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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The workshop starts today, in about an hour. I will talk about the transmission of Arabic translations of Syriac hagiography (unfortunately only online because we don't have childcare today and tomorrow). My colleagues will talk about much more interesting things. So, tune in!

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Really sorry to hear Yan. I hope you get a lot more from elsewhere.

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Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

One of the most important inscriptions for the history of Arabic now on #OCIANA: an Arabic-language inscription (pre-4th c. CE) written entirely in Greek letters, shedding light on the pronunciation of Arabic centuries before Islam. A 1: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am not trying to make a point. I genuinely don’t know. I know Cordoba was a big city and other cities were big too in Muslim Iberia. But Paris, London, were small. Venice, Palermo?

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What’s the rival city outside of Iberia in the Middle Ages?

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

But it was perhaps the largest city in Europe for some time?

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I am coming to it from a lot of struggle with programming language. What it offers is pretty cool. Actually it will ask you to paste your csv. Or it will ask to give you a sample and will offer a script to deal with the problem :)

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

True. Though DeepSeek’s thinking process which is shown in realtime looks impressive. I asked it to look at a badly structured URI’s and extract only the relevant parts and it did a good job at extracting and converting those with little context.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I guess both. I don’t know how these ranking work. Of course it is said that Deepseek is very efficient (it’s as efficient if not better I think) and that share in US firms has just drops. On the other hand tech billionaires seem to be quite about it while some dismissed DeepSeek. Lots of ????

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Good morning. Could someone tell me what’s going on?

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Any Fatimid historian here so far? Just trying to get an idea about how popular our field is 🤭

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Any Fatimid historian here so far? Just trying to get an idea about how popular our field is 🤭

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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Turkish #etymology of the day: simit "ring-shaped bread with seeds", from Arabic سميذ \ سميد samīd/samīḏ "semolina" (Turkish 'd' devoices to 't' word-finally), from Aramaic ܣܡܻܝܕܳܐ (səmīḏā), from Akkadian 𒆠𒅔𒆠𒅔𒄯𒄯 ⁠samīdu⁠, related to 𒀀𒊏𒄯𒄯 ⁠samādu⁠ “to grind fine”

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

If you want to know why I’ve spent so much time thinking about camels (apart from their inherent excellence) follow the link below for a story of international relations, Biblical PR and many, many camels salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2021/07/22/h...

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How is the Emir of Cordoba like the Queen of Sheba?

When in 865 Emir Muhammad I of Cordoba (r. 852-886) sent back the Frankish envoys he had received from Charles the Bald (r. 843-877) the previous year, he entrusted them with a number of gifts, whi…

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This one for the top spot: ex-Shii Muslims accusing another ex-Shii Muslim of practicing taqiye (sic) - disguising his actual Islamist beliefs (the modus operandi for Islamists according to these lunatics) without any sense of irony.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The most bizarre thing I saw on the internet is a bunch of ex-Shii Muslims accusing another ex-Shii Muslim of practicing taqiyya - pretending to be an atheist - without any sense of irony.

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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 06/12/2024

A fun example of ChatGPT 4o vs. o1 Someone posted this awful tattoo on Reddit today in r/hebrew asking what it says. The letters are Hebrew, but the words are nonsense.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Link uni-erfurt.webex.com/meet/veranst...

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Javi Albarrán 🍉 @jalbarran.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

As happened in Spain, in Portugal there was an appropriation of the Islamic past as a narrative of temporal continuity to which the inhabitants of Gharb al-Andalus were totally assimilated, creating the concept of Luso-Arabs. Don't miss our latest article www.alandalusylahistoria.com?p=5066

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Adam 👻Boo!rsi👻 @adambursi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Apparently there’s a 50% off sale this weekend at Edinburgh University Press, including my recent book **Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam** The discount brings it down to a more reasonable, if still a bit much, $55. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-...

Book cover of Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam, with illuminated manuscript image of the Prophet Muhammad’s tomb in Medina

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Modern spoken Persian (or Turkish) are usually taught before learning classical Persian. That’s unfortunate useless when it comes to Arabic.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

One can know how to read Classical Arabic and not speak dialects - which are almost different languages. Not the case with Persian.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Have this list been created. I don’t know what it does but would love to be added so I am in the right place.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I think with Persian it’s unforgivable. I would be more lenient with Arabic.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I have included my Bluesky social handle to my Twitter name. Since then I think Twitter began censoring me. Whatever. I think this is better for sure if our colleagues all move here.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Okey, subscribed. You are the first substack I am subscribed to.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Without. Of course. Sorry for the typo.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Being with internet is always a good gift to my mind.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Why does my handle shows “invalid handle”. Can anyone help?

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Is this the same cup depicted on this famous coin of Jahangir? The Persian inscription on the coin reads: The world "Jahangir" and "Allahu Akbar" are equal in value until the Day of Judgement. According to the Abjad alphanumeric system, both have a numerical value 289.

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Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I am new here, please share with me Islamicate history people and give a follow. Still figuring out and slowly migrating from X.

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