Dr. Rachel Schine
@rachelschine.bsky.social
~*Award-winning author*~
Pretty mid otherwise.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Now haunting @ IAS at Princeton
Pretty mid otherwise.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Now haunting @ IAS at Princeton
Great company to be in, congrats to Emily, Nizar, and Tarek!
December 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Great company to be in, congrats to Emily, Nizar, and Tarek!
They gave me a plaque 😅
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
They gave me a plaque 😅
I'll take "unexpected ways that al-Suyuti's works ended up in academic libraries" for $2000, Alex
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'll take "unexpected ways that al-Suyuti's works ended up in academic libraries" for $2000, Alex
I read 70 pages of this book on scarification in Upper Egypt/Nubia and Sudan today and my brain is so fried but 'twas cool:
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I read 70 pages of this book on scarification in Upper Egypt/Nubia and Sudan today and my brain is so fried but 'twas cool:
“Unsanded” got an amused snort from me, so thanks to the editors who let Werner Daum keep it in.
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“Unsanded” got an amused snort from me, so thanks to the editors who let Werner Daum keep it in.
I can read this now, bitches. 🤯
(And yes it's just the begats at the beginning of Matthew so it's not complicated but... bitches.)
(And yes it's just the begats at the beginning of Matthew so it's not complicated but... bitches.)
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I can read this now, bitches. 🤯
(And yes it's just the begats at the beginning of Matthew so it's not complicated but... bitches.)
(And yes it's just the begats at the beginning of Matthew so it's not complicated but... bitches.)
... But there are others. The titular figure of the 13th-century Arabic shadow play, Ṭayf al-Khayāl, is said to be hunched (aḥdab), and hail from Mosul, which was sometimes called the Hunchbacked City (al-Ḥadbā'), because the minaret of one of its central mosques is a little tilty...
October 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
... But there are others. The titular figure of the 13th-century Arabic shadow play, Ṭayf al-Khayāl, is said to be hunched (aḥdab), and hail from Mosul, which was sometimes called the Hunchbacked City (al-Ḥadbā'), because the minaret of one of its central mosques is a little tilty...
So, one thing I learned today is that theater loves a hunchback.
Take Pulcinella, of the commedia dell'arte genre. He's said to have antecedents from the Atellan farces, which had characters like Maccus, also hunchbacked. Plautus likely took the nickname Maccius from him...
Take Pulcinella, of the commedia dell'arte genre. He's said to have antecedents from the Atellan farces, which had characters like Maccus, also hunchbacked. Plautus likely took the nickname Maccius from him...
October 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
So, one thing I learned today is that theater loves a hunchback.
Take Pulcinella, of the commedia dell'arte genre. He's said to have antecedents from the Atellan farces, which had characters like Maccus, also hunchbacked. Plautus likely took the nickname Maccius from him...
Take Pulcinella, of the commedia dell'arte genre. He's said to have antecedents from the Atellan farces, which had characters like Maccus, also hunchbacked. Plautus likely took the nickname Maccius from him...
This shit pisses me off so much. Do the reading if you’re going to talk about non-Christian things, please.
September 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This shit pisses me off so much. Do the reading if you’re going to talk about non-Christian things, please.
Tried my hand at some Old South Arabian in the Museum of Asian Art today. If you cross your eyes, you can absolutely read some of this with basic knowledge of Ge’ez, which is SO COOL.
September 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Tried my hand at some Old South Arabian in the Museum of Asian Art today. If you cross your eyes, you can absolutely read some of this with basic knowledge of Ge’ez, which is SO COOL.
absolutely GOATed marginal comment to get in a peer's edits to your article...
September 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
absolutely GOATed marginal comment to get in a peer's edits to your article...
strangest footnote of the day has to be the one about a possible reference in the works of Ibn Daniyal to rituals where Sufis (or their horses) would step on their disciples' necks and backs...
September 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
strangest footnote of the day has to be the one about a possible reference in the works of Ibn Daniyal to rituals where Sufis (or their horses) would step on their disciples' necks and backs...
The Orientalists probably had much more messy, high-as-fuck fun than we give them credit for.
September 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Orientalists probably had much more messy, high-as-fuck fun than we give them credit for.
Tired: reposting sth about Jews being the categoric 'most dishonest people in the world' when you fully have a PhD in medieval studies
Wired: figuring out a better way of expressing 'hey this pro-genocide letter from a bunch of academics is bullshit'
Inspired: deleting your account entirely
Wired: figuring out a better way of expressing 'hey this pro-genocide letter from a bunch of academics is bullshit'
Inspired: deleting your account entirely
September 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Tired: reposting sth about Jews being the categoric 'most dishonest people in the world' when you fully have a PhD in medieval studies
Wired: figuring out a better way of expressing 'hey this pro-genocide letter from a bunch of academics is bullshit'
Inspired: deleting your account entirely
Wired: figuring out a better way of expressing 'hey this pro-genocide letter from a bunch of academics is bullshit'
Inspired: deleting your account entirely
This book is *so* good. Finally had time to read it in full.
September 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This book is *so* good. Finally had time to read it in full.
... In T-S 20.117, which Goitein believes must have been written at the time of the caliph al-Ḥākim, a Jewish jurist sets forth that in this space one shall neither consume shadow plays (شيء من الخيال) nor produce beer (لا يعمل في الموضع مزر)
September 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
... In T-S 20.117, which Goitein believes must have been written at the time of the caliph al-Ḥākim, a Jewish jurist sets forth that in this space one shall neither consume shadow plays (شيء من الخيال) nor produce beer (لا يعمل في الموضع مزر)
First day of classes, folks.
September 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
First day of classes, folks.
This tendency to drop names into a hat and pick out a modern state we don’t like and make categorical statements about its unique lack of essence and substance is so… boring?
Every country you think has eons of history and culture has simply succeeded better in persuading you of that.
Every country you think has eons of history and culture has simply succeeded better in persuading you of that.
September 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This tendency to drop names into a hat and pick out a modern state we don’t like and make categorical statements about its unique lack of essence and substance is so… boring?
Every country you think has eons of history and culture has simply succeeded better in persuading you of that.
Every country you think has eons of history and culture has simply succeeded better in persuading you of that.
Started reading this today after finishing a novel with a disappointing ending last night (sorry to @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social for ranting about it so much).
It’s good. It’s real good.
It’s good. It’s real good.
September 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Started reading this today after finishing a novel with a disappointing ending last night (sorry to @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social for ranting about it so much).
It’s good. It’s real good.
It’s good. It’s real good.
This part really got me.
August 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This part really got me.
And now she’s PTFOed on the couch after our run today 😂😭
August 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
And now she’s PTFOed on the couch after our run today 😂😭
Awwww!!! And amazing photo! Here’s a younger, squinty Bishop at South Boulder Peak 😅
August 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Awwww!!! And amazing photo! Here’s a younger, squinty Bishop at South Boulder Peak 😅
The paper that the poster discusses, to be fair, mostly discounts a 'geographic explanation' for antisemitism in a dataset mostly of persons aged 18-30; this sort of argument was particularly salient for folks in the 60s-90s.
August 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The paper that the poster discusses, to be fair, mostly discounts a 'geographic explanation' for antisemitism in a dataset mostly of persons aged 18-30; this sort of argument was particularly salient for folks in the 60s-90s.
Lmao. I’m just gonna keep posting these gems as people send them to me until this stuff becomes as transparently clear to everyone else as it is to me.
Remember that lady who wrote that Medieval twitter book? Yikes.
Remember that lady who wrote that Medieval twitter book? Yikes.
August 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Lmao. I’m just gonna keep posting these gems as people send them to me until this stuff becomes as transparently clear to everyone else as it is to me.
Remember that lady who wrote that Medieval twitter book? Yikes.
Remember that lady who wrote that Medieval twitter book? Yikes.