Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
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Associate Prof. of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East @HebrewU // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land" // Global Islam, Shi'ism, the Iranian Revolution
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(1/4) Based on epidemiological data & compared to 1948, my
@HebrewU
colleagues Liat Kozma & Wiessam Abu Ahmad conclude in
@haaretzcom
that the death toll in
#Gaza
is probably higher than reported: "the damage of the current war has already far outdone that of the first Nakba."
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This Iranian cartoon, dating to February 1980, depicts Pakistan's 6th president and military dictator Zia-ul-Haq (d. 1988) as an all too compliant puppet of "American Islam".
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Just out: "Challenging other accounts that claim that Middle Eastern states turned secular in modern times, Zeghal shows instead the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam as the preferred religion." The introduction can be read here:
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Very much looking forward to Rishad Choudhury's forthcoming book "Hajj across Empires Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857 (
@CambridgeUP
) on how "the hajj pilgrimage significantly transformed Muslim political culture and colonial attitudes towards it."
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Looking forward to Jan-Peter Hartung's new book that covers ca. 500 years of Pashtun history. Drawing on materials in Pashto, Persian, Urdu & Arabic, he discusses the Taliban "beyond the immediacy of journalistic reportage & security-orientated studies":
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(1/2) How did
#Pakistan
's Sunni Islamists engage with the Iranian Revolution? My latest article in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society traces this fascinating story. I argue that the influential Jamaat-e-Islami was drawn to the events of 1979 because these reflected a core
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Today is the day: "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shiʿism between Pakistan and the Middle East" is out with
@uncpressblog
. Thanks for all the love and support along the way! For details:
@elainemaisner
#Pakistan
#Iran
#Twitterstorians
#Islam
#Shiism
#MiddleEast
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Forthcoming, exciting & assembling many great colleagues: "The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s–1970s", on "entangled histories of Left-wing trends across the Mashreq and Maghreb regions in the ‘Long Sixties’", out with
@EdinburghUP
in August.
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New article by
@kudos4nemo
, available
#OpenAccess
:
"Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth-century South Asia." Layli argues "for the importance of Islamic Socialism in thinking beyond Islamic literalism."
#SouthAsia
#twitterstorians
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My colleagues in Berlin have not condoned antisemitism or even embraced the demands of the pro-Palestine camp. They have simply defended the right to peaceful demonstrations & called on the
@FU_Berlin
admin to engage in a dialogue. Denouncing them as "perpetrators" is grotesque.
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This is such a masterful article by
@MaslamaQ
which show the epistemological shift in Islamic occult thought from the 8th to the 11th century. Arguments of natural philosophy gave way to Sufism, the power of letters & divine names became the new paradigm.
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I'm really happy to report that "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (
@UNC_Press
) has been selected for the inaugural book award of the South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA).
Many congrats to Prof. Lemons, too!
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So great that Laurence Gautier's study on Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia is finally out with
@CambridgeUP
! She looks at the relations of the two institutions with the state & "public debates on Muslims' status in post-partition India".
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My first multiple-day, major conference since becoming a father. Many thanks to
@FU_Berlin
and the organizers of the
#dot2022
for making this possible by offering superb childcare. This should really be normalized across the board in academia.
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A special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society on "Divine Sovereignty, Morality and the State:
#Maududi
and His Influence," edited by Humeira Iqtidar and Oliver Scharbrodt, has just been published. A 🧵on the contributions.
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I'm excited about
@AaronRockSinger
's new book which argues that "
#Salafism
is a creation of the 20th century" & that its signature practices, such as praying in shoes, the Salafi beard & gender segregation, emerged out of competition with other movements.
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In 1969, Klaus Schwarz established the book series "Islamic & Middle East Studies" (Islamkundl. Untersuchungen), in which a large number of German PhD theses have since been published. Its 350 vol are all digitized & available for free, thanks to
@menalib
:
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"Islam considers dogs to be impure!" After reading Alan Mikhail's "The Animal in Ottoman Egypt", this old cliché can safely be discarded. Ottoman authorities carefully cultivated large groups of dogs to keep the streets clean of refuse & strongly punished those who killed a dog.
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(1/2): Please mark your calendars:
@kudos4nemo
and I have convened a series of webinars on "Islamic Socialism in the Global South" from 14-18 September. Bringing together both activists and scholars, we'll be discussing the concept and its genealogies by covering North Africa,
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Wow!
@SKhojaMoolji
's forthcoming book (
@ucpress
) promises (among many other things) to investigate how the Pakistani state & the Taliban perform Islamic masculinity in order to build trust & establish sovereignty. It looks simply stunning, too! Can't wait!
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(1/2) This is very special for me: "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (
@UNC_Press
) will soon be out in Urdu translation, done by the wonderful people of
@Folio_Books
in Lahore. I've received lots of help and generosity from colleagues and Shi'i
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(1/5) Joseph Schacht, one of the giants in the Western study of Islamic law, was appointed professor of Oriental Studies
@UniFreiburg
in 1924, at the tender age of 22. Between 1925-1932, when he left for Königsberg, he taught the following languages: Arabic, Babylonian-Assyrian,
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Anyone who accuses Muslims of being insular, intellectually arrogant, and not interested in other religions/non-Muslim majority regions/non-Islamic ideas has simply never engaged the vast corpus of travelogues written by Muslim authors over the centuries.
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My research find of the day! Yusuf al-Qaradawi leading
#Maududi
's funeral prayers in Lahore in September 1979. A potent reminder of the
#transnational
connections of Islamism and how important it is to study modern
#Islam
through the lens of
#globalhistory
!
صلاة الجنازة على العلامة أبو الأعلى المودودي سبتمبر 1979م باستاد مدينة لاهور بحضور الرئيس ضياء الحق
http://t.co/Cz0z9DcS1V
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I am proud of my
@HebrewU
colleagues who drafted this letter and I was very happy to sign it. The treatment of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a disgrace.
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@AtiehS
A stunning cultural site less known is the Barsian mosque, located about 42km east of Isfahan, dating to 1098/1105. I took this picture last September.
#NoWarOnIran
#IranianCulturalSites
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The beauty of doing extensive work for
@OxUniPress
is that - at a sudden, happy stroke - you're physically surrounded by the printed, brilliant thoughts of so many great colleagues, such as
@MeganEatonRobb
,
@fitzmorrissey
,
@pippavirdee
,
@AzmiBishara
,
@pmandaville
,
@JBPrestel
, the
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The temptations of undergrad life in 1574
#Istanbul
(as spelled out by the Ottoman sultan in an edict for the city's chief judge):
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(1/3) When we look today at
#Pakistan
's map of 1948, comprising two wings separated by more than 1000 mi/1600 km, it's hard to imagine that this was ever a feasible project. Yet, in the context of imperialist and/or communist thinking of the 1940s, things looked very different.
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I'm really looking forward to delving into Waleed Ziad's just published book (
@Harvard_Press
), which traces the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufis and their legacy from the Subcontinent to Central Asia and beyond!
#twitterstorians
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My recent article "A Direct Flight to Revolution: Maududi, Divine Sovereignty, and the 1979-Moment in Iran" in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society has just been made
#openaccess
. You can read it for free without any paywall here:
#twitterstorians
(1/2) How did
#Pakistan
's Sunni Islamists engage with the Iranian Revolution? My latest article in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society traces this fascinating story. I argue that the influential Jamaat-e-Islami was drawn to the events of 1979 because these reflected a core
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(1/8) In 1894, the Oriental Society in
#Leipzig
organized a trip to the Middle East. Some of the images they brought back are quite spectacular. A short🧵⤵️
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(1/11) This term, I’ve taught a seminar
@IslamicSt_UniFR
called “Little Ice Ages and Mighty Microbes. What Environmental History Can Tell Us about the
#MiddleEast
”. These are some of the things that I’ve learned. A thread.
#twitterstorians
#environmentalhistory
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Ah,
#academia
is such a happy place. Today: Professors exchanging pleasantries in public on an Islamic Studies mailing list (yes, such things still exist!).
#AcademicChatter
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A great new article by Siarhei Bohdan (Free University of Berlin) which focuses on how
#Khomeini
's followers in
#Iran
and
#Afghanistan
read & engaged with Muslim Brotherhood writings and ideas: "They Were Going Together with the Ikhwan":
@MiddleEastInst
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(1/2) Some personal news: I've been appointed a visiting professor of Culture and Society of Islam at
@goetheuni
's Institute for the Study of Islamic Culture and Religion. During this winter term, I'll be teaching courses on history & Islam in modern
#Afghanistan
, on the lived
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In these bleak times when cruelty becomes normalized, it gave me a rare moment of joy to listen to one of the kids in my son's Hebrew-Arabic kindergarten this morning. He referred to the onset of rain as "fi (there is, Arabic) geshem (rain, Hebrew)". Another world is possible.
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(2/4) In their piece, they argue that in 1948 international humanitarian organizations acted to prevent a famine, provided drinking water and vaccines, and set up clinics and hospitals. According to the authors, this is not happening today: "food deliveries to Gaza were cut
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I've reviewed Saadia Sumbal's exciting new book, "Islam and Religious Change in
#Pakistan
," in the Journal of Contemporary Religion (
@tandfonline
). For 50 free e-prints, use this link:
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(4/4) system is unable to provide emergency treatment and "it's very doubtful whether chronic patients have survived the war; only a few fortunate ones have made it out of Gaza to receive medical care in Egypt." For the full article:
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When the police come after the poetry of your esteemed
@HebrewU
colleague, something is concerningly wrong!
#academicfreedom
#releasenadera
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The rejection of "man-made laws" is a catch-phrase of
#Islamism
. For today's thread on
@Tweetistorian
, I explain how South Asia laid the groundwork for the global success of the concept of divine sovereignty.
1/9 The centerpiece of Islamist thought is one idea: only God is sovereign. This implies that only divine law is legitimate. Failure to submit to this conception of God is unbelief. Without South Asian input, this idea wouldn’t have been so successful in the Middle East & beyond.
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New Publication: My chapter "The
#Islamist
International in Lahore: The Jamaat-i Islami, the Middle East, and the Quest for an Islamic State" is out in "South Asia Unbound," ed.
@elisabeth_leake
&
@GuyotRechard
(
@LeidenUPress
). If interested, dm me for a PDF!
#twitterstorians
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(1/8) In the current issue of the ZDMG, Heinz Halm remembers his colleague Josef van Ess (1934-2021), one of the towering figures of Islamic Studies in the 20th and 21st centuries. A🧵on some highlights from the obituary:
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(3/4) sharply and without precedent compared to previous rounds of fighting." Additionally, it "is virtually impossible to implement quarantines or spray pesticides and, lacking a proper sanitation infrastructure, it is also impossible to stymie waterborne disease." The health
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How exciting! A new article by Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Princeton) in JRAS on how the influential Indian Muslim religious scholar Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (d. 1762), conceptualized the interplay of political power and religious authority.
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New publication: "Searching for Friends Across the Global South: Classified Documents, Iran, and the Export of the Revolution in 1983." My chapter is part of the recently published volume "The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East. Palestine, Iran and Beyond,"
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In 1915, a German-Ottoman expedition made its way to
#Afghanistan
. The goal was to convince the ruler, Habibullah Khan, to enter
#WWI
on the side of the Central Powers. The mission failed but Oskar von Niedermayer's coffee table book contains stunning images of people and places.
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Perhaps you'd also like to know that the Ottoman scholar and spiritist Mehmed Bahaeddin (1881-1959) chose the family name "Töven" for himself to comply with the 1934 Turkish Surname Law. A big fan of classical music, he would afterwards always sign as "B. Töven".
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Looking forward to discussions on the "Religious Landscapes" of
#Pakistan
on April 2/3 with
@nosheenali
,
@neelam_khoja
,
@AU_Qasmi
,
@SheraliTareen
,
@jemalilyas
, Claire Pamment, Teren Sevea, colleagues from
@umCSAS
& everyone else interested. To register:
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Together with
@ThomasPierret
, I'm organizing a workshop on "Utopias in the Middle East and Beyond," to be held in London in Feb 2022, funded by
@CIWAS_RHUL
. Deadline for proposals is Oct 15. For more info, visit . Please share widely!
#twitterstorians
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Congratulations to
@SheraliTareen
! His marvelous book "Defending Muhammad in Modernity" (
@UNDPress
) has won the 2020 Book Prize of the American Institute of
#Pakistan
Studies!
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I've reviewed
@Hegghammer
's "The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad" (
@CambridgeUP
), a fascinating and richly sourced account of how Arab foreign fighters got involved in 1980s Afghanistan, for
@IJMES1
:
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Excited about this upcoming workshop on "Islamic Third Worldism", organized by Lin Hongxuan (
@NUSingapore
) & Teren Sevea (
@HarvardDivinity
), featuring
@chiaraformichi
,
@kudos4nemo
,
@tareekhdaan
, Rianne Subijanto, Kevin Fogg & John T. Sidel.
#twitterstorians
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(2/2) concern and signature idea of the party's founder Abu ’l-Aʿla Maududi (d. 1979) himself, namely to establish the sovereignty of God (hakimiyya) on earth.
#twitterstorians
#Iran
#GlobalIslam
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This is my last day as a member of
@Junge_Akademie
. I was privileged to enjoy 5 years of a slice of academia as it should be: collaborative, curious, warm, interdisciplinary, with fantastic administrative & financial support to concentrate on projects. I'll be forever grateful!
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Some new year news: An
#Urdu
translation of my "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between
#Pakistan
and the Middle East" (
@uncpressblog
) is currently under preparation by the wonderful, Lahore-based independent publishing house
@Folio_Books
!
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Yes,
#Germany
is on the edge. The biggest threat to our democracy is far-right terrorism and its dangerous ideologues. This is the time for solidarity and courageous defense of our open society, a society for everyone.
#Hanau
#GermanyShooting
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Academia is when letters of recommendation refer to a colleague in her or his mid-forties as an "enthusiastic and intelligent young scholar."
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I'm excited that a workshop on utopias in the Middle East which
@ThomasPierret
& I convened first online and then
@CIWAS_RHUL
in June 2022 has now resulted in a contract with
@EdinburghUP
. "Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa" is hopefully coming out in 2024!
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Today I'm continuing my series on
@Tweetistorian
with a thread on how South Asia made modern Shi'i Islam.
1/9 Modern Shi’i Islam as we know it would not exist without South Asia. It all starts in
#Lucknow
in North India. From 1775-1856, the city was the capital of the state of Awadh (or Oudh). Its Shi’i rulers, the nawwabs, used splendid architecture to propagate their faith.
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Sickening terrorism is back in Europe. It's incredible hard to start teaching today a seminar on the continent's relations with the Middle East. Yet, it's crucial to understand that our shared story is far greater than hatred, violence, and a supposed clash of cultures.
#Vienna
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I received the sad news that Muhammad Husain Najafi Dhakko Sahib, a leading reformist Pakistani Shi'i scholar, passed away this morning after a serious illness. May God grant him happiness!
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This video is a powerful reminder that the Iranian government has more popular support than many outside observers want us to believe.
#Iran
#Sulaimani
What appears to be millions attending Soleimani’s funeral procession in Ahvaz, an Iranian city usually described by mainstream media as “restive”, and hence hardly a Soleimani stronghold. Trump doesn’t know what is awaiting him across the Middle East
2K
11K
22K
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(5/5) and most civilized period between the two wars,
when one had at least the illusion of making positive progress." If you'd like to know more, check out Rainer Brunner's fascinating piece:
@IslamicSt_UniFR
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Stand der
#Islamdebatte
in
#Deutschland
2019? Es besteht kein Mangel an:
a) Gutaussehenden Experten
b) Vorwürfen, dass Muslime "uns" etwas verschweigen/ "uns" eigentlich hassen
c) Überzeugungen, dass es höchste Zeit ist, die "Wahrheit" zu sagen.
@ConstSchreiber
#KinderdesKoran
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If you liked (or took issue with) the late Shahab Ahmed's "What is Islam?", you are in for a brilliant intellectual ride with Thomas Bauer's wonderful book, now finally available in English. He shows how later manifestations of Islam lost a stunning early "culture of ambiguity".
Now Available! "Thomas Bauer's A CULTURE OF AMBIGUITY belongs to the rare class of books that can change our thinking about a whole era of history—here premodern Islam." -Ahmed El Shamsy
#Religion
#Islam
#MiddleEast
#NewRelease
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(1/8) Traditionally, the precious brocade cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca, the kiswah, had been woven in Egypt and transported to the Hejaz for the Hajj season.
@AU_Qasmi
recently discussed how in 1963 it was suddenly manufactured in Pakistan. What had happened? A🧵.
Ghilafa-e-Kaba prepared in Lahore, outpouring of religious fervour, paraded in the streets of Lahore, cinema hoardings removed to show respect, people desperate to catch a glimpse.
Later turned our that Saudis were upset because poor quality fabric used,its colour faded quickly🤦♂️
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Proofing day! Looking forward to being part of this excellent
@OneworldNews
volume edited by
@rasmuselling
and Sune Haugbolle. Check out the ToC here:
#twitterstorians
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Proofing Day for my chapter in the forthcoming "South Asia Unbound. New International Histories of the Subcontinent" (
@AmsterdamUPress
), edited by the brilliant
@elisabeth_leake
&
@GuyotRechard
. Check out the tantalizing ToC:
#Pakistan
#IslamicRevolution
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If you are in
#Lahore
this weekend, please join
@AU_Qasmi
, Aliya Iqbal Naqvi & me to discuss "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between
#Pakistan
and the Middle East" at 3.15pm on Sunday, January 12
@ThinkFestPK
. Everyone is welcome!
@speakingtiger14
@uncpressblog
#ThinkFest2020
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Together with Maria-Magdalena Fuchs, I have edited a forthcoming special issue of
@southasiajsas
on "Religious Minorities in
#Pakistan
". This link provides 50 free offprints of our introduction on identities, citizenship & belonging:
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I am currently teaching a course on the
#Ottoman
/
#Safavid
/
#Mughal
empires. This highly anticipated source book is what I would have badly needed:
#breakdownareastudies
@ColumbiaUP
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What to read in the vast field of "global
#Islam
" from 1870 until today? Nile Green in his "Very Short Introduction" (
@OUPAcademic
2020, ) has some suggestions:
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In case you get too fond today of your own scholarly productivity, it's always helpful to keep in mind that Josef van Ess's collected "scattered short writings" in Islamic studies amount to 3 vols, 150 texts, and 2634 pages.
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Judging from the quality of Stéphane Lacroix's previous works, this long-awaited new monograph on Salafism in Egypt should be amazing!
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This is how the journal "Red Flag" of the Communist Party of
#Pakistan
saw the
#IranianRevolution
in spring 1979: while US "imperialism" was kicked out of
#Iran
, Pakistan's dictator Zia ul-Haq, along with Islamist parties, provided it with a comfortable landing.
#twitterstorians
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I feel very honored to have been elected a member of
@Junge_Akademie
along with outstanding colleagues in
#Berlin
yesterday! It's a tremendous privilege to push the boundaries of interdisciplinary exploration over the next five years.
#academictwitter
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(2/5) Biblical Aramaic, Egyptian Arabic dialect, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Hittite, Mandaic, Middle Turkish, Neo-Aramaic (dialect of Maʿlūla), Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Phoenician, Syriac, modern Turkish, Uyghur and Yakut. He had no assistants but was, in fact, a one- man-department
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It's such a pleasure to teach a seminar on the Middle East's Environmental History this term
@IslamicSt_UniFR
. If you're looking for a handy list that assembles stellar current scholarship in this exciting field,
@4mespi
&
@jadaliyya
have you covered:
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If you're teaching on
#Afghanistan
, then don't look further than the fantastic Louis and Nancy Dupree Collection:
Here you can see the Nowruz Fair in
#Kabul
in 1974 and a nomad spring camp of the Kochi pastoral nomads South of
#Kunduz
in 1965.
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Tomorrow our workshop "Utopias in the Middle East and Beyond" will kick off.
@ThomasPierret
and I are looking forward to discuss great & sophisticated contributions by Heba Taha &
@PelleValentin
,
@YLoujami
,
@justjoud
,
@_behz
,
@IsaniMujtaba
,
@matghy
, Mario Lauri, Nermin Elsherif,
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(1/2) The fascinating current issue of WDI (
@Brill_ME_Africa
) focuses on "Challenges from “The Periphery”? – Salafī Islam Outside the Arab World. Spotlights on Wider Asia". It discusses
#Salafism
among Pashtuns, in
#Indonesia
,
#Cambodia
,
#Azerbaijan
, as well as Salafis & Maturidi
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@ConstSchreiber
Wird das Ihrer Sorgfaltspflicht als Journalist gerecht? Kein Kontext, kein Hinweis auf die Strukturen von Freitagspredigten, aber schön auf der Jagd nach clickbait-Klischees über den
#Islam
, um den Hass weiter zu befeuern.
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What to read on Twelver Shiʿism in
#Pakistan
? I discuss the existing literature in a new contribution to Oxford Bibliographies (
@OUPAcademic
). Check it out here:
This bibliography will get updated regularly, so please send any recs on new work my way!
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Andrew Newman (
@EdinburghUni
) invited me to participate in the "Shii News Chats" series & to reflect on my way into Shi'i studies, what I see as the "big issues of the field", & how my work relates to these.
You can listen to the recording here:
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(1/5) I'm delighted that
@IslamicSt_UniFR
will be hosting Prof. Teena Purohit (
@BUreligion
) on July 4th, 6.15 pm, for a talk based on her recently published book "Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism" (
@PrincetonUPress
). All welcome!
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Beirut in February 1983: amid the Israeli occupation, explosions in Hamra and fighting in the north, there are definitive priorities for Wednesday nights.
#Lebanon
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I've reviewed
@EskandarSadeghi
's "Revolution and Its Discontents. Political Thought and Reform in
#Iran
" in Political Theology. A marvelous work that transcends conventional, insular discussions of Iranian political thought. This link gives 50 free copies:
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@MalteKaufmann
Ich denke, wer von "Migranten-Horden" spricht, zeigt schon recht deutlich seine Geisteshaltung und offenbart sich als eigentlicher Gefährder der öffentlichen Sicherheit.
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(1/3) Iranian visual propaganda since the Revolution of 1979 has always been striking. The latest examples are no exception. Take this piece, shared on social media after the recent attacks against
#Israel
. It spells out the codename "True Promise" (Va'deh-e sadeq) in the form of
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Next Monday (Nov 16) at 6pm Indian Standard Time (12.30pm GMT), I will be talking on some aspects of the global history of the Iranian Revolution at an open
@JindalGlobalUNI
/
@UniversityLeeds
forum. Looking forward to
@elisabeth_leake
's insightful comments!
#twitterstorians
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1/2 What motivated the famous North Indian Muslim modernist Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (d. 1898) & his associates? My new article in "Islamic Law and Society" argues that their goal wasn't to “democratize” Islamic knowledge by doing away with the traditional edifice of Islamic law.
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In 1959, Karl Flinker and Max Klimburg depicted a peaceful country in their book "Legendary
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