Middle East Medievalists
@mideastmedieval.bsky.social
Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
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Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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sweeeeeeet 😅😉
MEM book prize goes to @rachelschine.bsky.social for her 'Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race'!
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
sweeeeeeet 😅😉
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Includes a roundtable discussing @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi!
The business meeting marks the official launch of the @alusuralwusta.bsky.social: journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al....
A huge thanks to @zaydeantrim.bsky.social, @medievalqabq.bsky.social and the editorial board for all of their hard work in bringing this to fruition.
A huge thanks to @zaydeantrim.bsky.social, @medievalqabq.bsky.social and the editorial board for all of their hard work in bringing this to fruition.
Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the Islamic lands of the Middle East during the medieval period (defined r...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Includes a roundtable discussing @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi!
The MEM business is currently underway! We'll let you know the highlights as they come in.
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The MEM business is currently underway! We'll let you know the highlights as they come in.
Fixed contract Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology position at UCL.
Deadline: 27 November
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK031/a...
Deadline: 27 November
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK031/a...
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology at UCL
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November 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Fixed contract Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology position at UCL.
Deadline: 27 November
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK031/a...
Deadline: 27 November
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK031/a...
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Art History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with a scope for focus on the Islamic world www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR950/a...
Deadline: 11 November
Deadline: 11 November
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Art History at Nanyang Technological University
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Art History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Art History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with a scope for focus on the Islamic world www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR950/a...
Deadline: 11 November
Deadline: 11 November
Lecturer in the Study of Islam position at the University of Glasgow www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG786/l...
Deadline: 13 November
Deadline: 13 November
Lecturer in the Study of Islam (LTS) at University of Glasgow
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November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Lecturer in the Study of Islam position at the University of Glasgow www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG786/l...
Deadline: 13 November
Deadline: 13 November
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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!
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
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 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!
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!
A new article out in @alusuralwusta.bsky.social!
Imperial Islam is Moon-worshiping—but Sun-worshiping too, straining algorithmically for the stars. Symbolized by 'Ali and Jesus, early modern Persianate Selenocentrism and Heliocentrism are Hermetically useful global-comparative categories for decolonizing the historiography of science and empire.
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A new article out in @alusuralwusta.bsky.social!
Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) 9th Annual Workshop (October 10-12, 2025), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Date: October 10-12, 2025
Full program: greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/202...
Date: October 10-12, 2025
Full program: greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/202...
September 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) 9th Annual Workshop (October 10-12, 2025), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Date: October 10-12, 2025
Full program: greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/202...
Date: October 10-12, 2025
Full program: greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/202...
Three-year VAP in Medieval Middle East/Islamic History at Colby's History Department
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle East-3 year - Waterville, Maine, United States job with Colby College | 37887745
Description
Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle East/Islamic History
The Department of History at Colby College invites applications for
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September 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Three-year VAP in Medieval Middle East/Islamic History at Colby's History Department
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37887745...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37887745...
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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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I am pleased to announce the call for papers for a workshop Edmund Hayes and I are organising as part of the Embodied Imamate project: "The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam," to be held between 11–12 June 2026 at Leiden University.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
September 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I am pleased to announce the call for papers for a workshop Edmund Hayes and I are organising as part of the Embodied Imamate project: "The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam," to be held between 11–12 June 2026 at Leiden University.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
A reminder that the upcoming @imc-leeds.bsky.social (July 2026) submission deadline is on 30 September (only for pre-organized panels!). IMC’s 2026 theme is “Temporalities” (www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/).
MEM sponsors IMC panels in the field of medieval Islamic history/studies.
MEM sponsors IMC panels in the field of medieval Islamic history/studies.
Call for Papers: IMC 2026 - 'Temporalities' | International Medieval Congress
www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A reminder that the upcoming @imc-leeds.bsky.social (July 2026) submission deadline is on 30 September (only for pre-organized panels!). IMC’s 2026 theme is “Temporalities” (www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/).
MEM sponsors IMC panels in the field of medieval Islamic history/studies.
MEM sponsors IMC panels in the field of medieval Islamic history/studies.
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The first lecture of the season will take place on:
Wednesday, September 10 | 15:30 CET
Robert Hillenbrand (Universities of Edinburgh & St Andrews)
“What makes Qum special in the architecture of Ilkhanid Iran?”
Wednesday, September 10 | 15:30 CET
Robert Hillenbrand (Universities of Edinburgh & St Andrews)
“What makes Qum special in the architecture of Ilkhanid Iran?”
September 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The first lecture of the season will take place on:
Wednesday, September 10 | 15:30 CET
Robert Hillenbrand (Universities of Edinburgh & St Andrews)
“What makes Qum special in the architecture of Ilkhanid Iran?”
Wednesday, September 10 | 15:30 CET
Robert Hillenbrand (Universities of Edinburgh & St Andrews)
“What makes Qum special in the architecture of Ilkhanid Iran?”
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We are delighted to announce the autumn program of our online lecture series Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿism. The series brings together scholars of early Shīʿism with specialists in Islamic material culture, art, architecture, and archaeology.
September 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
We are delighted to announce the autumn program of our online lecture series Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿism. The series brings together scholars of early Shīʿism with specialists in Islamic material culture, art, architecture, and archaeology.
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🎺 Job alert! 🎺
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern) at Durham University
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August 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🎺 Job alert! 🎺
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
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We are so excited to announce the launch of the Shii Studies Network, a space for PhD students researching Shiism to forge personal and professional connections, share their research with and learn from each other, and push the field forward.
August 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
We are so excited to announce the launch of the Shii Studies Network, a space for PhD students researching Shiism to forge personal and professional connections, share their research with and learn from each other, and push the field forward.
Lecturer (Edu) in the History of the Middle East position @soasuni.bsky.social vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/727934?r...
Lecturer (Edu) in the History of the Middle East at SOAS
Apply now for Lecturer (Edu) in the History of the Middle East, Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom at SOAS
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July 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Lecturer (Edu) in the History of the Middle East position @soasuni.bsky.social vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/727934?r...
A throwback to the reception we held earlier this month at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social in Leeds!
It was great to see so many familiar faces and meet new potential MEMbers!
It was great to see so many familiar faces and meet new potential MEMbers!
July 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A throwback to the reception we held earlier this month at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social in Leeds!
It was great to see so many familiar faces and meet new potential MEMbers!
It was great to see so many familiar faces and meet new potential MEMbers!
Opportunity for a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Kings College, London www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW366/l...
Lecturer in Islamic Studies at King's College London
Recruiting now: Lecturer in Islamic Studies on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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July 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Opportunity for a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Kings College, London www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW366/l...
Research Fellow in North African Medieval History at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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July 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Research Fellow in North African Medieval History at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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I am absolutely thrilled about this recognition and grateful to @OxLifelongLearn for being such an incredible supporter of our work to showcase the 'little people' with huge voices in medieval Islamicate lands. @invisibleeast.bsky.social @mideastmedieval.bsky.social
Our PI @arezouazad.bsky.social was shortlisted for 'Researcher of the Year' @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social's Inspiring Excellence People Awards last month. She was honoured to be nominated by colleagues for her work on the medieval Islamicate East.
#medievalsky #skystorian #oxforduniversity
#medievalsky #skystorian #oxforduniversity
July 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am absolutely thrilled about this recognition and grateful to @OxLifelongLearn for being such an incredible supporter of our work to showcase the 'little people' with huge voices in medieval Islamicate lands. @invisibleeast.bsky.social @mideastmedieval.bsky.social
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New article alert!
How can we rethink word stress in Classical Arabic? This article looks to an unexpected source: the traditional recitation of metra in Persian metrics. This evidence clarifies controversial patterning in Classical Arabic, with implications for Proto-Arabic word stress, as well
How can we rethink word stress in Classical Arabic? This article looks to an unexpected source: the traditional recitation of metra in Persian metrics. This evidence clarifies controversial patterning in Classical Arabic, with implications for Proto-Arabic word stress, as well
July 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
New article alert!
How can we rethink word stress in Classical Arabic? This article looks to an unexpected source: the traditional recitation of metra in Persian metrics. This evidence clarifies controversial patterning in Classical Arabic, with implications for Proto-Arabic word stress, as well
How can we rethink word stress in Classical Arabic? This article looks to an unexpected source: the traditional recitation of metra in Persian metrics. This evidence clarifies controversial patterning in Classical Arabic, with implications for Proto-Arabic word stress, as well
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I had a fascinating time presenting my paper alongside fellow peers! Thank you @arezouazad.bsky.social for bringing us together and @mideastmedieval.bsky.social for sponsoring our panel!
July 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I had a fascinating time presenting my paper alongside fellow peers! Thank you @arezouazad.bsky.social for bringing us together and @mideastmedieval.bsky.social for sponsoring our panel!