Morgen, 25.09.25, 19 Uhr: Lesung aus „Leben in der Schwebe“ und Diskussion mit Atef Abu Saif, ehemals Kultusminister der Palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde und Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der Al-Azhar-Universität Gaza. Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Schlaunstr. 2, Münster.

🔴 Reconnaissance de la Palestine : plus de cinquante mairies ont hissé le drapeau palestinien pour le moment Suivre notre direct : bit.ly/48ouLsg

"Israel has committed genocide in #Gaza" - concludes UN Commission of Inquiry. All states have legal obligations to end the genocide & punish those responsible. "The absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #HRC60

I'm glad to be in Lund tomorrow for this exciting summer school on the history of knowledge, before heading further north this weekend. 🏕 Also took the obligatory tourist photo in Copenhagen today.✌️

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳 #dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

I’m thrilled to share my first-ever academic publication, in volume 10 of Philological Encounters, entitled “The Philological Philanthropy of Muḥammad Naṣīf (1885–1971): Arabic Editions, Salafi Islam, and State-making in the Hijaz.” doi.org/10.1163/2451...

Hey if you‘re someone who does that I will never work with you again and tell everyone

👁️ The Library of Trinity College Dublin is currently advertising a position as Project Archivist to work on the collection of Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts. The post is temporary, and subject to extension if further funding can be secured. Read more: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

So werden es ganz sicher #bessereZeiten ... Gesehen in Münster.

We welcome Dr. Alba Fedeli (@csmc-hamburg.bsky.social) to Münster this week. She examined 3 Qur'an fragments from our institute's collection and will present her findings. If you are nearby, come join us! @fb09public.bsky.social Thursday, June 26, 2025, 6:15 pm Schlaunstraße 2, RS 225 (2nd floor)

Looking forward to attending #EuARe2025 in Vienna this year! I’ll join a panel organized by Claire Gallien: "A Culture of Certainty: Islam, Knowledge, and the Search for Truth in Unstable and Uncertain Times." Abstract & full program: nataliekraneiss.com/euare2025/ #IslamicStudies

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding (19.06.2025) zenodo.org/records/1569...

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

Reminder: Only 4 days left! The deadline for submissions is this Sunday, June 1.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

The University of Murcia is offering an Erasmus+ traineeship for a Standard and Native Moroccan Arabic speaker graduate to develop his/her skills as a language assistant with interest in the application of the Integrated Approach to the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language.

Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) is a semantic portal for finding/studying pre-modern manuscripts and their movements, based on linked collections of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, the Bodleian Libraries, and the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes. #siteoftheweek

I've been writing a bit about the items that appear on the cover of my book (out July 2). The multiplicity of meaning and power that genealogy encompassed in early America is all there, in some pieces more explicitly than others. 1/

You know it's time for a LONG break when you start dreaming about your sources.

Today, I woke up with a complete outline of a chapter section in my mind. I wrote down everything that came to me while I was sleeping. And did more research. It's night now and I had not planned to work on my thesis today at all. #phdsky #exhausted

50 hours later, I have finished reading the audio book!

Deadline approaching: We are accepting submissions for our conference "Poetry and Knowledge" until June 1, 2025. We welcome abstracts on all fields and forms of knowledge. Papers on core areas of Islamic knowledge—such as Qur'anic studies, Hadith studies, and Islamic law—are especially encouraged.

This is finally seeing the light of day! I am looking forward to reading it. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/genealogi...

Ilyes Mechentel continues his series on digital Arabic studies in France with an exploration of developments in Arabic #HTR 🔍📜 #DigitalHumanities #Arabic #ArabicManuscripts #history digitalorientalist.com/2025/04/22/a...

Le portrait d’un enfant palestinien amputé remporte le premier prix du World Press Photo 2025

Dans ce contexte d’attaques contre l’une des choses les plus formidables de ces 20 dernières années, @wikipediafr.bsky.social, j’ai voulu raconter ma petite expérience de participation à l’encyclopédie. Quel outil formidable et quelle communauté! langarchiv.hypotheses.org

European far-right media discover ERC programs. One may laugh, but we should be alert: this is how Trumpism began. europeanconservative.com/articles/new...

#cfp Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800) We invite papers for our upcoming conference in Münster, Germany (November 20–22, 2025), focusing on Arabic poetry as a medium of knowledge. 📌 Full CfP: imperia.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIsl...

This year's #isils conference will take place at @uni-muenster.de. The program is now online and registration is open: isils.net/isils/confer.... Looking forward to this! #legalstudies #islamiclaw #sharia

Fully funded PhD scholarship in Dublin on Rural and Tribal History of the Modern Middle East (c.1870-c.1945), lead supervisor M. Talha Çiçek: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR712/p...

Join us (online/in person) on 16 April to discuss Social Theory & the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge w/ the authors/eds of 3 fantastic new books in our Global Epistemics series w/ Rowman & Littlefield (Bloomsbury) edited by @berytia.bsky.social. Info & registration here: tinyurl.com/nonhege

#cfp Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800) We invite papers for our upcoming conference in Münster, Germany (November 20–22, 2025), focusing on Arabic poetry as a medium of knowledge. 📌 Full CfP: imperia.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIsl...

Im Sommer 2025 heißt es wieder: Herzliche Einladung zur Ringvorlesung am Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft in #Münster mit fünf spannenden Vorträgen! @fb09public.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @rebellionuhh.bsky.social @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social

Really excited to receive a copy of this book of advice, written originally for one of Saladin's sons. "The Foundation of Governance (Asās al-siyāsa): A Mirror for Princes from the Late 12th Century CE" Ed. and Trans. by Oliver Kahl, Arabic edition by Jalil Attia

One of the best and most enjoyable books I've read in 2024. Would have got the paperback version if it had been available!

A while ago, I contacted a researcher for some information they might be able to help me with. The email address didn't work anymore. Contacted them on academia. No response. Today I noticed a change in the bio that now says this person has left academia. I am shocked. (1/2) #academicsky

I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:

On 10 and 11 April 2025, I will be attending the workshop ‘The Visual Scribe: Tables and Diagrams in Middle Eastern Manuscripts' in Berlin, with a talk on the representation of lineage in genealogical trees from the Western Maghrib. Join us online or in person! nataliekraneiss.com/workshop-the...

Enough. I have decided that from now on, data security is more important to me than convenience. First action taken: I replaced the Google browser and search engine. I stopped using Google Drive, Documents, and Calendar a long time ago. But there is more to do.

Dear Friends and Colleagues: I write with great sadness to say that I have had to change my travel plans and will not be able to join you for the conference to which you had so kindly invited me. I will unfortunately be cancelling all planned visits to the USA. /1

A French researcher was not allowed to enter the U.S. to attend a congress "because the researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion about the Trump administration's research policies." www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

I am not surprised that this happens, but I am surprised that someone still in academia would be so open about it and name the director who was involved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...

For a long time, people have asked for an truly open-source version of ChatGPT and we finally have it. This is multiple years coming into efforts following the release of ChatGPT and builds on the efforts of so many at both Ai2 and in the broader open AI ecosystem.

Universities, libraries—the whole nonprofit sector—ought to unite in supporting this. If efforts like this succeed, we have a good chance of remaining relevant in 2040.

Job: 0,5 Wiss. Koordinator:in "Forschungsdatenmanagement" (m/w/d) (Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, Berlin) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-153748 Berlin, 01.06.2025-31.05.2027, Forum Transregionale Studien e.V., Bewerbungsschluss: 06.04.2025

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Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268... #dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky

Driving there, sometimes late at night, with no gas stations at all and no stores for hours, always fearing running out of water or diesel, was unforgettable. I couldn't stop wondering how people once transported thousands of manuscripts to the library in Tamgrūt. It still amazes me.