Historian, PhD | Interests: Medieval Islam, late antiquity, Middle East & South Asia | Tweets: manuscripts, print culture, miscellanea
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Khatayi’s book is the most in-depth, sophisticated account of China’s government, society, and culture written by any foreigner before the era of European colonial empires. Now translated into English for the first time.
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"Should we commit genocide in Gaza?" "Do you think there are any innocents in Gaza?" The series of comedian Lior Schlein talking to the youth of Israel continues, and this time he hears why even babies are not innocent. The full scale Nazification of Israeli youth is truly shocking.
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There's an important detail in the story: many of these writers are now employed as "AI humanizers," at a much lower pay rate, of course. If you read past the irony, the lesson of the story is a harbinger for almost all industries.
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All the scientists and math nerds were fine with OpenAI violating copyright by artists and only got up in arms when OpenAI stole the data on a math proof
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I wrote this in response to a prospective applicant whose email was at least partially AI-generated:
Thank you for your email. Your project sounds interesting, but the problem is that there are sentences in your email that are composed by AI. 1/4
This is a pretty incredible story! nytimes.com/2026/09/05/techn…
Having worked on a research paper using a plethora of early modern print material available on Google Books in the 2010s but which then gradually disappeared over the years since, I feel like I've witnessed its evisceration in real time. Welcome to the digital dark ages!
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Academic feuds should only be conducted in the traditional way: weirdly passive aggressive footnotes in competing monographs over a period of multiple decades (whoever dies first loses).
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It’s not hard to understand that American liberalism vacillates between the idea that everyone is a unique individual and everyone represents a social, mostly racial, identity. Both lead to a kind of moralism that is incapable of addressing actual class or race inequalities.
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Publication announcement: my third monograph "Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi: Aspirations and Tensions of Islamic Cosmopolitanism" out today. Though slightly shorter than my first two books, this is perhaps the best and was certainly the most meaningful to write.
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JOB POST: Assistant Professor in Pre-Modern History of the Islamicate Middle East or Central Asia at @UChicago @NELC_UChicago. Salary $90,000-120,000. Deadline 19 October 2026. apply.interfolio.com/190288
There's a brief chapter on "Homer in Islam" by Alberto Manguel in his survey work, "Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography" (2007).
It mainly discusses the Abbasid translators, who did not work with Greek poetry though some tales of Troy were retold in medieval Arabic texts.
Better yet: a properly historical note on the typeface, like this brief account of Garamond (found in the English edition of Han Kang's Greek Lessons, published by Hogarth in 2023).
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I'm thrilled to say that we are hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of Religion in the Islam subfield at Denison University! Please share widely among your networks. apply.interfolio.com/188984
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One of the all-time most repulsive NYT headlines:
Missile at Beachside Gaza Cafe Finds Patrons Poised for World Cup nyti.ms/1nc1bnZ
