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🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿 Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me: 1/6

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‎𐩥𐩡 𐩯𐩲𐩵𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩩𐩱𐩡𐩨 𐩬𐩲𐩣𐩩𐩣 And may Taʾlab reward them‭ The University of Jena has a concise dictionary of Sabaic (in German) sabaweb.uni-jena.de/Sabaweb/Root... The National Research Council of Italy had a database of South Arabian inscriptions, sadly it seems no longer publicly accessible dasi.cnr.it

New ALILI! To make up for an unexpected podcast pause, Ep. 38 is four languages for the price of one. Imar Koutchoukali discusses the Old South Arabian group, included among them the language of the Queen of Sheba. Acast: shows.acast.com/a-language-i... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0hty...

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Elementary education in Timbuktu, as in all its peers, began with writing, grammar, and memorizing the Quran and some devotional poetry, advancing to arabic grammar; classical poetry; studies on the life of the Prophet, and studies on theology www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-t...

Looked at another way, the Baltic is a Mediterranean of the north - with Sweden as North Africa, Finland as Iberia, Estonia as Italy, Latvia as the Balkans, Lithuania as Greece and Poland as Turkey. Gotland is Crete…

An ancient celebration : a dancing scene with a double-reed flute in the black desert some 2000 years ago. BES19s 30: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8o-...

European institutions should act immediately to offer a position to any and all scientists and scholars in the United States whose academic careers are on the line.

The AMA with @koutchoukalimar.bsky.social on AcademicQuran has begun! Send in your questions now and he will answer them over the weekend! www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...

I grew up around American Republicans and have been struggling to find another term for the current Republican party, which has a very different platform. I've been using either "nationalist" or "orange". I suppose most people just say "MAGA". But "Orangist" may exceed them all in hilarity

This becomes even funnier when you realize a major Orangist was named Cornelis Tromp.

Decided to go back to blogging, now on Substack. And my first post: "Is Islam already going a reformation", in which I aruge that the introduction of blasphemy laws, religious violence point at a painful confrontation Muslim communities are having with modernity. open.substack.com/pub/koutchou...

gonna tell my kids this was Joseph Haydn