We’re launching a new seminar series at @ox.ac.uk this term: the ‘Maghrib History Seminar’ at Queen‘s College. The inaugural lecture will be given by Amira K. Bennison (University of Cambridge) on Tuesday 27 January. If you’re in or around Oxford, all are very welcome!

Let us know if you have an idea for a paper as part of the two panels Leone Pecorini Goodall are convening at BRAIS.

Two days of Heritage Science and Manuscripts @ox.ac.uk with an excellent session @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Scientists, Historians and Conservators in conversation 📚

Thrilled to share that I have successfully defended my PhD Thesis on Early Mālikism in North Africa at @sorbonne-universite.fr. Many thanks to my supervisors, colleagues, and everyone who supported me along the way. Excited to begin the next chapter at @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

Un podcast qui tombe à pic !

First day of the Schooling and Deschooling Islamic Law (SDIL) workshop in Madrid — great to be back in this beautiful city and to reconnect with colleagues working on Mālikī and Ḥanbalī traditions. Excited for the conversations ahead!

New issue of Médiévales Vol. 87, No. 2 (2024) shs.cairn.info/revue-mediev... @clementsalah.bsky.social @cairninfo.bsky.social Créer un canon: Corpus et consensus – Orient et Occident ‪

Quand ils s'ennuient en cours, les enfants dessinent sur leurs cahiers... qu'on soit en 2025 ou au XIe siècle ! On le voit bien sur ce papier daté du XIe siècle : un élève fait ses exercices d'écriture en hébreu et griffonne un bonhomme souriant dans un coin... 😆😍 T-S K5.19

CfP: "New Approaches to Khārijite History" (Hamburg, 16-17 Oct 25)! Delighted to announce this workshop, which aims to re-assess 7th-10th-century Khārijite revolt as a historical rather than doctrinal/confessional phenomenon! Abstracts due 15/04; details here: www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forsch...

I am thrilled to announce the workshop “Policing the Prayer in Sectarian Islam: Spaces, Temporalities, Coercion (7th–15th centuries”, taking place in Naples on February 27–28, 2025, which I am co-organizing with Enki Baptiste and @athinap.bsky.social