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Reply #90 - August 02, 2015, 05:35 PM

Kristina Richardson - Blue and Green Eyes in the Islamicate Middle Ages

https://www.academia.edu/14532532/Blue_and_Green_Eyes_in_the_Islamicate_Middle_Ages

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Reply #91 - August 02, 2015, 07:34 PM

Saw that, a really cool article.
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Reply #92 - August 03, 2015, 01:32 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUjUTG3hwyQ

The "stage" theory of languages' use of colour is interesting to those of us *koff* who have been dragged behind Odysseus's ship in Greek class. For Archaic-Era Greeks, the sea wasn't blue or green; it was "wine-dark". If a Carthaginian ever translated the thing he would have certainly used a cognate of akhḍar.

It was no less than William Gladstone who had first noticed this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_on_Homer_and_the_Homeric_Age
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Reply #93 - August 07, 2015, 06:57 PM

Dimitri Korobeinikov - How 'Byzantine' were the early Ottomans? Bythinia in ca. 1290-1450

https://www.academia.edu/1505091/How_Byzantine_Were_the_Early_Ottomans_-_A_Fuller_Version

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Reply #94 - August 08, 2015, 10:04 PM

Chouki El Hamel - Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11312/new-texts-out-now_chouki-el-hamel-black-morocco_a-

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Reply #95 - August 08, 2015, 10:28 PM

Ballandalus - Famous historical Muslims of Hellenic/Greek origin

https://ballandalus.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/famous-historical-muslims-of-hellenicgreek-origin/

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Reply #96 - August 10, 2015, 10:26 AM

Important Assassinations in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic History: A Short List

https://ballandalus.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/important-assassinations-in-medieval-and-early-modern-islamic-history-a-short-list/

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Reply #97 - August 16, 2015, 09:29 PM

New book: Arabs and Empires before Islam: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199654529.do
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Arabs and Empires before Islam collates nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources which, from a variety of different perspectives, illuminate the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam. Drawn from a broad period between the eighth century BC and the Middle Ages, the sources include texts written in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Persian, and Arabic, inscriptions in a variety of languages and alphabets, and discussions of archaeological sites from across the Near East. More than 20 international experts from the fields of archaeology, classics and ancient history, linguistics and philology, epigraphy, and art history, provide detailed commentary and analysis on this diverse selection of material.

Read the introduction: http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/13/9780199654529_chapter1.pdf

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Reply #98 - August 16, 2015, 10:11 PM

Quote from: zeca on August 16, 2015, 09:29 PM
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New book: Arabs and Empires before Islam: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199654529.do
Read the introduction: http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/13/9780199654529_chapter1.pdf

that is an interesting book......

The Rise of Islam
The world of Islam
The Arab Civilization

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Reply #99 - August 20, 2015, 01:23 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwMjHxQfqNo

Hmmm worth watching worth talking

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Reply #100 - September 19, 2015, 08:21 PM

Robert Hoyland is going to publish another book this month - a translation of Khalifa bin Khayyat's chronicle. Its Arabic edition was a major source for Blankenslip's overview of Hisham's caliphate.
http://www.amazon.com/Khalifa-Khayyats-History-Translated-Historians/dp/1781381747/

I say "going to" because, although it was announced for 1 September, it has yet to be available in Amazon. Past experience with publishers' announcements (Prometheus Books is worst at this) is that stuff gets said and then doesn't always get done on time...

I also expect (based on other past experience, with Liverpool's Translated Texts for Historians series) the hardback to be wayyy overpriced. But a paperback will follow, one more reasonable. Plus, libraries.
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Reply #101 - September 26, 2015, 10:45 AM

The art of the early caliphate: https://mobile.twitter.com/DorothyKing/status/647713340685479936

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Reply #102 - September 26, 2015, 06:47 PM

Ian David Morris on seventh century slavery: https://mobile.twitter.com/iandavidmorris/status/647556391524241408

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Reply #103 - September 26, 2015, 11:01 PM

re, seventh century slavery: we do have a few non-Arab voices. . .

Arculf noted "the race of Chanaan" around Jericho, living in slave-cabins and serving the Umayyads (they were probably black). Anastasius of Sinai noted prisoners from Cyprus, doing the same thing in about the same place (these were probably Greek). Source on the latter: Hoyland, Seeing Islam, 100.

If you were chained to an agricultural field in the lands of Sodom, you probably weren't going to graduate to mawla status. You were probably not going to live much longer than a year.

*Anastasius seems to be the source who speaks the most about the plight of Christian slaves in the early Umayyad period.
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Reply #104 - October 03, 2015, 04:26 PM

Michael CA MacDonald: '"Romans Go Home"? Rome and other "Outsiders" as viewed from the Syro-Arabian Desert' -
https://www.academia.edu/9926215/_Romans_Go_Home_Rome_and_other_Outsiders_as_viewed_from_the_Syro-Arabian_Desert
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Reply #105 - October 05, 2015, 06:55 PM

Joseph Croitoru - Zenobia, secular Arab heroine: http://en.qantara.de/content/palmyras-ancient-queen-zenobia-secular-arab-heroine

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Reply #106 - October 05, 2015, 09:24 PM

Mizan project: http://www.mizanproject.org/welcome-to-mizan-2/
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Welcome to Mizan, a new digital scholarship initiative housed in the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University!
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We seek to bring a fair, unbiased perspective to bear on current events and contemporary debates concerning all aspects of Islamic history, religion, and culture.
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On twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/mizan_project

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Reply #107 - October 07, 2015, 07:09 PM

George Saliba - Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/islamic-science-and-making-european-renaissance
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The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Naidm that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in the later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance.

Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for tracing the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.

A critical review: http://www.ircps.org/sites/ircps.org/files/aestimatio/6/2009-07_Shank.pdf

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Reply #108 - October 15, 2015, 12:03 PM

It's no great surprise but...

Columbus did not see a mosque in the Americas: http://www.iandavidmorris.com/columbus-did-not-see-a-mosque-in-the-americas/

On twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/holland_tom/status/654377694570881028

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Reply #109 - October 21, 2015, 08:07 PM

Migration, Minorities, and Radical Networks: Labour Movements and Opposition Groups in Saudi Arabia, 1950–1975
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ABSTRACT: This article shows how ideas of Arab nationalism, socialism, and communism spread to the Arab Gulf states. It outlines how migrant workers, teachers, students returning from abroad, and the emergence of a print culture filled with Arab nationalist and leftist ideas in the 1940s created the basis for widespread political mobilization in the oil-rich Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. After major strikes in 1953 and 1956 and a harsh crackdown, leftist activists moved underground and into exile. They continued to be active clandestinely and gathered in various capitals in the region. Members of the Shia Muslim minority in the Eastern Province played a special role in the labour movement and secular opposition groups. The latter promised the Shia inclusion in a larger political project and thus they were seen as an antidote to sectarian discrimination against this minority. The article emphasizes the importance of transnational networks, organizational resources such as libraries and social clubs, and a radicalized public sphere for political mobilization.

https://libcom.org/files/Labour%20and%20Opposition%20in%20Saudi%20Arabia.pdf

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Reply #110 - October 22, 2015, 04:22 PM

Quote from: zeca on August 16, 2015, 09:29 PM
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New book: Arabs and Empires before Islam: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199654529.do
Read the introduction: http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/13/9780199654529_chapter1.pdf

That looks very interesting!
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Reply #111 - October 22, 2015, 06:59 PM

It's horribly expensive though (£120). I don't know whether we can expect a cheaper paperback version eventually.

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Reply #112 - October 22, 2015, 07:40 PM

Where are those internet pirates who let you download shit for free?

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Reply #113 - October 23, 2015, 01:29 PM

Quote from: zeca on October 22, 2015, 06:59 PM
It's horribly expensive though (£120). I don't know whether we can expect a cheaper paperback version eventually.

i checked it out on amazon and it was pretty ridiculous for a book. Some $200 or so. I'm always interested in archeological findings that don't necessarily go off scriptures/textual references as an accepted truth.
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Reply #114 - October 27, 2015, 09:20 PM

Moar Safaitic: AQ Al-Housan, A selection of Safaitic inscriptions from the Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum (PDF)

I note that al-Jallad's grammar has taken root, at least for this author.
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Reply #115 - November 10, 2015, 04:26 PM

In Our Time on the Empire of Mali: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kgggv
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Empire of Mali which flourished from 1200 to 1600 and was famous in the wider world for the wealth of rulers such as Mansa Musa. Mali was the largest empire in west Africa and for almost 400 years controlled the flow of gold from mines in the south up to the Mediterranean coast and across to the Middle East. These gold mines were the richest known deposits in the 14th Century and produced around half of the world's gold. When Mansa Musa journeyed to Cairo in 1324 as part of his Hajj, he distributed so much gold that its value depreciated by over 10%. Some of the mosques he built on his return survive, albeit rebuilt, such as the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Great Mosque of Djenne.

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Reply #116 - November 11, 2015, 12:05 AM

Ian David Morris - Lewond's account of the letters between ‘Umar II and Leo III

http://www.iandavidmorris.com/lewonds-account-of-the-letters-between-umar-ii-and-leo-iii/

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Reply #117 - November 16, 2015, 06:50 PM

Maria Mavroudi - Translations from Greek into Arabic at the court of Mehmet the Conqueror

https://www.academia.edu/6893004/_Translators_from_Greek_into_Arabic_at_the_Court_of_Mehmet_the_Conqueror_in_A._Ödekan_N._Necipoǧlu_E._Akyürek_eds._The_Byzantine_Court_Source_of_Power_and_Culture_Istanbul_Koç_University_Press_2013_195_207

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Reply #118 - November 20, 2015, 06:41 PM

Tom Holland on Christians in Alexandria
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VosTBySXtsk

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Reply #119 - November 23, 2015, 11:47 PM

A blog post by Zeynep Yurekli on the responsibilities of academic experts on the Islamic world

Wake up, little Islamic art historian

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