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Philip Grant

@EmbraBurgess

Anthropologist & historian (Zanj revolt). Translator (Persian, French-English). https://t.co/okSR8eX3CK @[email protected]

Somewhere Katılım Temmuz 2013
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Philip Grant
Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
A US bomber capable of carrying 24 cruise missiles lands at a UK airbase, even though the UK government only permits defensive operations. Imagine using that to try to down a drone. In other news, down is now up & Keir #Starmer is a visionary leader. #IranIsraelUSWar
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
...seeing infrastructure not just as things humans have built, but simultaneously a moral, political, and economic order, and as itself an actor in the rebellion that helped determine how, and for how long, both Zanj & Abbasid forces fought. 4/4
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
3/4 If you're interested in rebellions in the first four centuries or so of the Islamic era, have a look. My article in it looks at the "infrastructure" of the Zanj Rebellion from an anthropological perspective,...
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
1/4 Please follow me on @philipgrant.bsky.social if you're on it, and I'll follow you back. I really don't want to have to glorify & enrich the world's most obnoxious man by continuing to use this medium, but I understand the "stickiness" of a site that has so many folk on it.
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
Yesterday was Shaaban al-Dalou's 20th birthday. Abed Abubaker spoke to his family about the young man burned alive by the IDF in Gaza. I am struck by his desire to live in Germany, a country whose political classes have closed ranks to suppress any criticism of Israel's actions.
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
Published by @politypress & translated by me (Philip Grant). Out in November.
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
#IbnKhaldun + French #epistemology of the sciences + German #Idealism + #MullaSadra? Or why Ibn Khaldun was a cautious innovator, but not the "father" of economics, sociology, or historical science? 20% off Javad Tabatabai's Ibn Khaldun & the Social Sciences:
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
@OurShallowState She's unafraid to keep shipping US weapons to Israel & give Netanyahu unconditional support for genocide in Gaza & invading Lebanon. Wow, so fearless!
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The Shallow State
The Shallow State@OurShallowState·
She's unafraid to debate. She's unafraid to be fact-checked. She's unafraid to go on a popular Gen Z podcast. She's unafraid to go on a popular Boomer radio show. There's a lot of fear in the world. Vote for the candidate that is unafraid.
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
@avzaagzonunaada Is it really a Euro/US difference? French books are usually very cheap compared even to US ones--perhaps because, while there are French academic publishers, major French publishing houses ("trade" in US parlance) also publish numerous books by academics.
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Sā́mapriyaḣ སཱམཔྲིཡཿ
Why are products of European (and by that I mean, English, German & Dutch) publishing companies so expensive compared to their American counterparts? Even big university presses, like MIT Press or Princeton Uni Press, don’t come close to the prices set by OUP, Springer & al.
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🇨🇦🦫A. Moshiri
🇨🇦🦫A. Moshiri@AbulfazlMoshiri·
«دوش دیدم که ملائک در میخانه زدند» سخنرانی رودی مته در پژوهشکدۀ ایرانشناسی دانشگاه تورنتو درباره موضوع کتابش تاریخ می و میگساری در دنیای اسلام. همین جمعه ساعت ۱ به صورت حضوری و مجازی.
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Philip Grant
Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
@lameensouag @ait_kisou Or alternatively that Malik & his interlocutors imagined al-Barbar to be intermediate in skin colour between "the whites" and al-Habash?
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
@yakabikaj 'Indian corn' is what it was originally called in English, since 'corn' meant 'wheat' (& continued to have that meaning well into the 20th century; even today in the UK the usual term for maize when eaten is 'sweetcorn').
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Dr Mary Bateman
Dr Mary Bateman@maregan_le_fay·
@EmbraBurgess Oh sorry Philip, I don't know how to turn it off! 😅 Thank you I will add you to my spreadsheet!
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Dr Mary Bateman
Dr Mary Bateman@maregan_le_fay·
I've just been invited to become a review editor for The Medieval Review -- my job will be suggesting good reviewers for monographs. If you're interested in reviewing books would you please drop me a DM?
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
@thomas_wier Great thread, thank you. Has jiši ever been used to mean "race" (as in races of human beings)?
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Thomas Wier
Thomas Wier@thomas_wier·
The word ჯიში jiši doesn't seem to have been used of grape-wine varietals until the 20th century, and nowadays it is still more common to use this word to refer to breeds of different kinds of animals.
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Thomas Wier@thomas_wier·
Weekly Georgian Etymology: ჯიში jiši 'breed, varietal, race' from Middle Georgian ჯინში jinši / ჯინსი jinsi, from Arabic جنس jins variety, breed, from Syriac ܓܸܢܣܵܐ gensā kind, type, from Greek γένος race, stock, from Indo-European *ǵénh₁os kind. Often used for grape varietals.
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Philip Grant@EmbraBurgess·
@lawzinaj Yes, folān can be used as an adjective with inanimate objects in Persian. There is also the expression folān folān shodeh (shodeh = has become), which means "that wretched/blasted/bloody person/thing" where folān shodeh substitutes for a ruder insult.
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Haidar Abboud
Haidar Abboud@lawzinaj·
This reminds me of the use of *fulān (which in my dialect can only refer to an unidentified human being) in Iraqi Arabic as a kind of generic determiner; e.g. flān mukān 'such-and-such place'. Checked now & it seems to exist in Persian too, not sure where it emerged originally.
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Youssef Tamer@laryngeus

In Juba Arabic, the word for "people" 'nas' is grammaticalized as a prenominal collective plural marker and, according to (Manfredi and Petronllino 2013 : 56), it's used also with non-humans Ex : nas gazál "a group of gazelles" (from Manfredi and Petronllino 2013 : 56).

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Haidar Abboud
Haidar Abboud@lawzinaj·
@Langzaban In Arabic too there's the phrase "flān u ʕəllān" (ʕəllān cannot be used independently of flān). It means sth to the effect of "random individual X & random individual Y".
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