@invisibleeast
Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk Project website: invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org Funded by EU's ERC Horizon 2020 R&I programme (851607).
and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'. The latter is an annotated translation, with Pejman Firoozbakhsh, of a Persian MS held in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. An expert panel, chaired by Prof Yasmin Khan, took questions from an enthusiastic audience.
#barmakids #documents #Afghanistan #NewPersian 2/2
A great launch at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for our Programme Director @arezouazad.bsky.social's latest volumes in @edinburghup.bsky.social's Islamicate East series. The assembled guests enjoyed an overview of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan - Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' 1/2
Join us to mark the publication of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan - Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.
Tuesday 3 March, 5.30pm, at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch
#barmakids #manuscriptmonday #bamiyan #medievalmonday
3 book covers: The Warehouse of Bamiyan, Persian World Histories in the Mongol Era and The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
🎉The first 3 books have now published in The Islamicate East series, edited by @arezouazad.bsky.social, Hugh Kennedy and Teresa Bernheimer🎉 @invisibleeast.bsky.social
Find out more at edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-i...
Next Tuesday we'll be @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for a book launch 🎉
Join our expert panel to explore 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'. Register at bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch
#Bamiyan #Barmakids #documents #manuscripts
Join us at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social on 3 March, to celebrate the launch of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.
Book your free ticket now at bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch
#Bamiyan #medievalsky #Barmakids #booklaunch
Join us tomorrow, from 5pm GMT, to hear Jennifer Jenkins speak on 'Archaeology as National Archive: Herzfeld's History of Iran'.
Part of the 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' online seminar series.
Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom
#skystorians #iran #herzfeld
📢 February's Document of the Month is live on our project website.
📚 Read Bogdan C. Smarandache's fascinating piece 'Travelling in Troubled Times: A Latin Letter of Safe Passage for a Muslim Merchant Issued during the Frankish-Fatimid Wars' at bit.ly/DotMFeb26
#medievalmonday #manuscriptmonday
Delighted to share that documents from our digital corpus now appear in the latest version of the OpenITI corpus, available at Zenodo. For more information see: kitab-project.org/OpenITI-Rele...
Let us know how you are using this new functionality!
#Documents #digitalcorpus #digitalhumanities
Gorgeous coat(s)!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jennifer Jenkins' seminar in the 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' series, due to take place tomorrow, has now been postponed to Wednesday February 25.
Register at bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom
#seminar #archives #history #iran #herzfeld
Join us @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, on Tuesday 3 March, to celebrate the launch of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan', with Edinburgh University Press.
Book your free ticket now at bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch
#Bamiyan #Barmakids #medievalmonday #manuscriptmonday
Look what's arrived in our office...
Get your copy at bit.ly/TheWarehouseofBamiyan and enjoy 30% off with code NEW30 at checkout!
#medievalsky #skystorians #edinburghuniversitypress
Join us for 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives & Documents’, with Jennifer Jenkins of @utoronto.ca on 'Archaeology as National Archive: Herzfeld’s History of Iran'.
Next Wednesday 11 February, 12pm EST/5pm GMT.
Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom
#archives #iran #herzfeld
Join us on Tuesday 3 March, @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, to launch new books in @edinburghup.bsky.social series The Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History, with Arezou Azad & an expert panel.
Book your free ticket now: bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch
#booklaunch #skystorians #medievalsky
Valentine's Day is less than two weeks away, so we thought we'd give you a hand... Thank us later. 🤗❤️
We'll just leave the link here: buff.ly/5FbM758
#ValentinesDay #ShortCourses #ValentinesMemes #RelationshipMemes #OxfordLifelongLearning
#ICYMI January's 'Document of the Month' is live at bit.ly/DotMJan26.
Alisher Begmatov writes 'From Mount to Manuscript: Revisiting Commodity Terms in a Mugh Document'.
#medievalsky #documents #mountmugh
Delighted to share that team member Nabi Saqee will be writing a paper "Studying the Role and Status of Women in the Ghurid Empire, based on the Firuzkuh historical papers" for the Afghanistan Research Initiative at the University of Central Asia.
#documents #women #medievalsky
Photograph is of a document written in black ink on cream-coloured leather, set on a black background. The leather has black ink writing in Sogdian script.
In the spring of 1932, a shepherd fortuitously discovered a wicker basket containing a manuscript at Mount Mugh, Tajikistan...
Read more at bit.ly/DotMJan26 where Alisher Begmatov explores a commercial letter from Mount Mugh in our 'Document of the Month'.
#medievalsky #skystorians #documents
Great to see team member Mateen celebrating #MuseumSelfieDay with our department @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
Do you have a favourite museum? We are spoilt for choice with amazing museums here in Oxford. Some of our favourites are @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social and the History of Science Museum!
Join us on 28 March @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for 'Treasures of the Medieval Islamicate World'.
Including manuscript and document viewing — with grateful thanks to our colleagues at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Places are limited: bit.ly/Saturdaycourse
#medievalsky #skystorians #studyatoxford
Monday's virtual book launch, hosted by the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at @utoronto.ca, with the Toronto Book Club, has been postponed.
Please visit our project website - invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk - to stay up-to-date on events.
'Afghanistan Through the Ages — Voices in Stone, Script, and Story', convened by Arezou Azad and Matteo de Chiara @inalco.fr, continues tonight with Laurianne Sève on ‘Nouvelles Recherches sur Aï Khanoum’. Use QR code for Zoom link. bit.ly/Afghanistanseries
#seminarseries #Afghanistan #aikhanoum
Tomorrow’s seminar, in the 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' series, has been postponed.
Join us on Mon 19 Jan, 5pm GMT to celebrate the launch of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.
Hosted by the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at @utoronto.ca with the Toronto Book Club. bit.ly/TorontoBookLaunch
#medievalMonday #manuscriptmonday
Join us next Wednesday 14 January to hear Nima Asefi of @uni-hamburg.de speaking on 'Documents from Turbulent Times: Studying Middle Persian Collection from the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods'.
Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom
#documents #medievalsky #middlepersian
#ICYMI December's Document of the Month, '“The Pain of Separation from the Lord”: A Personal Letter to the Son of a Jewish Magnate in Bamiyan', by Ruben S. Nikoghosyan, is now live on our project website: bit.ly/JudeoPersianLetter
#Bamiyan #judeopersian #documents
Our digital corpus contains 286 medieval documents from the Bamiyan Papers, originating from Afghanistan. 23 feature Judeo-Persian in Hebrew script.
December's Document of the Month, by Ruben S. Nikoghosyan, explores one of these: bit.ly/JudeoPersianLetter
#skystorians #medievalsky #judeopersian
This month's 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' seminar has been postponed.
Thank you for your interest.
