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Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social‬, @ox.ac.uk

Project website: invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk
Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org

Funded by EU's ERC Horizon 2020 R&I programme (851607).
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Attention junior researchers!

✍️ 1 postdoctoral fellowship
✍️ 2 doctoral fellowships

Directed by Prof Alka Patel, at La3M–Aix-Marseille University for The Indo-Persian Continuum (c. 11th-17th Centuries).

🗓️ Deadline for applications: 10 January 2026

#skystorians #medievalsky #AcademicSky
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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We are delighted to be hosting a day course for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social: join us to explore 'Treasures of the Medieval Islamicate World: Stories of Empire and the Everyday'.

For more information and to book: bit.ly/Saturdaycourse

#skystorians #silkroads #lifelonglearning #studyatoxford
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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This document features in the latest launch on our digital corpus - as well as in November's Document of the Month, 'A History of Two Iranian Festivals: Nawrūz and Sada' by Simone Cristoforetti: bit.ly/NawruzandSada.

#digitalhumanities #medievalsky #BamiyanPapers #NewPersian
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November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Join our Programme Director @arezouazad.bsky.social in conversation at this online event:

📢 'The Bactrians, the Kharajites & the Barmakids'.

📆 This Friday 21 November at 5pm GMT.

🔗Registration is essential: bit.ly/CLAMSevent.

#skystorians #medievalsky #bactrians #kharajites #barmakids
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Read this and more fascinating letters in our sixth launch of the Invisible East Digital Corpus today. Get a glimpse into the daily lives of ordinary people, including workplace rivalries and boss–employee politics!

#documents #Bamiyan #medievalsky #skystorian #digitalhumanities #digitalcorpus
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November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This marriage contract is one of the newly translated documents featured in the 6th release on the Invisible East Digital Corpus.

Mark your calendars and join us tomorrow to explore hundreds of remarkable texts from medieval Afghanistan!

#Afghanistan #SantaBaby #medievalsky #skystorians
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November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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TOMORROW: online seminar with Martina Massullo speaking on 'Framing the Past: Exploring the Godard Photographic Archives of Iran and Afghanistan'.

This talk won't be recorded - don't miss out - register now: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorians #archives #Iran #Afghanistan
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Next week: ‘Rethinking History: Returning to Archives & Documents’ returns with Martina Massullo of
@museelouvre.bsky.social speaking on 'Framing the Past: Exploring the Godard Photographic Archives of Iran and Afghanistan'.

Register for Zoom: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorians #archives
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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#ICYMI applications are open for the
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk's Bahari Visiting Fellowship, supporting research in its Persian & Islamic Collections.

For more information visit bit.ly/BahariFellowship. Please note that applications close Friday 28 November.

#persian #bodleianlibrary #oxforduniversity
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
'Afghanistan Through the Ages - Voices in Stone, Script, and Story' continues @inalco.fr tomorrow, with Alya Karame speaking on 'The Qur'ans of the Ghaznavids and Ghurids: New Genres' at 6pm CET/5pm GMT.

More information: invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk

#Afghanistan #Quran #Ghaznavid #Ghurid
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Applications are now open for the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk's Bahari Visiting Fellowship, supporting research in its Persian and Islamic Collections.

For more information visit bit.ly/BahariFellowship. Please note that applications close Friday 28 November.

#persian #bodleianlibrary #oxforduniversity
October 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
For followers based in Paris, the multidisciplinary seminar series 'Afghanistan Through the Ages - Voices in Stone, Script, and Story'@inalco.fr, continues on 5 November.

More info: invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk

Hybrid access available on Zoom via the QR code.

#Afghanistan #Quran #Ghaznavid #Ghurid
October 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
The next ‘Rethinking History: Returning to Archives & Documents’ hybrid seminar: Martina Massullo, of @museelouvre.bsky.social speaking on 'Framing the Past: Exploring the Godard Photographic Archives of Iran and Afghanistan'.

Register for Zoom: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorians #archives
October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Next month colleagues at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social are hosting an introduction to medieval #Arabic #documents, including their #history and #paleography.

Our advisory board member, Prof Geoffrey Khan of @cam.ac.uk is teaching. Don't miss out: bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop

#Egypt #Khurasan #Nubia
October 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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In October's 'Document of the Month', Maryam Heydarkhani uncovers glimpses of daily life in a 19th-century madrasa through its endowment deed.

This latest read in our popular series is a big leap forward in time for Invisible East! Read now at bit.ly/EndowmentDeed

#documents #history #Qajar
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October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
The team has recently had the privilege of visiting Leicester and Solihull, to share our research with secondary school pupils, and to hear their insights!

Here are a few of the wonderful posters produced by Year 7 students at Lode Heath School.

#skystorians #medievalsky #oxfordlifelonglearning
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Due this December: @arezouazad.bsky.social's 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan'. The first in 'The Islamicate East' series with @edinburghup.bsky.social

Enjoy a launch discount of 30% with code NEW30: bit.ly/WarehouseofBamiyan

#skystorians #medievalsky #Afghanistan
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October 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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TOMORROW: Robert Travers of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social speaks on 'Persian Archives for Histories of Colonial State-Formation in South Asia in the Eighteenth Century'.

🗓️ 15 October, 12pm Toronto/5pm UK.

🔗 Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorian #archives #documents #Persian
October 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Colleagues @lmumuenchen.bsky.social are hosting a workshop about medieval Arabic documents this November. Our advisory board member Prof Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) will be teaching - it promises to be a fascinating time!

bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop

#Arabic #documents #medievalsky
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Join us to hear Robert Travers of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social speak on 'Persian Archives for Histories of Colonial State-Formation in South Asia in the Eighteenth Century'.

🗓️ Wednesday 15 October, 5pm UK time.

🔗 Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorian #archives #documents #Persian
October 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Last day to sign up for our new hybrid lecture series @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social!

Invisible East researchers will be joined by Jade Whitlam and @helengittos.bsky.social to illuminate this fascinating period and region.

🔗 bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures

#silkroads #historylovers #lifelonglearning
October 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
Discover more about our new hybrid lecture series for Oxford Lifelong Learning, 'Silk Roads: Empire and Everyday Voices in the Medieval Islamicate East', in this invitation from our Programme Director, Arezou Azad.

#medievalsky #skystorians #silkroads
October 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
We are delighted to have finished the latest tranche of translation: our #digitalcorpus now contains 334 #documents in New #Persian, enabling researchers to explore the medieval Islamicate East through stories of everyday life!

Thank you to all team members since 2020 for their work 🎉

#medievalsky
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October 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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We're delighted to be joined by fantastic colleagues, Jade Whitlam and @helengittos.bsky.social, for our upcoming lecture series for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Don't miss this chance to explore this fascinating region & period!

🔗 bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures

#skystorians #medievalsky #history
October 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
invisibleeast.bsky.social
For our followers based in Paris, the multidisciplinary seminar series 'Afghanistan Through the Ages — Voices in Stone, Script, and Story' begins tomorrow @inalco.fr, with Riccardo Bonotto presenting on 'Une histoire économique des Sikhs d'Afghanistan'.

#afghanistan #skystorian #sikhhistory
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM