Brian Ulrich
@brianjulrich.bsky.social
Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
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Brian Ulrich
@brianjulrich.bsky.social
· Oct 13
The Medieval Persian Gulf - Arc Humanities Press
The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discovery of oil. This book tells of the Gul...
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My book The Medieval Persian Gulf is meant as an accessible introduction to the region's history of multiculturalism and global connections, and among other places can be ordered directly from the publisher (with affordable international shipping!)
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News to me, but apparently this article is out now in #openaccess!
I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
News to me, but apparently this article is out now in #openaccess!
I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
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Asked a student how he was doing and he responded "Living the dream one nightmare at a time"
If that doesnt capture the absurdity and dread of this moment
If that doesnt capture the absurdity and dread of this moment
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Asked a student how he was doing and he responded "Living the dream one nightmare at a time"
If that doesnt capture the absurdity and dread of this moment
If that doesnt capture the absurdity and dread of this moment
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Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
Loot from #MESA2025 - the bottom two were actually free, as presses were finding ways to give away display copies while offering free shipping on discounted online orders
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Loot from #MESA2025 - the bottom two were actually free, as presses were finding ways to give away display copies while offering free shipping on discounted online orders
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Haven’t posted about this in a long time, but with #AARSBL & #MESA both happening, a friendly reminder that we have an Islamic Studies starter pack/list on here.
Scholars, give these folks a follow, spread the word, and let me know if you’d like to be added to the list. #IslamicStudies, #acrel, 🗃️
Scholars, give these folks a follow, spread the word, and let me know if you’d like to be added to the list. #IslamicStudies, #acrel, 🗃️
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Haven’t posted about this in a long time, but with #AARSBL & #MESA both happening, a friendly reminder that we have an Islamic Studies starter pack/list on here.
Scholars, give these folks a follow, spread the word, and let me know if you’d like to be added to the list. #IslamicStudies, #acrel, 🗃️
Scholars, give these folks a follow, spread the word, and let me know if you’d like to be added to the list. #IslamicStudies, #acrel, 🗃️
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{New Book} Save 25% with ARC25 -This volume aims to shed new light on a topic pertaining to multiple fields of research: social history, technical medical history, disability history, military history, and the Genesis of the Modern State. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270164...
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
{New Book} Save 25% with ARC25 -This volume aims to shed new light on a topic pertaining to multiple fields of research: social history, technical medical history, disability history, military history, and the Genesis of the Modern State. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270164...
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A professor at the University of #Oklahoma, has been released from ICE custody after being detained on Saturday, posting- "It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had." okcfox.com/news/local/o...
OU professor with valid visa reportedly released from ICE custody
UPDATE:Dr. Vahid Abedini, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, has been released from ICE custody after being detained on Saturday.Dr.Abedini posted on
okcfox.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A professor at the University of #Oklahoma, has been released from ICE custody after being detained on Saturday, posting- "It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had." okcfox.com/news/local/o...
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“Landis said he received an email instructing him to direct all inquiries about Abedini’s detainment to OU Marketing and Communications. OU Marketing and Communications wrote in an email to OU Daily Monday afternoon that it did not have a comment on Abedini’s detainment.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“Landis said he received an email instructing him to direct all inquiries about Abedini’s detainment to OU Marketing and Communications. OU Marketing and Communications wrote in an email to OU Daily Monday afternoon that it did not have a comment on Abedini’s detainment.”
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I found the story on an Iranian news site and did a quick search in the ICE database to see that he is indeed in custody with no details revealed (or at least someone with his same bio info).
Here’s the screenshot and article link:
wanaen.com/u-s-arrested...
Here’s the screenshot and article link:
wanaen.com/u-s-arrested...
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I found the story on an Iranian news site and did a quick search in the ICE database to see that he is indeed in custody with no details revealed (or at least someone with his same bio info).
Here’s the screenshot and article link:
wanaen.com/u-s-arrested...
Here’s the screenshot and article link:
wanaen.com/u-s-arrested...
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Bin Jelmood House – Msheireb Museums
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November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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And we're back in our Nation's Capital! Hello @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Drop by the exhibit hall and check out our latest books in Middle East Studies!
And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And we're back in our Nation's Capital! Hello @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Drop by the exhibit hall and check out our latest books in Middle East Studies!
And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
Congratulations to @keshavarziana.bsky.social, whose Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East won @mesa1966.bsky.social's Roger Owen Book Award #MESA2025 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Making Space for the Gulf | Stanford University Press
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has be...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Congratulations to @keshavarziana.bsky.social, whose Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East won @mesa1966.bsky.social's Roger Owen Book Award #MESA2025 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
The winner of @mesa1966.bsky.social's Fatima Mernissi Book Award is Susanna Ferguson's Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Labors of Love | Stanford University Press
How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions aroun...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The winner of @mesa1966.bsky.social's Fatima Mernissi Book Award is Susanna Ferguson's Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Congratulations to @sfahrenthold.bsky.social's whose book Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class won @mesa1966.bsky.social's Nikki Keddie Book Award @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Unmentionables | Stanford University Press
As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Congratulations to @sfahrenthold.bsky.social's whose book Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class won @mesa1966.bsky.social's Nikki Keddie Book Award @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Congratulations to @superoldgranny.bsky.social's whose book The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service just won the @mesa1966.bsky.social's Albert Hourani Book Award #Mesa2025
The Sublime Post
A history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-di...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Congratulations to @superoldgranny.bsky.social's whose book The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service just won the @mesa1966.bsky.social's Albert Hourani Book Award #Mesa2025
Listening to @abshlimon.bsky.social call attention to scholars diminishing the Assyrian Genocide and Assyrian narratives of their identity #Iraq #Mesa2025
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Listening to @abshlimon.bsky.social call attention to scholars diminishing the Assyrian Genocide and Assyrian narratives of their identity #Iraq #Mesa2025
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📣New Book Alert📣
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity.
The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity.
The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
📣New Book Alert📣
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity.
The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity.
The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
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Y'all should apply for this. The book budget is wild, the campus is chill, and the cats are many.
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69504/n...
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New York University Abu Dhabi - NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World - Postdoctoral Fellowship | H-Net
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November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Y'all should apply for this. The book budget is wild, the campus is chill, and the cats are many.
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69504/n...
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69504/n...
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Never thought about it, but I suspect it goes back to horses. You ride a bike the same way you ride a horse.
You drive a car because it's like a wagon or carriage (pretty sure 'car' is short for 'carriage, actually) with multiple horses hitched to the front, which you're not riding, but directing.
You drive a car because it's like a wagon or carriage (pretty sure 'car' is short for 'carriage, actually) with multiple horses hitched to the front, which you're not riding, but directing.
The very terminology used for bicycling is insulting and car-centric.
You "drive" a car but "ride" a bike?
Look at what's actually "driving" a bike forward (a person's legs) vs a car (an engine).
Should be DRIVE a bike, RIDE a car.
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You "drive" a car but "ride" a bike?
Look at what's actually "driving" a bike forward (a person's legs) vs a car (an engine).
Should be DRIVE a bike, RIDE a car.
bsky.app/profile/push...
I don’t like how Seattle calls bike lanes and urban bike routes “trails”. It makes it sound informal and leisurely. These are actual bike roads that get people to work, school, and to run errands. They aren’t for joy riding in the park
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Never thought about it, but I suspect it goes back to horses. You ride a bike the same way you ride a horse.
You drive a car because it's like a wagon or carriage (pretty sure 'car' is short for 'carriage, actually) with multiple horses hitched to the front, which you're not riding, but directing.
You drive a car because it's like a wagon or carriage (pretty sure 'car' is short for 'carriage, actually) with multiple horses hitched to the front, which you're not riding, but directing.
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was fun to work on this with @rhigarthjones.bsky.social - about choosing different ways to talk to different publics
In #AHAPerspectives, Rhiannon Garth Jones and Matthew Gabriele argue for moving away from the traditional bibliography in trade books and toward something more conversational to engage with the wider public. 🗃️
Bibliographies for the People – AHA
Embracing alternative citation help the public better engage with trade history books.
www.historians.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
was fun to work on this with @rhigarthjones.bsky.social - about choosing different ways to talk to different publics
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It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.