Next week on the Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in #Medieval History Seminar : Karen Pinto (Univ. Colorado), Masking Conflict with Harmony. The Mediterranean in the Islamic #Cartographic Imagination.

July 1 | 5-6 pm CET | online

https://t1p.de/entanglements_2025-05

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Changing the Eurocentric narrative about the history of science – why multiculturalism matters
#IslamicHistory #IbnAlHaytham #HistoryOfScience #IslamicGoldenAge #Multiculturalism #Optics #Avicenna #IndigenousWisdom #AntiEurocentrism #ScienceHistory
https://the-14.com/changing-the-eurocentric-narrative-about-the-history-of-science-why-multiculturalism-matters/

A new episode of Byzantium & Friends: Who was Allah before Islam?, with Ahmad Al-Jallad https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/who-was-allah-before-islam-with-ahmad-al-jallad/ #IslamicHistory

We’re proud to be featured on Premortem Games!
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In Islamic history, the waqf (plural: awqaf) represents a tradition that underpinned the development of Muslim societies. A practice rooted in faith and generosity, waqf was a system of endowments that provided cradle-to-grave support for communities, funding hospitals, schools, mosques, and even public infrastructure.

https://www.howtomuslim.org/post/reviving-the-legacy-of-waqf-a-forgotten-pillar-of-the-islamic-economy

Dive into the complexities of medieval Islamic sects—explore Medieval Islamic Sectarianism today on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/medievalists/shop/medieval-islamic-sectarianism-264787?source=storefront #IslamicHistory #MedievalWorld

Did Islam spread by the sword?

https://youtu.be/6VJP-7S5qjQ?si=xkQ1xxQlRJc8Seu6

In #Islamicstudies there is a subject called Usul al Fiqh (Principles of Law/Jurisprudence). Combined with #islamicHistory, the 2 show us not only the sources of law, but how it was implemented (eg. cases of the ruler being tried under the law).

Contrast that with our modern reality and how laws are:

- complicated
- arbitrary
- selectively enforced

This applies at the human and state level.

If laws have no application after a certain wealth/power level, is there any real justice?

Early Islamic Expansion- Colonialism or Conquest?

https://medium.com/@howtomuslimnow/early-islamic-expansion-colonialism-or-conquest-bc78c5587044

A Tearful Encounter: The Power of Zul-Jinnah

#MaulaHussain #DhulJinnah #SpiritualJourney #CulturalInsights #EmotionalConnection #IslamicHistory #Art #Inspiration faith

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The SCORE Online Lecture Series "Rethinking Social Contention: Rebellion, Banditry and Martyrdom in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World" has been taking place since January 2022. The lectures deal with different aspects of the phenomenon of rebellion within and outside the early Islamic world. It is the aim of the SCORE team to invite a wide array of experts on rebellion from different fields of expertise.
https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/lecture-series.html
#IslamicHistory #IslamicStudies #Academia

To folks in the fediverse working in Islamic Studies (broadly conceived), some colleagues of mine, Jonathan Parkes Allen and Taimoor Shahid, are conducting a survey on Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies. They're not just looking for people who consider themselves DH practitioners, but rather "anyone using digital resources and tools" in studying the Islamicate world. If that's you, then please check it out!

#IslamicStudies #IslamicHistory #digital_humanities

https://openiti.org/2024/08/23/Introducing-the-Digital-Islamicate-Human.html

The Mongol conqueror #Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu captured #Baghdad and ended the Abbasid #caliphate in the city in 1258.

I just read a text that asserts that around 25 years later, the Muslim vizier Shams al-Din Juvayni was involved in a plot to restore the caliphate, but he was put to death when Hulegu's grandson Arghun overthrew his uncle Teguder Ahmad. This is probably just slander, but it is surprising slander in a #Syriac text written in the late 1310s!

I'm (re)reading the History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sawma.

I'm playing around with the early-#Abbasid-era #Armenian history of Ghevond, and there's a few references to "the sons of Smbat."

The odd thing is that Smbat is usually a Bagratuni name at that period, but the editors conclude that here it must refer to some Mamikoneans, Grigor, Dawit', and Mushegh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagratuni_family_tree#Arabic_Caliphate

There's a difficulty in the text in that p.214 says Grigor and Dawit' were imprisoned in Yemen for the rest of their lives, but p.254 says the "sons of Smbat" were freed by caliph al-Walid II, detained in Syria at hiss death, and then escaped in the chaos of the civil war.

One solution is to read "for the rest of their lives" as a sentence, later abrogated, but it doesn't read that way to me. Alternatively we might emend "their lives" to "his life," and the next caliph freed them.

(The source is now available #OpenAccess online here, the work of Alison Vacca and Sergio La Porta:
https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/Publications/LAMINE/lamine4.pdf)

Final programme of the 2024 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS):

www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2024

Oxford Political Thought Seminar on 8 May with Tahera Qutbuddin and Nebil Husayn as speakers, addressing the theme of "Alids."

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7o2XvHfAT9CNFYoHI5K53g

2/2 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐨-𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝,
@hybrid
conference, Adam Mickiewicz University.

Program out: http://orient.amu.edu.pl/between-reason-and-authority/

1/2 Tomorrow! 4 April 14.40 local time Dr Aydogan Kars presents "Prophetic Medicine as a Transmitted Science: Implications and Transformations" at an international hybrid conference held at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.

In The Great Khan's Tent Presents: Ramadan/Ramzan Special Episode Part 2 is now out on all #podcast streaming platforms! Come in and listen to the stories of the uniquely Arabian Prophets Salih (A.S.) and Shu'ayb (A.S.)! https://inthegreatkhanstent.podbean.com/ #literature #literaturelover #poetry #poetrylovers #muslim #muslims #Islam #islamic #IslamicHistory #Islamic_Literature #Islamic_Culture #podcasting #podcasts #podcastshow #podcastersofcolor #podcastersofmastodon #podcastersofinstagram