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Musheղ Asaտryan @as-mush.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My book Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam was just released in open access, feel free: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

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Controversies in Formative Shi’i Islam

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Musheղ Asaտryan @as-mush.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A talk by Dr. Hamed Kazemzadeh: Circassian Culture and Linguistic Identity #circassian #history

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Alison Vacca @medievalqabq.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

first article of 2026! and this one comes with a sound file to imagine the chatter & noises that filled the air of a Sasanian city.

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Alison Vacca @medievalqabq.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🎉 publication day! 🎉 editions & translations of the correspondence btw Umar b. Abd al-Aziz and Leo the Isaurian in medieval Latin, Christian Arabic, Muslim Arabic, Aljamiado, Armenian & early modern Latin. plus the intro to explain how they're all related! open access & available here:

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LAMINE 6. A Connecting Polemic in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Correspondence of Leo III and ʿUmar II | Institute for the Study of Ancient CulturesLAMINE 6. A Connecting Polemic in the Medieval Med...

Edited and translated by Thomas E. Burman, Nuria de Castilla, Seonyoung Kim, Sergio La Porta, Jeremy Pearson, and Alison M. Vacca Series Editors: Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner Purchase Download Te...

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Musheղ Asaտryan @as-mush.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Join us on March 11 for my colleague Dr. Kazemzadeh's talk on "Circassian Culture and Linguistic Identity".

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Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists @alusuralwusta.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Thanks to all authors, reviewers, & readers as we close out issue 33! We published 550 pages in 2025: 7 articles; a thematic dossier w/ 4 more articles; a roundtable; an Arabic edition; a pedagogy file; 7 book reviews; & some short communications. Here’s a thread to gather some highlights! 🧵

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Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta

Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the Islamic lands of the Middle East during the medieval period (defined r...

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