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My new paper (in Persian):
Linguistic and Literary Notes (5): Notes on Abū Nuwās’ Fārisiyyāt ‘Perso-Arabic
Macaronic Verses’
Available on my Academia:
www.academia.edu/144377941/Li...
Linguistic and Literary Notes (5): Notes on Abū Nuwās’ Fārisiyyāt ‘Perso-Arabic
Macaronic Verses’
Available on my Academia:
www.academia.edu/144377941/Li...
October 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My new paper (in Persian):
Linguistic and Literary Notes (5): Notes on Abū Nuwās’ Fārisiyyāt ‘Perso-Arabic
Macaronic Verses’
Available on my Academia:
www.academia.edu/144377941/Li...
Linguistic and Literary Notes (5): Notes on Abū Nuwās’ Fārisiyyāt ‘Perso-Arabic
Macaronic Verses’
Available on my Academia:
www.academia.edu/144377941/Li...
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New article alert!
Join us in exploring a phrase from Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī’s 13th-c. geography. He refers to the Damādim of northeast Africa as “Tatars of the Sūdān.” Hannah Barker interrogates the racializing discourses at play in such comparative claims.
[image: British Library Or 1524]
Join us in exploring a phrase from Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī’s 13th-c. geography. He refers to the Damādim of northeast Africa as “Tatars of the Sūdān.” Hannah Barker interrogates the racializing discourses at play in such comparative claims.
[image: British Library Or 1524]
September 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New article alert!
Join us in exploring a phrase from Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī’s 13th-c. geography. He refers to the Damādim of northeast Africa as “Tatars of the Sūdān.” Hannah Barker interrogates the racializing discourses at play in such comparative claims.
[image: British Library Or 1524]
Join us in exploring a phrase from Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī’s 13th-c. geography. He refers to the Damādim of northeast Africa as “Tatars of the Sūdān.” Hannah Barker interrogates the racializing discourses at play in such comparative claims.
[image: British Library Or 1524]
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as always, you don't need to be a member of @mideastmedieval.bsky.social to read/submit to al-ʿUsur al-wusta. however, membership dues help keep the journal running. please consider becoming a MEMber today. while you’re at it, check out all the other stuff MEM is up to!
Welcome to Middle East Medievalists
MEM is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
as always, you don't need to be a member of @mideastmedieval.bsky.social to read/submit to al-ʿUsur al-wusta. however, membership dues help keep the journal running. please consider becoming a MEMber today. while you’re at it, check out all the other stuff MEM is up to!
How long must I suppress my youth, as if I were already old?
Give me a glass of wine cheering for my land, Iran
So, I roar freedom’s cry—from the depths of my soul!
So, I achieve the honor of happiness!
The full video on:
youtu.be/6xOIlx3gBfA?...
Give me a glass of wine cheering for my land, Iran
So, I roar freedom’s cry—from the depths of my soul!
So, I achieve the honor of happiness!
The full video on:
youtu.be/6xOIlx3gBfA?...
August 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
How long must I suppress my youth, as if I were already old?
Give me a glass of wine cheering for my land, Iran
So, I roar freedom’s cry—from the depths of my soul!
So, I achieve the honor of happiness!
The full video on:
youtu.be/6xOIlx3gBfA?...
Give me a glass of wine cheering for my land, Iran
So, I roar freedom’s cry—from the depths of my soul!
So, I achieve the honor of happiness!
The full video on:
youtu.be/6xOIlx3gBfA?...
Reposted by @aryatabibzadeh
One like, one Arabic linguistics opinion
One like, one Greek linguistics opinion.
One like, one Thucydides opinion.
July 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
One like, one Arabic linguistics opinion
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Can't believe this is the first time I'm seeing this but this is from Sibawayh, beautiful evidence for the lateral fricative nature of the Dâd: if you remove iTbâq from the Dâd you don't get a dâl, but a lâm!
July 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Can't believe this is the first time I'm seeing this but this is from Sibawayh, beautiful evidence for the lateral fricative nature of the Dâd: if you remove iTbâq from the Dâd you don't get a dâl, but a lâm!
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Note to self: don't decide you'll talk about Modern South Arabian historical vocalism in your comparative Semitics class again.
My brain is thoroughly broken.
For those who want to suffer along, check out the very difficult but excellent paper by Dufour:
www.academia.edu/70038716/Vow...
My brain is thoroughly broken.
For those who want to suffer along, check out the very difficult but excellent paper by Dufour:
www.academia.edu/70038716/Vow...
Vowel quality as a history maker: Stress, metaphony and the renewal of Proto-Semitic morphology in Modern South Arabian
The right of Patience Epps, Danny Law and Na'ama Pat-El to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance...
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July 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Note to self: don't decide you'll talk about Modern South Arabian historical vocalism in your comparative Semitics class again.
My brain is thoroughly broken.
For those who want to suffer along, check out the very difficult but excellent paper by Dufour:
www.academia.edu/70038716/Vow...
My brain is thoroughly broken.
For those who want to suffer along, check out the very difficult but excellent paper by Dufour:
www.academia.edu/70038716/Vow...
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yes, but specimens only found in Russia (near Smolensk), Estonia, Finland, &Sweden. none in the former Khaganate. its association with Khazars is based only on the name Moses-- doesn't name ard al-Khazar mint.
Idc abt truth of conversion. just pointing out that every Khazar source has a "yes, but"
Idc abt truth of conversion. just pointing out that every Khazar source has a "yes, but"
For #FindsFriday the unique and remarkable Khazar coin inscribed "Moses is God's messenger", from the huge Spillings hoard found on Gotland in 1999. The coin (dated c. 837) is the only physical proof that Khazars converted to Judaism. From the Gotlands Museum book "The Spillings Hoard"
July 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
yes, but specimens only found in Russia (near Smolensk), Estonia, Finland, &Sweden. none in the former Khaganate. its association with Khazars is based only on the name Moses-- doesn't name ard al-Khazar mint.
Idc abt truth of conversion. just pointing out that every Khazar source has a "yes, but"
Idc abt truth of conversion. just pointing out that every Khazar source has a "yes, but"
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So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!
January 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!
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New publication: www.academia.edu/127029112/20...
My attempt to investigate this feature in a corpus of early 'Middle' Arabic texts and say something more interesting than is typical. I interact with lots of good scholarship on this feature in other corpora, as well, which is worth reading
My attempt to investigate this feature in a corpus of early 'Middle' Arabic texts and say something more interesting than is typical. I interact with lots of good scholarship on this feature in other corpora, as well, which is worth reading
2024 – Gender and Number Agreement in Early Christian Arabic Manuscripts: A Historically 'Middle' Feature
The topic of gender and number agreement in Arabic has garnered significant interest in recent years, culminating in the recent monograph by Bettega and D'Anna (2023). The picture that has emerged...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New publication: www.academia.edu/127029112/20...
My attempt to investigate this feature in a corpus of early 'Middle' Arabic texts and say something more interesting than is typical. I interact with lots of good scholarship on this feature in other corpora, as well, which is worth reading
My attempt to investigate this feature in a corpus of early 'Middle' Arabic texts and say something more interesting than is typical. I interact with lots of good scholarship on this feature in other corpora, as well, which is worth reading
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The article is open access, so you can read, download, & share it here:
'Masʾalatun or Mas'ʾalatun? That Is the Question!
| Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
journals.library.columbia.edu
July 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The article is open access, so you can read, download, & share it here:
My new paper, published in @alusuralwusta.bsky.social !
journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...
journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...
July 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
My new paper, published in @alusuralwusta.bsky.social !
journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...
journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...
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My latest article, studying a unique gospel translation via three MS witnesses – is out in BSOAS: www.academia.edu/108303483/20...
October 18, 2023 at 4:12 PM
My latest article, studying a unique gospel translation via three MS witnesses – is out in BSOAS: www.academia.edu/108303483/20...
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'Shirt' and 'skirt' are doublets: they both stem from Proto-Germanic *skurtijōn.
'Shirt' was inherited. It underwent the sound changes that turned Proto-Germanic into English.
'Skirt' was borrowed from another Germanic language: Old Norse.
The finale of my series: Germanic doublets in English.
'Shirt' was inherited. It underwent the sound changes that turned Proto-Germanic into English.
'Skirt' was borrowed from another Germanic language: Old Norse.
The finale of my series: Germanic doublets in English.
November 2, 2023 at 5:54 PM
'Shirt' and 'skirt' are doublets: they both stem from Proto-Germanic *skurtijōn.
'Shirt' was inherited. It underwent the sound changes that turned Proto-Germanic into English.
'Skirt' was borrowed from another Germanic language: Old Norse.
The finale of my series: Germanic doublets in English.
'Shirt' was inherited. It underwent the sound changes that turned Proto-Germanic into English.
'Skirt' was borrowed from another Germanic language: Old Norse.
The finale of my series: Germanic doublets in English.