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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).

Invisible East

📚 Series launch for 'The Islamicate East' and 'Ancient and Medieval Afghanistan', both published by @edinburghup.bsky.social 📅 Wednesday 17 June, 6.30pm 📍 Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, 54 boulevard Raspail, Paris 🔗 A few tickets remain. Book yours at: bit.ly/ParisSeriesLaunch

Thanks again to all of our supporters in the #DH #digitalhumanities awards! @dhawards.bsky.social

May's Document of the Month explores a surprising phenomenon among the Cairo Geniza documents: Muslim blessings for the prophet Muḥammad in mercantile letters sent by C12th Jewish traders. Read Alan Elbaum's piece now on our project website: bit.ly/DotMMay26 #medievalsky #cairogeniza #documents

Our Programme Director, @arezouazad.bsky.social, is speaking at an event hosted by Centre Camille Jullian and CPAF @univ-amu.fr tomorrow - all are welcome. #documents #silkroads #skystorians

#ICYMI May's Document of the Month explores a surprising phenomenon among the Cairo Geniza documents: Muslim blessings for the prophet Muḥammad in mercantile letters sent by C12th Jewish traders. Read Alan Elbaum's piece on our website: bit.ly/DotMMay26 #medievalmonday #cairogeniza #skystorians

Delighted Invisible East Digital Corpus has won 2025 Digital Humanities award in 1 category! Thanks to all who voted for us. We dedicate this to people of Bamiyan, Ghorband, Panjshir, Firuzkuh, Ghur, Qom area, & other places from which our texts stem @arezouazad.bsky.social @dhawards.bsky.social

📚 Series launch for 'The Islamicate East' and 'Ancient and Medieval Afghanistan', both published by @edinburghup.bsky.social 📅 Wednesday 17 June, 6.30pm 📍 Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH) at 54 boulevard Raspail, Paris 🔗 For full info & to book: bit.ly/ParisSeriesLaunch

Lovely weekend at the @histassoc.bsky.social conference meeting friends old and new. Some fantastic sessions from Sally Burnham, Zaiba Patel @invisibleeast.bsky.social , @fredoxby.bsky.social @victoriacrooks.bsky.social @lauralondo1017.bsky.social . Lots of ideas and threads to think about now!

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This is the best thing you’ll read all day:). “[T]he same Geniza letters reveal an astonishing degree of interdenominational cooperation, matched by almost complete absence of animosity against other communities.“

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A fascinating piece detailing Muslim scribes’ involvement in Genizah /Geniza documents. And I am so looking forward to the publication of the Indian Ocean project.

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Document of the Month 5/26: Trade Letters from the Indian Ocean

Congratulations to the amazing Invisible East team on receiving the Digital Humanities award for the best digital resource! Invisible East are a research programme on the 8th-13th century Islamicate world in Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia. 🔗 Find out more: buff.ly/kPb1rnG #History

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Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford

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