William Rees Hofmann
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)
@thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library. Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
@iqtibaas88.bsky.social
کتابِ زندگی سے اقتباسات Mostly literary stuff: excerpts from Urdu/Hindi/English books, quotations, musings Also: food, plants & paintings
@ucu.org.uk
UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
@unihd-sai.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Centre for Research and Academic Teaching on South Asia. linktr.ee/sai_heidelberg
@stwfa.bsky.social
anthropologist of sound, food, and İslam research associate at Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge normally between Iberia, Anatolia and the Caucasus
@brotheromid.bsky.social
Islamic studies prof (Duke U). Jedi-wannabe. Rumi, Martin, Malcolm, and my Momma's love. Leads spiritually oriented Turkey & Morocco, Spain & Umrah. Teaches online http://illuminatedcourses.com
@rma-mpsg.bsky.social
Welcome to the bluesky of the Royal Musical Association's Music and Philosophy Study Group!
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Official account of the Max Planck Society. Devoted to basic #research in #physics #astronomy #chemistry #biology #earthsciences #materialscience #mathematics #socialsciences and the #humanities; Imprint: https://www.mpg.de/imprint
@priyankabasu.bsky.social
Lecturer in Performing Arts at King’s College London. Author of ‘The Poet’s Song: “Folk” and its Cultural Politics in South Asia’ (Routledge, 2024). Previously Curator of ‘Two Centuries of Indian Print’ at British Library. Phd, Felix SOAS. Odissi dancer.
@neelamraina.bsky.social
Feminist. Academic. Activist. Post Conflict Reconstruction/APPG Afghan Women & Girls Secretariat. Interested in culture/knowledge/Grand challenges (ex UKRI-GCRF) Director of Research @MiddlesexUni https://thegenderhub.com/stories/culture-and-conflict-2/
@mirzawaheed.bsky.social
Writer The Collaborator, The Book of Gold Leaves, Tell Her Everything … https://mirzawaheed.com
@komldsp.bsky.social
A Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme, a partnership between King's College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent. Directors: Prof. Julia Crick and Dr David Rundle. Website: https://www.komldsp.org.uk/
@sem-office.bsky.social
Society for Ethnomusicology Business Office www.ethnomusicology.org
@diyagupta.bsky.social
Literary scholar, cultural historian. Senior Lecturer in Public History, City St George's, University of London. First book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' (2023) #happyeveryday
@alialtafmian.bsky.social
a student/teacher of muslim thought and practice, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy *** https://florida.academia.edu/alimian
@thomasgraves.bsky.social
Music researcher focussed on South Asia, musical emotion/affect, moral emotion, music & Islam. Open Research Library Assistant at LSE, part-time teacher at Durham University Music Department. AFHEA, he/him. PhD thesis: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15586/
@vivekvirani.bsky.social
Scholar, performer, and teacher of spiritual music drawing from traditions of South Asia and around the world. Ethnomusicologist (whatever that means) at UNT College of Music.
@balarag.bsky.social
Ethnomusicology, South Asia, Queerness, Translation, Caste and Spirituality. Santa Cruz, CA/ India SALT Chicago summer school
@amitav.bsky.social
Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
@qalamos.bsky.social
Account of the DFG Project "Qalamos". #manuscripts #Asia #Africa #catalogs | @stabiberlin.bsky.social | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Universität Leipzig | Website: www.qalamos.org | Blog: https://od-portal.hypotheses.org
@iowcmcgill.bsky.social
Research centre at McGill University studying the history, economy, & cultures of the Indian Ocean world from China to Southeast & South Asia, the Middle East & Africa. https://indianoceanworldcentre.com/
@elisafreschi.bsky.social
Sanskrit (and) philosophy. Permanently in beta phase. Blogging at http://elisafreschi.com and http://indianphilosophyblog.org. Articles at http://academia.edu Here to learn & share
@joelbordeaux.bsky.social
Lecturer @UniUtrecht + Researcher @UniLeiden: Sanskrit + Bengali literature, Hinduism + court culture, tantra + yoga. Views = eel wriggling. He/him/hisn.
@openiti.bsky.social
Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. openiti.org Account managed by @jparkesallen.bsky.social
@balabanlilar.bsky.social
professor of history, pre-modern South and Central Asia, Islamic kingship, Mughal landscapes and the peripatetic royal court
@kamamaclean.bsky.social
Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
@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"
@gorgiaspress.bsky.social
Independent publisher of books and journals in history, languages, and religious studies, specifically Biblical Studies, Syriac and Eastern Christianity, Jewish Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. "Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge" since 2001!
@domrossi.bsky.social
(she/her) dr in archaeology (cardiff uni) ⏩️ sasanian urban spaces and their evolution. passionate wanderer. heritage/archaeology consultant. love taking picture of my dog, siab. maps, books, and movies geek. annoyed by capital letters and capitalism
@lauriestras.bsky.social
Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton; director @musicasecreta.bsky.social
@kaohu11.bsky.social
Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi
@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/
@nhaider.bsky.social
Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
@alusuralwusta.bsky.social
Journal of Middle East Medievalists (@mideastmedieval.bsky.social), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal on the medieval Middle East. Edited by Zayde Antrim (zaydeantrim.bsky.social) & Alison Vacca (@medievalqabq.bsky.social)
@mideastmedieval.bsky.social
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
@islamicorigins.bsky.social
Historian | Islamic origins, Hadith, textual criticism | Research Fellow at RUG | DPhil from Oxford | anti-imperialism, anti-Islamophobia https://islamicorigins.com
@msnadiri.bsky.social
Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre Scholar in History at Uni of Oxford | Previously; Uni of Edinburgh, Alwaleed Centre; SOAS, Institute of Ismaili Studies; Aga Khan University | Islam, Central and South Asia, Badakhshan, borders, empires and states.
@robhaug.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
@house-oac.bsky.social
Archivist/Superintendent of Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social and current MA Contemporary History and Politics @bbkhistorical.bsky.social Opinions mine
@majnouna.bsky.social
Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Beirut émigré in London. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey… All the links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
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@samirashackle.bsky.social
Freelance journalist (mostly for the Guardian Long Read) and author of Karachi Vice. I am also on Substack @samirashackle. Currently on maternity leave!
@roshaninstitute.bsky.social
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland is one of the leading centers for Persian Studies in the world, and the home of the Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities. https://sllc.umd.edu/fields/persian