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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@sarialtschuler.bsky.social's BEFORE DISABILITY, which looks to the era before disability was pathologized (and racialized) to show how disability once represented the promise of US citizenship, out now with @pennpress.bsky.social: www.pennpress.org/978151282951... 2/

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Before Disability – Penn Press

A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is ofte...

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

How higher education is vandalised in the UK. Here is our last published annual report (www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/univ...) containing info about "a year of continued financial stability with operating cash generation of £48m and an increase in cash of £11m to end the year with balance of £211m."

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We are pleased to report a year of continued financial stability with operating cash generation
(EBITDA) of £48m and an increase in cash of £11m to end the year with balances of £211m. This surplus of income over expenditure, despite the challenging environment, is the result of significant hard work across the University following another challenging international recruitment round and continued economic pressures. Total income increased by 2% to £681m through growth in research grants and contracts income (+£8m, 6%), capital grants (+£3m) and donations (+£4m) bolstered by strong commercial income performance.
Tuition fee income maintained the historic high of £350m achieved in the prior year. The University saw continued strong interest from Home Undergraduate (UG Home) and Postgraduate students, but this was offset by contractions in Undergraduate and Postgraduate International.
These contractions were compounded by increased levels of scholarships, resulting in international fee income seeing a 2% year on year reduction to £135m, representing 38% of teaching income and 20% of total University income.

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Nahyan Fancy @fancynahyan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

3 #postdoctoral positions @exeter.ac.uk on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project on history of #smallpox and #measles (PI: Rebecca Flemming). Deadline for applications: May 20, 2026. Links to each advert below #histmed #sts #menastorians Please share widely. 1/4

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Shii Studies Network @shiistudiesnet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The next lecture in the Shii Studies Network's Reflections on Shiʿi Studies lecture series will take place on 11 May 2026. Dr George Warner (Institute of Ismaili Studies) will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Shiʿism and Myth: Terminology and its Burdens.’ www.shiistudies.net/events/warne...

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Shii Studies Network @shiistudiesnet.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

On 25 May, we will be joined by Kate Pukhovaia (Utrecht University & Leiden University Library) who will give a talk entitled: 'What Makes Premodern State-Building Shiʿi?' Further information here: www.shiistudies.net/events/pukho.... Looking to forward to seeing you then!

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My inaugural lecture as Professor of South Asian Music & History will be held on 28th May at 6PM @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social "If there is a heaven on earth: life, death, and the spaces between in South Asian Music". Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

The ghazal is a short, lyrical genre of poetry that has been widely embraced from Syria to Sumatra as a privileged form of emotional, artistic, and devotional expression. It originated in Arabic but made its main home further east in the Persianate world — in Iran, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. With its lilting metres and musical rhymes, the ghazal lends itself irresistibly to being set to melody, and has long enjoyed a second life throughout India and Pakistan as a major song form set in the classical ragas.

Moving backwards and forwards between the Mughal empire (1526–1858) and contemporary examples from India and Pakistan, in this lecture I will address the live musical performance of Persian and Urdu ghazals in two different, but ultimately linked, spaces: the secular mehfil — the intimate gathering for listening to elite music and poetry — and the majlis-i samā' (“assembly for spiritual listening”) at the Sufi shrine. Building on work I published twenty years ago on the occupational liminality of professional musicians, I will argue that in both the mehfil and the majlis, music acts to create a liminal space-time, or barzakh, in which listeners believe the isthmus between heaven and earth, the dead and the living, momentarily becomes thin, creating a highly emotionally charged experience.

The quotation that forms my title is half of a Persian couplet attributed to the famous Indian poet Amir Khusrau (1253–1325): "If there is a heaven on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here". It is said to refer to Kashmir, or to the city of Delhi, or any number of other beautiful places built upon the Islamic idea of paradise as a garden. In this lecture I will explore how the ghazal when sung in raga works upon the listening body to create a heightened, in-the-moment experience of dwelling with the beloved in the garden that never dies — and in so doing serves to underline the listener’s own sense of transience and mortality: of life in the face of death.

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Open Islamicate Texts Initiative @openiti.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

A wonderful array of paratextual features are on fine display in this massive (526 folios) 1642 Ottoman Turkish mecmū'a that encompassed an array of genres and authors, the joint work of the münādī Aḥmed Ibn Mūsā and the kātib Muṣṭafā Ibn Aḥmed (SBB Ms. or. quart. 1988):

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Uzair Ibrahim 🍉 @uzairibrahim.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I'll be presenting later this week at the Symposia Iranica V organised by Institute of Iranian Studies at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social / @standrewshist.bsky.social. Look forward to meeting friends and colleagues. Full programme here: iranian.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2026/0...

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Shii Studies Network @shiistudiesnet.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We're very excited to invite you to the next lecture in our Reflections on Shiʿi Studies lecture series to take place on 13 April 2026. Dr Alessandro Cancian (Institute of Ismaili Studies) will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Shiʿism and Sufism, Shiʿism in Sufism.’ www.shiistudies.net/events/canci...

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Adam Ramadhan @aramadhan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm delighted to share the programme for a workshop to be held in Leiden later this year: 'The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam' www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam

The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam Universiteit Leiden 11–12 June 2026 In much existing scholarship, our understanding of Muslim groups in early Islam has been gauged through...

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Uzair Ibrahim 🍉 @uzairibrahim.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

#islamicstudiessky Does anyone have a PDF of Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i Mansūb ba Amīr al-Muʾminīn ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib by Qadi Kamal al-Din Husayn Maybudi,edited by Ḥasan Raḥmānī and Sayyid Ibrāhīm Ashk-Shīrīn, Tehran: Mirāth-i Maktūb, 2000? Please share if you have it/know where to get it.

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Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I'm pleased to announce the publication of my book Rethinking Islamic Modernism: Religious Identity and Community in Colonial North India, which came out earlier this year in the McGill-Queen's University Press series on Modern Islamic Thought, edited by Muhammad Qasim Zaman and Humeira Iqtidar.

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Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Alrighty, let’s do this! For the price of lunch you can help some sweet Syrian kids stay in school this year. Y’all helped me raise $115 yesterday, let’s do it again today! C’mon click that button and donate, it'll feel great! givebutter.com/ZUTUcD

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Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees

By Stephennie Mulder

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Shii Studies Network @shiistudiesnet.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We're delighted to share the next lecture in the Shii Studies Network's Reflections on Shiʿi Studies lecture series to take place on 2 February 2026.

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Shii Studies Network @shiistudiesnet.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Something to look forward to in the New Year: the next talk in our Reflections on Shiʿi Studies lecture series! Karen Ruffle will be giving a talk on 12 January 2026 entitled "Making Shiʿism “Matter”: Bringing Material and Sensory Cultures to the Study of Shiʿism."

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Celebrate HMML’s 60 years of preserving & sharing manuscripts in the upcoming Winter Lecture Series, held virtually at 11 a.m. (CT) on January 28, February 25, & March 25. Join HMML staff and curators on a journey of partnerships & preservation. Free and open to the public; RSVP at hmml.org/events.

Winter Lecture Series

January 28
February 25
March 25

Virtual, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. (CT)
Free; registration required
Details: hmml.org/events

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Uzair Ibrahim 🍉 @uzairibrahim.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I’m nearing the end of my PhD and looking for postdoc opportunities in the UK, preferably in or near London. If you come across any opportunities in Islamic/religious studies, South Asian history, intellectual history—please direct them my way. RT for visibility and don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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Shii Studies Network @shiistudiesnet.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We are delighted to announce the second lecture in our Reflections on Shiʿi Studies lecture series by Dr Elvire Corboz, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam and the Middle East at the University of Edinburgh. Further details and registration can be found here: www.shiistudies.net/events/corbo...

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Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Colleagues attending the ECSAS at Heidelberg this year, please join us for our fantastic double panel on Thursday, 2nd Oct., 2-6.30 pm, co-convened by Francesca Chubb-Confer, Brannon Ingram and myself! Title: Orientalism’s ‘Other’: Islamic Studies, European Thought, and South Asia

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Adam Ramadhan @aramadhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I am pleased to announce the call for papers for a workshop Edmund Hayes and I are organising as part of the Embodied Imamate project: "The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam," to be held between 11–12 June 2026 at Leiden University. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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Shii Studies Network @shiistudiesnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The first session in our seminar series will be taking place on 20 October featuring @kontny-wendt.bsky.social and Ebrahim Mansoor. Further information can be found here: www.shiistudies.net/events/semin....

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Shii Studies Seminars I: Natalie Kontny-Wendt & Ebrahim Mansoor

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Uzair Ibrahim 🍉 @uzairibrahim.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Presenting next week (on 23 Sep) with friends and colleagues at the inaugural Ginan Studies Conference put together by the Association for the Study of Ginans with The Institute of Ismaili Studies and @soasuni.bsky.social. All times in BST. Hybrid and open to all. Registration: asginans.com/events

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

New study finds that using ChatGPT to write essays led to reduced brain activity & memory compared to writing without tools or using a search engine. While ChatGPT made writing easier, it also caused cognitive offloading, weakening learning and engagement over time. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Thrilled to announce another London showing of our film Songs Of The Sufi. This time we welcome the qawwals Najmuddin Saifuddin & Group, who are the focus of the film, to the panel Q&A…followed by a qawwali concert! This is one NOT to miss! SOAS, 12 June, 6pm 👇 store.soas.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Uzair Ibrahim 🍉 @uzairibrahim.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Honoured to be presenting at this conference next week with many amazing friends/colleagues/teachers! Come along for the excellent presentations and if, for whatever reason, you wanna hear me talk about jinn and gender. Entire conf hybrid. Details and registration: www.iis.ac.uk/events/devot...

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Uzair Ibrahim 🍉 @uzairibrahim.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I'll be presenting virtually at the New Generations/Jil Jadid conf at the CMES, UT Austin tomo at 1:15 pm CST/7:15 pm BST. Sad to not be able to attend in person but if you are around, do join us at utexas.zoom.us/j/94026515084. Full programme and details here: liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/graduate...

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Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

As we gear up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Raymond Williams’ book "“Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society,” scholars from the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts gather on 2/21 for the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 interdisciplinary symposium “Keywords.”

Graphic promoting Panel 1 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Imperialism” featuring Mariam Durrani, Professorial Lecturer, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations, American University; Hafsa Kanjwal, Associate Professor, South Asian History, Lafayette College; and Anna Storti, Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University with moderator Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center

Graphic promoting Panel 2 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Humanity” featuring Manu Chander, Associate Professor, English, Georgetown University; Gabrielle Cornish, Assistant Professor, Musicology, Mead Witter School of Music, University of Wisconsin; and Steven Weitzman, Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures, Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania with moderator: Jacob Myers, Doctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania

Graphic promoting Panel 3 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Aesthetics” featuring Sa'ed Atshan, Associate Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology, Swarthmore University; Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, Art History, University of Pennsylvania; and Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Associate Professor, Art History, Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture, Southern Methodist University with moderator Jeremy Steinberg, Doctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania

Graphic promoting the keynote lecture of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Redefining the Political: Persianate Sociability and its States” by Mana Kia, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University with moderator Maryam Athari, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center

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Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

What is Islamic art? lol glad you asked my friend but guess what? It's almost impossible to define. Yet that semiotic fluidity is what makes it so endlessly fascinating. Every Monday, I'll post an object from my class History of the Medieval Islamic World in 100 Objects. It'll be funnn come along!

Ivory colored manuscript page with a vertically aligned inset illustration depicting a rocky outcropping in a muted rainbow of colors with twisting trees. Behind the outcropping is a golden sky with scrolling clouds. Near the top center is an image of a seated man wearing animal skins and a domical crown. He gestures to his left toward another seated male figure as a young man stands on his right. Animals, plants, and humans surround the central figures, and abundant vegetation grows. Shahanameh of Shah Tahmasp, folio 20v, Iran, 16th c., Aga Khan Museum

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on! www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

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Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South

The Opportunity

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Jana Tschurenev @jtschurenev.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

CfP! My colleague Razak Khan and I are co-hosting the panel "Unfamiliar. Family, Law and Democracy in South Asia" at #ECSAS 2025. We're especially interested in changing parental rights and child custody. ecsas2025.com/panel/23-unf...

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23 – Unfamiliar: Family, Law, and Democracy in South Asia – ECSAS 2025

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

It’s here, a *start* of an Islamic Studies Starter Pack. Please spread the word. This is a work in progress… Scholars of Islam in all regions and periods, let me know, and I’ll happily add you. go.bsky.app/EYU1bFe

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