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David Motadel
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Historian at LSE

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Delighted about the publication of THE MAKING OF IRANIAN MODERNITY (Ilex via Harvard University Press), our Festschrift for the great Houchang E. Chehabi. @lsehy.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social @bupardeeschool.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Delighted about the publication of THE MAKING OF IRANIAN MODERNITY (Ilex via Harvard University Press), our Festschrift for the great Houchang E. Chehabi. @lsehy.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social @bupardeeschool.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Thank you:)
January 6, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Only 38 pages in, and I’m hooked. (And absolutely do not sense the origins of modern conflicts within these pages…/s)

Upcoming course is “The Global War” and I’m thrilled to be learning more about the ‘fringes’ of WWII. (Aka, what isn’t taught in US schools)
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Neuerscheinung: "Das gelebte Europa!" Ich freue mich übermäßig, dass dieses von Florian Greiner und mir herausgegebene Themenheft heute erschienen ist - mit fünf großartigen Beiträgen, von Abolitionskampagnen über Wein und Versicherungen bis hin zu faschistischen Netzwerken und Siedlerkolonien...
Das Projekt Europa begann nicht erst mit der EU – es wurde seit dem 19. Jh. gelebt, erdacht und bestritten. Das neue Themenheft von Geschichte und Gesellschaft erkundet, wie es sich in Alltag und Praxis, Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur formte.

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November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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A fantastic discussion of 'Islam and Nazi Germany's War' in Mehdi Falahati's show (in Persian; from min. 24), with the brilliant @arashtehran.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUP...
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A fantastic discussion of 'Islam and Nazi Germany's War' in Mehdi Falahati's show (in Persian; from min. 24), with the brilliant @arashtehran.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUP...
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A real pleasure! Thank you for your fantastic comment.
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Looking forward to speaking about GLOBALIZING EUROPE today at the University of Warwick - all welcome! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... via @post-doc-club.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @dacretu.bsky.social @purseigle.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Looking forward to speaking about GLOBALIZING EUROPE today at the University of Warwick - all welcome! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... via @post-doc-club.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @dacretu.bsky.social @purseigle.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Islam is part of European history

https://www.byteseu.com/1555420/

Edwin Lord Weeks’s Interior of the Mosque at Córdoba (1880). Image by Bridgeman Images In 1993, Prince Charles, now King Charles III, gave a spectacular speech at the University of Oxford, entitled “Islam and the West”, …
Islam is part of European history - Bytes Europe
In 1993, Prince Charles, now King Charles III, gave a spectacular speech at the University of Oxford, entitled “Islam and the West”, lamenting that Europeans
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November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Today, the popular view prevails that Muslims have never been part of European history. It is an environment in which populist right-wing polemics critical of Muslim migration can reach a receptive a mass audience. By David Motadel
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Islam is part of European history
Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions
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November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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By: David Motadel on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Islam is part of European history
Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions
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November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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How can European history be integrated into global history? This is the question at the heart of „Globalizing Europe“ edited by @davidmotadel.bsky.social. Here is my review.
Rez: D. Motadel (Hrsg.): Globalizing Europe

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-152277

D. Motadel (Hrsg.): Globalizing Europe
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November 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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In der heutigen Wochenendausgabe von Haaretz: Mein Artikel über den indischen Unabhängigkeitsführer Subhas Chandra Bose und seine neue Anhängerschaft in der hindu-nationalistischen Bewegung, mit Einschätzungen von David Motadel und Anita Bose Pfaff.
October 10, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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dlf Tag für Tag
mit einem hörenswerten Interview mit David Motadel

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Religionsmagazin - Tag für Tag
Das Religionsmagazin richtet sich an alle, die an aktueller Berichterstattung und an Hintergrundinformationen über religiöse, ethische und andere weltanschaulich orientierte Zusammenhänge des Weltgesc...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Europe after Decolonisation
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October 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM