month ago
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Join us on Mon 19 Jan, 5pm GMT to celebrate the launch of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.

Hosted by the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at @utoronto.ca with the Toronto Book Club. bit.ly/TorontoBookLaunch

#medievalMonday #manuscriptmonday

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2 months ago
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Join us next Wednesday 14 January to hear Nima Asefi of @uni-hamburg.de speaking on 'Documents from Turbulent Times: Studying Middle Persian Collection from the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods'.

Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#documents #medievalsky #middlepersian

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2 months ago
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Document of the Month 12/25: A Judeo-Persian Letter from Bamiyan

#ICYMI December's Document of the Month, '“The Pain of Separation from the Lord”: A Personal Letter to the Son of a Jewish Magnate in Bamiyan', by Ruben S. Nikoghosyan, is now live on our project website: bit.ly/JudeoPersianLetter

#Bamiyan #judeopersian #documents

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2 months ago
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Document of the Month 12/25: A Judeo-Persian Letter from Bamiyan

Our digital corpus contains 286 medieval documents from the Bamiyan Papers, originating from Afghanistan. 23 feature Judeo-Persian in Hebrew script.

December's Document of the Month, by Ruben S. Nikoghosyan, explores one of these: bit.ly/JudeoPersianLetter

#skystorians #medievalsky #judeopersian

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