A political trial is happening in front of our eyes. Ekrem İmamoğlu (@ekremimamoglu.com), the elected mayor of Istanbul who also happens to be the major contender in the next presidential elections, is on "trial." @ppfideas.bsky.social will help us better understand what's happening in Turkey.

Interested in pursuing a PhD dissertation on the history of 19th to early 20th-century Caucasus or Central Asia? Here's a funding opportunity for you! Apply and join us in Vienna!! 👇👇👇👇

www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=55fo...

It’s so nice to be back to Stanford!

I prepared a short educational video on diagrammatic genealogical trees in Islamic civilisation for @khamseenislamicart.bsky.social. Further readings are on the link.

I’m grateful to the Team Khamseen for their guidance and patience.

sites.lsa.umich.edu/khamseen/ter...

#shajara #genealogy

JUICY JOB ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

Durham University is looking for an early modernist with a strong interest in connected histories. Applications from both junior and mid-career scholars are welcome.

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I wrote the entry on Sayyid Sharif-i Jurjani for EI3 Online and it has just been published. I am very grateful to the editors of EI3 at Brill. The article was supposed to be just 1000 words, but they accepted a significantly longer piece.

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My DFG-funded project on Islamic genealogical trees will convene a workshop next week. Please do let me know if you are in the neighborhood. For the program visit the link 👇or see below.

www.ioa.uni-bonn.de/isl/de/nachr...

Asian History fans around the world! The seventh fascicle of vol. 67 of JESHO is truly a gem!

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In my latest article, I put two of my favorite musicians, Yo-Yo Ma and Jordi Savall, and one of my favorite historians, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, in conversation with each other in regards to their understanding of global history and culture.

Exciting new publication (in open access)!
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Genealogical Manuscripts in Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by Markus Friedrich and Jörg B. Quenzer

With contributions from Kazuo Morimoto, @evrimbinbas.bsky.social and Devin DeWeese.

doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Russian Archeological Institute of Constantinople (Русский археологический институт в Константинополе) 1894 - 1914, founded by the famous Byzantinist Fyodor Ivanovich Uspenskii. Wiki says it was founded in 1895.

I knew that it existed, but I didn’t know we were neighbors.

İstanbullular, Romalılar
Gelecek hafta Sabancı Üniversitesi'nin Tarih Seminerleri serisinde, DFG tarafından desteklenen şecere projemi anlatacağım. Eğer şecerelerle ilgileniyorsanız, siyasi düşünce ilgi alanınızda ise ya da sanat tarihçisi iseniz beklerim.

My latest article is in the oven. It should be available open access in a few weeks. Personally it’s an homage to two of my favourite historians: Stefanos Yerasimos and Ernst Kantorowicz.

This is a valuable contribution, but the editors must have worked very hard in order to exclude Babur and Shah Ismail from the list.

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Next term I will be offering my dream seminar. I'm so excited!

P.S.: There is no exact equivalent of the term "Turkic" in German, so my course will cover the Turkic stuff as well.

The latest issue of JESHO is out and it includes Carol Fan's translation of the Ming ambassador Chen Cheng travelogue to the Timurid Empire.

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Remember the charlatan in Samarqand? The always brilliant Tom Welsford has found one in Bukhara! This week in our #SICE blog you can read more about Armenian priests and their exploits in Russian Central Asia! Clink the link here below for more!

www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-bl...

I got my Hobonichi Techo 2024 planner and now ready for the challenges of the New Year. #FountainPens