In need of a timeline cleanse, I opened up this beaut of a manuscript. Gerard of Cremona's (d. 1187) translation of Avicenna's. (Ibn Sina, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine. Couldn't you just get lost in that filigree? Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 1193, f. 1r.

In the Spring 2025 issue of ArabLit Quarterly (GRIEF) -- coming in five days -- we make a shared space to grieve and to build together from that grief. "May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman Elgendy

New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

Translated primary sources for teaching the history of ethnicity in medieval China. A fabulous resource! #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky www.academia.edu/community/ln...

Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...

My review in Der Islam of Norman Cigar's edition and study of Dukkali's chronicle of Fas in the 18th century – which is a substantial achievement and of interest to students of Moroccan History and of Urban History. www.academia.edu/128778417/St...

My review of Abigail Balbale's excellent The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanīsh and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus is out in Speculum. This was a real joy to read and is highly recommended for many reasons. Read the review! www-journals-uchicago-edu.proxy.library.nyu.edu/doi/full/10....

Want to do some history reading this weekend as we contemplate the fall of empires? Here are 3 top economic historians weighing in on inequality in the Roman and Han Empires: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🗃️

A real loss. A wonderful scholar. www.hartfordinternational.edu/news-events/...

For all the academics out there who care about Harvard firing the heads of its Center for Middle East Studies, you can sign here to register your concern: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Whoa! Here's the link to the English version of the database: projects.tuni.fi/viabundus-fi... #MedievalSky

Too good not to share.

A suggestion for "Hug a Medievalist Day" 2025: write to your favorite medievalist and tell them which of their works (book, article, blogpost, tweet/skeet) you've used in teaching or shared w/ friends/family/community. What inspired you to think about the world differently?

A useful overview of we are now on AI and Islamic Legal sources: islamiclaw.blog/2025/03/27/r...

‘They Even Assassinated My Library’ However, for me, the most precious of all the manuscripts in my library were the six stories I wrote in Israeli jail. These were the first stories I ever wrote, penned during a few months of incarceration following my participation in the First Intifada in 1992.…

Wow, this needs to be investigated further. Stephen Dueppen has been developing a theory the past several years that plague (or some other major infectious disease) DID reach West Africa. Most recently, he's published with (w/ Daphne Gallagher): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mixed feelings on this article. On the one hand, research about the educated female medieval experience is momentarily occupying the mainstream. But on the other hand, the closer you look at their methodology, the less helpful the results appear to be. #medievalsky #medievalwomen #skystorians 1/🧵

An update to my #WorldLeprosyDay post from January. New piece in Nature Medicine recounting Jordan's success in eliminating leprosy following @who.int protocols: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful to see this!

I don't know how long it's going to be in its "free download" phase, so hurry up and get your copy of D. Fairchild Ruggles, Islamicate Environments: Water, Land, Plants, and Society, www.cambridge.org/core/element.... #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky #skystorians #EnvironmentalHistory

A magical experience. All academics and artists should apply! www.rockefellerfoundation.org/fellowships-...

#MedievalSky An event of importance for #GlobalMiddleAges studies. On March 5, Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is sponsoring a talk on slave-taking in early medieval Rus'. Sign up here: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...

Grateful to scientists in Brazil who maintain surveillance of plague there: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40008699/. These international surveillance networks are what keeps this disease at bay. #PublicHealth

Three-Year Visiting Position in Public History at NYUAD: “ New York University Abu Dhabi invites applications for a visiting professor (Open Rank) position in Public History, with an appointment term of up to three years beginning in the Academic Year 2025-2026.” apply.interfolio.com/163644

Excited to announce I'll be editor for a new series at @archumanities.bsky.social, The Afro-Eurasian Middle Ages, presenting 'the integrated study of the Afro-Eurasian “Old World”, in its formative millennium'. Share widely, & get in touch if you have ideas! www.arc-humanities.org/the-afro-eur...

My brother on what's happening in the Congo right now: www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-...

My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪

This was lovely and true: yalereview.org/article/virg...

Hello new followers! My field is #histmed ("History of Medicine") & I work on the deep history of medical thought & the prevalence of infectious diseases. New work out today on the intersection of both those interests, w/ regard to the history of smallpox: pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-impe...

#Skystorians: I hope you are reading news of the purge going on the sciences & medical fields that rely on U.S. government funding. This 🧵 contains a list of words that can cause a grant application to be pulled. Would any of our work pass this test? Would any of our work have any value w/o them?

“Dispatch from South Lebanon—Life as Resistance at the End of the World” Munira Khayyat reflects on her recent and past ethnographic work in south Lebanon in the wake of Israeli invasions. NEW in "Resistance -- The Axis and Beyond"

Upcoming lecture: The Black Death: Why We’ve Never Known Its True Causes or Extent Before -- "Shouldn’t we already know everything about this deadliest of pandemics?" 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 19th Dallas Hall 306, McCord Auditorium Southern Methodist University #MedievalSky #PandemicHistories 🧪

academic.oup.com/ahr/article/... Changing up my teaching for undergraduates to be more research focused outside our usual seminars. Great class on sources, handwriting, and plague with this fine article by @rach-anderson.bsky.social . Enabled lots of engagement!

The new, open access volume of the "Heirs of Avicenna" sourcebook series is out! About 600 pages of translated material on later Islamic logic and epistemology! brill.com/display/titl... You can see all the original texts for this and the first volume here: www.heirsofavicenna.net #philsky

"Cities experiencing greater temperature increases over time saw larger increases in rats. Cities with more dense human populations and more urbanization also saw larger increases in rats." #histmed cc: @visualplague.bsky.social

My article on al-Yusi, Thomas Browne, and Basho just appeared in Modern Philology!! This was a labor of love and had me stepping outside my comfort zone. A few words on what I was trying to do here (message me for a pdf): 1/ www-journals-uchicago-edu.proxy.library.nyu.edu/doi/full/10....

Here is the manuscript studies starter pack with amazing people researching Latin, Greek, Syriac, Ethiopian, Mughal, Chinese and many more manuscript cultures! go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo

There seems to be a new influx of people here, so just reposting the Late Antiquity starter pack if you want to follow some cool people. go.bsky.app/KP1nQVP

I wrote the entry on Sayyid Sharif-i Jurjani for EI3 Online and it has just been published. I am very grateful to the editors of EI3 at Brill. The article was supposed to be just 1000 words, but they accepted a significantly longer piece. referenceworks.brill.com/display/entr...

Great post from @monicamedhist.bsky.social for World Leprosy Day: constantinusafricanus.com/2025/01/26/l...

Williams College - Visiting Assistant Professor Late-Medieval/early Modern Western Europe, Byzantium, or the Islamic World. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... #MedievalSky

The 6 vol. Cultural history of magic will be published by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social in Sep.25. I edited vol.4 on enlightenment/decline featuring the dream line-up of Lizanne Henderson @janetanderson.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social, Paul Monod, PG Maxwell-Stuart, Lisa Tallis & Tom Waters

🚨 CfP for the 16th Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop on "Visual Practices in the Production and Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge", incl. a trip to the Adler Planetarium 🔭. 🗓️ Due: 1 February 2025 Invited speaker: Matteo Valleriani @mpiwg.bsky.social #HistSci 🗃️ #HistSTM shorturl.at/KipNo

Travel Grant to come use the collections at NYUAD! www.hrf-arabworld.org/apply/call-f...

Congratulations to Katharine Halls, winner of this year's Banipal Prize for her translation of Ahmed Naji's ROTTEN EVIDENCE. arablit.org/2025/01/08/j...

The full “History of Science and the 'Big Picture'” issue of @BJHSeditor Themes is now out! And it is open access!!! 🌟 Honored and thrilled to have contributed to this issue alongside amazing scholars. Hoping it reaches a wide and engaged readership! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...