Yusuf Umrethwala @yusufumrethwala
Grad Student, Researcher, and Writer @jamea_saifiyah @ColumbiaMEI @GenizaLab mei.columbia.edu/students/yusuf… New York Joined December 2011-
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Yusuf Umrethwala retweeted
Back here to say that my first monograph "Before World Literature" will be released by UPenn Press in March 2026. I hope it will be of interest to folks in comparative literature, Islamic studies, and classical Arabic literature. pennpress.org/9781512828870/…
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Saddened to hear about the passing of my former Professor, Brinkley Messick. An extremely kind and humble intellectual. May his memory always be a blessing.
Yusuf Umrethwala retweeted
Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean Edited by Nile Green Forthcoming January 2026
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Do you work on Arabic history writing, any period, region, form? Propose a paper to the annual Arabic Pasts workshop, this year, 9-10 October, in person, London, at the Aga Khan Centre, w/Queen Mary. Call for papers proposal deadline: 16 May. kitab-project.org/Call-For-Paper…
This is such a marvelous effort in putting all previously unedited marriage and divorce documents (including several unidentified Geniza documents) in a single volume. This book surely opens several new avenues of research for studying the social history of the medieval Mideast.
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A thrilling recent find: a copper box with 9 golden Fatimid dinars from ~11th century Egypt, found during rainwater pit excavation in Ponmala, Kerala. onmanorama.com/news/kerala/20… 👉
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Our digital corpus is now live. Please check it out using the link. bit.ly/3YF4qBy
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Download Arabic texts and see much information about them with KITAB's new web application. We will get you started! KITAB/Centre for Digital Humanities online Open House When: Tuesday 23 July at 2:30 pm UK eventbrite.co.uk/e/aku-ismcs-ce…
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In case you missed it! KITAB's text reuse data set, funded by the ERC, is now available online and can be accessed through a web application built by the project team. Also, mark aclendars for an Open House July 23 at 2:30 BST. See: tinyurl.com/2s38s8pr. @ERC_Research
Yusuf Umrethwala retweeted
An exciting new Fragment of the Month by the Geniza Lab's own @yusufumrethwala, who recognized a small fragment of four lines as a significant source for Buyid-Fatimid diplomacy in the 1040s CE 🥳 lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/de…
This is such great news!
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Geniza Startroopers! May the 4th be with you!👽🛸
This is interesting - Arabo-Tamil, Indian Ocean trade, and sacred trash!
This is interesting - Arabo-Tamil, Indian Ocean trade, and sacred trash!
I have a thesis deadline in less than two weeks but I just got my hands on Chris Wickham’s new book and can’t stop reading it. Highly recommend!
Does anyone from the academic community know a good online resource that generates a map which plots towns/cities one seeks to highlight?
It was a pleasure to be here!
It was a pleasure to be here!
Yusuf Umrethwala retweeted
Our special issue Commercial Capitalism and Global History is out and available for download in open access (yes, you heard right, open): viella.it/toc/6786 Six authors discuss Jairus Banaji's A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism, with a response from the author - enjoy!
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