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  1. The latest addition to the Staring into Space project is on the thousand-year-old book, the Kitab #al-Fihrist, in which the only mention we have of astrolabe-maker Maryam al-Astrulabi was made. #archaeology #islamicHistory
    wasteflake.com/tiki-read_artic

  2. 📜✨ Oh, let's dust off the scrolls and pretend we care about ancient medical trivia for a sec! Apparently, Islamic medicine wasn't just about chanting incantations and using leeches—who knew? 🤷‍♂️ Clearly, we all need a history lesson on how this might somehow be relevant in 2018! 🙄📚
    hekint.org/2018/11/19/islamic- #ancientmedicine #Islamichistory #medicaltrivia #historylesson #relevance2018 #HackerNews #ngated

  3. "The Wech Baghtu wedding party airstrike refers to the killing of about 37 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, and injuring about 27 others by a United States military airstrike on 3 November 2008...

    On 5 November 2008, Afghan President Hamid Karzai responded by demanding that newly-elected US President Barack Obama end civilian deaths"

    Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wech_Bag

    #obama #blackhistory #islamichistory #blackmastodon

  4. Discovery Reveals 10,000 Years of Rock Art in Sinai.

    An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered a previously unknown site in southern Sinai featuring rock paintings and inscriptions that reveal 10,000 years of history, from prehistory to the Islamic period.

    Read more: omniletters.com/10000-years-of

    #Sinai #Archaeology #AncientHistory #RockArt #Egypt #Prehistory #IslamicHistory #ArchaeologicalDiscovery #CulturalHeritage #MiddleEast #HistoryLovers #AncientCivilizations

  5. 📘 Sword of Allah: Khalid bin Al-Waleed (RA)
    An inspiring Islamic biography highlighting faith, courage, and unmatched leadership.

    🌍 Ships worldwide
    🔗 soltlane.com/sword-of-allah/

    #IslamicHistory #Seerah #MuslimReads #Books

  6. Stories of the Prophets

    A beautifully designed, full-color Islamic book narrating the lives of the Prophets (AS) with clarity, authenticity, and visual richness.
    Perfect for families, students of knowledge, and anyone wanting a deeper understanding of Qur’anic history.

    Why readers love it:
    ✔ Based on Qur’an & authentic narrations
    🌍 Global shipping via Soltlane

    🔗 soltlane.com/stories-of-the-pr

    #IslamicBooks #StoriesOfTheProphets #ColorEdition #Faith #IslamicHistory #MuslimReaders #Soltlane

  7. A beautifully detailed biography of Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA) is now available.
    Perfect for readers of Islamic history.
    📘 soltlane.com/ali-ibn-abi-talib/

    #Books #IslamicHistory

  8. Next week on the Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in #Medieval History Seminar : Karen Pinto (Univ. Colorado), Masking Conflict with Harmony. The Mediterranean in the Islamic #Cartographic Imagination.

    July 1 | 5-6 pm CET | online

    t1p.de/entanglements_2025-05

    @dhiroma.bsky.social

    #medievalmediterranean #medievalmaps #medievalhistory #entanglement #IslamicHistory

  9. In Islamic history, the waqf (plural: awqaf) represents a tradition that underpinned the development of Muslim societies. A practice rooted in faith and generosity, waqf was a system of endowments that provided cradle-to-grave support for communities, funding hospitals, schools, mosques, and even public infrastructure.

    howtomuslim.org/post/reviving-

    #islamicpost #islam #islamichistory #history #economics #finance #islamcireminder #muslim #muslimpost

  10. In there is a subject called Usul al Fiqh (Principles of Law/Jurisprudence). Combined with , the 2 show us not only the sources of law, but how it was implemented (eg. cases of the ruler being tried under the law).

    Contrast that with our modern reality and how laws are:

    - complicated
    - arbitrary
    - selectively enforced

    This applies at the human and state level.

    If laws have no application after a certain wealth/power level, is there any real justice?

  11. To folks in the fediverse working in Islamic Studies (broadly conceived), some colleagues of mine, Jonathan Parkes Allen and Taimoor Shahid, are conducting a survey on Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies. They're not just looking for people who consider themselves DH practitioners, but rather "anyone using digital resources and tools" in studying the Islamicate world. If that's you, then please check it out!

    #IslamicStudies #IslamicHistory #digital_humanities

    openiti.org/2024/08/23/Introdu

  12. The Mongol conqueror #Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu captured #Baghdad and ended the Abbasid #caliphate in the city in 1258.

    I just read a text that asserts that around 25 years later, the Muslim vizier Shams al-Din Juvayni was involved in a plot to restore the caliphate, but he was put to death when Hulegu's grandson Arghun overthrew his uncle Teguder Ahmad. This is probably just slander, but it is surprising slander in a #Syriac text written in the late 1310s!

    I'm (re)reading the History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sawma.

    #IslamicHistory #MongolEmpire

  13. I'm playing around with the early-#Abbasid-era #Armenian history of Ghevond, and there's a few references to "the sons of Smbat."

    The odd thing is that Smbat is usually a Bagratuni name at that period, but the editors conclude that here it must refer to some Mamikoneans, Grigor, Dawit', and Mushegh.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagratun

    There's a difficulty in the text in that p.214 says Grigor and Dawit' were imprisoned in Yemen for the rest of their lives, but p.254 says the "sons of Smbat" were freed by caliph al-Walid II, detained in Syria at hiss death, and then escaped in the chaos of the civil war.

    One solution is to read "for the rest of their lives" as a sentence, later abrogated, but it doesn't read that way to me. Alternatively we might emend "their lives" to "his life," and the next caliph freed them.

    (The source is now available #OpenAccess online here, the work of Alison Vacca and Sergio La Porta:
    isac.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul)

    #medieval #MiddleEast #UmayyadCaliphate #IslamicHistory

  14. Final programme of the 2024 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS):

    www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2024

    #IslamicStudies #IslamicHistory #Islam

  15. Oxford Political Thought Seminar on 8 May with Tahera Qutbuddin and Nebil Husayn as speakers, addressing the theme of "Alids."

    Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist

    #IslamicStudies #IslamicHistory #PoliticalThought

  16. Sultan Salah ad-Din Ayyubi, widely known as Saladin, stands as a paragon of Islamic governance, embodying the principles of justice, compassion, and wisdom.

    howtomuslim.org/post/islamic-g

    #islam #Muslim #article #history #islamichistory

  17. Paper, a humble yet revolutionary invention, holds a significant place in Islamic civilisation, shaping not only the intellectual and cultural landscape of the Muslim world but also influencing the broader trajectory of human history.

    howtomuslim.org/post/the-trans

    #islam #muslim #islamichistory #article #history

  18. Summer Program - Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections:

    Córdoba in the Age of the Caliphs

    June 17, 2024 - June 21, 2024
    Córdoba, Spain

    Deadline: 31 March 2024

    Details and link to apply:
    glairedandersonphd.ck.page/cor>.

    For more info please contact: [email protected]

    #DH #IslamicHistory #IslamicStudies #VisualCulture