New on the blog - Pejman Firoozbakhsh and @arezouazad.bsky.social on the enduring fascination of the Barmakids, and on what this newly translated story cycle has to tell us.
#MedievalSky
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Two book covers: Han Hsien Liew, Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam, and Uriel Simonsohn and Luke Yarbrough, editors, Cultural Brokerage in Premodern Islamic Societies
📚Now published!: Han Hsien Liew's book on preaching and emotions in medieval Islamic political thought, and Uriel Simonsohn & Luke Yarbrough's edited volume on cultural brokerage in premodern Islamic societies📚
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Book cover: Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth, by Antoine Borrut.
🎉Just published, and launching the Critical Approaches to Arabic Historiography series edited by Jo Van Steenbergen and Mustafa Banister: Antoine Borrut's book on astrology and the construction of historical knowledge in early Islam🎉
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📚 New on the blog!
@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
Have a read:
Join us on Tuesday 3 March, @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, to launch new books in @edinburghup.bsky.social series The Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History, with Arezou Azad & an expert panel.
Book your free ticket now: bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch
#booklaunch #skystorians #medievalsky
3 book covers: The Warehouse of Bamiyan, Persian World Histories in the Mongol Era and The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
🎉The first 3 books have now published in The Islamicate East series, edited by @arezouazad.bsky.social, Hugh Kennedy and Teresa Bernheimer🎉 @invisibleeast.bsky.social
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Book cover: Before the Qur'an: Material Sources at the Advent of Muslim Scripture, by Suleyman Dost.
📖Introducing the latest book in @ramonharvey.bsky.social's series: Suleyman Dost on the origins of the Qur'an📖
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📖Just published: Robert Haddad's study of an 18th-C schism that continues to influence the shape of Middle Eastern Christianity today. Sadly, the author passed away before the book went to press.📖
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Book cover, The Premodern Origins of Jihadi-Salafism, by Jaan S. Islam
📖Out now: Jaan Islam's new book on Jihadi-Salafism📖
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Book cover: The Subversive Seventies in Tehran, by Hamid Dabashi, in the Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World series.
📖Just published: Hamid Dabashi's monograph on the revolutionary culture of 1970s Tehran📖
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📚 Newly republished: Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative 8-volume translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus, reissued with a new Foreword by Alan Williams 📚edinburghuniversitypress.com/reynold-a-nicholson
Book cover: A History of Ottoman Poetry, volume 1, 1300 to 1450
📚Now available, in a reissued edition: E.J.W. Gibb's classic 6-volume History of Ottoman Poetry, with a new Foreword by Christine Woodhead 📚
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Book cover: Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869 to 1959, by Sara Farhan.
📖Hot off the press: Sara Farhan's book on the history of medical education in Iraq📖
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Our #StAndrewsDay sale is live!
We're sharing the celebrations with you by offering 50% off all published and pre-order books over the weekend!
Enjoy!
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📖New book! An examination of diverse approaches to corruption in the #Ottoman Empire, edited by Boğaç A. Ergene and Cengiz Kırlı📖
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Book cover: Azeri Turkish Narratives in 20th-Century Iran, by Leila Rahimi Bahmany, in the Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World series
📖Now published: @leilarahimibahmany.bsky.social's book on Azeri Turkish literature in 20th-C Iran📖
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Definitely not a coincidence @kristofdhulster.bsky.social 😉
📖See Kristof's new book at edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-ottoman...
🏆Excited to announce that Sara's book has also won the PHF-ASPS Book Award!👏
Book cover: Tunisia's Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority, by Marta Dominguez Diaz
📖New book: Marta Domínguez Díaz explores the cultural identity of the Andalusian community in post-revolutionary Tunisia📖
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Image of book cover: Analytic Islamic Epistemology, Critical Debates.
📖Just published: a collected volume on the Islamic tradition and analytic epistemology, edited by Safaruk Chowdhury and @ramonharvey.bsky.social📖
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Book cover: Al-Hakim Mosque: Religion and Propaganda in Fatimid Egypt, by Housni Shehada
📖New book! Housni Alkhateeb Shehada reveals what the inscriptions of al-Hakim mosque tell us about Fatimid ideology and propaganda📖
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Great to catch up with @arezouazad.bsky.social at #IMC2025 and get inordinately excited about flyers for the new Islamicate East series. Who doesn't love a flyer??
Book cover image - The Picture Gallery (Nigaristan): A Persian Moral Miscellany, edited by Gregory Maxwell Bruce
📖Just published by EUP in partnership with @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social: the first English translation of Muʿīnī Juvainī's Nigāristān, a Persian moral miscellany.📖
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Looking forward to #IMC2025 next week! Come by our stand to browse/buy our (very discounted) books or to talk publishing 📚🏰⚔️👑🕌🪕🦅🍺
📚Now in paperback: Hamid Keshmirshekan's book on Iranian Art from the mid-20th C to the present, and a volume of essays by Bernard Heyberger on Middle Eastern Christianity, newly translated into English📚
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🏛️New Ancient History paperbacks!🏛️
⚡Just published, and 40% off until 24 July: Hussein Ali Abdulsater's book on al-Jahiz and the Epistemists⚡
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Book cover image: Syria's Transnational Rebellion, by Reem Bailony
📖New book: Reem Bailony's transnational study of the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927📖
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Cover image: Sufism and Power in the Ottoman Empire, by Kameliya Atanasova
📖Just published: Kameliya N. Atanasova's book on Bursevi and Ottoman Sufism📖
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Book cover: Nicolas Trepanier's Experiencing the Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia
📖Hot off the press: Nicolas Trépanier's book on how travellers, urban elites and peasants experienced rural Anatolia in a time of transition from Byzantine to Muslim rule📖
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