"Black Knights compellingly re-frames Arabic epic within a broader global history of race, thus prompting medievalists [...] to reconsider how racial formations, heroic imaginaries, and epic narrative structures intersect across time and space."
Sah-weet.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/
Are you attending the International Medieval Congress in Leeds (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) next month?
We've compiled a handy list of all the panels addressing key themes in the medieval Islamic world including the panels we are sponsoring.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com/mem-at-the-i...
The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) Ninth Annual Workshop will be held Friday–Sunday, October 10–12, 2025, at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. GLAS welcomes works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, especially for graduate students and early career.
The Zoominar is back: "Mongol History as a Political Question in the Qing Empire" with
Matthew Mosca (University of Washington)
Friday, May 2nd, 17:00-18:30 IST; 16:00-17:30 CET: 10:00-11:30 ET
#mongolsky, #tengri, #mongolempire or #innerasia
The Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to request submissions for its biennial prize for best book on the medieval Middle East (ca. 500-1500 CE). The prize will be awarded at the 2025 annual meeting. Books published between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2025 are eligible.
Post-Doc in Medieval and Modern Numismatics, four years, full time. The deadline for applications is 20 April 2025. See details here:
jobs.univie.ac.at
University Assistant Post-Doc at the Department of Numismatics and Montary History
We close out the 2024 issue with a thousand and one thanks to our authors, reviewers, & readers! 618 pages of research articles, thought pieces, pedagogy file, conference reports & book reviews. here is a master thread that describes them all! 🧵⬇️
Share & follow because 2025 is going to bring more!
our conference "Ancestor Veneration, Religious Encounters, and the State in the Mongol Empire and Africa" this Friday-Sat
Double panel at AAS on Friday alert: Relics, Pilgrimage, and Spectacles: Charismatic Geopolitics and Sacred Kingship in Post-Mongol Eurasia. With the amazing: Azfar Moin, Matt Melvin-Koushki, Mustafa Banister, Gottfried Hagen, Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, Aditi Jain, and Mohsin Rao
Another Brilliant talk: Next Thursday in Evanston :
Microhistories of Reading: Anthologies before Print Culture
Kathryn Babayan (Department of History, University of Michigan Ann)
Thursday March 6, 5pm
University Hall 201
Another Brilliant talk next Thursday in Evanston, Northwestern U:
Microhistories of Reading: Anthologies before Print Culture
Kathryn Babayan (Department of History, University of Michigan Ann)
Thursday March 6, 5pm
University Hall 201
🎉 #meettheteam who have been reading, transcribing and translating documents written in #Persian! We took a moment today to celebrate their incredible achievements 💪
📅 Tomorrow sees the third release of 270 more #documents on our #digitalcorpus.
🔍 Explore now at www.invisible-east.org
#skystorians
Join is this Wed for this amazing talk about “Vernacular Encyclopedism in the Mediterranean: The Case of Meir Aldabi’s Sh’vile Emunah”
Uri Zvi Shachar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The special issue we (Michal Biran, Or Amir, and myself) edited in honor of the Khaqan Reuven Amitai’s retirement, with Mamluk Studies Review:
mamluk.uchicago.edu/browse-downl...
My own contribution on Muslim-Jewish polemics at the Ilkhanid court: “Ibn Kammūnah Is Going to Hell!” is available here
join us this Friday for a zoom talk with the excellent James Pickett (12:00 Chicago time!)
the Mongols introduced it. The fact that Waba' is mentioned in relation to Mongol sieges or that the Mongol armies got sick (in desert like conditions, which is frankly not very surprising) cannot serve as decisive evidence to support such a major argument about plague coming a century earlier
not the point our article from 2025 (Medical History) was designed to make (in fact, the point about Ibn Wasil's reference to Ta'un was minor) but at least the journalist included us in this important discussion. Out point is that there is no textual evidence of 13th-c plague, or that
Organizing a medievalist panel for MESA 2025 (DC, Nov 22-25)? MEM board of directors is now inviting submissions for MEM sponsored panels at MESA. Submit panel abstracts with individual paper abstracts by Feb 5 to Jonathan.brack@northwestern.edu
MESA submission deadline is Feb 13th!
It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.
When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
Affiche du programme du séminaire de l'EHESS UE778 : Institutions et pratiques politiques des nomades de la grande steppe. 07/03 : Törü et jasaq, ou l’ordre politique de la steppe I 21/03 : Törü et jasaq, ou l’ordre politique de la steppe II 04/04 : Écriture, oralité et informations dans la steppe 02/05 : Impôts, tributs, commerce 16/05 : Le prince et l’ordo 06/06 : Le répertoire symbolique et idéologique de la steppe Organisateurs : Étienne de la Vaissière (EHESS, CETOBaC) & Simon Berger (CNRS, CeRMI) Contact : etienne.de-la-vaissiere@ehess.fr simon.berger@cnrs.fr Accès libre, inscription obligatoire sur : https://enseignements.ehess.fr/2024-2025/ue/778 Bâtiment EHESS-Condorcet, 2 cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers, salle A602, 10h30-12h30 En haut à gauche : souverain mongol entouré de serviteurs et d'aristocrates (ms. BNF Supplément persan 1113) ; en haut à droite : deux gardes türk (peinture murale de la salle des ambassadeurs, musée Afrasiab, Samarcande) ; en bas à gauche : deux gardes mongols ; en bas à droite : souverain türk entouré de serviteurs et d'aristocrates (bas-relief d'un lit funéraire sogdien, musée Miho, Kyoto). Logo de l'EHESS en haut au centre, logos du CETOBaC et du CeRMI en bas au centre.
Étienne de la Vaissière et moi-même organisons conjointement le séminaire de l'EHESS : "Institutions et pratiques politiques des nomades de la grande steppe", dont vous trouverez le programme ci-dessous. 👇
#mongolsky #tengri #mongolempire #innerasia #medievalsky
