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My book Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam was just released on open access, help yourselves: bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?doci…
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Belated Antiquity
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Belated Antiquity
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Historian, PhD | Interests: Medieval Islam, late antiquity, Middle East & South Asia | Tweets: manuscripts, print culture, miscellanea
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I don't think I've thought about the Avignon papacy since comps in grad school.
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year. Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.
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During an online PhD interview, the candidate pauses to say:
“Sorry… they're bombing here. I'm a bit stressed.”
Some realities shouldn't exist. 😞
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Deeply sad news (from her son's FB post) that the great late antique and Byzantine historian, Averil Cameron, died this morning. The towering figures of Oxford of my youth are passing away.
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i do not care if Trump's comments result in nothing tonight. no one who even thinks of saying the phrase "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" should be allowed to operate an ice cream stand, nevermind the most powerful office on the planet
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@bhatoti @_mahdichowdhury There's also a nice little sign at Fresh Pond on its history of ice shipments to India.
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@_mahdichowdhury Yes!! I was introduced to these facts by a sunbathing stranger when I cracked open Henry David Thoreau’s Walden - at Walden, of course :)
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So while people who were inland in colonial India were making/storing ice slushies with traditional methods, most ice was actually being imported from as far as Massachusetts to the Calcutta port. Ice blocks from Walden Pond survived 4-month voyages around Cape Horn
Iqtibas اقتباس@iqtibaas88
In 1871-72, a British officer named J.C. Fife-Cookson visited Delhi during a hunting trip & described how ice was made there traditionally during winter:
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BBC has now changed this quote without an editor's note or correction. That is egregious journalistic malpractice that needs an explanation.
Lowkey@Lowkey0nline
The BBC claims to have found an Iranian inside Tehran to whom it attributes the following statement: “About them using an atomic bomb or levelling Iran… I’m OK with all of these.”
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I have an awful feeling I haven’t felt since the first week of March 2020
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@akkhan81 @landlawlahore My impression is that the pendatic argument is partly also against some nativists who decided to insist on Farsi. But certainly makes for an interesting contrast with other cases, like below: (someone else also mentioned the "Bharat, not India!" discourse) x.com/EvrimBinbas/st…
Evrim Binbaş@EvrimBinbas
While my Iranian/Iranist colleagues fight for the use of the term Persian in English, some of my Turkish compatriots push for the use of “Türkiye” in all languages. We should leave the languages alone. I’m for Persian and Turkey.
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@akkhan81 @landlawlahore Yes, weird but I think precisely because it's a pedantic losing battle against everyday speech, which probably began to change with more Iranian immigration to the West and their endonym slipping into Enligsh.
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@landlawlahore @akkhan81 It doesn't seem to correlate nearly with politics (if anything, some of those described actually prefer to say Farsi). My sense is that it began as an academic attempt to discipline changing colloquial usages. cais-soas.com/CAIS/Languages…
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The East is a dinner.
Gus Carter@GusCarter
Extraordinary email from Paul Bremer, the US bureaucrat who ran Iraq from 2003-4, to his wife.
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"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).
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Because his company is being successfully boycotted. Delete ChatGPT.
Sam Altman@sama
I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.
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I doubt that any of the possible scenarios the US and Israel went through before launching this war, included a rekindling of the 2011 Bahraini 'Arab-Spring' uprising against the monarchy.
Clash Report@clashreport
Clashes erupted between Shiite protesters and Bahraini security forces after a demonstration condemning the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader was dispersed, with Molotov cocktails reportedly thrown during the unrest.
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June: “We utterly destroyed their nuclear capability.”
Last week: “Iran’s nuclear capability is an imminent threat.”
Saturday: “The regime has to change.”
Today: “Let’s talk to the regime.”
Faytuks Network@FaytuksNetwork
NEW: Trump told The Atlantic in a phone call Sunday morning that he plans new talks with the Iranian regime: “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them.”
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