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OpenITI—Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. PIs: @sarahsavant1 @maximromanov @M_T_Miller.

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Our manuscript reading groups continue this fall, with a few modifications from last year- as always these are wonderful opportunities for language learning, paleographic practice, and exploring new areas of Islamicate history and textuality! New participants are always welcome!
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Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹@Mar_Musa18m
The siyāh mashq/kara-lāma tradition of calligraphy- or however it should be described- so typical of early modern into modern Islamic scribal culture is absolutely fascinating, feels like a great deal going on that I at least do not fully understand (McGill Arabic Calligraphy 24)
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Ahmed Shaker@shakerr_ahmedOct 26
200 inscriptions and counting! QMI’s Early Islamic Inscriptions Platform (EIIP) continues to grow, expanding its catalogue of early Islamic epigraphic evidence. Visit: quranmss.com/inscriptions
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The Arabic vita of St. Barṣawma the Naked dates to the 14th century but exists in copies going up to the modern era, it received some scholarly attention and a partial edition way back in 1907- it's overdue a new examination with contemporary tools and platforms. Link below:
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Ahmed Shaker@shakerr_ahmedOct 21
🎉 The QMI Early Islamic Inscriptions Platform now features 160 inscriptions dated 32–132 AH, searchable and indexed to support digital research and studies of early Islamic epigraphy. The catalogue: quranmss.com
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Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹@Mar_MusaOct 24
Two illumined pages from a gorgeously rendered Coptic Arabic Old Testament (partial- up to Chronicles) produced in Ottoman Egypt in 1760, that multicolored calligraphy is just wonderful (CAJS Rar Ms 166)
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What do Islamicate "occult" alphabets, Andean khipu boards, and the prayer writing system of Western Apache shaman and prophet Silas John have in common? Quite possibly more than first meets the eye! Read on, and come discuss on Tuesday via Zoom (10 am-12 pm Eastern US):
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Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹@Mar_MusaOct 20
Don't know that I've seen something quite like this before: an Arabic text (Nathr al-laʾālī attributed to ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib) with not just a Persian interlinear translation (the first line below the Arabic) but also a Persian "amplification," bit like a sharḥ but not exactly:
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We have a really cool line up of articles for reading and discussion in our Tuesday session next week: an examination of rebus-renderings of the Heart Sutra in early modern Japan and an exploration of the special properties of scripts and alphabets in the Ottoman world:
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Next week's installment of our Critical History of Communicative Technologies course promises to be an especially good one- we're looking at histories of introductions and uptakes of writing in early Japan and the colonial period Andes, with implications for Islamicate societies:
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Ahmed Shaker@shakerr_ahmedOct 4
QMI is pleased to announce the Beta Edition of the Early Islamic Inscriptions Platform, featuring 55 dated inscriptions from the 1st Islamic century! Give it a try: quranmss.com/
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New post describing our revised second half of the semester reading list in critical history of communicative technologies, we added readings on Andean literacy and orality, Western Apache topics, rebus writing in early modern Japan, Ottoman talismans- some fun stuff! Link below:
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invisible_east@invisible_eastSep 28
We are pleased to be showing the programme for this year's Rethinking History series. The sessions are held over Zoom and start 1PM Toronto time (18:00 GMT, 19:00 CET); we would love to see you there! scan the QR code below to register.
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Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹@Mar_MusaSep 21
New essay tackling a set of questions about subjectivity, textual technologies, and the history of emotions that have occupied my mind off and on for a long while now, still lots of questions outstanding but I kind of like it that way tbh. Link below:
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khalid yousef@khalidsyossefSep 20
Great new resource Persian Manuscript Materials persianmanuscriptmaterials.o…
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How has print changed (or not!) our experience of texts, of communication, of our own inner states, and what happens when we bring in the (often previously left out) history of the Islamicate book to these questions? Link below to next week's reading guide:
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