Wow, realizing I hit 50K! Twitter isn’t real life but thank you to each of you for joining me on this journey nonetheless!

As has become customary in thanks I’ll do a Twitter AMA on Sat at 11am PST/ 2pm EST

If you’ve enjoyed this acct, I also recommend the following:

the inimitable @TheLadyImam for Islam and feminism

The great @kecia_ali for Islamic studies and gender

The wonderful @MENALibAHS for Islamic art

The always fantastic @stephenniem for Islamic art and architecture

The brilliant @JeffreyKotyk for medieval Asia, astronomy, and astrology

The wonderful @DerilloEyob for gorgeous manuscript culture of Ethiopia

The great @MikaAhuvia for late antique Judaism and angels

The amazing @docstobar on Iranian occult and mysticism

The extraordinary @bdaiwi_historia on Islamic intellectual history

I love @Tweetistorian run by the fantastic @sasanianshah and @DrWorsTen who bring on rotating historians

Loving the podcast @KeepingIt_101 for all things religion by the stellar @ProfIRMF and @mpgPhD

and the @OttomanHistory podcast for Ottoman history

and where would we be without the work of creatives who incorporate so much history and lore in their work like @waraqamusa’s The Lover and The Jealous @SAChakrabooks’ jinn-tastic The Daevabad Trilogy @ausmazehanat’s magical Khorasan Archives and @GWillowWilson’s Alif the Unseen

and last but not least @Aphemia66’s Smokeless Fire series and @pdjeliclark ‘s A Dead Djinn in Cairo