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Historian | Islam, Late Antiquity, Abbasids, sectarianism, heresy and stuff | Assoc. Prof. at UCalgary https://ucalgary.academia.edu/MusheghAsatryan

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A talk by Dr. Hamed Kazemzadeh: Circassian Culture
and Linguistic Identity
#circassian #history

09.03.2026 18:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

first article of 2026! and this one comes with a sound file to imagine the chatter & noises that filled the air of a Sasanian city.

28.01.2026 21:47 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

🎉 publication day! 🎉

editions & translations of the correspondence btw Umar b. Abd al-Aziz and Leo the Isaurian in medieval Latin, Christian Arabic, Muslim Arabic, Aljamiado, Armenian & early modern Latin. plus the intro to explain how they're all related!

open access & available here:

23.01.2026 20:37 👍 22 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2
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Join us on March 11 for my colleague Dr. Kazemzadeh's talk on "Circassian Culture and Linguistic Identity".

19.01.2026 19:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the Islamic lands of the Middle East during the medieval period (defined r...

Thanks to all authors, reviewers, & readers as we close out issue 33!

We published 550 pages in 2025: 7 articles; a thematic dossier w/ 4 more articles; a roundtable; an Arabic edition; a pedagogy file; 7 book reviews; & some short communications.

Here’s a thread to gather some highlights! 🧵

08.12.2025 17:20 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Vol. 33 (2025) | Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta

journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...

08.12.2025 00:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0