No more slop: a manifesto The deluge of AI slop has arrived. What is to be done? open.substack.com/pub/ajab/p/n...

Very proud to announce the publication of my first book, "Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism." Buy it from @ucpress.bsky.social for 30% discount (use promo code UCPSAVE30) at: www.ucpress.edu/books/feelin... And, its open access! Download for free: webfiles.ucpress.edu/oa/978052042...

So happy to have been part of the wonderful conference at UPENN in April 2022 and to see the wonderful proceedings edited by Jamal Elias with brilliant colleagues!

Graduate School of Islamic Humanities: Approaches to the Study of Islam To be held in Leiden, Netherlands. 13-17 July 2026 Open to all PhD candidates in Islamic studies and early career scholars.

my book, _Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty: Genres of Tradition in Muslim South Asia_, will be published by @undpress.bsky.social in June 2026 i'm going through the proofs, and don't see any typos in the epilogue, so sharing this 3-page essay here undpress.nd.edu/978026821090...

The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose is now available in Arabic. احسن القصص: القرآن و النثر العربي القديم، متوفر في معرض الكتاب بالقاهرة

New Medieval Books: The Crusades and the Far-Right in the Twenty-First Century www.medievalists.net/2024/12/new-... #crusades

New Medieval Books: The Emergence of Arabic Poetry www.medievalists.net/2024/12/new-... #poetry

I am delighted to share that my new book The Well-Tempered Reader from the @ucpress.bsky.social is out! Please use code UCPSAVE30 for a 30% discount. The book is also open access.

Professor Brinkley Messick left behind deeply researched, lovingly crafted, and beautifully written books. But perhaps his most enduring legacy remains his decency.

Hey @netflix.com Take notes.

/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English. 👇 find all the details here 👇 sites.google.com/view/postmed...

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...

And so we begin 2025! Check out our new article abt how Ibn Khaldun uses al-Idrisi's maps!

Here is a thread of California animal welfare orgs who need donations to help deal with the wildfire crisis (but they VERY DESPERATELY need adopters and foster homes too if you live close enough to help in that way): 1. Los Angeles County Animal Care: ambvzmmw.donorsupport.co/page/FUNAFLE...

A timely and important Lecture by Dr. Yasmin Amin in Arabic. ماذا حدث لنصف البشريَّة؟ هل تمَّ اسْتِبعاد النِّساء من أنْ يُصبِحن "إنسانً كاملاً"؟ المحاضرة باللغة العربيّة عبر الزوم والتسجيل على الرابط التالي www.iis.ac.uk/events/what-...

Taste the Differance

Discipline and Nourish.

My regular suggestion: At the end of the semester why not reach out to someone whose work you taught and let them know? These days we have very little idea who teaches our stuff and in what contexts. It takes almost no time and can really make their day.

more specifics to come, but for now: 618 pages, hot off the press!! check out the new issue of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social I'd go take a nap to recover, but we already have three articles in production and some more in the pipeline. 2025 is going to be fun!

"Another benefit, Stahuljak said, is that the platform can help professors ensure consistent delivery of course material. Now that her teaching materials are organized into a coherent text, another instructor could lead the course..." newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...

go.bsky.app/PGTCboR I’ve made a starter pack for people interested in literature and theology/religion - please share and let me know if you would like to be added!

Great interview from LARB with our contributor Jokha Alharthi! Check out her work on our site: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

new exhibit on Madinat al-Zahra, once a capital of Umayyad Spain. the exhibit is free to the public at ISAW in New York. 🧵w/ just a few favorites: [shown here: limestone inscription from the Friday mosque, 333AH/944-5CE: "Abd al-Rahman Commander of the Faithful, may God grant him a long life"]

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My view: academics should never assume their “reader is rested” enough to tolerate blue sentences. Most academic blue sentences are really quite bad sentences. And they are certainly not where your important point belongs. Your academic writing will be better if you strive to avoid blue sentences.

A new Brill edition of thirteenth century poet and wit Ibn Daniyal’s shadow plays, Tayf Al-khayal, showcasing a plethora of characters in 13th century Egypt.

I just created a starter pack on comparative and world/global literature. Hope this is useful and don't hesitate to get in touch! go.bsky.app/DHK7Cwk

HEX Conference 2025 - Historicizing Experiences - Call for Papers deadline this Friday 29 November. The conference will take place at Tampere University, Finland 10-12 March 2025. Please find the full CfP and more info on the conference website: events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...

Alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this! Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first: What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects

What more could you want from the Middle East Medievalists Bluesky than a Middle East Medievalists starter pack? Connect with Middle East Medievalists MEMbers on Bluesky. If you are a MEMber of MEM and want to be included, let us know. go.bsky.app/PFgkbsW

It’s here, a *start* of an Islamic Studies Starter Pack. Please spread the word. This is a work in progress… Scholars of Islam in all regions and periods, let me know, and I’ll happily add you. go.bsky.app/EYU1bFe

I've created a starter pack for those who are interested in following the accounts of Arab authors and scholars working on Arabic literature. Please share and let me know if you would like to be on the list. go.bsky.app/To2zEEL

Please join me and Matt Keegan @drkeegan.bsky.social for a discussion of the book Black Knights by Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social with discussant Kristina Richardson columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Please join us with @drkeegan.bsky.social for the first Adab Colloquium of the semester with Austin O'Malley's new book and Axel Takacs on Farid al-Din ʿAttar and the poetics of spiritual instruction!

How to trace the relationships between Arabic books across centuries? KITAB's text reuse data set, funded by the ERC, is now available online and can be accessed through a web application built by the project team. kitab-project.org/New-Release-...

Please Join us on March 29th for a book talk with Professor Annette Damayanti Lienau as she discusses her work, "Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures," accompanied by Professor Rebecca Johnson.

Please Join us on March 29th for a book talk with Professor Annette Damayanti Lienau as she discusses her work, "Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures," accompanied by Professor Rebecca Johnson.

Please join us next Thursday Feb 29th in a discussion of The Divine Comedy and the Formation of Modern Adab!

Another job opening in Arabic/Islamic studies - W2 Professorship in Arabic Studies with a focus on the History of Knowledge at Bochum University jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w2-prof...

Please join us on Friday for our first Spring adab colloquium with Theo Beers and Matthew Keegan and yours truly for a discussion on AN ADIB AND HIS POET OF CHOICE: NASR ALLAH MUNSHI'S (FL. CA. 540/1145-6) QUOTATIONS OF SANA'I GHAZNAVI (D. CA. 525/1131)