Anwar
@anwrph.bsky.social
PhD. student in Ottoman & Middle Eastern history. Interested in ecology, economy and religion in the Levant & Arabia.
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Anwar
@anwrph.bsky.social
· Dec 23
I'm excited to share my new (open access) article in Social Codicology, edited by Olly Akkerman.
The article connects Islamicate manuscript and talismanic scribal cultures with chemical-bacterial networks, Platonic cosmologies and technologies of climate resilience.
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The article connects Islamicate manuscript and talismanic scribal cultures with chemical-bacterial networks, Platonic cosmologies and technologies of climate resilience.
brill.com/display/book...
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Look at this absolute unit. Buckle up for a long thread about agrarian Palestinian folktales and lore! There is a lot. I personally own 6 volumes on the subject.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Look at this absolute unit. Buckle up for a long thread about agrarian Palestinian folktales and lore! There is a lot. I personally own 6 volumes on the subject.
another banger!
Taylor M. Moore traces the scientific afterlife of the mummified body of Queen Henhenit in “Living Fossils,” highlighting the implications of the use of women’s bodies in the practice of medicine and the production of race science in modern Egypt. 🗃️
“Living Fossils”: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt
Abstract. This article traces the scientific afterlife of the mummy Queen Henhenit from excavation and circulation to examination and display in twentieth-
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March 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
another banger!
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My chapter focusing on German tobacco fantasies in German Southwest Africa (1884-1915, modern-day Namibia) is now published in the volume "Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780-1960: Trade, Knowledge, Labour." Thanks to all who helped/contributed! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780–1960
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960
link.springer.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:46 PM
My chapter focusing on German tobacco fantasies in German Southwest Africa (1884-1915, modern-day Namibia) is now published in the volume "Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780-1960: Trade, Knowledge, Labour." Thanks to all who helped/contributed! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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The edited volume The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār has been published (open access; Brill: 2025: brill.com/display/titl...). I contributed to the project by identifying 5 manuscripts from al-Jazzār's library in the so-called AP (“abandoned property") collection of the National Library of Israel.
The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār
"The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār" published on 23 Dec 2024 by Brill.
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December 27, 2024 at 8:29 AM
The edited volume The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār has been published (open access; Brill: 2025: brill.com/display/titl...). I contributed to the project by identifying 5 manuscripts from al-Jazzār's library in the so-called AP (“abandoned property") collection of the National Library of Israel.
I'm excited to share my new (open access) article in Social Codicology, edited by Olly Akkerman.
The article connects Islamicate manuscript and talismanic scribal cultures with chemical-bacterial networks, Platonic cosmologies and technologies of climate resilience.
brill.com/display/book...
The article connects Islamicate manuscript and talismanic scribal cultures with chemical-bacterial networks, Platonic cosmologies and technologies of climate resilience.
brill.com/display/book...
December 23, 2024 at 7:59 AM
I'm excited to share my new (open access) article in Social Codicology, edited by Olly Akkerman.
The article connects Islamicate manuscript and talismanic scribal cultures with chemical-bacterial networks, Platonic cosmologies and technologies of climate resilience.
brill.com/display/book...
The article connects Islamicate manuscript and talismanic scribal cultures with chemical-bacterial networks, Platonic cosmologies and technologies of climate resilience.
brill.com/display/book...
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the extent to which the western left is incapable of viewing any global development without *centring* us imperialism is *quite something*
like, perhaps, and hear me out, your inability to seriously engage with local specificity and complexity is in and of itself... imperialist?
like, perhaps, and hear me out, your inability to seriously engage with local specificity and complexity is in and of itself... imperialist?
December 8, 2024 at 11:04 AM
the extent to which the western left is incapable of viewing any global development without *centring* us imperialism is *quite something*
like, perhaps, and hear me out, your inability to seriously engage with local specificity and complexity is in and of itself... imperialist?
like, perhaps, and hear me out, your inability to seriously engage with local specificity and complexity is in and of itself... imperialist?
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Knowing by Sensing: How to Teach the History of Smell Inger Leemans, et al, The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1251–1264, doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... academic.oup.com/ahr/article/... 🗃
Knowing by Sensing: How to Teach the History of Smell
For this inaugural module of the #AHRSyllabus collection, we invited the historical smells team called Odeuropa to introduce best practice techniques for teachi
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October 1, 2023 at 7:20 AM
Knowing by Sensing: How to Teach the History of Smell Inger Leemans, et al, The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1251–1264, doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... academic.oup.com/ahr/article/... 🗃