Natalie Kraneiß

DANYL - BROUILLON (LIVE AU BATACLAN) YouTube video by Danyl

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trop rebeu pour les français, trop français pour les rebeus. YouTube video by Danyl

Just discovered: a remarkable young French singer, Danyl Boudali. Has lots of really good songs.

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"al-Sanūsī" by Khaled El-Rouayheb (Series "Great Medieval Thinkers") Enriches our understanding of Islamic theology and intellectual traditions of African Islam Corrects previous interpretations of al-Sanūsī and of Islamic theology in the later Middle Ages Written accessibly for non-specialist readers who are interested in Islamic history, the history of religious thought, and comparative theology

Great news!
Coming in March 2026.

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Dazu passend auch das, gerade erschienen: 5-teiliger Podcast des DLF

"Die Lieblingsschülerin"

Ein Podcast über sexualisierte Gewalt an Schulen und die Folgen

www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-liebling...

"Er hat sich oft zu uns ins Bett gelegt": Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Tischtennis-Jugendtrainer Der Mann soll sich bei Auswärtsspielen anzüglich gegenüber Minderjährigen verhalten haben. Der Verband hat die Zusammenarbeit vorerst beendet, im lokalen Verein ist er weiterhin für den Nachwuchs zust...

Anzügliche Nachrichten, abendliche Besuche eines Jugendtrainers - und junge Opfer, die von fehlenden Schutzmaßnahmen berichten. Eine Aufarbeitung von @annawie.bsky.social und @balmetzhofer.bsky.social

M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond Introduction A fundamental question in the history of science from antiquity to the premodern era is how people organized knowledge, what ideas shaped the classification of sciences, and how they r…

📖 M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond

🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/03/14/m...

📖 At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (2) : A Brief History of Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition in France

🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/04/22/a...

I see my husband and me after retirement in this photo ... and I love it!

I don't understand how some academics can write harsh critiques attacking the academic integrity of their colleagues when they engage in the same behavior they criticize. How can one have such a lack of self-awareness?

#academicsky

I would love to learn more about Fāṭima al-Kūrāniyya, an apparently older lady and ḥadith scholar who taught younger male scholars (and who was seemingly not related to Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī). If anyone has time to write about her, i'll be your reader! :)

Khizāna Nāsiriyya, MS 82/260.

Al-Sibāʿī returned to Morocco with a copy of al-Kūrānī's Itḥāf al-Dhakī, a risāla on a text by Muḥammad b. Faḍl Allāh Burhānbūrī (d. 1029/1620). He had collated this copy at al-Kūrānī's home in Medina, evidenced by a collation note I discovered in Tamgrūt.

Those present included Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690) and the Moroccan scholar Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī al-Sibāʿī (d. 1138/1726), who recorded this samāʿ in his al-Shumūs al-mushriqa. Al-Sibāʿī studied under Maḥammad b. Nāṣir al-Darʿī and later taught at the Nāṣiriyya lodge in Tamgrūt.

An interesting discovery: In 1081/1670, Shaykha Fāṭima al-Kūrāniyya, mother of Muḥammad b. Rasūl al-Barzanjī (d. 1103/1692), issued an ijāza ʿāmma to a group of prominent scholars at her son’s house in Medina, authorizing the transmission of several major ḥadīth collections.

I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries

Call for Applications: Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course

Between 29 June and 3 July, the International Summer Academy Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course will take place in Münster. Organised jointly by...

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

21.01.2026, 5p.m (online)
Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University)
How to read a genealogical text: The Persianate nasab tradition as cultural archive and social practice

orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

Mirrors of Empire

And another Alam-Subrahamanyam is also arriving in Feburary...a feast for historians of the Mughal world!

sunypress.edu/Books/M/Mirr...

Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal World Cambridge Core - South Asian History - Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal World

Absolutely cannot wait to see this come out next month. The editors - Asad Ahmed and his students at Berkeley - are doing groundbreaking work on the intellectual history of the Timurid/Mughal period...

resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

For all the newcomers interested in book and manuscript history here is a handy starter pack

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Vortrag in Münster am 22.01.2026 um 18 Uhr

Wenn Genealogie sichtbar wird: Stammbäume im frühneuzeitlichen Nordafrika

@fb09public.bsky.social

Manuscript Culture Workshops V: Endowment Notes | Yazma Eser Kültürü Atölyesi V: Vakıf Kayıtları

Date: Saturday, 10 January 2026 (10 am–1 pm, in person and online)
Organisation: Yazma Eserler Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (Istanbul)

That's my goal for the second half of 2026—after I've submitted my doctoral thesis! 😆

Oh no, I was still hoping for the second volume of the Discourses by al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī, translated by Justin Stearns... 😕

©️Forschungsbibliothek Gotha

No need to stress about picking the best seat at the Christmas table, for my latest publication comes to the rescue: "The Art of Picking the Best Seat: From Seating Positions at a Muslim Majlis to Hindu vāstu śāstra," International Journal of Divination & Prognostication 6 (2025): 191-254.

Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.

Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
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MORGEN

Vortrag von Nadine El-Hussein über "Political Poetry in al-Andalus and the Maghreb during the Almohad Period" bei der 💻 hybriden internationalen Konferenz "Poetry and Knowledge" an der @uni-muenster.de

🗓️ 22.11.2025
⏰ 11:00 Uhr
🔗 Informationen & Link zur Online-Teilnahme: is.gd/bApwZI

Starting today at 2:30 p.m. CET. Registration for online participation is still open!

This is a 18th-c. ceramic from Çanakkale, I'm told. Does anyone recognize the shape above the number 25? (or is it 35, manuscript-like?)

[12.11.2025] 'Poetry and Knowledge': Internationale Tagung vom 20. bis 22. November Um

Zur internationalen Konferenz "Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)" lädt das Institut für #Arabistik und #Islamwissenschaft @uni-muenster.de alle Interessierten vom 20. bis 22.11. herzlich ein. Teilnahme vor Ort oder via Zoom: uni.ms/vdk9w

Deborah Feldman: Deutschland, das Land ohne Immunsystem Nach dem Terrorangriff vom 7. Oktober fühlt sich Deborah Feldman in Deutschland entfremdet und kritisiert die Instrumentalisierung jüdischer Menschen.

Zum Jahrestag meines endgültigen Bruchs mit dem deutschen Drehbuch habe ich meine Kolumne fürs Magazin der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social eingeweiht: www.fr.de/kultur/debor...

Illustration of two mice in an Arabic manuscript, one of the mice is on its back while the other drags it by its tail towards its den.

Ever been overwhelmed by remembering how to do your laundry, make inks, *and* keep mice out of the house?

I‘ve got you covered with some fun rhyming recipes!

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