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Charles Tieszen

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FRHistS & historian of religious thought | Christian-Muslim relations | charlestieszen.com | 🍉 | he/him

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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Working through the first proof of our twenty-fifth and final volume of _Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History_. This will be a collection of thematic essays covering the period 1600-1914.
Cover proof for the twenty-fifth and final volume of Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History.
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KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Use code NYUP50 at checkout to save 50% on my book (and all other NYU Press books)! Orders over $40 receive free domestic shipping. nyupress.org/978147981435...
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Muslims on the Margins
Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communitiesThe turn of the twenty-first century ushered in a wave of progressive Muslims, whose modern interpret...
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New website, hosting my writing: charlestieszen.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Free review of David Grafton's _Muhammad in the Seminary_: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZKGKT...
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Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century
Published in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Jordan Denari Duffner @jordandenariduff.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Thanks to @MiddleEastEye for having me on their podcast, The Big Picture, to talk about Pope Francis and Islam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLPO...
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Why Pope Francis left such an impact on the Muslim World | Jordan Denari Duffner | The Big Picture
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
They called the targeting of brown people of another faith and erosion of civil liberties the “patriot” act so you would feel guilty or fearful for being against it. So you would adopt an us versus them mindset. You were being groomed for autocratic rule all along.
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I have a review of David Freidenreich's wonderful book, _Jewish Muslims_ in the latest issue of _Antisemitism Studies_: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54552
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Project MUSE - Antisemitism Studies-Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign. This is Rafah today.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The idea that race is a social & historical construct has a long history. It was a central plank of the post WWII US consensus for obvious reasons given what pseudo-scientific racism had wrought. One of the central planks of the US right in the post WWII era was that race is a biologically reality.
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’m not judging individual scholars for leaving the US for theoretically safer universities. I’m judging the rest of you for not noticing or caring that roughly 75% of your adjunctified colleagues have neither the putative protection of academic freedom nor the means to leave.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“I have always believed that it is my duty not only to liberate myself from my oppressor but to liberate my oppressor from their hatred and fear.” — Mahmoud Khalil from ICE Detention in Jena, Louisiana. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online: doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Ayman Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg have a new edition/translation of Ibn Layth’s 8th-century letter. I was able to read an early version of their book and even endorse it. Well done, gentlemen!
Front cover of book: _A medieval case for Islam’s Superiority_Back cover of book with endorsements
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angela Davis spoke at the University of Michigan’s Rackham Auditorium on February 19, 2025, interviewed by my colleague Angela Dillard, the vice provost for undergraduate education. The event was…
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A pretty fair review essay, aptly titled: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Tom Stevenson · Illusions of Containment: Versions of Hamas
Hamas had been able to take power in Gaza because Israel had failed to circumscribe Palestinian politics within the Oslo...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care" My latest piece for Zeteo on the ongoing, brazen and shameful double standards in our media coverage of death and suffering in the Middle East. Read/share/subscribe:
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Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care
How many Palestinian women and children have to be killed in the occupied West Bank before anyone in the US or UK gives a damn?
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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Very excited that my article on the history of Orthodox Christian-Muslim relations has now been published in Religion Compass; it summarizes my approach to this history and illustrates what I think are its most poignant and profound dimensions. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Jordan Denari Duffner @jordandenariduff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Friends in Cleveland and at John Carroll University: I’ll be in town on Thursday for this event!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States
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Journal of Interreligious Studies @irstudies.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New in issue 44, @charlestieszen.bsky.social reviews A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints, by H. Harmakaputra. Check it out: irstudies.org/index.php/ji...
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My print copy of our 22nd volume just arrived.
Photo of book, Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 22, Central Europe (1800-1914)
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Fascinating, tragic read👇
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/01/2025
NYT reporting mass immigrant ICE raids have begun in Chicago. I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate. No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
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Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I reviewed Reyan Durmaz' new book, _Stories between Christianity and Islam_ for the latest issue of _Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations_. There are a few free versions of that review here, which will later appear behind a paywall: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6PADP...
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Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Published in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2024)
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I recently reviewed Hans Harmakaputra's book, _A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints_. That review appears in the latest issue of _Interreligious Studies_, which you can read here: irstudies.org/index.php/ji...
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No 44 (2025): Rolling Submissions Issue | Journal of Interreligious Studies
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Now THAT’S a book cover. 🤌🏼 Excellent content so far, too.
Cover of Irvin Weathersby Jr’s new book, In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space.
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Our 22nd volume is now available in print, hardback, and withing the online database: brill.com/display/titl...
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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 22. Central Europe (1800-1914)
"Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 22. Central Europe (1800-1914)" published on 18 Dec 2024 by Brill.
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Pulling this from the other site for circulation here
Image of X post by C. Sahner about a new article in which J. Tannous discusses the use of Syriac in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Lodge set his best known trilogy of novels at the University of Bham, or a version based on the uni, though he was no longer there when I was a student. RIP.
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Excellent review essay by Rachel Nolan on illegal immigration and US-made guns. Who would brave the dangerous gun-filled world of migration? People 'without good options. The harder the US tries to make it to enter, the more money there is to be made'. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Rachel Nolan · On the Iron River: Guns across the Border
Border agents are mostly trying to catch people coming north, not guns going south. This is NAFTA, flipped. The idea of...
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A widely used #Christmas time special of the European past was to buy and wear a paper crown. A paper crown, #skystorians? Yes, a printed paper crown. And the tiny street seller highlighted in this #earlymodern painting is selling them. Let's have a festive 🧵
A painting from Joos de Momper the Younger, a Flemish painter active in Antwerp between the late 16th century and the early 17th century, in which a street seller is selling paper crowns.
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I've just come across this podcast hosted by Nile Green. Less conversations than lecture-exchanges, but the episodes explore Islam as a global religion with varied followers and traditions (so Islams, not Islam) in a way quite unlike what I've seen elsewhere. open.spotify.com/show/1hq7qWR...
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Akbar's Chamber - Experts Talk Islam
Podcast · akbarschamber · Akbar’s Chamber offers a non-political, non-sectarian and non-partisan space for exploring the past and present of Islam. It has no political or theological bias other than a...
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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. -Joan Didion
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A fascinating look at Francis Williams and his portrait, this is good research by Fara Dabhoiwala: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
_Mercy & Grace: Christian & Muslim Perspectives_, the latest publication of the Building Bridges Seminary will be out this spring. My chapter is 'Cultivating Peaceful Proximity: A Scholar-Practitioner's Engagement with the Building Bridges Seminar Book Series'. press.georgetown.edu/Book/Mercy-a...
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Mercy and Grace
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I have 2 Bloomsbury books that are currently 30% off: www.bloomsbury.com/us/author/ch.... That means paperbacks are ≈ $30USD!
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Charles Tieszen: Bloomsbury Publishing (US)
<b>Charles Tieszen</b> is SIS Adjunct Professor for Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations at Fuller Theological Seminary, US. He is Fellow of the Royal Histor…
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I do some writing on substack, and recently I've been thinking about US elections, sexism, and a personal evolution. You can read here: charlestieszen.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...
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What I learned while doing laundry with a feminist
I wrote a version of what follows in November 2016, not long after the US presidential elections.
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Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this! Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first: What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects
A horizontally-aligned panel consisting of four images of works of Islamic art: a page of black calligraphy on a peach-colored ground, a red and gold textile with a pattern of wavy vines and leaves, a manuscript painting featuring birds in a blue, green, and gold landscape with a gold sky, and a manuscript page with a central radiating medallion painted in intricate geometric and floral patterns in blue, gold, and red. Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/islamic-art
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I was dusting the bookshelves and took a look at this volume again. Here's a story about a book & its owners:
Old book with brown, leather cover and tattered binding sitting on a wooden desktop
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just updated the Middle East list with dozens more accounts for those looking for MENA-focused people And again, if I didn't add you, it's not because I don't like you. I have to trawl through 100s of accounts and juggle dozens of tabs to update this. If I overlooked you, just speak up.
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Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It's here! A very incipient starter pack for the art, architecture, and archaeology of the Islamic world. This is just a first quick effort, please let me know if I can add you or others so we can build up this community!
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Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My recent article on Muhammad and Timothy I: www.academia.edu/124720281/Pa...
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Patriarch Timothy I and the Prophethood of Muhammad A Re Appraisal
Patriarch Timothy I and the Prophethood of Muhammad A Re Appraisal
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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I just realized that I forgot to include the date and time on this last one -- here is an updated version. #sblaar24 #aarsbl24
Religious Competition in Late Antiquity
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Healthcare and Disability in the Ancient World
Sunday at 4pm
Book review panel for Contested Cures
Catherine Bonesho, presiding
Joseph Sanzo, panelist 
Misa Nguyen, panelist 
David Maldonado Rivera, panelist 
Matthew Chalmers, panelist 
Megan Nutzman, respondent
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