May Shaddel @MayShaddel
Full-time humanist, pedant, & historian of late ancient Near East; part-time human; purveyor of heterodox takes; unrepentant rebel; pastime: dating apocalypses leidenuniv.academia.edu/mayshaddel Joined November 2017-
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When Ayaan Hirsi Ali announced that she had converted to Christianity someone quipped that Dawkins was next in line. I don't suppose they actually thought it'd come true so fast: he now self-identifies as culturally Christian.
When Ayaan Hirsi Ali announced that she had converted to Christianity someone quipped that Dawkins was next in line. I don't suppose they actually thought it'd come true so fast: he now self-identifies as culturally Christian.
Just laid my hands on a (e-)copy of @mikati_rana's new book and can't stop reading although I have a lot of commitments that require urgent attention. While reading it you can feel, almost touch, the love and appreciation she hints at in the introduction. Definitely recommended!
Very impressive feat on the part of 'King George II' of England to write a letter in Modern Standard Arabic back in the 11th century.
Very impressive feat on the part of 'King George II' of England to write a letter in Modern Standard Arabic back in the 11th century.
In the early 1960s (?) the Egyptian scholar Muḥammad al-Bahī published a small tract called *Missionaries and Orientalists and their Stance towards Islam*. Though a mere 26 pages, it caught the attention of the German journal Die Welt des Islams, which... archive.org/download/mbmsm…
1/14 “There is no compulsion in religion” This is a common translation of the beginning of Q 2:256 I prefer: “There is no oppression in the worship [of God]” (cf. Q 22:78) Meaning, serving God is not subjugation to arbitrary might; it is doing what is right & to our own benefit.
Twitter hivemind, I vaguely remember Michael Cook habitually translating the Syriac term mhaggrāyē as muhājirūn in one of his publications, but can't seem to find the reference. Does anyone have any idea where this may have been?
Would have been quite something if I'd got killed in a British special forces raid on a Leiden vaccine plant! dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Endeavour Morse, through and through!
Endeavour Morse, through and through!
Do I know anyone here with experience of teaching a world history course (from the dawn of civilisation to at least 1500 CE)?
So I decided to do a new translation of the Fiscal Rescript of ʿUmar II as my understanding of the text, based on my forthcoming study, is at substantial variance with others'. academia.edu/109582248/The_…
The day after his infamous 'rivers of blood' speech protestors in London were chanting 'Enoch here, Enoch there, we want Enoch everywhere'.
The day after his infamous 'rivers of blood' speech protestors in London were chanting 'Enoch here, Enoch there, we want Enoch everywhere'.
Happening in three hours.
Doctrina Iacobi and the Rise of Islam academia.edu/44462006/Doctr…
If you have time around noon on 8 November EST, come and listen to me talk about how the vicissitudes of fiscal management brought down the Umayyad regime and gave shape to classical Islamic fiscal law. …uemedievalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/lecture-…
'On one occasion a manager shouted, "I am a pure-blooded English woman, I will stay to live here, and you will go back to your poor countries".' independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Now we know what it is about!
Now we know what it is about! https://t.co/rKSzHNZwu7
Sean W. Anthony @shahanSean
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GabrielSaidR @GabrielSaidR
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Dr. Éléonore Cellar.. @CellardEleonore
33K Followers 336 Following Researcher in early Qur'ānic manuscripts. Shaolin Kungfu in my free time
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Joshua Little @islami.. @IslamicOrigins
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A. Z. Forеman: Serio.. @azforeman
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Classy Arabic Poetry @ClassyArabic
18K Followers 882 Following Arabic poetry translations by Nathaniel Miller PhD Arabic Lit ex-Cambridge University, ex-NYU Pre-order The Emergence of Arabic Poetry 👇out August '24
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Alexander Jabbari @yakabikaj
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Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem
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𐭡𐭥𐭤 𐭩 �.. @DerMenschensohn
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Asclepius @ArchonAvalon
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Arianna D’Ottone-Ra.. @AriDot1
858 Followers 753 Following Professor of Arabic Language and Literature @Sapienza - Università di Roma - Palaeography, Numismatics, Papyrology, Epigraphy, Graffiti, written culture
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Now Black Is...... @JohnsonBec38633
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71 Followers 415 Following Independent researcher of late Antiquity early Islam and Arabia before Islam
إنزو⚡ @marco_z88
748 Followers 7K Following فما كلّ من تهواه يهواك قلبه، ولا كلّ من صافيته لك قد صفا، إذا لم يكن صفو الوداد طبيعة، فلا خير في خل يجيء تكلفًا
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Lin, Chia-Wei @ailourosmarjara
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Omar bin Yusuf وهب.. @Wahb_Allat
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Dalì Kh @ludwig211
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Marijn van Putten @PhDniX
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GabrielSaidR @GabrielSaidR
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Ahab Bdaiwi איהא�.. @abhistoria
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Dr. Éléonore Cellar.. @CellardEleonore
33K Followers 336 Following Researcher in early Qur'ānic manuscripts. Shaolin Kungfu in my free time
Christian Sahner @ccsahner
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Emran El-Badawi @emrane
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Classy Arabic Poetry @ClassyArabic
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Garrett Davidson @GarrettDavids19
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Jonathan AC Brown @JonathanACBrown
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Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim
6K Followers 394 Following Comparative Semiticist trying to leave his dark Indo-Europeanist past behind him. /ˈsuʃɑɹd/, /ˈsyʃɑɹt/, or /syˈʃaʁ/ preferred; /ˈsʌkhɑɹd/ dispreferred.
Sabine Schmidtke @scsincyberspace
7K Followers 1K Following Permanent faculty @the_IAS, formerly @FU_Berlin and @AuswaertigesAmt, #ShiiStudies, #Yemen, #BibleInArabic, #ArabicManuscripts, #HistoricalBibliography
Ramon Harvey @RamonIHarvey
11K Followers 1K Following Lecturer & Programme Lead, Research @CMC_Cambridge | Maturidi and Husserl | Editor: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology https://t.co/eOc3SA9nph
Ahmed Shaker @shakerr_ahmed
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نوادر الآثا.. @mohammed93athar
65K Followers 308 Following مجهود شخصي من تصويري يوثق الآثار والنقوش حول #المدينة_المنورة صدقة عن والديّ ومن ولدهما أو ولدوا مؤمنا اللهم اغفرلهما وارحمهما كماربياني صغيرا محمد المغذوي
Johanna Pink 🌻 @jabunna
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Dr Martha Newson @martha_newson
1K Followers 462 Following Anthropologist & chartered psychologist. Researches group bonding & behaviour. @UniofOxford | UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | @UniofGreenwich
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144 Followers 207 Following
Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad
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CCTV IDIOTS @cctvidiots
3.2M Followers 24 Following Exposing idiots behavior from all over the world caught on camera.
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @sottewillsoulsb
969 Followers 253 Following Medieval historian. Diplomacy. Cities. Manuscripts. CAMELS! Researcher at the University of Oslo with the NFR-VOICED project
Arianna D’Ottone-Ra.. @AriDot1
858 Followers 753 Following Professor of Arabic Language and Literature @Sapienza - Università di Roma - Palaeography, Numismatics, Papyrology, Epigraphy, Graffiti, written culture
Leif Stenberg @Leif_Stenberg23
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Javier Francisco @TwittyJavier
96 Followers 141 Following Imperial & Environmental History, Atlantic World, Anthropocene, Theory Building on Imperial Longevity. Historian @HarvardWCFIA, @FRIAS_UFreiburg
Andrew Gawthorpe @andygawt
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Dr. Alexander S. Burn.. @KKriegeBlog
19K Followers 785 Following Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. PhD WVU.
Jane Kershaw @jk_viking
1K Followers 251 Following Archaeologist and historian of the early Middle Ages, specialist in the Vikings. I run an @ERC_Research Starting Grant on Viking silver @School_of_arch
Merle Eisenberg @MerleEisenberg
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Phillip W Stokes @phillipwstokes
956 Followers 513 Following Associate Prof of Arabic @ UTK; Harrington Faculty Fellow @ UT Austin (AY 23-24); Student of Arabic Lx History; Father of 2.
Humboldt-Stiftung @AvHStiftung
35K Followers 643 Following Die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung fördert Wissenschaftskooperationen zwischen exzellenten ausländischen und deutschen Forschenden. https://t.co/RaplA6Ov7q
Rachel Bridgewater @RachelBridgewa2
298 Followers 481 Following Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern History @EdinburghUP. Also a fan of pubs and biscuits.
Jewish Review of Book.. @JRBooks
4K Followers 774 Following A quarterly magazine of Jewish criticism, religion, and culture and monthly web-exclusive reviews and essays.
Antony Loewenstein @antloewenstein
39K Followers 7K Following Independent journalist + written for NYT, Guardian etc + author ‘The Palestine Laboratory’ (@paleslaboratory) and others + @declassifiedaus
Musheغ Asaտրyan @AsatryanMushegh
524 Followers 474 Following Historian | Islam, Late Antiquity, sectarianism, heresy and stuff | Associate Prof. at UCalgary
Open Islamicate Texts.. @Open_ITI
3K Followers 404 Following OpenITI—Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. PIs: @sarahsavant1 @maximromanov @M_T_Miller.
Fatimid History @fatimid_studies
1K Followers 1K Following Historian of the MENACA world. (اصل شاه قرباني)
Prof Helen Foxhall Fo.. @HFoxhallForbes
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag
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Justin Stearns @kaohu11
4K Followers 3K Following Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at NYUAD, works on Islamic Intellectual History, al-Andalus, History of Science.
SHARIAsource @SHARIAsource
4K Followers 606 Following SHARIAsource @Harvard_Law is a digital portal for Islamic law texts+data science tools. For commentary check out @ISLAMICLAWblog via the Program in Islamic Law
Nathan P. Gibson @drnathanpgibson
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Omar Anchassi @IslamicateBRs
930 Followers 545 Following This is the Twitter account for Islamicate Book Reviews, a weekly broadcast exploring recent publications in the field, with Usaama al-Azami and Omar Anchassi.
Mehmetcan Akpınar @AkpinarMcan
891 Followers 524 Following PhD @UChicago || Specialist in Early and Medieval Islam || Tarihçi. İslam Tarihi Araştırmacısı || University of Chicago @UChiDivinity @NELC_UChicago
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab @Asghar_Gohrab
293 Followers 280 Following Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies at Utrecht University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
FWO @FWOVlaanderen
10K Followers 329 Following Het Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) is het agentschap dat fundamenteel en strategisch onderzoek financiert in Vlaanderen.
Pavel Pavlovitch 🇪.. @muha_akhusiyya
147 Followers 37 Following
Tine Lavent @Tine_Lavent
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J. Preiser-Kapeller @Byzanzforscher
5K Followers 4K Following Byzantinist/medievalist doing global and environmental history, complexity studies, network analysis. Farmer's son.
David Lloyd Dusenbury @DusenburyDavid
1K Followers 610 Following Old campaigner. New book @IJudgeNoOne. Danube Institute — Eötvös Loránd University.
Munich Research Centr.. @jac_culture_lmu
669 Followers 267 Following The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures brings together projects of junior and senior researchers relating to Jewish-Arabic cultures.
Uriel Simonsohn @USimonsohn
315 Followers 121 Following Historian of early and medieval Islamicate @UofHaifa; chief editor Medieval Encounters; head of the Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies
céline_debourse @CelineDebourse
691 Followers 272 Following Assyriologist. Assistant Professor in NELC, Harvard. Author of “Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture”
Bert Jacobs @Bert_JacobsBE
386 Followers 726 Following Postdoc Eastern Christianity (Syriac and Arabic) @UCLouvain_be @frsFNRS | Christian-Muslim relations
Center for Eastern Me.. @ceu_cems
598 Followers 462 Following CEMS studies the eastern Mediterranean and its hinterlands from antiquity to the end of the Ottoman period
Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta @alusuralwusta
3K Followers 3 Following Journal of Middle East Medievalists (@MideastMedieval), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal on the medieval Middle East. Edited by @zaydeantrim & @medievalqabq
katie kadue @kukukadoo
17K Followers 877 Following foremost zucchini fritter on twitter | “endlessly quotable” | author of DOMESTIC GEORGIC @ uchicago press
Dr Augusta McMahon @Augusta_McMahon
3K Followers 662 Following Mesopotamian archaeologist at Univ of Chicago; former Univ of Cambridge; ancient urbanism; Tell Brak, Nippur; Co-Editor @IraqJournal; distance runner.
Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn
46K Followers 828 Following Forerunner or middler-which? “Howlingly wrong.” “Liberalism against Itself" (2023). “I didn’t expect it to gain immediate acceptance.” Yale prof.
Dorothea Weltecke @DrWeltecke
238 Followers 262 Following Prof. Dr., FirstGen, Mittelalter, Religionen, Europa und Westasien und andere Kalamitäten, derzeit politischer als mir lieb ist, privat natürlichImagine how depressed that poor squirrel will be
Watch as 150 kilograms of acorns stored by a squirrel are emptied from a transmitting antenna
The great British tradition of the local pub, where men in flat caps and tweed suits like to have a pint and put the world to rights. Filmed in the 1950s.
غمگینم مثل پهبادی که صبح میرسه اسراییل، میبینه جنگ شروع شده
In 1974, a prankster in Sitka faked Mount Edgecumbe's eruption using burning tires for April's Fool.
خیلیها توجه نکردن که اخوان ثالث مشهدیه و اینجا هم در مشهدیترین حالت ممکن نشسته. لذا باید جملهای چنین گفته باشه: "یرِگِه سیخو تا هم دیروز چفت دیفال وایمِستاد با توشلههاش تو میلان دولَّخ هوا مِکِرد، حالا بِرِی ما آدم رِفته!"
به نظرتون اینجا اخوان ثالث چی داره میگه ؟ لندن ۱۳۶۹
People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵
بهانه های دانش آموزام برای درس نخوندن داره به سورئالیسم خطرناکی میل میکنه.طرف میگه" بابامو خرس(یا خر) خورد" !
@MayShaddel @mikati_rana I thought my profile picture would give me away, but apparently not! :)
@mikati_rana @MayShaddel A bird already delivered it to my electronic pigeonhole :) Thank you!
این خیلی سیاسی بود.
داشتم پاجوشهایی که هرز و هردمبیل و بیثمر روییدن رو هرس میکردم دیدم بخشی از تنه درخت هم پوسیده و با یک فشار کنده شد.
Ivan Lester McGuire, an experienced skydiver, was documenting a tandem jump involving another instructor and a student on April 2, 1988. As he exited the plane to capture the event, Ivan was so engrossed in his filming task that he made a critical error: he forgot to equip…
In 1971, engineers from the Soviet Union ignited a fire in a gas-filled hole in the Turkmenistan desert. Anticipating that the flames would extinguish within days, they were surprised when the fire continued to burn. Now, 52 years later, this site, known as “The Door to…
Every Persian Poem Ever in the Style of a 90s Rap
17 years ago in front of the cedar in the Barouk which (maybe) inspired the tree on the Lebanese flag.
خانم می پرسن «شما لاله پرسن هستید یا رز پرسن»؟ ینی میگن لاله دوست دارید یا رز. یاد احمد شاملو افتادم که در یک مصاحبه از طرز صحبت کردن خارج نشین ها انتقاد می کرد که فارسی و انگلیسی رو قاطی می کنن و به یک زبان شتر گاو پلنگی صحبت میکنن که نه این است و نه آن. جدی نکنین این کارا رو.
Diversity Statements are to multicultural neoliberalism what Statements of Faith are to evangelical colleges.
@aslishahqurbani @MayShaddel You have watched too much Robin Hood 😅
@MayShaddel The King obviously learnt his MSA from his French nanny. That’s why 🥲
The state of academia. Much of this rings true. Academia has become a career path, not a vocation. And with that, dissenting views are increasingly seen as a threat to one’s career, and silenced.
‘Not all ideas are created equal, and academics must stop acting as if they are.’ @Docstockk: 👇unherd.com/2024/03/how-un…
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