SAH Commons | Nathaniel Mathews | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/nathanielmathews/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Nathaniel Mathews is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:27:30 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fe9a7eb45f9c74eb0d215a511490444d Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, apply by Jan. 15 in the forum Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/cf-applications-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-apply-by-jan-15/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:02:29 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b7095acc0e4c5dc22399460c972e195 Kerem Duymus deposited Afroglobale Geschichte der Gegenwart (Beiträge zur Theorie der Globalgeschichte) in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902203/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:00:20 -0400 Während sich die Hauptliteratur der Globalgeschichte teilweise als Nachfolger der europäischen imperialen Geschichte mit einem neuen Rahmen und zum Teil als Erklärung der „globalisierten“ Gegenwart positioniert hat, konnten die Kritiken, insbesondere aus afrikanisch-historischer Perspektive, kaum Auswirkungen auf ihre deterministischen und euroze…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac216fdcfc266e3190817d14e8e65dd9 Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902157/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:01:08 -0400 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[Read more]

]]> 0 45716ce9e8e47173bc25e19816fad811 Kerem Duymus deposited Tadbir as Marine Diplomacy: Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction in Practice and the Debate of Piracy in Case of Tripoli between 1790s-1835 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901428/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:01:56 -0400 The marine diplomacy of Tripoli in the Qaramanlı era was deeply shaped by the Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction. Yet, especially Yusuf Paşa with his tadbir (Ar.) [governing through taking measures] application carried the implication of this jurisdiction to a global tributary system that all European states as well as USA obeyed. The ignorance of the h…[Read more]

]]> 0 affa5a73d1612b57203c826cc458e6e0 Kerem Duymus deposited The Political Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate after the 1850s: The Triple System and Its Dynamics in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901180/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:19 -0400 Three salient political-economic patterns – (1) agriculture and craft production with trade, (2) war economy, (3) economy of exploitation – in the Sokoto Caliphate have been inquired under the triple system by scrutinizing their similar and dissimilar features, their autonomous and interdependent characters, and their connected and dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 5949180f93d5090070a5916d673d5909 Kerem Duymus deposited 1850-1910 Arası Osmanlı'nın Sahra Politikaları in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901177/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:07 -0400 Osmanlılar’ın 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında merkezi Sahra bölgesindeki genişlemesi ve uygulanan politikalar, arşiv materyallerinin iki ülke (Libya ve Türkiye) arasında düzensiz bir şekilde dağılmış olması sebebiyle bugüne değin keşfedilmeden kalmaya devam etmiştir. İki ülke arşivlerinin yoğun bir analizi sonucunda ortaya çıkan yeni kayıtlar ve…[Read more]

]]> 0 b75b01de485856df0496f1dcef39f5a6 Kerem Duymus deposited Commodity Production and African Migration to Turkey, Now and in the Premodern Past in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901174/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:02:52 -0400 African Migration in Turkey is an under-researched area despite the long history of migration between West Africa and the Ottoman Empire and the large number of African migrants in Turkey. The connection of this historical and contemporary migration movement with commodity production reveals not only the basic dynamics and patterns but also the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc0dfa02dd8821e984998352ec22eeee Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900714/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:01:17 -0400 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[Read more]

]]> 0 c012a16771aaad44c5c0aeeeef990111 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896782/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cb284316dca8c390ab7dcbf720d7f88 Karina Sembe deposited On the Brink of Sovereignty: Maroon Chief Alonso de Illescas and Vernacular Agency in the Colonial Atlantic in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896639/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:48 -0400 Marronage is often treated in academic discussions as a compelling example of resistance, a type of agency that has a definitive insurgent impulse. This approach makes the study of maroons vulnerable to ideological taint because it can downplay the full complexity with which slave rebels and free people of color achieved social mobility and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8735170ed4786411e06653d0c9937a1b Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum African History https://hcommons.org/groups/african-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-2/#post-88126 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:07:15 -0400 Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

19–20 September 2024

 

Upper Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria

 

Organizers: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

 

This workshop challenges traditional East-West Cold War narra…[Read more]

]]> 0 27c2e897a93e235c8077ffa4f817eb8f Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891767/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:33 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 f09254050466c17189e88b787bb0d44e Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891765/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:29 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e3552b4a3367f5f27a6a07bf5801d89 Yusuf Sansarkan deposited Zîrîlerin Fâtımî Hilafetini Terkedip Abbasî Hilafetini Tanımaları Sürecinde Şii-Sünni Mücadelesi, Shiite Sunni Struggle in the Process of the Zirid's Abandonment of the Fatimid Caliphate by Recognizing the Abbasid Caliphate in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886671/ Mon, 20 May 2024 03:00:35 -0400 It is known that Berbers suffered from
central government after the conquests of the North Africa. Berbers who were
initially inclined to abandon Islam preferred to join political-religious
groups in time. In the 8th century, Khārijism was influential in North Africa.
In the 10th century, Ismā‘īlī Shī‘ism, which was another opposition group, w…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b4c495de76c50d08b7c8885973589e7 Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886342/ Thu, 16 May 2024 03:01:09 -0400 While the Cairo Genizah is mainly known as a repository of medieval manuscripts, modern Genizah collections also contain thousands of folios from texts printed with moveable type between 1500 and 1900. Most of these imprints come from Europe, but almost all of them reached the Cairene Jewish community at some point before 1897. They are also among…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4436688b7c2939181feb91bffa21325 Jake Benson started the topic The Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Old Manuscript, New Perspectives in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/the-iranian-diaspora-in-southeast-asia-old-manuscript-new-perspectives-3/ Wed, 01 May 2024 13:39:48 -0400 https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/persians-of-java-re-examining-the-cultural-context-of-indonesia

]]> 0 2a68979f4c0067725baefd7a3865399d Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Conceptual Framework of Muʿtazilī-Bahšamī Phenomenological Epistemology in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884673/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:29:01 -0400 Synoptic edition of the introductions to Kitāb al-Taḏkira fī aḥkām al-jawāhir wa-l-aʿrāḍ (‘Reminder about the properties of atoms and accidents’) by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Mattawayh and its commentary (Šarḥ), presumably by Abū Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Mazdak. Taken together, these introductions offer a valuable summary outline of basi…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e544267d0f4390cd797d657680c1103 Alexandre Roberts deposited Review of: Rustam Shukurov, Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650-1461 in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884671/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:55 -0400 Review of: Shukurov, Rustam. Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461. London: Routledge, 2023.

ByzRev 06.2024.018

]]> 0 9d66078d893006a1d3a7cee135a7658c Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited برابری‌خواهی جنسیتی در شعر پروین اعتصامی؟ in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884560/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:19:27 -0400 در بررسی شعر فمنیستی فارسی معمولاً به نام فروغ فرخزاد، سیمین بهبهانی، طاهره قره‌العین، زندخت شیرازی و اخیراً ژاله عالم‌تاج قائم‌‌مقامی برمی‌خوریم و نام پروین اعتصامی (1285-1320ش) در چنین مباحثی مطرح نمی‌شود. آنچه پژوهشگران تا به اکنون دربارۀ شعر او در کانون توجه قرار داده‌اند جنبه‌های اجتماعی اشعار این شاعر و تلاش وی برای به تصویر کشیدن…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8d45e35d5070814789905277a0b65b8 Frédérick Madore deposited Exister en contexte autoritaire : les associations étudiantes chrétiennes et islamiques à l'Université de Lomé sous Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 1970–2005 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882908/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:00:35 -0400 Ce chapitre examine l’histoire des mouvements étudiants à caractère religieux sur le campus de l’Université de Lomé au Togo de la création de l’établissement en 1970 jusqu’au décès du président Gnassingbé Eyadéma en 2005. Dans un premier temps, il analyse comment des associations étudiantes chrétiennes et islamiques ont pu se structurer et se déve…[Read more]

]]> 0 c818e40480db72358fb4a574e8fc75fa Jörg Matthias Determann started the topic Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/islamic-theology-and-extraterrestrial-life-3/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:08:01 -0500 Dear colleagues,

It is with profound gratitude that I announce the publication of a volume edited by Shoaib Ahmed Malik and me. It is entitled Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion (London: I.B. Tauris, 2024). Free review copies are available.

Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New…[Read more]

]]> 0 775ecc0a21bd040e794be91a6fb4362d Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the discussion African History https://hcommons.org/groups/african-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-2/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:43:03 -0500 CFP: Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

Location: Vienna, Austria

Date: 19-20 Spetember 2024

Submission deadline: 31 March 2024

 

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did…[Read more]

]]> 0 140296feaf186a979fd55b20352ebbb1 Pasha Mohamad Khan deposited ‘Abd al-Nabī Faḳhr al-Zamānī and the Courtly Storytellers of Mughal India in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870102/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:00:06 -0500 Report on the historical details of a number of neglected storytellers in Iran and South Asia from the 16th to 17th centuries CE, including Zain al-‘Ābidīn Takaltū Khān, ‘Ināyat Allāh Darbār Khān, Fusūnī Yazdī, Mīr Muḥammad Hāshim, Iskandar Qiṣṣah-khẉān, Ḥājī Qiṣṣah-khẉān Hamadānī, Niẓām Shīrāzī, Mīr Qiṣṣah, Muḥammad…[Read more]

]]> 0 3686013f2ce0ac9f1cdb8a98c4e7fc45 Pasha Mohamad Khan deposited A Handbook for Storytellers: The Ṭirāz al-akhbār and the Qissa Genre in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870100/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:00:02 -0500 Describes the storytelling techniques of the 17th-century storyteller (qissah-khwan) ‘Abd al-Nabi Fakhr al-Zamani Qazwini in South Asia and discusses the truth/falsehood binary in the context of the qissah/dastan genre.

]]> 0 1b849656f59e0454bc8122e9de9801f0 Pasha Mohamad Khan deposited Preface to a Romance (1866) in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870020/ Sun, 07 Jan 2024 03:00:04 -0500 Translation of Mīrzā Asad Allāh Ḳhān Ġhālib’s 1866 Urdu preface to the dāstān Bostān-i Ḳhayāl.

]]> 0 fecfb44c3a3fd5b62c5d0538d06ec5c5 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception (translated into Persian by Mostafa Hosseini) in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869836/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:01:04 -0500 ویتمن ایرانی: فراتر از پذیرش ادبی ــ که به پذیرش والت ویتمن، شاعر نامدار آمریکایی، در یک دورۀ تقریباً صد ساله در ایران معاصر می‌پردازد ــ دارای نُه فصل، مقدمه، مؤخره و ضمیمه است. کتابِ حاضر تحقیقی بینارشته‌ای است: از سویی ادبیات تطبیقی (پذیرش ادبی، تأثیرپژوهی و تصویرشناسی) و نقد ادبی (تاریخ‌گرایی نو)، و از سوی دیگر مطالعات ترجمه (ترجمه و ای…[Read more]

]]> 0 24769643285d9da863aee024ae4a350a Alexandre Roberts deposited Thinking about Chemistry in Byzantium and the Islamic World in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868374/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 03:00:16 -0500 This article investigates several discussions of “chemistry,” understood as an analysts’ category referring to theories and practices dealing with the structure and transformation of matter. By reading these texts (a treatise defending kīmiyāʾ by al-Fārābī, the famous passage from Ibn Sīnā’s Shifāʾ on transmutation, Ibn Taymiyyah’s fatwā…[Read more]

]]> 0 660f51364762c26b0a1eaaf03536b6be Alexandre Roberts deposited Thinking about Chemistry in Byzantium and the Islamic World in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867265/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 03:00:19 -0500 The term “alchemy,” born out of early modern professional polemics among chemists, is problematic as a historical category. The present article shifts away from asking what pre-modern alchemy “really” was, to asking how medieval scholars writing in Greek and Arabic thought about the practice of treating and combining naturally occurring substan…[Read more]

]]> 0 015e6666970eefc0527fb01d40caf134 Duncan Money deposited ‘Daisyfield in the crucible’: Afrikaners, education and poor whites in Southern Rhodesia, 1911–1948 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862927/ Sun, 29 Oct 2023 03:00:17 -0400 This article examines the history of Daisyfield School, an Afrikaner children’s orphanage and school in Southern Rhodesia. The existence of an Afrikaner school in a self-consciously British settler colony represented a distinctive settler project within the settler state, one supported by the school’s transnational connections and one whose aims o…[Read more]

]]> 0 f590a4aeb5e3e55f0f1bad7c187eb826 Nick Posegay deposited Hebrew Printing and Printers’ Colophons in the Cairo Genizah: Networking Book Trade in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862098/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:00:08 -0400 The Cairo Genizah is famous as a source of manuscripts for the study of the medieval Mediterranean world, especially Jewish communities during the High Middle Ages. However, among the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern manuscript fragments in Genizah collections are more than 12,000 moveable-type printed items, most of which come from Europe.…[Read more]

]]> 0 05e731d3861f6a32260f192865beaedd Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859630/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:04:09 -0400 This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 21724264cefed806b46f01e4be003751 Nasrin Askari deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 17. Persian Literary Criticism in India: Khān-i Ārzū’s Critique of Ḥazīn’s Poetry in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847629/ Wed, 31 May 2023 02:26:57 -0400 In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, when a new style of Persian poetry was developing in the Persianate world, several erudite literary critics appeared in India, whose meticulous critiques of Persian poetry was unprecedented in the long history of Persian literature. A close study of the works produced by these critics reveals their vast…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ca78f77646a5285a52cf7226e620012 Duncan Money deposited Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845941/ Fri, 12 May 2023 02:23:39 -0400 In January 2004, residents of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, were treated to a disturbing sight. Over 200 members of the governing Movement for Multiparty Democracy party marched through the streets of the capital carrying a mock coffin bearing the name of Roy Clarke, a prominent newspaper satirist and white British national who had been a permanent r…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca2f613e1cc2b04f8e812eb33872e0e9 Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/the-archived-chester-beatty-library-islamic-seals-database-4/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:21:35 -0400 The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access 
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c1c61e1b912bedbe5d97e7789d7277f Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 16. Ziya Pasha, Reformist and/or Reactionary? Translations from the Hürriyet & Ḫarābāt in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838378/ Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:24:15 -0400 This working paper presents a full and annotated translation of two titles by 19th-century Ottoman author-cum-statesman Ziya Pasha: (1) a newspaper article written in exile, modern in terms of format and reformist in terms of tenor and providing an staunch and iconoclastic critique of Ottoman language and literature, and (2) the versified preface…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c4f5a84e94b0c5d29b9d4f12b54b831 Jake Benson started the topic Group for Arabic script manuscripts in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/group-for-arabic-script-manuscripts/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 13:42:25 -0500 Greetings All,

For those interested, please join our new group devoted to Arabic script manuscripts, to share images, consult with colleagues on codicology, readings, deciphering notations and seal impressions, etc. https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/

]]> 0 d56d8a3cbd1013f843a56360bd638f99 Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 14. A Lion Walks into a Hammam... Mollā Lüṭfī (d. 1495) on Majāz/Allegory in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830236/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:23:46 -0500 A discussion of majāz or allegory that is commonly ascribed to the 15th-century Ottoman polygraph Mollā Lüṭfī and that builds on the works of al-Sakkākī and al-Qazwīnī.
The author gives two alternative overarching classifications: a linguistic vs. cognitive allegory classification, and a metaphor vs. hypallage classification that is supplemen…[Read more]

]]> 0 dfbeb5f707e31f1b01e3283eb5504e2e Salam Rassi deposited Scribal and Commentary Traditions at the Dawn of Print: The Manuscripts of the Near Eastern School of Theology as an Archive of the Early Nahḍa in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828751/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:28:07 -0500 This article focuses on the Arabic manuscript collection of the Near Eastern School of Theology (NEST). The NEST library contains several manuscripts that were donated, copied, or read by important Christian-born intellectuals of the nahḍa. Given these men’s role in the emergence of modern publishing in the Middle East, I examine the int…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2ddac3dfb5428a411b53135963b912b Salam Rassi deposited Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828603/ Sat, 07 Jan 2023 02:24:40 -0500 This book is the first monograph-length study and intellectual biography of ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis (d. 1318), bishop and polymath of the Church of the East. Focusing on his works of apologetic theology, this study examines the intellectual strategies he employs to justify Christianity against Muslim (and to a lesser extent Jewish) criticisms. Bet…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8a5ce0edd76a849188a2554b8e7aef1 Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1822663/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:24:54 -0500 This article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.

]]> 0 3015371ea628fce3a973419e55ca7eed Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 12. "The World's Richest yet Most Unfortunate Language" - Four Texts by Abdurrauf Fitrat on Uzbek Language & Literature in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788811/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:24:40 -0400 This working paper presents in full translation four texts of the Uzbek early 20th-century jadid reformist Abdurrauf Fitrat. Identifying educational reform as the main key to progress, he advocated for the emancipation and nationalisation of the Chaghatay/Uzbek language as a tool to educate the masses rather than to serve the interests of a…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1b3e4045cd5d93ef7e4eacde71cfc99 Aqil Visram started the topic Open Library Courses in Islamic Studies in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/open-library-courses-in-islamic-studies-3/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:36:11 -0400 Dear members of the Islamicate Studies group,

Recently, the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched its inaugural Muslim superhero series, Ms. Marvel, starring Iman Vellani. According to Forbes, Ms. Marvel “is the highest scoring Disney Plus Marvel series ever.” I was very excited by this as I’m an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto…[Read more]

]]> 0 f14fc9a29cad2f244c859863b4c3946c Alexandre Roberts deposited Byzantine-Islamic Scientific Culture in the Astronomical Diagrams of Chioniades on John of Damascus in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786943/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:26:22 -0400 Scientific diagrams could and did appear in unexpected places. This essay discusses such an example: the diagrams that the thirteenth- to fourteenth-century scholar George-Gregory Chioniades added to a manuscript of John of Damascus’s Fountain of Knowledge as part of his commentary on the text. I argue that the diagrams were a very important, if…[Read more]

]]> 0 25c367549655a04d9e016d58f4b1ad1c Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 11. Sitting in on an Ottoman Madrasa Course in Rhetoric. Gürānī's Interlinear Translation-cum-Commentary of the Preface of al-Qazwīni's Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782896/ Mon, 30 May 2022 02:23:46 -0400 This working paper presents a 16th- or 17th-century Ottoman translation-cum-commentary of the preface and introduction of one of the classics of Islamicate rhetoric, al-Qazwīnī’s Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ (The Key’s Digest), a 14th-century work on rhetoric based on al-Sakkākī’s 13th-century seminal Miftāḥ al-ʿUlūm (The Key of Sciences). This part…[Read more]

]]> 0 aba068d86fa92910eb0b8f7c990d5c48 Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782563/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:24:03 -0400 The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d671dd125c741825818f375870cbe4e John Aerni-Flessner deposited A Trasnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho-South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777283/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:33:44 -0400 Stock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This art…[Read more]

]]> 0 85f48d2c63280c0a847fd08a324dfc6c Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 9. Sugary Gratitude, Strolling Cypresses, Clouds Pouring Grass. Ḥalīmī on Paranomasia, Simile, and Metonymy in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776603/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 02:23:47 -0400 The translation of a short treatise on paranomasia, simile, and metonymy, by the foremost Persian-Turkish lexicographer of the 15th century, Lütfu’llāh el–Ḥalīmī. The text combines a rather dense and elliptic prose style with a remarkably lucid and clear-cut typology of seven types of tajnīs, seven types of tashbīh, and nine types of majāz, ofte…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b6b323cc6ba74140573cdcdcb895974 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Roger Sedarat. Emerson in Iran: The American Appropriation of Persian Poetry in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1769486/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 02:24:36 -0500 Through the case of Emerson’s appropriation of Persian poetry this volume provides a thought-provoking example of how the literary founding father of a nation is cosmopolitan and receptive of foreign cultures in what might seem a purely “nationalistic” agenda. It will appeal to those in the field of Persian literature, comparative liter…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c6f4a8e0d03777fe0c98c05970420cb Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 8. Rūmī's Drivel, Sayyids' Chicanery, Poets' Doggerel. Three Azerbaijani Texts by Ākhūnd-Zāde in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765716/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:23:45 -0500 In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the second centennial of Ākhūndzade’s birth, three Azerbaijani texts in translation by the Molière of Azerbaijan. The texts—one poem, one letter, and one prose text—reflect Ākhūndzāde’s sharp, sometimes vitriolic, take on Rūmī ’s teaching (a dangerous, incomprehensible word jumble), most poetry and po…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a1dcb2af8ce19bf1ed40f403370bec4 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Persian Huck: On the Reception of Huckleberry Finn in Iran in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764601/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 02:25:52 -0500 First translated into Persian in 1949, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the most popular works of American fiction in Iran. Although the anti-US policy of the post-1979 political system has tried to erase the manifestations of the previous period’s American influence, Iranian interest in Huckleberry Finn has been inc…[Read more]

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