Charles Tieszen
@charlestieszen.bsky.social
FRHistS & historian of religious thought | Christian-Muslim relations | Ed., @cmr1900project | https://bio.site/tieszen | 🍉 | he/him
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
Free review of David Grafton's _Muhammad in the Seminary_: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZKGKT...
Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century
Published in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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December 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Free review of David Grafton's _Muhammad in the Seminary_: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZKGKT...
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Thanks to @MiddleEastEye for having me on their podcast, The Big Picture, to talk about Pope Francis and Islam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLPO...
Why Pope Francis left such an impact on the Muslim World | Jordan Denari Duffner | The Big Picture
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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April 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Thanks to @MiddleEastEye for having me on their podcast, The Big Picture, to talk about Pope Francis and Islam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLPO...
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They called the targeting of brown people of another faith and erosion of civil liberties the “patriot” act so you would feel guilty or fearful for being against it. So you would adopt an us versus them mindset. You were being groomed for autocratic rule all along.
April 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They called the targeting of brown people of another faith and erosion of civil liberties the “patriot” act so you would feel guilty or fearful for being against it. So you would adopt an us versus them mindset. You were being groomed for autocratic rule all along.
I have a review of David Freidenreich's wonderful book, _Jewish Muslims_ in the latest issue of _Antisemitism Studies_: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54552
Project MUSE - Antisemitism Studies-Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2025
muse.jhu.edu
April 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I have a review of David Freidenreich's wonderful book, _Jewish Muslims_ in the latest issue of _Antisemitism Studies_: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54552
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This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign.
This is Rafah today.
This is Rafah today.
April 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign.
This is Rafah today.
This is Rafah today.
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The idea that race is a social & historical construct has a long history. It was a central plank of the post WWII US consensus for obvious reasons given what pseudo-scientific racism had wrought. One of the central planks of the US right in the post WWII era was that race is a biologically reality.
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The idea that race is a social & historical construct has a long history. It was a central plank of the post WWII US consensus for obvious reasons given what pseudo-scientific racism had wrought. One of the central planks of the US right in the post WWII era was that race is a biologically reality.
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I’m not judging individual scholars for leaving the US for theoretically safer universities.
I’m judging the rest of you for not noticing or caring that roughly 75% of your adjunctified colleagues have neither the putative protection of academic freedom nor the means to leave.
I’m judging the rest of you for not noticing or caring that roughly 75% of your adjunctified colleagues have neither the putative protection of academic freedom nor the means to leave.
March 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I’m not judging individual scholars for leaving the US for theoretically safer universities.
I’m judging the rest of you for not noticing or caring that roughly 75% of your adjunctified colleagues have neither the putative protection of academic freedom nor the means to leave.
I’m judging the rest of you for not noticing or caring that roughly 75% of your adjunctified colleagues have neither the putative protection of academic freedom nor the means to leave.
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“I have always believed that it is my duty not only to liberate myself from my oppressor but to liberate my oppressor from their hatred and fear.” — Mahmoud Khalil from ICE Detention in Jena, Louisiana. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025
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March 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“I have always believed that it is my duty not only to liberate myself from my oppressor but to liberate my oppressor from their hatred and fear.” — Mahmoud Khalil from ICE Detention in Jena, Louisiana. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
March 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.
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Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online:
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
March 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online:
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
Ayman Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg have a new edition/translation of Ibn Layth’s 8th-century letter. I was able to read an early version of their book and even endorse it. Well done, gentlemen!
February 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Ayman Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg have a new edition/translation of Ibn Layth’s 8th-century letter. I was able to read an early version of their book and even endorse it. Well done, gentlemen!
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy
Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angela Davis spoke at the University of Michigan’s Rackham Auditorium on February 19, 2025, interviewed by my colleague Angela Dillard, the vice provost for undergraduate education. The event was…
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February 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy
A pretty fair review essay, aptly titled: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Stevenson · Illusions of Containment: Versions of Hamas
Hamas had been able to take power in Gaza because Israel had failed to circumscribe Palestinian politics within the Oslo...
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February 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A pretty fair review essay, aptly titled: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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"Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care"
My latest piece for Zeteo on the ongoing, brazen and shameful double standards in our media coverage of death and suffering in the Middle East.
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My latest piece for Zeteo on the ongoing, brazen and shameful double standards in our media coverage of death and suffering in the Middle East.
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Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care
How many Palestinian women and children have to be killed in the occupied West Bank before anyone in the US or UK gives a damn?
zeteo.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care"
My latest piece for Zeteo on the ongoing, brazen and shameful double standards in our media coverage of death and suffering in the Middle East.
Read/share/subscribe:
My latest piece for Zeteo on the ongoing, brazen and shameful double standards in our media coverage of death and suffering in the Middle East.
Read/share/subscribe:
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Very excited that my article on the history of Orthodox Christian-Muslim relations has now been published in Religion Compass; it summarizes my approach to this history and illustrates what I think are its most poignant and profound dimensions.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Very excited that my article on the history of Orthodox Christian-Muslim relations has now been published in Religion Compass; it summarizes my approach to this history and illustrates what I think are its most poignant and profound dimensions.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Friends in Cleveland and at John Carroll University: I’ll be in town on Thursday for this event!
February 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Friends in Cleveland and at John Carroll University: I’ll be in town on Thursday for this event!
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This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States
COLLINS: Where exactly are you suggesting Gazans should go? Who do you envision living there?
TRUMP: I envision world people living there. The world's people. I think you'll make that into an international, unbelievable place.
TRUMP: I envision world people living there. The world's people. I think you'll make that into an international, unbelievable place.
February 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States
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New in issue 44, @charlestieszen.bsky.social reviews A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints, by H. Harmakaputra. Check it out: irstudies.org/index.php/ji...
January 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
New in issue 44, @charlestieszen.bsky.social reviews A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints, by H. Harmakaputra. Check it out: irstudies.org/index.php/ji...
My print copy of our 22nd volume just arrived.
January 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
My print copy of our 22nd volume just arrived.
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Fascinating, tragic read👇
In #Auschwitz and other camps, some prisoners were labelled with the German term for Muslim: Muselmann. What's the story? religionresearch.org/closer/2015/...
Muselmann – The Prisoners who became ‘Muslims’ in Auschwitz
The first time I encountered the term Muselmann or its plural Muselmänner in relation to the concentration camps was in Primo Levi’s extraordinary book If this is a man. The term Muselmann (t…
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January 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Fascinating, tragic read👇
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NYT reporting mass immigrant ICE raids have begun in Chicago.
I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
www.qasimrashid.com
January 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
NYT reporting mass immigrant ICE raids have begun in Chicago.
I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
I reviewed Reyan Durmaz' new book, _Stories between Christianity and Islam_ for the latest issue of _Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations_. There are a few free versions of that review here, which will later appear behind a paywall: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6PADP...
Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Published in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I reviewed Reyan Durmaz' new book, _Stories between Christianity and Islam_ for the latest issue of _Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations_. There are a few free versions of that review here, which will later appear behind a paywall: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6PADP...
I recently reviewed Hans Harmakaputra's book, _A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints_. That review appears in the latest issue of _Interreligious Studies_, which you can read here: irstudies.org/index.php/ji...
No 44 (2025): Rolling Submissions Issue
| Journal of Interreligious Studies
irstudies.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I recently reviewed Hans Harmakaputra's book, _A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints_. That review appears in the latest issue of _Interreligious Studies_, which you can read here: irstudies.org/index.php/ji...
Now THAT’S a book cover. 🤌🏼
Excellent content so far, too.
Excellent content so far, too.
January 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Now THAT’S a book cover. 🤌🏼
Excellent content so far, too.
Excellent content so far, too.