Peacekeeper turned historian of medieval Middle East/Central Asia; founder & director @invisible_east
Oxford, England
Joined November 2014
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Happening today. Scan QR code or click this link: iranianstudies.utoronto.ca/e…
Join us this Wednesday for some time with the great Francis Richard of the @labnf and @museelouvre to enjoy his deep knowledge of #Persianate #manuscripts. 1 PM EST/ 6 PM UK/ 7 PM CET. Just scan the QR code and register.
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Join us this Wednesday for some time with the great Francis Richard of the @labnf and @museelouvre to enjoy his deep knowledge of #Persianate #manuscripts. 1 PM EST/ 6 PM UK/ 7 PM CET. Just scan the QR code and register.
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❗️Join us for 1st of an incredible line-up of scholars in our Archives and Documents monthly hybrid lecture series. Kicked off by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (@UPennNELC ) speaking about opportunities and challenges for archival research on Iran's past.
A fantastic new Document of the month on 13 multilingual, multiscript documents found in Dunhuang by Tasha Vorderstrasse (@UofC ) Be dazzled by their beauty, simplicity and cosmopolitan vibe
August's Document of the Month: some fragments from Dunhuang and their many scripts and languages. Read Tasha Vorderstrasse's piece now: bit.ly/DotMAug26 #documents #history #khotan #Buddhism #multilingual #centralasia #silkroad #manuscripts #medievalist #dunhuang
4/ An inspiring opportunity to exchange methods & ideas across disciplinary and regional divides. sincere thanks to Manuel Garcia Munoz for his vision & leadership in bringing this initiative together. Full programme and paper titles: bit.ly/4aK99ag #Fragments #Medieval
3/ Our European fragments panellists featured Pieter Beullens (Leuven) Renske Hoff (Utrecht), Jemima Bennett (@bodleianlibs) Celia Vila Fernandez (S de Compostella) James Drysdale Miller (Oxford) Allison Boroff (Case Western) Mark Saltveit (ind) Irene Pereira Garcia (UNED/Madrid)
2/ We were also delighted to co-organise four panels on Medieval Fragments with Manuel Garcia Munoz (Durham). Speakers on the Persian-speaking and Islamicate East included Ryoko Watabe (Tokyo), Takao Ito (Kobe), Ed Shawe-Taylor (Oxford) & response by Márton Vér (Hamburg)
1/ A joyful week at the International Medieval Congress at @UniversityLeeds celebrating new books! Delighted to mark City of Balkh with co-editor Robert Hoyland published by @BloomsburyAcad & @EdinburghUP vols Warehouse of Bamiyan & Rise and Fall of the Barmakids. #InvisibleEast
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026):
'It was of little help to try and console the perfectionist historian with a reference to Horace’s adage about how even Homer nods...'
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Invisible East Digital Corpus 2.0 now live! Highlights of new features:
1️⃣: Live Corpus Explorer
✨Visualise 515 texts in multiple language
✨Select “types” & disaggregate btw administrative, legal & literary documents.
✨Toggle Sub-types
Check: bit.ly/4vGpbu5
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❗️New #InvisibleEast Document of the Month by Ms Danielle Zwaerthoed (PhD candidate, EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) on petitions preserved in Persian letter-writing manuals of 14th/ 15th C. Did the powers that be answer them? : bit.ly/44D0l2e
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And it's out today, after 10 years of work on the first interdisciplinary volume dedicated to pre-Mongol Balkh: one of the greatest medieval cities of all times ! Details here: bit.ly/3SsZEG8 @BloomsburyBooks
Delighted to be speaking at Aix-Marseille University about Orientalism, the Silk Roads and Hidden Histories of Afghanistan and the Iranian world on Wednesday 3 June at the kind invitation of Prof Arietta Papaconstantinou and her @ERC_Research project team !
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
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We're proud to publish Anna Learn's excellent and in-depth review of a new anthology of Afghan women poems: Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets, published by @TwoLinesPress
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Looking forward to discussing my dear colleague and friend Yossi Rapoport's new book, Becoming Arab (Princeton, Oxford, 2025): Join us if you are in London on Wed 20 May at 5 pm at Queen Mary University of London: eventbrite.co.uk/e/yossef-ra… @invisible_east East
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Wow great to see this volume from a scholar who has worked long and hard on this topic
#NewPublication
State Histories: The Politics of Teaching the Past in Iran
Yasamin Alkhansa. Palgrave Macmillan 2026
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