Rich Heffron

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Rich Heffron

@richheffron

History teacher | PhD candidate in Islamic history @UChicago | Sidekick of @JennaHeffOT

Katılım Aralık 2011
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Rich Heffron
Rich Heffron@richheffron·
1/ A thread about ʿAbd al-Malik’s hairdresser, the Marwanid caliphs, early Islamic legal authority, and biographical literature inspired once again by Ibn ʿAsākir’s “History of Damascus”
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Eraser
Eraser@eraser0110·
Goethe's attempt at calligraphy
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Christian Sahner
Christian Sahner@ccsahner·
I've just finished reading the wonderful new book by @mikati_rana, Creating an Islamic City: Beirut, Jihad and the Sacred (Brill, 2024). Few books in early Islamic history combine texts and archaeology so effectively. A must read brill.com/display/title/…
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Theodore Beers
Theodore Beers@theodorebeers·
A reading of that Sanā’i ghazal that Frank Lewis translated so nicely
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May Shaddel
May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
Aquatic ḥajj, from an unpublished mid-8th-century chronicle: 'Ibn al-Zubayr reached a level of piety no one else ever reached. When a flood prevented people from circumambulating [the Kaaba], he showed up & circumambulated the sanctuary seven times wading through the water.'
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Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ
1/What is an Ayatollah? How does one become one? A thread for non-specialists and political analysts. 🧵
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Rich Heffron@richheffron·
@EgyptsBeer LOL. Not just proposed it, but published an exhaustive monograph on it 150 years ago.
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May Shaddel
May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
This paper presents an edition and study of five early Abbasid monumental inscriptions from Mecca. Comparing the contents of three of these inscriptions which are from the Masǧid al‐Ḥarām to juridical discussions of pilgrimage rites, it argues that, academia.edu/55099627
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Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺
Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺@joakial_·
New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council: "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator"
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Rich Heffron@richheffron·
@shahanSean On an unrelated note, do you know of any work that's been done on these compendia of Orientalists composed by Arab scholars in the 20th century?
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Andrew Simon
Andrew Simon@simongandrew·
A new podcast on classical Arabic literature!
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