William Rees Hofmann
@wrhofmann.bsky.social
Research Associate, SASU, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Historian of music and poetry in Islam in South Asia / Sufi, Nizari Ismaili, and Shi'a devotional thought and practice
Working on a monograph: Amir Khusraw and Sufi Ecologies of Song (EUP)
Historian of music and poetry in Islam in South Asia / Sufi, Nizari Ismaili, and Shi'a devotional thought and practice
Working on a monograph: Amir Khusraw and Sufi Ecologies of Song (EUP)
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Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
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This is a fantastic opportunity - until March 31, second monographs after the PhD as well as PhD dissertations can be nominated for the Islamic Studies Research Award of the Annemarie Schimmel-Foundation. Both Awards come with a prize money of €5000! For details ⤵️
March 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is a fantastic opportunity - until March 31, second monographs after the PhD as well as PhD dissertations can be nominated for the Islamic Studies Research Award of the Annemarie Schimmel-Foundation. Both Awards come with a prize money of €5000! For details ⤵️
www.iis.ac.uk/events/songs... This is happening tomorrow at the Aga Khan Centre! I’ll be introducing producers @katherineschof8.bsky.social and Kamran Anwar and chairing the Q&A.
“Songs of the Sufi” screening | The Institute of Ismaili Studies
The Aga Khan Centre will host an exclusive showing of Songs of the Sufi (2023) on 20 February.
www.iis.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
www.iis.ac.uk/events/songs... This is happening tomorrow at the Aga Khan Centre! I’ll be introducing producers @katherineschof8.bsky.social and Kamran Anwar and chairing the Q&A.
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Just discovered this amazing resource for historians of modern South Asia: "The Indian Listener", official organ of the All India Radio, listing full programs w/ names of artists, books, music, discussions etc. for all major Indian cities, including Delhi, Lahore, Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras.
THE INDIAN LISTENER, Vol. IV. No. 2. (7th JANUARY 1939) - Google Play
<strong><u>The Indian Listener</u></strong> (<strong>fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English</strong>) published by <strong>The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,</strong>started on <s...
play.google.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Just discovered this amazing resource for historians of modern South Asia: "The Indian Listener", official organ of the All India Radio, listing full programs w/ names of artists, books, music, discussions etc. for all major Indian cities, including Delhi, Lahore, Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras.
This is happening (soon) at the Aga Khan Centre!
SAVE THE DATE - 20 Feb
If anyone in London wants to see our award-winning film Songs Of The Sufi there will be a screening at the @agakhanfoundation.bsky.social Aga Khan Centre near King’s Cross on 20 Feb.
Save the date and watch this space for booking details
youtu.be/YKLNlxkibeg?...
If anyone in London wants to see our award-winning film Songs Of The Sufi there will be a screening at the @agakhanfoundation.bsky.social Aga Khan Centre near King’s Cross on 20 Feb.
Save the date and watch this space for booking details
youtu.be/YKLNlxkibeg?...
Songs of the Sufi | Trailer
YouTube video by Songs of the Sufi
youtu.be
February 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is happening (soon) at the Aga Khan Centre!
What's happening at Cardiff is utterly insane
January 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
What's happening at Cardiff is utterly insane
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Adieu to the Chronicler of our times
Tarun Bhartiya (1970-2025): The bird that flew the coop
The North East, and Shillong in particular, has lost its foremost archivist and chronicler of sad, happy, ordinary and extraordinary events and people.
scroll.in
January 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Adieu to the Chronicler of our times
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Wales, Land of Song? first the closure of the junior department at RWCMD, now this.
January 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Wales, Land of Song? first the closure of the junior department at RWCMD, now this.
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🚨 JOBS KLAXON
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music at King's College London
Apply for the Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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January 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚨 JOBS KLAXON
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
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Reminder that you can still submit an abstract for the panel “Sensing the Past: New Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern South Asia” I am putting together with @nehavermani.bsky.social for this year’s ECSAS in Heidelberg.
Deadline: January 30, 2025.
ecsas2025.com/call-for-pan...
Deadline: January 30, 2025.
ecsas2025.com/call-for-pan...
January 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Reminder that you can still submit an abstract for the panel “Sensing the Past: New Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern South Asia” I am putting together with @nehavermani.bsky.social for this year’s ECSAS in Heidelberg.
Deadline: January 30, 2025.
ecsas2025.com/call-for-pan...
Deadline: January 30, 2025.
ecsas2025.com/call-for-pan...
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Southasiasky : SEWA India is sponsoring research projects on women's informal work in India. More info here: npei.in/cfp-informal...
CfP | Informal Workers in India
Visit the post for more.
npei.in
January 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Southasiasky : SEWA India is sponsoring research projects on women's informal work in India. More info here: npei.in/cfp-informal...
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Shocking research that shows that academic outputs written for academic audiences were framed in academic language. The problem isn’t with academics: it’s with lazy journalists using computers to speed read abstracts rather than putting the time and effort in to read themselves.
December 26, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Shocking research that shows that academic outputs written for academic audiences were framed in academic language. The problem isn’t with academics: it’s with lazy journalists using computers to speed read abstracts rather than putting the time and effort in to read themselves.
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My department is hiring a Lecturer in Religions of Premodern South Asia and we’re working with several programs at the university on longer-term plans for a permanent position. This is renewable up to 3 years.
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu
December 14, 2024 at 1:14 AM
My department is hiring a Lecturer in Religions of Premodern South Asia and we’re working with several programs at the university on longer-term plans for a permanent position. This is renewable up to 3 years.
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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Last year, after enjoying a rare opportunity to visit Wheeler Thackston at his home, I launched this page as a quick reference on the Persian poetic meters as he presents them in his textbook. I've been gradually adding features, including links to example poems for given meters.
The Persian Meters
A list of the Persian poetic meters, drawn from Wheeler M. Thackston's textbook
www.theobeers.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Last year, after enjoying a rare opportunity to visit Wheeler Thackston at his home, I launched this page as a quick reference on the Persian poetic meters as he presents them in his textbook. I've been gradually adding features, including links to example poems for given meters.
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Hey Bsky-verse!
@openiti.bsky.social is on Bsky now!
Follow to stay up to date on our latest work on Islamic digital humanities, OCR & HTR for Persian, Arabic, Urdu, & Ottoman Turkish, corpus building, digital paleography, & more digital fun!
More here too: openiti.org
@openiti.bsky.social is on Bsky now!
Follow to stay up to date on our latest work on Islamic digital humanities, OCR & HTR for Persian, Arabic, Urdu, & Ottoman Turkish, corpus building, digital paleography, & more digital fun!
More here too: openiti.org
Open Islamicate Texts Initiative
openiti.org
November 20, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Hey Bsky-verse!
@openiti.bsky.social is on Bsky now!
Follow to stay up to date on our latest work on Islamic digital humanities, OCR & HTR for Persian, Arabic, Urdu, & Ottoman Turkish, corpus building, digital paleography, & more digital fun!
More here too: openiti.org
@openiti.bsky.social is on Bsky now!
Follow to stay up to date on our latest work on Islamic digital humanities, OCR & HTR for Persian, Arabic, Urdu, & Ottoman Turkish, corpus building, digital paleography, & more digital fun!
More here too: openiti.org
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Hey all, I’ll do the intro thing: my name is Will and I wrote a book about language and revelation among some mystics and messiahs in early modern Afghanistan. The book—*Singing with the Mountains*—was the subject of an open-access forum with some awesome scholars.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/afg/7/2
www.euppublishing.com/toc/afg/7/2
Afghanistan: Vol 7, No 2
www.euppublishing.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Hey all, I’ll do the intro thing: my name is Will and I wrote a book about language and revelation among some mystics and messiahs in early modern Afghanistan. The book—*Singing with the Mountains*—was the subject of an open-access forum with some awesome scholars.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/afg/7/2
www.euppublishing.com/toc/afg/7/2
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Real scholarly generosity here, #Earlymodern library and research fellowships for all!
A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Fellowships and Grants
docs.google.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Real scholarly generosity here, #Earlymodern library and research fellowships for all!
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A project long in the making: an Open Access collection of translated Arabic and Persian texts from c.600-1500 CE on varied aspects of sensory history throughout the Islamic world. Includes Qur’an, hadith, al-Jāḥiẓ, Ibn Sīnā, al-Ghazālī, Rūmī & many more
t.co/eRir2mywLl
t.co/eRir2mywLl
Islamic Sensory History
"Islamic Sensory History" published on 25 Jul 2024 by Brill.
t.co
July 30, 2024 at 7:42 PM
A project long in the making: an Open Access collection of translated Arabic and Persian texts from c.600-1500 CE on varied aspects of sensory history throughout the Islamic world. Includes Qur’an, hadith, al-Jāḥiẓ, Ibn Sīnā, al-Ghazālī, Rūmī & many more
t.co/eRir2mywLl
t.co/eRir2mywLl
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic... Because I haven’t posted it yet and also I have a bunch of new followers - here is my recent article on Amir Khusraw and Mughal histories of music!
Project MUSE - Listening to Amīr Ḳhusraw in the Mughal Court: Indian Sultanate Epistemologies of Persian Music and the Construction of Hindustani Music History in the Mughal Imaginary
muse.jhu.edu
November 11, 2024 at 11:02 AM
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic... Because I haven’t posted it yet and also I have a bunch of new followers - here is my recent article on Amir Khusraw and Mughal histories of music!
Please share widely! The CFP is out for our upcoming conference at the IIS: Listening in Many Tongues: Multilingual Interpretive Communities and Acts of Translation in Early Modern South Asia. www.iis.ac.uk/news/2024/ma...
Listening in many tongues | call for conference papers | News
Given the scholarly remit of the South Asian Studies Unit at IIS, we particularly invite papers focusing on Ismaili and other Shiʿi-related contexts in South Asia.
www.iis.ac.uk
March 13, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Please share widely! The CFP is out for our upcoming conference at the IIS: Listening in Many Tongues: Multilingual Interpretive Communities and Acts of Translation in Early Modern South Asia. www.iis.ac.uk/news/2024/ma...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
I have a chapter on Amir Khusraw out now in this great festschrift in honour of my teacher, Dr John Baily. Please do check it out (and let me know if you have access issues)
I have a chapter on Amir Khusraw out now in this great festschrift in honour of my teacher, Dr John Baily. Please do check it out (and let me know if you have access issues)
February 12, 2024 at 5:24 PM
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
I have a chapter on Amir Khusraw out now in this great festschrift in honour of my teacher, Dr John Baily. Please do check it out (and let me know if you have access issues)
I have a chapter on Amir Khusraw out now in this great festschrift in honour of my teacher, Dr John Baily. Please do check it out (and let me know if you have access issues)