“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

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For those interested in the history of the Luddite Movement.

New book on the history of Ottoman astrology & science from @stanfordpress.bsky.social looks very interesting: 👀 📗 www.sup.org/books/middle... #earlymodern #histsci

Ok I know this has been entirely co-opted by hasbara but does anyone have any actually good actually academic work on the difference between the early Islamic conquests and “colonization,” preferably thru comparing with Roman colonies?

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

Excellent! I was just thinking about this the other day when I assigned the primer to the students in my Arab-Israeli Conflict course to review for their final in-class essay.

It's a great resource for introducing students to the depth & breadth of the conflict.

Talking about cyclical history, anthropomorphism, and romanticizing the past as some of the problems studying history. Trump's inauguration is history in the making. From the invoking of a "golden age" to the "manifest destiny" of the US, there is much to discuss. I have some questions: +

Studis wenn ich frage wie es mit ChatGPT bei Hausarbeiten aussieht

John Berger, most beloved, passed away on January 2, 2017.

"What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried...With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

Meaning fragrance in Islamic Studies, or more generally?

Within IS, there is @nehavermani.bsky.social, Anya King, me and Christian Lange, and a few others.

Here are good starting points, with bibliography:

doi.org/10.1163/1570...

brill.com/display/titl...

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfss20/1...

A few of my favorite books of the year that I'm giving as gifts:

Kaveh Akbar, *Martyr*
James McBride, *The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store*
Oliver Burkeman, *Meditations for Mortals*

more specifics to come, but for now: 618 pages, hot off the press!! check out the new issue of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social

I'd go take a nap to recover, but we already have three articles in production and some more in the pipeline. 2025 is going to be fun!

Alright, I wrote a rant about my feelings about the Global Middle Ages as institutional, historiographical, and moral paradigm. You can read it here.

journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...

This is such a great question and I get asked this a lot, so here is a really brief thread on some accessible, excellent books on ancient Mesopotamia 😎

An interesting forum on the meanings and pursuit of the academic study of Islam, featuring my doktormutter and a few other professors.

www.seldoninstitute.org/seldonforum

“I pine for the morrow, and when it comes I weep over the day that has just gone”

Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi, The Philosopher Responds, transl. James E. Montgomery

#1 is a fascinating question, and certainly one that I can't imagine being asked on comps these days.

I wonder what two "great classics of historical writing" are being referred to here? My first guess would be Gibbon's "Decline and Fall."