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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 12/02/2025

When the sun enters its final death throes, it will first expand into a red giant, swallowing up Greenland, before collapsing into a white dwarf

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Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m thrilled to announce that my book, provisionally titled “Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade” is now under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Excited for it to be out in the world in 2026!

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 04/02/2025

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 31/01/2025

not surprised but still speechless

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 26/01/2025

my voice would be horse after reciting this

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 26/01/2025

A fascinating history of the world told through the prism of the evolution, domestication, and migration of the horse! Wanted the chapters on the Islamic world to have a bit more horse poetry… can we please collect some here? Is Imru’ al-Qays on blusky yet?!

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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My new article: "Linking Seventeenth-Century Yemen to Colonial New England: A Closer Look at Silver Coins across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans" in Am Journal of Numismatics (2024). Tracing the journey of silver coins from Yemen to Madagascar to colonial America, many found by metal detectorists.

Map of New England, with 5 dots in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine. These indicate colonial era sites where late 17th C Yemeni coins have been found.

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 15/01/2025

Wine, coffee, hashish, opium, tobacco, qat… Teaching a class on „Islam, Drugs, and Empire“ this semester… soliciting any and all suggestions for recent scholarship to read….

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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Studis wenn ich frage wie es mit ChatGPT bei Hausarbeiten aussieht

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 14/01/2025

Carrie Underwood? Wake me up when it’s Carrie Brownstein

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Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists @alusuralwusta.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

New article alert! Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima offers the most extended reading of a series of maps known from medieval literature. In this article, Alfred Hiatt parses Ibn Khaldūn’s text alongside manuscripts of al-Idrīsī’s 12th-cent. geography, prompting questions about Ibn Khaldūn’s art of history

manuscript showing a sectional map from al-Idrisi. It is worn in the middle with some water damage near the top. The map has a gold border with notes in Arabic in red and black ink around the margins. Within the border are two bodies of water in blue with light blue waves. Rivers cross the land in lines of blue. Land is not colored except mountains, in green, burnt orange, pink, & red. Arabic text in red identifies seas and regions; cities are noted in black. The map shows the south and east of France from Toulouse (top right) to Burgundy (bottom right), separated by the Alps from northern and central Italy, located between the Mediterranean (top) and Adriatic (bottom) Seas.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This article features an AI-generated image that, in my view, works against the call for "fair media representation." Images of real people in real life contexts, photographed by working photographers, would do more to help us navigate the current political landscape than AI fantasies.

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 07/01/2025

Paperback! Hadith Commentary: Continuity and Change, is now available to pre-order in paperback! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hadith-... 30% off when ordering direct from EUP — code is PAPER30.

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Hadith Commentary

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 06/01/2025

dog heaven is probably a january snowstorm in the woods near sligo creek

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 05/01/2025

Imagine being in Köln in January of 1975 and completely missing it

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 29/12/2024

Check this out in this December’s Past & Present! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 26/12/2024

this makes perfect sense

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 26/12/2024

olfactory ethics was kind of a big deal during plague times… foul smelling air being the supposed source of mass death and all…

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Middle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The Caliphal Finances project is inviting authors to contribute to their Handbook of Fiscal History in the Early Islamic World (7th-10th century)! Abstracts due 15 January 2025. See the linked post for more details. blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfina...

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Call for Contributions! Handbook of Fiscal History in the Early Islamic World (7th-10th century) – Caliphal Finances – The Finances of the Caliphate: Abbasid Fiscal Practice in Islamic Late Antiquity

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

In our latest translation, "די מאַלינע" or "The Hideaway", translated by Jake Schneider, is an excerpt from Avrom Nokhem Stencl’s memoirs of urban wandering in Weimar Berlin. buff.ly/3UMgqyf

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A major new book for early modern and Indian Ocean World South Asia! Subah Dayal *Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India* (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2024) www.ucpress.edu/books/betwee...

BETWEEN HOUSEHOLD AND STATE
The Mughal Frontier
and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India
SUBAH DAYAL

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 15/12/2024

From my dear friend andrew hui… and @princetonupress.bsky.social a marvelous study of studies to read in your study

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 22/11/2024

So inspiring… @rana-mikati.bsky.social how do we get Garrett on bsky?!

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 20/11/2024

everyone on here is praising bluesky, but what about kandinsky? he was a much more accomplished artist

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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Since I’m new to Bluesky, might as well shout out into the ether again that my book, Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonia India is available for pre-order. Out Jan 2024, and will also be available open access online! 🗃️ www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...