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Starting June 9, 10 am to 12 pm Eastern US via Zoom, we're doing a long deep dive into digital technologies, the political economy of data, histories of information, the haptics of longhand and electronic writing, reading thinkers from Adorno to Baudrillard to Pope Leo XIV:
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For whatever reason the scribe of this text (Shānzdah suʾāl-i sulṭān Dārā Shikūh az Shaykh Muḥibb Allāh Allāhabādī, in SBB Ms. or. fol. 248) didn't just cross this line out but added a line reading "no no no no no no" above it lol
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Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) retweeted
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Honoring the legacy of the esteemed Mamlukist Linda Northrup, From Cairo to Jerusalem features essays by distinguished scholars across Islamic history, material culture, and Middle Eastern studies.
brill.com/display/title/7306…
@BanisterMustafa, BRill, 2026
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Did you miss the conversation, “Translating Arabophone African Literature,” with Mayada Ibrahim?
Watch the recording on our Youtube channel now!
▶️ buff.ly/bsXusEJ
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Reminder that we'll be starting this coming Tuesday, it's not too late to sign up! For our first session we'll be doing introductions and tackling the first sections of Pope Leo's encyclical Magnifica humanitas:
Starting June 9, 10 am to 12 pm Eastern US via Zoom, we're doing a long deep dive into digital technologies, the political economy of data, histories of information, the haptics of longhand and electronic writing, reading thinkers from Adorno to Baudrillard to Pope Leo XIV:
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Beautiful translation of a powerful Ghalib verse by Shahid Alam @nuurzangi
نے تیر کماں میں ہے، نہ صیاد کمیں میں
گوشے میں قفس کے مجھے آرام بہت ہے
No sniper takes aim;
No trapper lays his bait.
I have never felt so safe,
Nested inside a cage.
Whose condition is it?
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Starting June 9, 10 am to 12 pm Eastern US via Zoom, we're doing a long deep dive into digital technologies, the political economy of data, histories of information, the haptics of longhand and electronic writing, reading thinkers from Adorno to Baudrillard to Pope Leo XIV:
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Some of the topics we plan on covering- most sessions will be wide-ranging in historical background etc, though some will involve specifically Islamicate concerns:
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Sign up to participate and express your specific interests here: forms.gle/SCsuY6B4oQwpe7yJ8
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Reflections on the affordances, benefits, downsides, and limitations, especially vis-a-vis our wider digital world and digitally-shaped selves, of a couple of key digital technologies of mediation that we often take for granted- the virtual meeting and the digitized manuscript:
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Eid Mubarak y’all!
A small archive of Eid visual culture from across the Islamic world: from historical illustrations, Ottoman greeting cards to Persian and Urdu philosophical poetry, devotional greetings, calligraphy, prayers, WhatsApp aesthetics, AI Kitsch, and sheep memes.
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Here is the line-up for our summer online reading group offerings- if you'd like to sign up sent us a DM or email us and we'll get you plugged in!
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A truly delightful array of pen trials and calligraphic doodles- including a couple of tughras- from the final pages of an early 19th century Ottoman Turkish poetic manuscript (Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1967):
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The biyāż is one of the manuscript forms we preserve and study. One of us keeps one. His latest Substack shares an entry: on the self as a cloak that demands weaving, and what might remain if the weaving stops. With Ghalib and the Prophet as guides. tinyurl.com/selfcloak
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RT @khalidsyossef: #NewRelease
#OpenAccess
The Role of Italian Presses in Early Arabic Printing
Third Volume of Collected Works of the TYPA…
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The scribe, or a later reader, of this manuscript- a majmū'a of Arabic texts (plus one in Ottoman Turkish) on matters astronomical- decided to erase the table on this page for whatever reasons, inadvertently creating something that feels very modern art-like (Columbia MS Or 285):
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