Sean W. Anthony
@shahanSean
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Professor, historian, specialist in Mashriqī Studies at 𝕿𝖍𝖊 @OhioState University #GoBucks
Columbus, OH
Joined May 2016
My new book, co-authored with Stephen Shoemaker, has has just been released. It's published #openacess but feel free to buy a hardcopy, too! https://t.co/6KIdPRw3uM
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"drug caliphate"
I very much appreciate and respect the determination by President Trump to deal with the drug caliphate countries that inhabit our backyard — chief among them Venezuela. For over a decade, Maduro has controlled a narcoterrorist state that is poisoning America and he has created
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It's ridiculous and scurrilous to claim that Christians destroyed nothing — indeed they destroyed a great deal — but I also think it's also worth asking: Which culture preserved and studied more of the foreign/pagan past than they?
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Many such cases.
There's a kind of academic who sincerely believes that their favorite dead philosopher got everything right
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The Mystery of the Grave of Fāṭima 🧵 It is well-known that ʿAlī buried Fāṭima, the daughter of the Prophet, secretly at night without informing the majority of the companions (see ʿĀʾisha’s report in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4240). This has historically led to some speculation
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A new article from the Dadan Archaeological Project (DAP) arguing for a Jewish settlement in Late Antique Dadan (Wadi alQura). The single #ThamudicD inscription from the site is #New_on_OCIANA! See how even a fragmentary graffito can contribute to history https://t.co/q4n5KOnRWL
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This recently published article of mine is now #OpenAccess
https://t.co/Aouj1skcim
degruyterbrill.com
This essay starts from a somewhat simple question: What was the ummah of Muḥammad? It has become commonplace in the historiography of early Islam to understand the ummah of Muḥammad as primarily the...
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From Sun-Day to the Lord’s Day The Cultural History of Sunday in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ed. Uta Heil. Brepols 2022 #OpenAccess Introduction https://t.co/goO6iJi8P8 Front Matter https://t.co/srZepW07JY
https://t.co/YvG5WrByBr
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I want one of these maps for the US with pics for “the Yankee”, “the Redneck”, “the Hick”, “the Yuppie”, “the Hoosier”, “the Hillbilly”, etc.
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Working with a manuscript that may be the earliest surviving copy of Sirr al-Asrār has been one of the most exciting moments of my research journey. Sirr al-Asrār, a celebrated mirror-for-princes attributed to Aristotle, shaped political and esoteric advice literature across
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A similar, earlier example: Justin Martyr (d. c. 165) regards Heraclitus, Socrates and others as "Christians" stating that (1 Apol. 46.3), "All men who lived according to the Logos [Reason/the Word; cf. John 1] are Christians, though they may have passed for atheists ..."
Eusebius (d. 339) was quite explicit in stating that Christianity was the true religion of humankind from the beginning of creation. Hence, he says that Abraham, Moses, etc. were all "Christians avant la lettre" even though born before Jesus of Nazareth.
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Both are aesthetically unpleasnt, but the bottom one "feels" worse: hyper-antiseptic, soulless (no family or children -- not just because there's no people), etc
i am honestly baffled. are there seriously people who think the 1990 version is better looking? it's awful, an unpleasant mix of busy and frumpy. the 2024 version is clean and pleasant. not even a question that it's a huge improvment.
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Finally out! Another paean to my favorite Pythagorean philosopher-theurgist of all time: https://t.co/eLjmOMiuGS
academia.edu
The Brethren of Purity are rightly acclaimed the most influential Pythagorean thinkers of pre-Mongol Islam; their Epistles were crucial to the development of a wide and weird range of western and...
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Forthcoming in 2026: Harry Munt, Universalism and Regionalism in the Early Islamic World -
cambridge.org
Cambridge Core - Islam - Universalism and Regionalism in the Early Islamic World
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#NewPublication Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History Craig Perry . Princeton Univ Pr 2025 #OpenAccess prelims & Introduction PDF 🎯 https://t.co/5K8ApBEmBl
https://t.co/KHFc8CQhg7
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Al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204) said I spent 20 years studying Arabic and observing people’s interactions and dealings to help me understand Fiqh!
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Pre-Print: 'What present-day diglossia in Arabic inscriptions can tell us about the linguistic situation in the early Islamic period' by Ahmad Al-Jallad, 2025 EGI – Epigraphy; Graffiti; Iconography Journal. https://t.co/sswF84ms3P Photo: Ahmad Al-Jallad
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