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.
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@jhoover04.bsky.social
Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@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
@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/
@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
@monicamedhist.bsky.social
I'm an Independent Scholar (https://independentscholar.academia.edu/MonicaHGreen). Daughter #2 of Marlon & Eleanor Green. Focusing on #histmed, Global Health, the Black Death. Latest: https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2024.29
@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.
@leonieboettiger.bsky.social
PhD student at MPIWG Berlin researching medieval Arabic recipe collections. Interested in languages, literature & translation. Managing Editor at ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
@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/
@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.
@stephenniem.bsky.social
Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
@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…
@omabarr.bsky.social
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.
@robhaug.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
@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)
@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
@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
@menalibahs.bsky.social
Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard Fine Arts Library. Scholar of women in medieval Arabic pop lit. She/her/hers. Opinions≠employer's.
@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
@sasanianshah.bsky.social
Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
@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