Middle East Medievalists
Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
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Middle East Medievalists
Scholars of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences, at some point between the rough parameters of 500 – 1500 CE.
@jhoover04.bsky.social
Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
@intermedieval.bsky.social
Lecturer in Spanish & Latin American Studies @ the University of Stirling, Scotland. I write about the cultural memory of medieval Iberia, neomedievalism and now 🤼♀️ same handle in the other place Also editing @ postmedieval
@drcraigb.bsky.social
Mediterranean archaeologist & museum education professional. Director of the Paphos Theatre excavations, Paphos Cyprus & Head of Public Engagement at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. Cypriot archaeologist on Gadigal land.
@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social
News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications
@revistapedralbes.bsky.social
Revista d'Història Moderna del Departament d'Història i Arqueologia de la Universitat de Barcelona https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/pedralbes @ub.edu @craiubrcub.bsky.social #earlymodern Para informaciones: revistapedralbes@ub.edu
@nikokontovas.bsky.social
Linguist | Digital Humanist | Subject Librarian and Curator for the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Turkey/Türkiye @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social | Lecturer in Uzbek and Chaghatay | http://www.turkolog.ist
@ellwelsford.bsky.social
MA Medieval Studies at UCL; medieval environmental and trans histories (they/she)
@monicamitri.bsky.social
Egyptian, Coptic, PhD candidate in religion at USC. Dabbled in theology, business & literature. Love books and tea. https://usc.academia.edu/MonicaMitri
@shannonchakraborty.bsky.social
NYT/Sunday Times/Indie bestselling author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi and The Daevabad Trilogy
@aramadhan.bsky.social
PhDing at Universiteit Leiden on the social and intellectual history of early Shiʿism.
@profgabriele.com
Professor, medievalist, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), BETWEEN PROPHECY & APOCALYPSE (2024), & now OATHBREAKERS (Dec 2024) nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him. profgabriele.com buttondown.com/modernmedieval
@charlottebank.bsky.social
Art historian and curator. Acting professor of Islamic Art at LMU Munich. Current research project: Queering Islamic Art: Expressions of Gender Diversity and Critique of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art.
@aghowes.bsky.social
Peripatetic postdoctoral scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
@ehanne.bsky.social
Savoyard, Army Brat, Historian of Medieval Islamic history and culture, Lord Peter Wimsey is my inspiration. Husband & I have the largest pride of rescue kitties. I snark, therefore I am.
@embodiedimamate.bsky.social
Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE, ERC Horizon STG project, 2024-2028 PI: Edmund Hayes, Leiden University https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/
@rawdaelhajji.bsky.social
PhD candidate Bibliotheca Arabica | Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
@laurinherberich.bsky.social
PhD student in Heidelberg on the hunt for medieval Mediterranean 'pirates'
@sntipper.bsky.social
🦴 Senior lecturer @ARU, Bioarchaeologist, Roman and Medieval periods, Community archaeology, Ancient Nubia, 💀 🦷 all things bone related 😜 Chair Cifa Osteo group
@markbeumer.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Ancient Historian. PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages - Ritual Dynamics within the Christianisation of Temple Sleep in Late Antiquity 🏳️🌈
@persianatesociety.bsky.social
ASPS is a non-governmental, non-political, not-for-profit professional organization for researchers & scholars interested in the culture and civilization of the Persian-speaking societies and related areas in the Iranian civilizational area.
@jhievents.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto | 2024-25 Theme: "Undergrounds/Underworlds". For info about Fellowships, funding opportunities, events and more, sign up for our newsletter http://eepurl.com/dhuDJv
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
History, literature, art history, philosophy, cultural heritage, museum studies, languages, and much more at CEU! A global department with students and faculty from more than 30 countries: https://historicalstudies.ceu.edu/
@historyandpolicy.bsky.social
We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
@hisjournalha.bsky.social
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
@medievalists.bsky.social
Hello from Medievalists.net, where the Middle Ages begins - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
@nposegay.bsky.social
Itinerant scholar, ex- @theul.bsky.social | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval history, Cairo Genizah, Semitic languages | he/him | Publications: linktr.ee/NPosegay 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' available now: linktr.ee/CambridgeGRU
@rmblf.bsky.social
Fondé en 1998, le Réseau des Médiévistes Belges de Langue Française se veut un lieu de contacts et d’échanges entre disciplines relevant des études médiévales | Gestion : Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (UNamur/Archives de l'État, @nruffini.bsky.social).
@fatimid.bsky.social
Historian of West Asia and the Persianate world with a focus on the Fatimids. Subscribe here https://fatimid.substack.com?r=4szyls&utm_medium=ios
@radinje.bsky.social
PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
@trwier.bsky.social
Linguist & Caucasologist • Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi • Research languages of the Caucasus, the Tonkawa language • Author of 'Tonkawa Texts' • Weekly Georgian Etymologies Academic research: https://freeuni.academia.edu/ThomasWier
@routledgehistory.bsky.social
We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
@exchen.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Pre-Modern Middle East @ U of Utah | Islamic History | Mongols | Global Middle Ages | Local History | PhD Princeton NES | An Islamicist who dabbles in Mongol stuff than the other way around, but let's not get too pedantic
@rhigarthjones.bsky.social
Burnley girl in 🇩🇰, PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. 'Stealthily whimsical'. I want to live on a boat again. She/her. *All Roads Lead to Rome* out May 2025 with Aurum Press.
@desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social
Bike-mounted historian specializing in medieval & early modern Sino-Iranian contact and Persianate political & cultural history. YIMBY, NUMTOT, and caregiver for undemanding plants. Chicago mostly-southsider. He/him.
@katomyomachia.bsky.social
Father, husband, Persian/Arabic philologist, programmer Research software eng. @Drexel, prev. postdoc @FUBerlin Socdem, civil libertarian, anti-identitarian https://www.theobeers.com/
@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social
International web-based community for medievalists working with digital media.
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social. Worlds of Learning, 7-10 July 2025
@invisibleeast.bsky.social
Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. Project website: invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org/
@kimbehrens.bsky.social
Marketing manager for academic history at Oxford University Press. Perpetual fernweh and opinions are my own.
@historyastheory.bsky.social
• Global Medieval History & Marxism @ University of Edinburgh • @ucu.org.uk Rank & File • Support #FreeOcalan, #DelistPKK & @bdsmovement.bsky.social • Omnia Sunt Communia •
@lincolnmedieval.bsky.social
The Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln.
@timurkuran.bsky.social
Professor, Duke University. Economic and political development, social change, Islam, Middle East, Turkey. X: @timurkuran . Website: sites.duke.edu/timurkuran .
@ottomanhistory.bsky.social
➥ Old Photos, Pics, Paintings, Maps ➥ Docs from Ottoman Empire Archives ➥ Historical Letters, Writings, Poems, Memoirs, Books, Real Human Stories: / Blog: https://ottoman-history-page.blogspot.com
@helenerey.bsky.social
🏺 Archaeology & Cultural Studies postgrad at King's College London, with a touch of Digital Humanities | UCL IoA alumna 🔎 Researching cultural interactions in Mongol Eurasia (focus Syriac Christianity) 💼 Middle East Project Manager 📚 Returning to academia
@msoiferirish.bsky.social
History professor at Rice University. I study medieval Iberia and its history of religious coexistence and confrontation. I love nature, art, historical fiction, travel, classical music, and cats. 📚🖼️🌊🎼🌸🐈