Imar Koutchoukali
@koutchoukalimar.bsky.social
Science advisor @mfaestonia (all views my own)| PhD @UniTartu | Tweets about late antique South Arabia, linguistics, and politics
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November 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Thanks google very useful
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🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿
Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿
Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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Wat vliegt de tijd
September 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Wat vliegt de tijd
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𐩥𐩡 𐩯𐩲𐩵𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩩𐩱𐩡𐩨 𐩬𐩲𐩣𐩩𐩣 And may Taʾlab reward them
The University of Jena has a concise dictionary of Sabaic (in German) sabaweb.uni-jena.de/Sabaweb/Root...
The National Research Council of Italy had a database of South Arabian inscriptions, sadly it seems no longer publicly accessible dasi.cnr.it
The University of Jena has a concise dictionary of Sabaic (in German) sabaweb.uni-jena.de/Sabaweb/Root...
The National Research Council of Italy had a database of South Arabian inscriptions, sadly it seems no longer publicly accessible dasi.cnr.it
August 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
𐩥𐩡 𐩯𐩲𐩵𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩩𐩱𐩡𐩨 𐩬𐩲𐩣𐩩𐩣 And may Taʾlab reward them
The University of Jena has a concise dictionary of Sabaic (in German) sabaweb.uni-jena.de/Sabaweb/Root...
The National Research Council of Italy had a database of South Arabian inscriptions, sadly it seems no longer publicly accessible dasi.cnr.it
The University of Jena has a concise dictionary of Sabaic (in German) sabaweb.uni-jena.de/Sabaweb/Root...
The National Research Council of Italy had a database of South Arabian inscriptions, sadly it seems no longer publicly accessible dasi.cnr.it
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New ALILI!
To make up for an unexpected podcast pause, Ep. 38 is four languages for the price of one. Imar Koutchoukali discusses the Old South Arabian group, included among them the language of the Queen of Sheba.
Acast: shows.acast.com/a-language-i...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0hty...
To make up for an unexpected podcast pause, Ep. 38 is four languages for the price of one. Imar Koutchoukali discusses the Old South Arabian group, included among them the language of the Queen of Sheba.
Acast: shows.acast.com/a-language-i...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0hty...
August 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New ALILI!
To make up for an unexpected podcast pause, Ep. 38 is four languages for the price of one. Imar Koutchoukali discusses the Old South Arabian group, included among them the language of the Queen of Sheba.
Acast: shows.acast.com/a-language-i...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0hty...
To make up for an unexpected podcast pause, Ep. 38 is four languages for the price of one. Imar Koutchoukali discusses the Old South Arabian group, included among them the language of the Queen of Sheba.
Acast: shows.acast.com/a-language-i...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0hty...
It me
Entry:
אִמֵּר
n.pr.m.
- a priest assigned to Dvd’s time
- ancestor of priest
- priest in Jerem.’s time
- father of Zadok
n.pr.loc. (?)
אִמֵּר
n.pr.m.
- a priest assigned to Dvd’s time
- ancestor of priest
- priest in Jerem.’s time
- father of Zadok
n.pr.loc. (?)
August 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It me
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Elementary education in Timbuktu, as in all its peers, began with writing, grammar, and memorizing the Quran and some devotional poetry, advancing to arabic grammar; classical poetry; studies on the life of the Prophet, and studies on theology
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What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900.
No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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April 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Elementary education in Timbuktu, as in all its peers, began with writing, grammar, and memorizing the Quran and some devotional poetry, advancing to arabic grammar; classical poetry; studies on the life of the Prophet, and studies on theology
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Looked at another way, the Baltic is a Mediterranean of the north - with Sweden as North Africa, Finland as Iberia, Estonia as Italy, Latvia as the Balkans, Lithuania as Greece and Poland as Turkey. Gotland is Crete…
March 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Looked at another way, the Baltic is a Mediterranean of the north - with Sweden as North Africa, Finland as Iberia, Estonia as Italy, Latvia as the Balkans, Lithuania as Greece and Poland as Turkey. Gotland is Crete…
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An ancient celebration : a dancing scene with a double-reed flute in the black desert some 2000 years ago. BES19s 30: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8o-...
BES19s 30: A Safaitic dancing scene
YouTube video by OCIANA
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March 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
An ancient celebration : a dancing scene with a double-reed flute in the black desert some 2000 years ago. BES19s 30: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8o-...
European institutions should act immediately to offer a position to any and all scientists and scholars in the United States whose academic careers are on the line.
It has begun: my department was in negotiations with an outstanding scientist for a faculty position. That faculty candidate has now withdrawn citing political upheaval, and is strongly considering moving her career to Europe.
The US is no longer the premiere destination for research scientists.
The US is no longer the premiere destination for research scientists.
February 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
European institutions should act immediately to offer a position to any and all scientists and scholars in the United States whose academic careers are on the line.
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The AMA with @koutchoukalimar.bsky.social on AcademicQuran has begun! Send in your questions now and he will answer them over the weekend!
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January 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The AMA with @koutchoukalimar.bsky.social on AcademicQuran has begun! Send in your questions now and he will answer them over the weekend!
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I grew up around American Republicans and have been struggling to find another term for the current Republican party, which has a very different platform. I've been using either "nationalist" or "orange". I suppose most people just say "MAGA".
But "Orangist" may exceed them all in hilarity
But "Orangist" may exceed them all in hilarity
January 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I grew up around American Republicans and have been struggling to find another term for the current Republican party, which has a very different platform. I've been using either "nationalist" or "orange". I suppose most people just say "MAGA".
But "Orangist" may exceed them all in hilarity
But "Orangist" may exceed them all in hilarity
This becomes even funnier when you realize a major Orangist was named Cornelis Tromp.
House-of-Orange-Man-Bad.
The current US political divide reminds me the most, amusingly enough, of the Orangist-Statist divide in the Dutch Republic.
One party wants a populist despot, the other represents the interest of the upwardly mobile middle class in a strong, competently governed state.
One party wants a populist despot, the other represents the interest of the upwardly mobile middle class in a strong, competently governed state.
January 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This becomes even funnier when you realize a major Orangist was named Cornelis Tromp.
Decided to go back to blogging, now on Substack.
And my first post: "Is Islam already going a reformation", in which I aruge that the introduction of blasphemy laws, religious violence point at a painful confrontation Muslim communities are having with modernity.
open.substack.com/pub/koutchou...
And my first post: "Is Islam already going a reformation", in which I aruge that the introduction of blasphemy laws, religious violence point at a painful confrontation Muslim communities are having with modernity.
open.substack.com/pub/koutchou...
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November 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Decided to go back to blogging, now on Substack.
And my first post: "Is Islam already going a reformation", in which I aruge that the introduction of blasphemy laws, religious violence point at a painful confrontation Muslim communities are having with modernity.
open.substack.com/pub/koutchou...
And my first post: "Is Islam already going a reformation", in which I aruge that the introduction of blasphemy laws, religious violence point at a painful confrontation Muslim communities are having with modernity.
open.substack.com/pub/koutchou...
gonna tell my kids this was Joseph Haydn
November 16, 2024 at 7:43 PM
gonna tell my kids this was Joseph Haydn