Nir Shafir
nirshafir.bsky.social
Nir Shafir
@nirshafir.bsky.social
history prof, ottoman and otherwise
I'm speaking next week at UCLA about the origins of their collections and how researchers should approach the "Islamic manuscript archive" through the analogy of geology and archeology. Should be a good conference for those interested (and who live in the area)!

www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events...
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
If anyone wants or even needs a hard copy of my book, it's on sale directly from Stanford University Press for 50% off until Sep 8! (Full cover comes with more than just feet and legs:)

www.sup.org/books/middle...
The Order and Disorder of Communication | Stanford University Press
The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates wa...
www.sup.org
August 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
15 months of genocide thanks to a feckless and immoral American administration
January 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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We can talk about everything terrifying & infuriating with Trump all day. I certainly could. But you are rapidly losing moral high ground if you can’t say point blank that the suffering Biden willfully inflicted on Palestinians every step of the way isn’t soulless & inexcusable
January 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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David Shulman on Israel’s indifference
A Deadly Apathy | David Shulman
A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel's collective conscience.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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hmmmmmmmmff 🍷
January 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This new technique, twigstats, could be great for figuring out the population changes of medieval Anatolia
January 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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[Tearing up while cutting onions]
Mother used to cut onions.
December 16, 2024 at 4:46 PM