I've just been notified by the DMV that my California driver's license is to be imminently cancelled unless I am able to provide proof of residency in the US... Anyone else had this notification?!
Thank you!!
Thank you!
12 hours into horrible stomach flu. Any tips on how to stay fed/hydrated when you can’t keep anything down?
Excited to see this new journal dedicated to the study of the Mughal Empire!
escholarship.org/uc/journalof...
If anyone is looking for fun (and free) ways to entertain children during Spring Break, I can highly recommend these two virtual escape rooms from @shelburnemuseum.bsky.social. My 6-yr old and I spent a good few hours puzzling through them today...
shelburnemuseum.org/museum-from-...
A student of mine has written an exceptional paper on the practice of amr bi-l-maʿrūf on X and other social media platforms. Can anyone recommend a possible undergraduate journal she might submit a revised version to?
It's anecdotal of course, but all the worst people I knew at school and university suddenly have titles like "agentic AI engineering lead".
The first week for both courses was markedly - very markedly - better than it has been in recent years. Students were engaged, they had done the reading and they had things to say. It reminded me that teaching can be a deeply enjoyable experience.
I've just learned from my Catholic mother-in-law that during her childhood everyone in her household, including (especially?) children, was required to be silent between midday and 3PM on Good Friday. Christianity has never been more appealing....
Thoughts?
Will report back!
Radically transforming my teaching this quarter. No electronics in class, almost all writing assignments in class, part of the grade based on submission of hard copies of the readings with annotations and notes. So so tired of fighting the tide of AI slop so I hope this works…
An #IslamicStudies book with "Preaching" in the title? Yes please!
Great looking new book from Han Hsien Liew and @edinburghup.bsky.social
Online teach-in about Iran (free and open to public).
Recent history of Iran, US-Iran relationships, the scene on the ground in Iran is like right now, and reflect on where we go from here.
Saturday, March 21st, at 2 pm EST.
duke.zoom.us/j/9547747704
New national symbol dropped
Successive US administrations since 1945: “We are the world’s policeman.“
The policeman:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WnBQ...
Ok not all of them but most…
I‘m finally watching Dhurandhar and it’s a compelling film in many ways but it’s really hard to suspend disbelief in a Lyari where every is written in naskh and not nastaliq.
For those who may not know — this move the Pentagon is making now was also the first deployment in the Vietnam War…
Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
Who needs humanities education eh?
(This smirking, arrogant asshole for one)
This guy gets it
this by @laurenhorngriffin.bsky.social is really good. I love her work and generally buy her argument.
that said, i do wanna push back on 1 thread within the argument. it's about how ideas work. 1/
religiondispatches.org/2026/03/06/t...
My latest book, on open access!
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Screenshot of the Opening to a review in Plekos on Byzantine epitomes that highlights the limitations of AI summaries
Love the epigraph choice for this review on Byzantine epitomes… 🤣🤣
برباد کرنے کی اور بھی راستے تھے فراز
Proofs for a forthcoming chapter on angelic invocation
Finally got proofs for this… my first publication on the science of angelic invocation as found in the writings of the famous Shah Waliullah of Dihlawi known for his expertise in hadith sciences and almost not at all for his occultism!!
"In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works . . . These books are slim and ephemeral . . . Most other repositories of rare books in the Muslim world don’t think they’re worth collecting."
Anyone who invokes "Western civilization" as a useful category should be forced to participate in this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Ai...