Reposted by Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 8hGutted beyond words to hear this. Nothing else to say right now. 001
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 8hGutted beyond words to hear this. Nothing else to say right now. 001
Reposted by Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 10hIf you want comparative work on perceptions of racialized in the IOW, here are some options instead of this cursed essay. First, for visual culture, Lamia Balafrej's essay on 13th-C Islamic manuscripts covers seafaring: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...onlinelibrary.wiley.comDomestic Slavery, Skin Colour, and Image Dialectic in Thirteenth‐Century Arabic ManuscriptsThis essay is the first scholarly exploration of slavery's visual representation in medieval Islam. Close examination of thirteenth-century paintings from Arabic manuscripts, considered alongside tex... 22813
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 10hThis is so great, thank you. We truly do not deserve you! 130
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yes, but how many of us would have learned this heartwarming story today if not for princeton's post! and for that, i thank princeton 020
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I guess if you read a bunch of ancient shopping lists, I can see how you'd reach the conclusion that people had a "mania" for recording the prices of goods in money, but I'm not sure I'd endorse that conclusion 051
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Who/what should I be reading about land tenure during the 2nd-8th CE in Palestine? Been out of this game for a minute so I've doubtless forgotten some older works and missed some newer ones. Time range intended to capture "late antique/early Islamic" 075
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Suggest a show: -that reminds me that families are complicated -to make my heart race -a show I can watch with my sweetheart -to remind me that relationships are complicated -with political intrigue -about friendship -that is straight-up hilarious (ahem, the wigs) -that is historical 021
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Good example of how underrated The Americans is: It’s not on a single one of the NYT's “Suggest me a TV show that __” categories in spite of ranking #17 on the list of best TV shows itself. Here are all the categories it apparently did not fit. 131
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 17/09/2026ahem, well, i'm thoroughly terrified by how much work i have to do over the next few months. might be time to deactivate for a longer while. shame me if you see me on here before december, ok? 020
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It would! By the train station or Penn campus would be best. I be lugging a moderate amt of luggage as well 100
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@feelingtheory.bsky.social I am searching your posts for vegan and Philly to find a good lunch spot and now I am extremely hungry and nowhere closer to choosing a spot 110
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026especially when they tell you they feel like they're making it up as they go and realize in real time that you are too, and you're like, yep, always have been 030
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026sorry to be all sincere, but meeting a former student who has now become a colleague is such an unparalleled 10/10 experience 😭 1100
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026this is so puzzling to me too. one of something is so much less exciting than 20 or 200 of something! 080
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026i've spent all morning writing one of those tortured zero drafts where i'm tripping over footnotes and trying to convince myself more than anyone else that the claims i'm making are true so, like, it's nice to hear that for some ppl just going out there and being confidently wrong is also an option 081
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Nessana papyri! Cave of Letters! What an odd thing to say so confidently 1190
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I gotta trust that I have a process and my process involves forgetting how to write every time I sit down to write 3132
Reposted by Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026welp, i guess there's nothing left to do but write 152
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026nongbringing them to the fourth century? is that anything? 130
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026i saw someone visit a website today and click "accept all cookies." these people really do walk amongst us 030
Reposted by Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You say you support minorities yet you oppose billionaires 2557
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 16/09/2026welp, i guess there's nothing left to do but write 152
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 15/09/2026strolling around princeton university is literally like that south park episode where they parody Game of Thrones. just walled gardens full of dozens of other people all similarly out for a stroll because there ain't nowhere else to go 140
Reposted by Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Hi everyone! My first book Desiring Freedom is coming out this November on the University of Chicago Press. Pre-order here (bit.ly/4j51OqD) and check out blurbs from David Scott and Faith Smith below:bit.lyDesiring FreedomA groundbreaking account of concepts of freedom in West Indian literature and visual culture.Desiring Freedom examines post-emancipation West Indian literature and visual culture to ask how they reima... 63624
Reposted by Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026my math professor friend recently answered the question, "what makes someone good at math?" with the word "sitzfleisch," which he then defined for us, and also that's the exact same answer as studying literature. 56810
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 15/09/2026still nothing for my queen elizabeth jennings, i see 010
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'll take this as an opportunity to repost this piece icymi last week www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...lib.cam.ac.ukFragment of the Month: August 2026In August's Fragment of the Month, Pratima Gopalakrishnan finds evidence for a Deccan merchant association in a Genizah document. 030
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 15/09/2026just realized i was needlessly hostile to matt amodio on the jeopardy masters rerun i was watching last night because i confused him with dario amodei 130
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I know, they just seem like the historian version of a true gamers' gamer! 010
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Love the Rasulids (well, love reading about them anyway). What specifically are you reading? 110
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 13/09/2026my friend suggested a movie she thought i'd like (derogatory), not knowing i've seen it like three times. the film is the m night shyamalan / josh hartnett film TRAP about the concert that's a trap to catch a serial killer. if i were a nepo baby, this film is what i'd want my parent to do for me. 011
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā website has been down for me for days now and there's some stuff on there I'd really like to read 😭 Anyone know if something is up with the Columbia library site? journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...journals.library.columbia.edu 000
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 13/09/2026the inspiration, although aside from the bird, i mostly took a freewheeling approach art.thewalters.org/object/48.20...art.thewalters.orgLusterware Plate with Bird Motif, 11th century (Medieval). Museum purchase, 1951, 48.2036 | The Walters Art MuseumLusterware Plate with Bird Motif, 11th century (Medieval). Museum purchase, 1951, 48.2036 020
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's still not loading for me. Unfortunately Bluesky is glitchy sometimes and I just have to try hours later. Pity because the meal sounds insanely good! 120
Bhoot and Pret-ima 👻 @ismipratima.bsky.social · 12/09/2026talking to my friend in england is always like, oh she's having a lovely day (wow!), oh she's out for a walk in the country (maybe i should move there!), she's watching a cricket match (i'm looking at tickets now), oh it's in a town called cuckfield (never mind) 020
