Justin Stearns
@kaohu11.bsky.social
Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi
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In need of a timeline cleanse, I opened up this beaut of a manuscript. Gerard of Cremona's (d. 1187) translation of Avicenna's. (Ibn Sina, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine. Couldn't you just get lost in that filigree?
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 1193, f. 1r.
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 1193, f. 1r.
May 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
In need of a timeline cleanse, I opened up this beaut of a manuscript. Gerard of Cremona's (d. 1187) translation of Avicenna's. (Ibn Sina, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine. Couldn't you just get lost in that filigree?
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 1193, f. 1r.
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 1193, f. 1r.
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In the Spring 2025 issue of ArabLit Quarterly (GRIEF) -- coming in five days -- we make a shared space to grieve and to build together from that grief.
"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman Elgendy
"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman Elgendy
April 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
In the Spring 2025 issue of ArabLit Quarterly (GRIEF) -- coming in five days -- we make a shared space to grieve and to build together from that grief.
"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman Elgendy
"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman Elgendy
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Translated primary sources for teaching the history of ethnicity in medieval China. A fabulous resource! #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky www.academia.edu/community/ln...
April 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Translated primary sources for teaching the history of ethnicity in medieval China. A fabulous resource! #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky www.academia.edu/community/ln...
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Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...
Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
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April 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...
My review in Der Islam of Norman Cigar's edition and study of Dukkali's chronicle of Fas in the 18th century – which is a substantial achievement and of interest to students of Moroccan History and of Urban History.
www.academia.edu/128778417/St...
www.academia.edu/128778417/St...
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April 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My review in Der Islam of Norman Cigar's edition and study of Dukkali's chronicle of Fas in the 18th century – which is a substantial achievement and of interest to students of Moroccan History and of Urban History.
www.academia.edu/128778417/St...
www.academia.edu/128778417/St...
My review of Abigail Balbale's excellent The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanīsh and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus is out in Speculum. This was a real joy to read and is highly recommended for many reasons. Read the review! www-journals-uchicago-edu.proxy.library.nyu.edu/doi/full/10....
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April 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
My review of Abigail Balbale's excellent The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanīsh and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus is out in Speculum. This was a real joy to read and is highly recommended for many reasons. Read the review! www-journals-uchicago-edu.proxy.library.nyu.edu/doi/full/10....
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Want to do some history reading this weekend as we contemplate the fall of empires? Here are 3 top economic historians weighing in on inequality in the Roman and Han Empires: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🗃️
A comparison of income inequality in the Roman and Chinese Han empires - Nature Communications
The authors estimate income inequality in the Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Empire. They find that the Han Empire was, overall, more unequal and extractive than the Roman Empire, with the respectiv...
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April 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Want to do some history reading this weekend as we contemplate the fall of empires? Here are 3 top economic historians weighing in on inequality in the Roman and Han Empires: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🗃️
A real loss. A wonderful scholar. www.hartfordinternational.edu/news-events/...
HIU Community Mourns Passing of Emeritus Professor Yahya Michot, Highly Regarded Scholar
At Hartford International, you’ll join an interfaith peer group and professors who broaden your perspective and, in turn, deepen your ability to make a difference in a world where the roads no longer ...
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April 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A real loss. A wonderful scholar. www.hartfordinternational.edu/news-events/...
For all the academics out there who care about Harvard firing the heads of its Center for Middle East Studies, you can sign here to register your concern: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Harvard CMES: Support for Academic Freedom Letter
Dear Colleagues, we have drafted a letter addressing the removal of Cemal Kafadar and Rosie Bsheer from the leadership of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Please review the letter below an...
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April 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For all the academics out there who care about Harvard firing the heads of its Center for Middle East Studies, you can sign here to register your concern: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Whoa! Here's the link to the English version of the database: projects.tuni.fi/viabundus-fi... #MedievalSky
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Whoa! Here's the link to the English version of the database: projects.tuni.fi/viabundus-fi... #MedievalSky
Too good not to share.
April 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Too good not to share.
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A suggestion for "Hug a Medievalist Day" 2025: write to your favorite medievalist and tell them which of their works (book, article, blogpost, tweet/skeet) you've used in teaching or shared w/ friends/family/community. What inspired you to think about the world differently?
March 31, 2025 at 6:27 AM
A suggestion for "Hug a Medievalist Day" 2025: write to your favorite medievalist and tell them which of their works (book, article, blogpost, tweet/skeet) you've used in teaching or shared w/ friends/family/community. What inspired you to think about the world differently?
A useful overview of we are now on AI and Islamic Legal sources: islamiclaw.blog/2025/03/27/r...
::Roundtable:: From Manuscripts to Digital Corpus: Structuring Islamic Data Sources for the Future of AI Jurisprudence
By Ezieddin Elmahjub Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, is poised to revolutionize how we approach and interact with Islamic jur…
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March 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A useful overview of we are now on AI and Islamic Legal sources: islamiclaw.blog/2025/03/27/r...
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‘They Even Assassinated My Library’
However, for me, the most precious of all the manuscripts in my library were the six stories I wrote in Israeli jail. These were the first stories I ever wrote, penned during a few months of incarceration following my participation in the First Intifada in 1992.…
However, for me, the most precious of all the manuscripts in my library were the six stories I wrote in Israeli jail. These were the first stories I ever wrote, penned during a few months of incarceration following my participation in the First Intifada in 1992.…
‘They Even Assassinated My Library’
However, for me, the most precious of all the manuscripts in my library were the six stories I wrote in Israeli jail. These were the first stories I ever wrote, penned during a few months of incarceration following my participation in the First Intifada in 1992. I wasn’t quite 19 when I wrote those stories. I “published” them by hanging them on the wall of the prison.
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March 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
‘They Even Assassinated My Library’
However, for me, the most precious of all the manuscripts in my library were the six stories I wrote in Israeli jail. These were the first stories I ever wrote, penned during a few months of incarceration following my participation in the First Intifada in 1992.…
However, for me, the most precious of all the manuscripts in my library were the six stories I wrote in Israeli jail. These were the first stories I ever wrote, penned during a few months of incarceration following my participation in the First Intifada in 1992.…
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Wow, this needs to be investigated further. Stephen Dueppen has been developing a theory the past several years that plague (or some other major infectious disease) DID reach West Africa. Most recently, he's published with (w/ Daphne Gallagher): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Collectivism and new identities after the Black Death Pandemic: Merchant diasporas and incorporative local communities in West Africa
Merchant diasporas have significantly influenced local and interregional processes in world history, but archaeology is only starting to understand th…
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March 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Wow, this needs to be investigated further. Stephen Dueppen has been developing a theory the past several years that plague (or some other major infectious disease) DID reach West Africa. Most recently, he's published with (w/ Daphne Gallagher): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mixed feelings on this article. On the one hand, research about the educated female medieval experience is momentarily occupying the mainstream. But on the other hand, the closer you look at their methodology, the less helpful the results appear to be.
#medievalsky #medievalwomen #skystorians
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#medievalsky #medievalwomen #skystorians
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March 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Mixed feelings on this article. On the one hand, research about the educated female medieval experience is momentarily occupying the mainstream. But on the other hand, the closer you look at their methodology, the less helpful the results appear to be.
#medievalsky #medievalwomen #skystorians
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#medievalsky #medievalwomen #skystorians
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An update to my #WorldLeprosyDay post from January. New piece in Nature Medicine recounting Jordan's success in eliminating leprosy following @who.int protocols: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
An update to my #WorldLeprosyDay post from January. New piece in Nature Medicine recounting Jordan's success in eliminating leprosy following @who.int protocols: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wonderful to see this!
My article on the library of the Sufi brotherhood al-Nāṣiriyya in Tamgrūt, a small village in the far south of Morocco, has finally been published. Founded in the 17th century, with more than 4,700 manuscripts still in place, it is a fascinating institution. Take a look!
dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878...
dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878...
March 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Wonderful to see this!
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I don't know how long it's going to be in its "free download" phase, so hurry up and get your copy of D. Fairchild Ruggles, Islamicate Environments: Water, Land, Plants, and Society, www.cambridge.org/core/element.... #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky #skystorians #EnvironmentalHistory
Islamicate Environments
Cambridge Core - Global History - Islamicate Environments
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March 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I don't know how long it's going to be in its "free download" phase, so hurry up and get your copy of D. Fairchild Ruggles, Islamicate Environments: Water, Land, Plants, and Society, www.cambridge.org/core/element.... #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky #skystorians #EnvironmentalHistory
A magical experience. All academics and artists should apply! www.rockefellerfoundation.org/fellowships-...
The Bellagio Center Residency Program
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March 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
A magical experience. All academics and artists should apply! www.rockefellerfoundation.org/fellowships-...
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#MedievalSky An event of importance for #GlobalMiddleAges studies. On March 5, Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is sponsoring a talk on slave-taking in early medieval Rus'. Sign up here: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
GLC@Lunch with Chris Halsted: “Systems of Slave-Taking and Slavic Ethnogenesis in Early Medieval Rus’”
Wed, Mar 5 2025, 12 - 1:15pm | Chris Halsted (GLC Visiting Scholar) The spread of Slavic identity within early medieval Rus’ remains poorly understood, with most models privileging some manner of expl...
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February 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
#MedievalSky An event of importance for #GlobalMiddleAges studies. On March 5, Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is sponsoring a talk on slave-taking in early medieval Rus'. Sign up here: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
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Grateful to scientists in Brazil who maintain surveillance of plague there: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40008699/. These international surveillance networks are what keeps this disease at bay. #PublicHealth
125 years of the plague in Brazil: lessons learnt, historical insights and contemporary challenges - PubMed
The history of the plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, is marked by some of the most devastating pandemics. Its arrival in Brazil on the turn of the 19-20th century led to significant public health cha...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Grateful to scientists in Brazil who maintain surveillance of plague there: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40008699/. These international surveillance networks are what keeps this disease at bay. #PublicHealth