When the sun enters its final death throes, it will first expand into a red giant, swallowing up Greenland, before collapsing into a white dwarf

I’m thrilled to announce that my book, provisionally titled “Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade” is now under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Excited for it to be out in the world in 2026!

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not surprised but still speechless

my voice would be horse after reciting this

A fascinating history of the world told through the prism of the evolution, domestication, and migration of the horse! Wanted the chapters on the Islamic world to have a bit more horse poetry… can we please collect some here? Is Imru’ al-Qays on blusky yet?!

My new article: "Linking Seventeenth-Century Yemen to Colonial New England: A Closer Look at Silver Coins across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans" in Am Journal of Numismatics (2024). Tracing the journey of silver coins from Yemen to Madagascar to colonial America, many found by metal detectorists.

Wine, coffee, hashish, opium, tobacco, qat… Teaching a class on „Islam, Drugs, and Empire“ this semester… soliciting any and all suggestions for recent scholarship to read….

Studis wenn ich frage wie es mit ChatGPT bei Hausarbeiten aussieht

Carrie Underwood? Wake me up when it’s Carrie Brownstein

New article alert! Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima offers the most extended reading of a series of maps known from medieval literature. In this article, Alfred Hiatt parses Ibn Khaldūn’s text alongside manuscripts of al-Idrīsī’s 12th-cent. geography, prompting questions about Ibn Khaldūn’s art of history

This article features an AI-generated image that, in my view, works against the call for "fair media representation." Images of real people in real life contexts, photographed by working photographers, would do more to help us navigate the current political landscape than AI fantasies.

Paperback! Hadith Commentary: Continuity and Change, is now available to pre-order in paperback! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hadith-... 30% off when ordering direct from EUP — code is PAPER30.

dog heaven is probably a january snowstorm in the woods near sligo creek

My colleague Islam Dayeh at Ghent shared this one with me jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Pr...

Imagine being in Köln in January of 1975 and completely missing it

Also a sensible choice

Check this out in this December’s Past & Present! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

Now we’re cooking

this makes perfect sense

olfactory ethics was kind of a big deal during plague times… foul smelling air being the supposed source of mass death and all…

The Caliphal Finances project is inviting authors to contribute to their Handbook of Fiscal History in the Early Islamic World (7th-10th century)! Abstracts due 15 January 2025. See the linked post for more details. blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfina...

In our latest translation, "די מאַלינע" or "The Hideaway", translated by Jake Schneider, is an excerpt from Avrom Nokhem Stencl’s memoirs of urban wandering in Weimar Berlin. https://buff.ly/3UMgqyf

A major new book for early modern and Indian Ocean World South Asia! Subah Dayal *Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India* (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2024) www.ucpress.edu/books/betwee...

From my dear friend andrew hui… and @princetonupress.bsky.social a marvelous study of studies to read in your study

So inspiring… @rana-mikati.bsky.social how do we get Garrett on bsky?!

everyone on here is praising bluesky, but what about kandinsky? he was a much more accomplished artist

#historiansofislam Ibn Hajar makes sense of destruction and ruin in last week‘s Times Literary Supplement

Since I’m new to Bluesky, might as well shout out into the ether again that my book, Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonia India is available for pre-order. Out Jan 2024, and will also be available open access online! 🗃️ www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

Ahhh this is why threading doesn’t work well here!! Just changed that setting, get ready for me to like all your threads, folks!!

ich bin wo

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Ok in this one he is basically human

Just going to be posting photos of my 9 year old puppy in honor of @sarahehorowitz.bsky.social who generously bestowed me with an invite code.