Omniya Abdel Barr
Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A.
Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
@beketaten.bsky.social
Curator at Petrie Museum UCL - PhD @LivUni - FSA - Archaeological Ceramicist at Tell el-Amarna - Proud Cumbrian & Honorary Scouser - Scruffy Crafter - Socialist - Gardener - #FirstGen - Views mine قلبي في السودان ومصر 🇸🇩🇪🇬
@wdowen.bsky.social
Writing about material culture, design history & East India Co networks in arts & sciences at wdowen.substack.com & eaho.substack.com. Advisor on digital transformation & conservation in the cultural sector.
@handle.invalid
Academic. Art Historian. Regional Australian. Egyptian Tentmakers and Shadow Theatre.
@rashajarhum.bsky.social
South-Yemeni Canadian. Mom. Co-Director of @peacetrack.bsky.social. Head of Rights & Freedoms Committee (RFC) at Consultation & Reconciliation Commission(CRC) supporting the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) in Yemen.Posts my own.
@tudorcook.bsky.social
Historic Kitchens Manager at Hampton Court Palace, he/him, experimental historian, tiresome lay-about. All views own, yada yada yada. No expectation of mutual following. Posting about whatever makes it out of the blender of my mind
@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social
Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Author of two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions mine. 13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, next up 26.
@simonwfuchs.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
@audreytruschke.bsky.social
Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
@islamtexts.bsky.social
Islamic studies researcher ⚡ Sharing beautiful & fascinating Islamic art, thought and history. ✨ Original translations of Classical Arabic https://www.readingislamictexts.com #islam #quran #hadith #sufi #arabic #calligraphy #art #manuscript #islamic
@jricole.bsky.social
Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics; Signal: Juan Cole
@islamicorigins.bsky.social
Historian | Islamic origins, Hadith, textual criticism | Research Fellow at RUG | DPhil from Oxford | anti-imperialism, anti-Islamophobia https://islamicorigins.com
@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.
@adambursi.bsky.social
Editorial at Fortress Press. Research on relics/senses/material religion in late antiquity and early Islam. Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html We should improve society somewhat
@ryanjosephlynch.com
Professor of Islamic History @ColumbusState. Work on the Islamic state throughout history. Love tech + games + punk rock. Writing a book about history in games. ryanjosephlynch.com
@misbah-hyder.bsky.social
Pedagogy nerd who thinks about agency, peacebuilding, & Islam. 🕌 Diagnosed as a high-performing paradox… 👀
@mchidarazvi.bsky.social
Mughal Art & Architectural Historian; Specialist Lecturer on Cultural Tours; Associate Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
@psardor.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate @oeaw | Editor of JESHO and JCAH | Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/ Author of "A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan"
@jabunna.bsky.social
Prof of Islamic Studies @UniFreiburg. Mostly busy with GloQur–The Global Qur'an. And three children. And my chili 🌶 plants. Current mood: Trying to write a global history of modern Muslim Qur'an translation. 🤩 Being kept from finishing by admin work.😤
@gloqur.bsky.social
ERC-funded research project @UniFreiburg on the modern history of Muslim Qur'an translation. PI: Johanna Pink. https://gloqur.de
@conordube.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate at Harvard NELC working on the history of Qurʾānic interpretation in the Islamic West. Rock climber in my spare time.
@phdnix.bsky.social
Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer for Team18k
@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)
@mlawrencepayne.bsky.social
Translator and historian | PhD from Brown University | Writing about al-Jāḥiẓ, animals, race, and enslavement | Interested in early Islam and late antique Christianity. https://www.mlawrencepayne.com
@medievalqabq.bsky.social
editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social historian of Umayyad & early Abbasid rule in Armenia & Caucasian Albania currently working on marriage and matriliny in the Khazar Khaganate associate prof at Columbia University
@ramonharvey.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College | Maturidi and Husserl | Editor: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology: http://bit.ly/3DLOOB5
@ashraf1974108.bsky.social
Lecturer of Arabic. BA & MA in Arabic and Islamic Studies, PhD in Arabic Studies.
@ajab.bsky.social
Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics. Twitter @yakabikaj
@profirmf.bsky.social
tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. occasional TikTokker. she/her. (specifics @ profirmf.com)
@sarahrbintyeer.bsky.social
Scholar of adab, Arabic & Comparative Literature. Professor at Columbia U. https://columbia.academia.edu/SarahbinTyeer
@ghaffarzishan.bsky.social
Professor of Qur'anic Exegesis at the University of Paderborn.
@mtmiller.bsky.social
Asst Prof, U Maryland. Islamicate Affect/Emotion, Sufism, Digital Humanities, Persian literature, Lit of Islamic & Middle Eastern Revolutionary Movements, Labor. On Piscataway Land. Proud Member: AAUP (@aaup.bsky.social), AFT (@aftunion.bsky.social)
@homophonous.bsky.social
Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
@sufism.bsky.social
Curator of conversations about Sufism, amplifying progressive Islamic voices on Bluesky.
@skabaoglu.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Anthropology | Northwestern | Critical Finance Studies
@matthewdtaylor.bsky.social
senior scholar at Institute for Islamic, Christian, & Jewish Studies | creator of "Charismatic Revival Fury" podcast | author of The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy
@michaelpbrill.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University | Non-Resident Fellow in the USAF Institute for Future Conflict | Former Global Fellow in the Wilson Center History & Public Policy Program
@katiezimmerman.bsky.social
Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups. katherinezimmerman.substack.com
@azelin.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” jihadology.net jihadologyplus.com
@brianjulrich.bsky.social
Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
@maryahannun.bsky.social
Managing Editor of MERIP. Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
@verasimoneschulz.bsky.social
at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
@thecynicist.bsky.social
Political analyst focused on global conflict and security, Afghanistan, the Middle East and US politics. Purveyor of quality nonsense. Rare Afghan with two names. Previously HRW, ICTJ, Amnesty, OSF and ECFR. Always clean on OPSEC. "All the pieces matter."
@abujamajem.com
Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️. www.abujamajem.com
@abuaardvark.bsky.social
Marc Lynch. GW Professor, on leave AY24-25 and hopefully hard to find. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST (Hurst) on the way! Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Exvangelical. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@janvoemel.bsky.social
Global History, History of Modern Turkey and Indonesia, Islamism, nativist movements, religions, gender, intellectual history Occasionally: golden age rap, food, travel, and other fun things PDFs of my articles: https://uni-konstanz.academia.edu/JanVomel