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Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Happy to see that they moved quickly to rename this otherwise great series!

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Vincent E. @vincente.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Update: In a statement, Bonn University confirms the renaming of the Otto Spies Memorial Series because of the archival material I quoted in my blogpost. In the meantime, the local newspaper Bonner General-Anzeiger published an article on the issue as well. www.ioa.uni-bonn.de/isl/de/nachr...

New name for the Publication Series: Ottoman Studies Publication Series (OSPS)

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Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This is really startling! I have found that Bonn's memorial lecture series and publication provides accessible introductions to topics at the forefront of research in Ottoman studies. For Monday I had even assigned Faroqhi's contribution on Ottoman slavery to an intro course I am teaching. 1/3

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Vincent E. @vincente.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I wrote a blog post explaining why I consider an honour for the orientalist Otto Spies (1901-1981) problematic, based on correspondence I examined in Berlin this summer: disorient.de/magazin/trot...

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Trotz NS-Vergangenheit: Universität Bonn ehrt Otto Spies

Seit 2015 trägt eine Vorlesungs- und Publikationsreihe an der Universität Bonn den Namen des Orientalisten Otto Spies – obwohl seine Nähe zum Nationalsozialismus dokumentiert ist. Neue Forschungsergeb...

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Vincent E. @vincente.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My first peer-reviewed article, based on my BA thesis at FU Berlin, has just been published (OA). It traces Palestinian libraries from the late Ottoman period in the so-called Abandoned Property Collection (NLI). Thank you to everyone who supported! doi.org/10.1353/mns.... @sims-mss.bsky.social

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Project MUSE - From Private Libraries in Late Ottoman Palestine to "Abandoned Property": Reconstructing the Dajānī Family Manuscript Collections in the National Library of Israel

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Trump cuts STEM funding and universisties cut non-STEM. The ugly bank shot analyzed in my new post - the case of UChicago. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/08/line...

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Liner Note 37. Chicago's Gift to Trump

Hyde Park, Chicago on June 25, 2017 It’s great when you’re President of the United States and are unlawfully taking apart the national sy...

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Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Excited to share the CfP for the Middle East History and Theory Conference at UChicago, May 2–3, 2025. Organized by Sharidan Russell! This year's theme: Conceiving Time & Navigating Space: Spatiotemporal Engagements in the Middle East & North Africa. theoknights.com/mehat/2024/1...

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39th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference — Call for Papers

We are excited to announce that the 39th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT) will take place at The University of Chicago on May 2-3, 2025

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Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The prof’s reasoning also just seems illogical here? She “wrote” the txtbook so she doesn’t have to spend time lecturing abt historical context and can focus on the texts. Except when are the students going to read the texts now if they’re spending all their time reading the txtbook? In class lol?

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Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I've written up some scattered thoughts about the issues I found with Metin Kunt's argument in his well known article "Derviş Mehmed Paşa, Vezir and Entrepreneur" Particularly, his misreading of the meaning of cāh, which he translates as political rank. theoknights.com/afewthoughts/

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A Few Thoughts on İbrahim Metin Kunt’s “Derviş Mehmed Paşa, Vezir and Entrepreneur” and the (Mis)interpretation of Cāh/Jāh/جاه

A few informal and decidedly in the weeds thoughts on İbrahim Metin Kunt’s 1977 Turcica article, “Derviş Mehmed Paşa, Vezir and Entrepreneur A Study in Ottoman Political-Economic Theory and Practice,”...

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Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Ottomans doing their damndest to follow standard IMF advice on avoiding a wage-price spiral

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 23/11/2024

We need more posts about manuscripts. Let me know if you want to be added or if I missed someone. #skystorians #medievalists #jewishhistory #hebrew #arabic #manuscripts #middleages

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Explore GrocerIST! 📊 This database presents the preliminary findings of the FWF-funded project "Grocers of Istanbul," showcasing 18th-19th c. inheritance inventories from kadi sicills. Regular updates coming soon! Explore: grocerist.acdh.oeaw.ac.at & find details: grocerist.univie.ac.at

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Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I thought I'd share the reading list I developed over the last 9 months while prepping for my Islamicate History comp. The list was conceived as a critical homage to Hodgson's project in The Venture of Islam from the perspective of social history and history from below.

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Islamicate History Syllabus: A Socio-Historical Approach

This syllabus offers a critical homage, from the perspective of social history and history from below, to Marshall Hodgson's project of writing a "general history of Islamicate civilization,&...

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Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The questions Marshall Hodgson was asked in 1951 for his written comprehensive exam in Social Thought are preserved in his papers. He completed the exam near the end of his PhD and it appears he was rather tired of writing about the Nizaris.

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