Register now for Monday's virtual launch of @arezouazad.bsky.social's latest titles with Pejman Firoozbakhsh 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids': bit.ly/TorontoBookLaunch
New in The Islamicate East series for @edinburghup.bsky.social
#Bamiyan #Barmakids #Afghanistan
Join us on Monday 27 April for a virtual launch event for 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids', Arezou Azad & Pejman Firoozbakhsh's latest publications in The Islamicate East series for @edinburghup.bsky.social.
bit.ly/TorontoBookLaunch
#Bamiyan #Barmakids #Afghanistan
The Invisible East Digital Corpus www.invisible-east.org is nominated in the 2025 DH Awards 🎉
If you've found it a helpful resource, why not vote for it (before Friday 17 April!)
Check out all of the other fascinating nominees whilst you are voting!
#digitalhumanities #medievalsky #digitalcorpus
Join us on Zoom later for Dr Márton Vér of
@uni-hamburg.de's seminar 'The Old Uyghur Documents and a Global Microhistory of the Silk Roads'.
The next in our 'Rethinking History' series with colleagues at
@utoronto.ca.
Register now: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom
#documents #SilkRoads #OldUyghur
C'est aujourd'hui ! Celles et ceux qui le souhaitent peuvent suivre le colloque en ligne :
zoom.us/j/97920962767
Team member Nabi Saqee will speak tomorrow on "The presence and role of Turkic elements and figures in the Ghurid Sultanate" at a conference in Paris. Any followers in Paris are welcome to join this free event. Full conference schedule is at bit.ly/Parisconf
#conference #Afghanistan #Ghurids
Join us on Wednesday to hear Dr Márton Vér of @uni-hamburg.de speak on 'The Old Uyghur Documents and a Global Microhistory of the Silk Roads'.
This is the next in our 'Rethinking History' series with @utoronto.ca.
Register for Zoom: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom
#documents #SilkRoads #OldUyghur
Special thanks to the inviters and organisers Austin O'Malley and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi. 3/3
#lecture #digitalhumanities #digitalcorpus
Arezou was delighted to view the Institute of Ancient Cultures museum with Tasha Vorderstrasse. It holds the oldest purported fragment of 'A Thousand and One Nights' and a few Cairo Geniza fragments. 2/3
Our Programme Director, @arezouazad.bsky.social, was honoured to deliver the Heshmat Moayyad Lecture at the University of Chicago yesterday.
Arezou presented research from our team, as well as the latest books in The Islamicate East series with @edinburghup.bsky.social. 1/3
Image comprises of a book cover. The background is teal, with a rectangular white frame around a colourful artwork which appears to show people sat on the floor or standing, having discussions and possibly playing instruments. The title of the book is in large white print 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids' with the subtitle in yellow 'Stories from a Forgotten Persian Manuscript'. The cover also includes the series name 'The Islamicate East' and the credits 'Translated and annotated by Pejman Firoozbakhsh and Arezou Azad'.
New on the @edinburghup.bsky.social blog: @arezouazad.bsky.social discusses her latest book with Pejman Firoozbakhsh.
Enjoy a fascinating taster of stories from this translation of the Akhbār-i Barmakiyān in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk's manuscript Ouseley 217: bit.ly/BarmakidsQandA
#Barmakids #Persian
Later today our Programme Director, Arezou Azad, will deliver the 2026 Heshmat Moayyad Lecture at the Dept of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago.
For more information and to register for the Zoom link, visit bit.ly/HeshmatMoayyadLecture
#medievalsky #Persian #documents
Image is of a poster for a lecture series. The background is a beige/gold colour and on top are three images, one a photograph of the speaker, Arezou Azad, seated with her hands clasped; the others are of a damaged document with Persian text and a book cover for 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan'. The poster invites the reader to attend The Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago's Heshmat Moayyad Lecture Series Spring 2026. The lecture is entitled "Restore Her Rights! Sketches from Forgotten Persian Manuscripts" and the speaker is Dr Arezou Azad. The lecture takes place on 8 April, 5.30pm local time in The Social Sciences Building - The Tea Room - SSRB 201
Our Programme Director, Arezou Azad, will deliver the 2026 Heshmat Moayyad Lecture at the Dept of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago on 8 April.
For more information and to register for the Zoom link, visit bit.ly/HeshmatMoayyadLecture
#medievalsky #Persian #documents
#ICYMI The latest Document of the Month is live on our project website.
Enjoy Jawid Mojaddedi's piece “Whoever Places the Hand of Good Actions in the Circle of Chivalry”: A Homily in the Jawānmardī Mystical Tradition at bit.ly/DotMMar26
#medievalsky #skystorian #firuzkuh
Join Arezou Azad and Matteo de Chiara of
@inalco.fr online on Wednesday 1 April to hear from Xavier Hermand (EHESS-Paris): ‘Trop peu respectables pour devenir musulmans: gens de métiers et changements religieux’, the next seminar in the 'Afghanistan through the Ages' series.
#seminar #afghanistan
Beige background, with two images superimposed. They are the recto (front) and verso (back) of the same document. The documents appear to be on brown paper with black ink and written in New Persian script. They have been glued onto a notebook with lines/squares and written notes around them. Images of the document, Firuzkuh 3, are reproduced courtesy of Nabi Saqee and can be found in the Invisible East Digital Corpus.
📢 The latest Document of the Month is live on our project website.
📚 Read Jawid Mojaddedi's exploration of Firuzkuh 3 “Whoever Places the Hand of Good Actions in the Circle of Chivalry”: A Homily in the Jawānmardī Mystical Tradition at bit.ly/DotMMar26
#medievalmonday #manuscriptmonday #firuzkuh
We are delighted to announce that our Digital Corpus, www.invisible-east.org has been nominated for a DH Resource award!
Please consider voting for us if you think we deserve it! You can cast your ballot anytime before 17 April.
#digitalhumanities #digitalcorpus #medievalsky
On the Nowruz haft-sin table, the apple — a symbol of health and wisdom — confirms the enduring power of hope, beauty, and love. (3/3)
#nawruz #nowruz #documents #medievalsky
From our research, which reveals much about the lives of regular people in the medieval period, we share a small document from Firuzkuh, Afghanistan, written around 800 years ago (614/1217–18): a simple order for 100 apples, among the earliest surviving texts in New Persian: bit.ly/Firuzkuh38 (2/3)
With the coming of spring, Nowruz returns — a celebration of renewal, hope, and wisdom.
This year, we honour the resilience of the people of Iran, Afghanistan, and others across the region whose everyday lives have been upended by war. (1/3)
This Wednesday, Arezou Azad speaks with Matteo de Chiara @inalco.fr about his 'Dictionnaire Pratique Pashto-Français' and introduces 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.
#pashto #Afghanistan #Barmakids #edinburghuniversitypress
and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'. The latter is an annotated translation, with Pejman Firoozbakhsh, of a Persian MS held in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. An expert panel, chaired by Prof Yasmin Khan, took questions from an enthusiastic audience.
#barmakids #documents #Afghanistan #NewPersian 2/2
A great launch at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for our Programme Director @arezouazad.bsky.social's latest volumes in @edinburghup.bsky.social's Islamicate East series. The assembled guests enjoyed an overview of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan - Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' 1/2
Join us to mark the publication of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan - Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.
Tuesday 3 March, 5.30pm, at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch
#barmakids #manuscriptmonday #bamiyan #medievalmonday
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
Find out more at edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-i...
Next Tuesday we'll be @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for a book launch 🎉
Join our expert panel to explore 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'. Register at bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch
#Bamiyan #Barmakids #documents #manuscripts
Join us at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social on 3 March, to celebrate the launch of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.
Book your free ticket now at bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch
#Bamiyan #medievalsky #Barmakids #booklaunch
Join us tomorrow, from 5pm GMT, to hear Jennifer Jenkins speak on 'Archaeology as National Archive: Herzfeld's History of Iran'.
Part of the 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' online seminar series.
Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom
#skystorians #iran #herzfeld
📢 February's Document of the Month is live on our project website.
📚 Read Bogdan C. Smarandache's fascinating piece 'Travelling in Troubled Times: A Latin Letter of Safe Passage for a Muslim Merchant Issued during the Frankish-Fatimid Wars' at bit.ly/DotMFeb26
#medievalmonday #manuscriptmonday
Delighted to share that documents from our digital corpus now appear in the latest version of the OpenITI corpus, available at Zenodo. For more information see: kitab-project.org/OpenITI-Rele...
Let us know how you are using this new functionality!
#Documents #digitalcorpus #digitalhumanities