Colleagues attending the ECSAS at Heidelberg this year, please join us for our fantastic double panel on Thursday, 2nd Oct., 2-6.30 pm, co-convened by Francesca Chubb-Confer, Brannon Ingram and myself!

Title: Orientalism’s ‘Other’: Islamic Studies, European Thought, and South Asia

I am pleased to announce the call for papers for a workshop Edmund Hayes and I are organising as part of the Embodied Imamate project: "The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam," to be held between 11–12 June 2026 at Leiden University.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

The first session in our seminar series will be taking place on 20 October featuring @kontny-wendt.bsky.social and Ebrahim Mansoor. Further information can be found here: www.shiistudies.net/events/semin....

Presenting next week (on 23 Sep) with friends and colleagues at the inaugural Ginan Studies Conference put together by the Association for the Study of Ginans with The Institute of Ismaili Studies and @soasuni.bsky.social. All times in BST. Hybrid and open to all. Registration: asginans.com/events

So delighted to be part of this!

New study finds that using ChatGPT to write essays led to reduced brain activity & memory compared to writing without tools or using a search engine. While ChatGPT made writing easier, it also caused cognitive offloading, weakening learning and engagement over time.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

Thrilled to announce another London showing of our film Songs Of The Sufi.

This time we welcome the qawwals Najmuddin Saifuddin & Group, who are the focus of the film, to the panel Q&A…followed by a qawwali concert!

This is one NOT to miss!

SOAS, 12 June, 6pm 👇

store.soas.ac.uk/conferences-...

Honoured to be presenting at this conference next week with many amazing friends/colleagues/teachers! Come along for the excellent presentations and if, for whatever reason, you wanna hear me talk about jinn and gender. Entire conf hybrid.
Details and registration: www.iis.ac.uk/events/devot...

Honoured to be presenting at this conference next week with many amazing friends/colleagues/teachers! Come along for the excellent presentations and if, for whatever reason, you wanna hear me talk about jinn and gender. Entire conf hybrid.
Details and registration: www.iis.ac.uk/events/devot...

I'll be presenting virtually at the New Generations/Jil Jadid conf at the CMES, UT Austin tomo at 1:15 pm CST/7:15 pm BST. Sad to not be able to attend in person but if you are around, do join us at utexas.zoom.us/j/94026515084. Full programme and details here: liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/graduate...

Thanks

Will this be available to watch later?

As we gear up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Raymond Williams’ book "“Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society,” scholars from the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts gather on 2/21 for the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 interdisciplinary symposium “Keywords.”

Do we have to register for the livestream?

What is Islamic art? lol glad you asked my friend but guess what? It's almost impossible to define. Yet that semiotic fluidity is what makes it so endlessly fascinating.

Every Monday, I'll post an object from my class History of the Medieval Islamic World in 100 Objects. It'll be funnn come along!

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on!
www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

CfP! My colleague Razak Khan and I are co-hosting the panel "Unfamiliar. Family, Law and Democracy in South Asia" at #ECSAS 2025. We're especially interested in changing parental rights and child custody. ecsas2025.com/panel/23-unf...

It’s here, a *start* of an Islamic Studies Starter Pack. Please spread the word. This is a work in progress… Scholars of Islam in all regions and periods, let me know, and I’ll happily add you.
go.bsky.app/EYU1bFe