@rebellionuhh
Emmy Noether research group, 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)', Hamburg. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html. "Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World" (EUP, Dec 2024, OA!). Shared account.
Tomorrow: Rebellion and State-Building in the Assyrian Empire! Tues, 9 Dec, 4:00 pm CET, on Zoom: Alexander Edmonds (MΓΌnster), 'The King is Dead! New, Rebellious Insights into the Rise of the Assyrian Empire'!
Register by emailing our team account score.aai@uni-hamburg.de. π
Interested in Assyrian rebels and state building? Join us on Tues, 9 Dec, 4:00 pm CET, on Zoom for a talk by Alexander Edmonds (MΓΌnster): 'The King is Dead! New, Rebellious Insights into the Rise of the Assyrian Empire'!
Register by emailing our team account score.aai@uni-hamburg.de. π
Interested in Assyrian rebels and state building? Join us on Tues, 9 Dec, 4:00 pm CET, on Zoom for a talk by Alexander Edmonds (MΓΌnster): 'The King is Dead! New, Rebellious Insights into the Rise of the Assyrian Empire'!
Register by emailing our team account score.aai@uni-hamburg.de. π
Great opportunity to work with our brilliant colleagues of the Caliphal Finances team at Edinburgh! Research Fellow in Coptic and Greek papyrology OR Abbasid History and Historiography, full time, fixed-term until 31 Dec 2027! π
At the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Marburg, a full-time postdoc position in research and teaching is to be filled for a fixed term of four years starting on 1 March 2026, with the option of extension for a further two years
An important 'time out' by a very clear thinker. Much of what Shoemaker claims about the Hijaz on the eve of Islam is conclusively disproved by material evidence, which grows by the year. I have a surprise, too, from my last survey mission (May 2025) between Taif-Mecca and Medina
shorturl.at/8IG8f
Today!
Massimiliano Borroni (Venice), 'Late Frost and Fiscal Timetables: The Mosul Revolt of 259 AH', 4:00 pm CET on Zoom.
Register by emailing score.aai@uni-hamburg.de.
Our lecture series on rebellion continues tomorrow, Tues, 18 Nov, 4:00 pm CET, on Zoom! Massimiliano Borroni will discuss his work on climate, revolt, and fiscality in a talk on 'Late Frost and Fiscal Timetables: The Mosul Revolt of 259 AH'!
Register by emailing score.aai@uni-hamburg.de! π
Today! Nargiz Mammadli, 'The Political Background of Heresy Executions in Medieval Islam: The Case of Imadaddin Nasimi (d. 1417)'! 21 Oct, 4:00 pm CEST, on Zoom.
Email score.aai@uni-hamburg.de to join!
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Our lecture series resumes tomorrow, Tues, 21 Oct, 4:00 pm CEST on Zoom, with a talk by Nargiz Mammadli on 'The Political Background of Heresy Executions in Medieval Islam: The Case of Imadaddin Nasimi (d. 1417)'!
Register by emailing score.aai@uni-hamburg.de! π
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Excited to share that our doctoral researcher Natalie @kontny-wendt.bsky.social will present her research on the proposgraphy of Zaydi rebellion in the inaugural session of the @shiistudiesnet.bsky.social seminar series! Get in touch with the Network to listen to her talk on 20 Oct! π
A reminder that the upcoming @imc-leeds.bsky.social (July 2026) submission deadline is on 30 September (only for pre-organized panels!). IMCβs 2026 theme is βTemporalitiesβ (www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/).
MEM sponsors IMC panels in the field of medieval Islamic history/studies.
#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"The Greek orthodox waqf in Lebanon during the Ottoman period" by Souad Abou el-Rousse Slim
Beiruter Texte und Studien 113
[WΓΌrzburg : Ergon, 2007]
dx.doi.org/10.25673/112...
#ottomanempire #greeks #lebanon
Weβve crossed the halfway point on this fundraiser for a Syrian PhD student! π₯³ So excited!
Just 4 donations of $75 and heβll have money needed to submit an open-access article: a requirement for graduation in his program. Whoβs got $75 out there today? It might be you!
We are delighted to announce the autumn program of our online lecture series Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid ShΔ«ΚΏism. The series brings together scholars of early ShΔ«ΚΏism with specialists in Islamic material culture, art, architecture, and archaeology.
βοΈ Our online lecture series on rebellion in the pre-modern Islamicate world resumes next month (21 Oct)! Tuesdays, 4-5:30 pm CET, on Zoom. Check out the new programme here: www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forsch....
To attend, simply email us at score.aai@uni-hamburg.de! π
Daisy Livingston delves into the archival history of one of the most powerful polities in Cairo: the βMamlukβ sultanate of Cairo.Β
π§ Dive into her insights during an interview with Jen Hoyer: https://edin.ac/4n7lsRzΒ
π Explore Daisyβs book:
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Over at @invisibleeast.bsky.social our member Teresa Bernheimer contributed a "Document of the Month" with her piece on "Scribal Building Blocks and Funerary Inscriptions in 9th-Century Egypt". Check it out:
πΊ Job alert! πΊ
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
We are so excited to announce the launch of the Shii Studies Network, a space for PhD students researching Shiism to forge personal and professional connections, share their research with and learn from each other, and push the field forward.
πΊ Job alert! πΊ
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
Come join our brilliant colleagues @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social and apply for a PhD in Manuscript Cultures with a fully funded 3-year scholarship! Deadline for applications: 30 September! π
Come join our brilliant colleagues @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social and apply for a PhD in Manuscript Cultures with a fully funded 3-year scholarship! Deadline for applications: 30 September! π
#CfP Conference: "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations" (BMFTR-project "Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations) - deadline: 15 September 2025.
Job alert! π―
4 days until the deadline: research fellow in North African medieval history, full-time, based at UCL's Institute of Archaeology. π
8 days to go until the application deadline! Research fellow in North African medieval history, based at UCL and working on an ERC project studying the 'medieval green revolution'. π
Great job opportunity: full-time research fellow in North African medieval history, fixed-term (10/25-07/28), UCL Institute of Archaeology, ERC Synergy project "MEDGREENREV" (medgreenrev.com). Excellent Arabic + background in medieval Islamic history. Apply by 29/07/25.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Great job opportunity: full-time research fellow in North African medieval history, fixed-term (10/25-07/28), UCL Institute of Archaeology, ERC Synergy project "MEDGREENREV" (medgreenrev.com). Excellent Arabic + background in medieval Islamic history. Apply by 29/07/25.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...