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No more Bartolomeo Platina! Now we get to move on to a document that I'm still trying to figure out, quite simply because it's so beautiful and tantalizing. It's also
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Erik Wade (@erik_kaars) here. Today, I want to talk about other peoples' work. Often when we tell the story of scholarship on pre-modern race, we center the work of white
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This is the excavation site under the #AcropolisMuseum in #Athens. While the museum displays the Classical era - the period most traditionally associated w/ Athens - the excavation below showcases
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Before I delve into #7thCenturyAthens, I'd like to contextualize its scholarship thus far. Why has it been understudied? What complicates its study today? -ag It all comes back to the
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1) My stint on this account ends today. Before handing it off I will explain my profile picture choice-@mikati_rana 2) The picture above is of the last preserved remains of
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1)Rana here, we are here at the end of this Tweeting journey and I want to dedicate it to al-Awzā‘ī (d. 774), the most famous inhabitant of Beirut, with whom
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1/ What does #archaeology tell us about on the eve of the Muslim #conquest. When Yazīd and Mu‘āwiya showed up, what was #Beirut like? First, what it shows us that
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1) I will start with my work on an unexpected periphery #Beirut. Early Islamic Beirut. Yes, Beirut conjures images of the sunny Mediterranean, of cosmopolitanism, and joie de vivre, and
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Christian manuscripts from the Middle East, usually written in Arabic, Syriac, or Coptic, are influenced by Islamic styles but have unique characteristics. -jm These first two are from Syriac traditions,
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One key element of the Islamic intellectual tradition is the commentary. Commentaries on the Qurʼan (tafsīr) began early in Islamic history, but from about the 12th or 13th century, well
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I want to talk about the key textual elements you might find in an Islamic manuscript. I'll focus on this manuscript, roughly 18th century, of an Arabic history of the
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So let's start real basic: what is a manuscript? Might be almost anything written by hand--or today, even a typed text before it's officially published. Sometimes it's a scroll, or
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