🔥#openaccess Imagine trying to summarize centuries of scholarly interaction between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. We didn't, but we did try to pull out some of the major strands of a historical area that is under-researched. doi.org/10.4324/978131… Usaybia.net: Communities of Knowledge RoutledgeAreaStudies

As some of you will know, I have just started my ERC Consolidator Grant project QurCan "The Canonization of the Qurʾānic Reading Traditions". I'm currently looking to fill two post-doctoral positions to join the project as soon as possible! Retweets very much appreciated!

Just Published, A Fascinating Volume!! "Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries" eds. Sonja Brentjes, Peter Barker, Rana Brentjes PUB: Routledge, 2023

Thrilled and humbled to announce I've accepted a tenure-track Professorship of Religious Studies with a Focus on the Relations between Judaism and Islam in Past and Present at the Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe-Universität in the Faculty of Protestant Theology.

A small scrap in Judaeo-Arabic shedding light on the licensing of physicians in 13th c. Egypt: "...he is qualified to practice in treating diseases of the eye, and the signature of the revered qāḍī Fatḥ al-Dīn, the supervisor of the physicians...." geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

Someone who shows up in both the Cairo Genizah and Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa's literary work. Thanks Princeton Geniza Lab !

Join us June 5-6 at Universität Wien for a meetup and match-a-thon on persons and places related to the historical Middle East. Still space for in-person lightning talks! Register: events.gwdg.de/e/Hist-ME23 #HistME STKO Sinai Rusinek @[email protected] 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @WHGazetteer Usaybia.net: Communities of Knowledge