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Invisible East
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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).
Delighted to share @arezouazad.bsky.social's blog for @edinburghup.bsky.social: discover more about her upcoming book 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan'!

#medievalsky #skystorians #booksky #Afghanistan
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We have now added tags to the medieval Persian documents on our #digitalcorpus www.invisible-east.org

The bureaucracy of 11th–13th century #Afghanistan meets the bureaucracy of modern metadata: jump from a grain-tax dispute to a marriage settlement in two clicks!

#digitalhumanities #medievalmonday
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A treat for #MedievalMonday!

This document features in the latest launch on our #digitalcorpus www.invisible-east.org as well as in our Document of the Month 'A History of Two Iranian Festivals: Nawrūz and Sada' by Simone Cristoforetti.

#readingtime: bit.ly/NawruzandSada
Document of the Month 11/25: The Festival of Sada
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November 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
#ICYMI applications are open for the
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk's Bahari Visiting Fellowship, supporting research in its Persian & Islamic Collections.

Applications close Friday 28 November.

More info: bit.ly/BahariFellowship.

#persian #bodleianlibrary #fellowship #oxforduniversity
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!

The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.

For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Attention junior researchers!

✍️ 1 postdoctoral fellowship
✍️ 2 doctoral fellowships

Directed by Prof Alka Patel, at La3M–Aix-Marseille University for The Indo-Persian Continuum (c. 11th-17th Centuries).

🗓️ Deadline for applications: 10 January 2026

#skystorians #medievalsky #AcademicSky
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
We are delighted to be hosting a day course for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social: join us to explore 'Treasures of the Medieval Islamicate World: Stories of Empire and the Everyday'.

For more information and to book: bit.ly/Saturdaycourse

#skystorians #silkroads #lifelonglearning #studyatoxford
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This document features in the latest launch on our digital corpus - as well as in November's Document of the Month, 'A History of Two Iranian Festivals: Nawrūz and Sada' by Simone Cristoforetti: bit.ly/NawruzandSada.

#digitalhumanities #medievalsky #BamiyanPapers #NewPersian
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Join our Programme Director @arezouazad.bsky.social in conversation at this online event:

📢 'The Bactrians, the Kharajites & the Barmakids'.

📆 This Friday 21 November at 5pm GMT.

🔗Registration is essential: bit.ly/CLAMSevent.

#skystorians #medievalsky #bactrians #kharajites #barmakids
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In every office, every classroom, every workplace — there’s always that one person who just can’t stop sucking up the boss.

Laughing too hard at their jokes.
Repeating everything they say.
Pretending to share the same interests.
Snitching on their colleagues to look good. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It’s only mid-November, but here in the UK the shops have already started playing their Christmas playlists. 🎅🎶

If you’re worried you’ll be sick of hearing Eartha Kitt sing 'Santa Baby' by the time December rolls around - fear not - we’ve got a perfect alternative from 11th-century Afghanistan. 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
TOMORROW: online seminar with Martina Massullo speaking on 'Framing the Past: Exploring the Godard Photographic Archives of Iran and Afghanistan'.

This talk won't be recorded - don't miss out - register now: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorians #archives #Iran #Afghanistan
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Next week: ‘Rethinking History: Returning to Archives & Documents’ returns with Martina Massullo of
@museelouvre.bsky.social speaking on 'Framing the Past: Exploring the Godard Photographic Archives of Iran and Afghanistan'.

Register for Zoom: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorians #archives
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#ICYMI applications are open for the
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk's Bahari Visiting Fellowship, supporting research in its Persian & Islamic Collections.

For more information visit bit.ly/BahariFellowship. Please note that applications close Friday 28 November.

#persian #bodleianlibrary #oxforduniversity
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
'Afghanistan Through the Ages - Voices in Stone, Script, and Story' continues @inalco.fr tomorrow, with Alya Karame speaking on 'The Qur'ans of the Ghaznavids and Ghurids: New Genres' at 6pm CET/5pm GMT.

More information: invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk

#Afghanistan #Quran #Ghaznavid #Ghurid
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Applications are now open for the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk's Bahari Visiting Fellowship, supporting research in its Persian and Islamic Collections.

For more information visit bit.ly/BahariFellowship. Please note that applications close Friday 28 November.

#persian #bodleianlibrary #oxforduniversity
October 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
For followers based in Paris, the multidisciplinary seminar series 'Afghanistan Through the Ages - Voices in Stone, Script, and Story'@inalco.fr, continues on 5 November.

More info: invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk

Hybrid access available on Zoom via the QR code.

#Afghanistan #Quran #Ghaznavid #Ghurid
October 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The next ‘Rethinking History: Returning to Archives & Documents’ hybrid seminar: Martina Massullo, of @museelouvre.bsky.social speaking on 'Framing the Past: Exploring the Godard Photographic Archives of Iran and Afghanistan'.

Register for Zoom: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorians #archives
October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Next month colleagues at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social are hosting an introduction to medieval #Arabic #documents, including their #history and #paleography.

Our advisory board member, Prof Geoffrey Khan of @cam.ac.uk is teaching. Don't miss out: bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop

#Egypt #Khurasan #Nubia
October 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
In October's 'Document of the Month', Maryam Heydarkhani uncovers glimpses of daily life in a 19th-century madrasa through its endowment deed.

This latest read in our popular series is a big leap forward in time for Invisible East! Read now at bit.ly/EndowmentDeed

#documents #history #Qajar
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The team has recently had the privilege of visiting Leicester and Solihull, to share our research with secondary school pupils, and to hear their insights!

Here are a few of the wonderful posters produced by Year 7 students at Lode Heath School.

#skystorians #medievalsky #oxfordlifelonglearning
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Due this December: @arezouazad.bsky.social's 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan'. The first in 'The Islamicate East' series with @edinburghup.bsky.social

Enjoy a launch discount of 30% with code NEW30: bit.ly/WarehouseofBamiyan

#skystorians #medievalsky #Afghanistan
October 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
TOMORROW: Robert Travers of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social speaks on 'Persian Archives for Histories of Colonial State-Formation in South Asia in the Eighteenth Century'.

🗓️ 15 October, 12pm Toronto/5pm UK.

🔗 Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorian #archives #documents #Persian
October 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Colleagues @lmumuenchen.bsky.social are hosting a workshop about medieval Arabic documents this November. Our advisory board member Prof Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) will be teaching - it promises to be a fascinating time!

bit.ly/ArabicDocumentsWorkshop

#Arabic #documents #medievalsky
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Join us to hear Robert Travers of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social speak on 'Persian Archives for Histories of Colonial State-Formation in South Asia in the Eighteenth Century'.

🗓️ Wednesday 15 October, 5pm UK time.

🔗 Register: bit.ly/RethinkingHistoryZoom

#skystorian #archives #documents #Persian
October 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Last day to sign up for our new hybrid lecture series @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social!

Invisible East researchers will be joined by Jade Whitlam and @helengittos.bsky.social to illuminate this fascinating period and region.

🔗 bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures

#silkroads #historylovers #lifelonglearning
October 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM