Islamic Studies
Folks working on the Islamic tradition and its history in all regions and periods, broadly defined
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@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social
@joaswagemakers.bsky.social
Associate prof. of Islamic & Arabic Studies, Utrecht University. Islam in the modern Arab world, (intellectual) history of modern Islam, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Salafism, Islamism, theology, sectarianism, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Hamas.
@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
@revdrjohn.bsky.social
PhD history/theol of Jihad in Islam/Xnty Syriac and Arabic, academic dean, historical wargame designer, Orthodox Christian priest, IT consultant, Steampunk, SFfan, TCM, ex-TechnoDJ, Gestalt psychotherapist.
@katrinadalythompson.com
Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities (Religious Studies) & Director of SLA, UW-Madison. Ethnographer of language, gender, & sexuality in Muslim communities. Swahili-speaker. Hammock-napper. Kung-fu-learner. https://katrinadalythompson.com
@ericcalderwood.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Illinois. Interested in al-Andalus, Morocco, Spain, comparative literature, multilingualism, cats, hip hop, and movies.
@profannag.bsky.social
Academic concerns, religion, environment, Asia/Indonesia | U-Wi Environmental Studies | Univ. Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII) | [Envir. Ethics (forth.)] | Muslim Environmentalisms (Columbia UP) | The Qur’an: An Introduction | opinions my own | she/her
@unityhawza.bsky.social
Bismillah. Peace on Muhammad & his Family. We are a rationalist, spiritualist, supra-legalist academy for UNITY! in Islam and abroad. Y1 Principles of Islam Y2 Islamic Jurisprudence Y3 Islamic Phylosophy Y4 Islamic Mysticism https://unityhawza.world
@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
@andrealstanton.bsky.social
Professor of Islamic studies & Middle East historian, University of Denver. Research foci: digital Islam, Mandate Palestine, Arab-world radio. Twin mama. Wordy by nature.
@zahraayubi.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Religion: Islamic Studies at Dartmouth College | Gender-Islam-Ethics | author of Gendered Morality at ColumbiaUP
@tazeenmali.bsky.social
scholar of islam & gender • race & religion in the US • currently writing on US & UK Muslims on TV • author of The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam NYUP • she/her • views are my own
@annabigelow786.bsky.social
Walking the dog, learning, teaching, and writing about religion, Islam, South Asia, material culture, death, and other things
@yanikdag.bsky.social
Professor of History and Global Studies | Studies the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic | Emotions and Masculinities | The Ottoman First World War | First generation college grad.
@alikulez.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at #BostonCollege. Latin American literature. Food Studies. Dad. Turco. Comparativist at heart. South-South shenanigans. Views mine. substack: alikulez.substack.com website: alikulez.com insta: instagram.com/theprofessoreats
@brannoningram.bsky.social
Professor at Northwestern. Posts about Islam and colonialism, the British empire, and the occasional political rant
@openiti.bsky.social
Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. openiti.org Account managed by @jparkesallen.bsky.social
@kranatalie.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Islamic Studies. Project: Prophetic descent of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī and his descendants in the Western Maghrib and Syria. Genealogy, methods of genealogists & verification of historical/genealogical knowledge in the early modern period.
@kaohu11.bsky.social
Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi
@noamleshem.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Political Geography, Durham Uni. Violent conflict, political resurgence, colonial history. Author of: 'Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land' (Chicago 2025); 'Life After Ruin' (Cambridge 2017) https://tinyurl.com/mtyd9m
@cevahirulebrar.bsky.social
MPhil Islamic Art and Architecture, Oxford. Ottoman architecture and the lands of Mâverâünnehir. Ertegun Graduate Scholar in the Humanities, Khalili Research Centre+St Cross College. Also translator, Hindi and Urdu to English. very 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@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
@karimwafa.bsky.social
Indigenous Writer. Historian. Lecturer & Poet. PhD in Southern African American History. I write about culture, identity, empire and books. Author of: child of a stolen homeland For more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
@zareenagrewal.bsky.social
Yale Prof, Anthropologist, Historian, Author of ISLAM IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: AMERICAN MUSLIMS AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AUTHORITY, Director and Producer of BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT Bylines: NYT WashPo Atlantic NPR
@shabana.bsky.social
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus' Views are always mine only, not those of my employer
@tanjilrashid.bsky.social
Writing about culture, society, literature and ideas for The Guardian, The FT, The New Statesman, The Times, The Spectator, The Washington Post, among others.
@medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social
Historian of the Middle East c. 950-1500 CE, but I teach much more broadly. I'm writing a book about religious diversity in an illiberal society. https://www.thomasacarlson.com/ https://medievalmideast.org/ https://www.cambridge.org/9781107186279 he/ܗܘ/هو
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
@mufaysir.bsky.social
Professor of Quran and Early Islam at Loyola Marymount University.
@simongandrew.bsky.social
Historian of media, pop culture, the Middle East. Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
@robhaug.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
@mahosebiane.bsky.social
Anthropology of Music | CRAL-EHESS | Heritage Studies on the Margins | Afro-Arab Music History | Music & Slavery | Possession Rituals | MENA | Arab-Persian Gulf & Western Indian Ocean | Posts : Fr / Eng
@jordandenariduff.bsky.social
Catholic theologian of Muslim-Christian relations. Scholar, educator, author, activist. Georgetown Hoya. Books: #FindingJesusAmongMuslims; #Islamophobia; Forthcoming: #PopeFrancisandIslam
@rahmaniis.bsky.social
Researcher on anti-religion racisme (especially Islamophobia) at RSCS UCLouvain Belgium
@tobinjj.bsky.social
PhD candidate working on the medieval Balkans, Caucasus and Middle East at UMD. Gender & sexuality, literacy and statehood. They/them. Views expressed here are my own and do not represent any institution or organization.
@phildorroll.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Religion at Wofford College in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
@saleemaburney.bsky.social
Academic mom| Sociologist of Religion| Interests: people, places and seeking justice…
@jalbarran.bsky.social
Loving husband, proud father and passionate historian of the Medieval Islamic West at the University of Granada. Living the Albayzin. Writing on the loss of al-Andalus, Crusades in al-Andalus, jihad, Andalusi Christians, Andalusi memory... Antifascist.
@kaylarw.bsky.social
Umi. Ohioan. Womanist. Black Islam and Fashion Studies scholar. #BlackIslamSyllabus curator. Cleveland is the reason.
@samuelhelfont.bsky.social
Middle East/International history. Newest book: Iraq against the World (OUP, 2023). Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own. https://www.samuelhelfont.com
@denismcauley.bsky.social
Independent researcher (when I get half a chance): classical Arabic poetry, especially Sufi. Also Persian. All views my own.
@p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social
Historian & Arabist Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
@charlestieszen.bsky.social
FRHistS & historian of religious thought | Christian-Muslim relations | Ed., @cmr1900project | https://bio.site/tieszen | 🍉 | he/him
@dwidmannabraham.bsky.social
Islamic Studies/Religious Studies prof, maker of pies, grower of jalapeños. I like birds. #firstgen she/her
@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
@thomashodgson.org
Ethnomusicologist at UCLA | Musician in Stornoway New book: Journeys of Love: Kashmiris, Music, and the Poetics of Migration (Chicago) - https://tinyurl.com/yc422cu4
@hizmir.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient. Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
@jhoover04.bsky.social
Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
@jonathanacbrown.bsky.social
https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYoCAAW/jonathan-brown https://georgetown.academia.edu/JonathanACBrown
@aliagvr.bsky.social
Political Anthropologist｜IR: Diplomacy, Authoritarian Rule｜Arab/Saudi Studies — Historiography, Ethnography, Tribe)｜US Policy Intersection | Non Exec Dir UKG | NRS
@khalilandani.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion, scholar is Islamic Studies, Quranic studies, Ismailism, Sufism, and Muslim Philosopher of Religion
@arashzeini.com
Bahari Research Fellow @ AMES, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iranian Studies, history, philology, late antique Zoroastrianism; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. My views. https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
@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…
@laurylsilvers.bsky.social
Muslim Canadian author of mysteries and thrillers. #Toronto Thrillers by Jayne Green. Rat City, The #Sufi Mysteries Quartet and its spin-off, Ghazi Ammar (2025), by Laury Silvers. Fan of the IJC/ICC. Survivor Fandom. I watch a lot of TV. llsilvers.com
@innesseff.bsky.social
Researching & Teaching -- Religious Studies, Islamic Studies, Religion & Law, Jihadi-Salafi Studies, 9/11 Baseball spectator.
@garyrbunt.bsky.social
Digitally distracted Professor. Researcher/author on Islam, Muslims and the internet. Emoji-free zone. Posting does not imply endorsement, etc. Based in Wales. X antidote. https://virtuallyislamic.com
@rebellionuhh.bsky.social
Emmy Noether research group, 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)', Hamburg. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html. "Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World" (EUP, Dec 2024, OA!). Shared account.
@janjelinowski.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Medieval History, working on history writing in the Mongol Empire. A quantitative fiddler and structure enthousiast. @ Université de Strasbourg and Polish Academy of Sciences.
@danaelkurd.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Profile by Molly Crabapple • Header my grandfather's publications danaelkurd.com to contact
@arwahussain.bsky.social
Ph.D candidate Islam, Bohra community, gender, social media | Concordia University |2022 Public Scholar | Sacred Writes fellow| Mother | Trying to survive in Montreal
@sohaibology.bsky.social
religious studies. pedagogy. libraries. abolish. eat the rich. have dessert. The colonizer lied. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 https://classy.org/campaign/gaza-fundraiser/c577024
@ackfeldt.bsky.social
PhD in History of Religions, Deputy Director Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). Malmö/Istanbul. “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like, ‘What about lunch?’”
@isadeli.bsky.social
Researcher, Policy Advisor | United States Foreign Affairs and the Middle East | Security and Defense Policy | PhD in International Relations | usinmena.substack.com
@beathas-ailsa.bsky.social
African & Islamic Archaeology. Art history. Anthropology. History. Chinese ceramics in Ethiopia, East Africa & the Indian Ocean World. BA (SOAS), MA (SRU, UEA), PhD (IAIS, UoE) I enjoy yoga, cycling & weightlifting.
@parhaku.bsky.social
Research fellow @Freie Universität Berlin, Princeton PhD. Islam in South Asia, modern Islamic thought, history of Pakistan and its religious minorities. Huge fan of Star Trek and George Eliot. Website: mariapruss.com
@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.
@katuley.bsky.social
Medieval Mediterranean (13th c Mamluks, Mongols, Latin East, Armenians, Byzantines, Seljuks, etc. oh, my!), Social Network Analysis, cats, books, cats and books. Public Scholarship specialist at Bucknell University Library. Zotero is for notes.
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Researcher on Yemen, MENA, Maritime Domain | Posts about MENA, Appalachia, Rivers | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, 100 Days in Appalachia | DM for media inquiries | Check out @waterways-project.bsky.social | he/him
@klaxoncomms.com
Former scholar of Islamic history. I am now mostly ruled by my three cats and one dog, who insist that I post images of their cute visages here frequently. I also like to talk about history (how surprising!). Queer/Ace/ADHD. #Vancouver 🇨🇦
@amandazillo.bsky.social
Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | Current ACLS Fellow | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
@jmwillis.bsky.social
Historian, Kentuckian. Stuff about Yemen, S. Asia, Arabian Peninsula, and all things guitar . . . https://www.johnwillishistory.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@WalthomstowC/featured https://johnmwillis.bandcamp.com/album/for-palestine
@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
@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
@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
@abujamajem.com
Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️. www.abujamajem.com
@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."
@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"
@maryahannun.bsky.social
Managing Editor of MERIP. Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
@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
@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
@katiezimmerman.bsky.social
Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups. katherinezimmerman.substack.com
@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
@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
@skabaoglu.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Anthropology | Northwestern | Critical Finance Studies
@sufism.bsky.social
Curator of conversations about Sufism, amplifying progressive Islamic voices on Bluesky.
@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.
@yaelrice.bsky.social
Associate professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilization & chair of Architectural Studies at Amherst College.
@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)
@ghaffarzishan.bsky.social
Professor of Qur'anic Exegesis at the University of Paderborn.
@sarahrbintyeer.bsky.social
Scholar of adab, Arabic & Comparative Literature. Professor at Columbia U. https://columbia.academia.edu/SarahbinTyeer
@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)