My book Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam was just released in open access, feel free: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

A talk by Dr. Hamed Kazemzadeh: Circassian Culture
and Linguistic Identity
#circassian #history

first article of 2026! and this one comes with a sound file to imagine the chatter & noises that filled the air of a Sasanian city.

🎉 publication day! 🎉

editions & translations of the correspondence btw Umar b. Abd al-Aziz and Leo the Isaurian in medieval Latin, Christian Arabic, Muslim Arabic, Aljamiado, Armenian & early modern Latin. plus the intro to explain how they're all related!

open access & available here:

Join us on March 11 for my colleague Dr. Kazemzadeh's talk on "Circassian Culture and Linguistic Identity".

Thanks to all authors, reviewers, & readers as we close out issue 33!

We published 550 pages in 2025: 7 articles; a thematic dossier w/ 4 more articles; a roundtable; an Arabic edition; a pedagogy file; 7 book reviews; & some short communications.

Here’s a thread to gather some highlights! 🧵

journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...