Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social Medieval Historian. North-East Africa & Ethiopia. German. Professor. GIF lover, Sci-fi fan. Getting better at remembering this app exists. More info: VerenaKrebs.com.
Khalil Andani @khalilandani.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion, scholar is Islamic Studies, Quranic studies, Ismailism, Sufism, and Muslim Philosopher of Religion
The Camel's Nose @thecamelsnose.bsky.social Professorial Lecturer in Political Science and Policy Analyst in Washington, DC. Comparative/IR. Middle East, Arab Gulf States, Iran, Israel. Gender, Tribes, Ethnic Politics.
Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies @princeton.edu | Faculty Specialist @umdpublicpolicy.bsky.social | Analyst for Red Sea Futures | Former Non-Resident Fellow at Institute for Future Conflict & @wilsoncenter.org
Justin Stearns @kaohu11.bsky.social Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi
Natalie Kraneiß @kranatalie.bsky.social PhD candidate in Islamic Studies. Project: Prophetic descent of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī and his descendants in the Western Maghrib and Syria. Genealogy, methods of genealogists & verification of historical/genealogical knowledge in the early modern period.
Jon Hoover @jhoover04.bsky.social Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Omniya Abdel Barr @omabarr.bsky.social Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A.
Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
Tyler Kynn @seyahatgame.bsky.social Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/
www.hajjtrail.com/game
Urbanist @urbanist110.bsky.social Semantics and narratives
Martin Nguyen @alakhira.bsky.social Muslim Theology • Islamic Studies • Wordcraft • Bibliophile • Professor
I’m always writing in my head, sometimes on paper, on matters of faith, ethics, and the intersection of race and religion
Thomas A. Carlson @medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social Historian of the Middle East c. 950-1500 CE, but I teach much more broadly. I'm writing a book about religious diversity in an illiberal society.
https://www.thomasacarlson.com/
https://medievalmideast.org/
https://www.cambridge.org/9781107186279
he/ܗܘ/هو
Edward J @globallymobile.bsky.social I work in peace mediation- love history, especially Middle Eastern, South and Southeast Asian and African. Based in the Levant.
Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social PhD Student of early modern Ottoman history. Social historian interested in commerce, customs, and corruption in Ottoman lands.
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Paolo Sartori @psardor.bsky.social Senior Research Associate @oeaw |
Editor of JESHO and JCAH |
Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/
Author of "A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan"
José Bellver @jbellver.bsky.social Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
al-Andalus
Andalusi Sufism
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
https://csic.academia.edu/JoseBellver
Martijn de Koning @martijn5155.bsky.social Anthropologist: Muslim youth in Europe, Islamophobia, salafism, marriage, activism. Dept.Islam, Politics and Society Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
http://ru.nl/islamstudies; https://religionresearch.org/closer 
Jay @jaydoesmena.bsky.social Master’s student | Especially interested in Türkiye 🇹🇷| Likes/shares=bookmarks- V david villani @villani.bsky.social Studying oasis towns and the trans-Saharan trade at l’EHESS
Anna Grasso @annagrasso.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher on the @digitislam.bsky.social project. #Religion #Islam #Digital #UnitedKingdom #Tunisia #France #Religiousauthority #Gender
Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social Exploring social & religious impact of Online Islamic Environments in different European countries
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/digitalislameurope/
Open Islamicate Texts Initiative @openiti.bsky.social Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. openiti.org
Account managed by @jparkesallen.bsky.social
Brannon Ingram @brannoningram.bsky.social Professor at Northwestern. Posts about Islam and colonialism, the British empire, and the occasional political rant
Pieter Coppens @pietercoppens.bsky.social Islamic Studies
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/pieter-coppens
Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions @qalamos.bsky.social Account of the DFG Project "Qalamos". #manuscripts #Asia #Africa #catalogs | @stabiberlin.bsky.social | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Universität Leipzig | Website: www.qalamos.net | Blog: https://od-portal.hypotheses.org
Joshua Koontz @joshuakoontz.bsky.social Yemen Analyst, Geolocation & Maps, Follow/Like/Share =/= Endorsement, My posts are my own, Threads @jkoontz__ X @JoshuaKoontz__
CarvajalF @carvajalf.bsky.social Los Angeles - Executive Director @americancentersy.org -
Clubhouse: @CarvajalF - SHARE ≠endorsement -YITB452
Afrah Nasser @afrahnasser.bsky.social Non-resident fellow @ArabCenterWDC. Recipient of the Committee to Protect Journalists' International @pressfreedom Award. Former @hrw #Yemen researcher. - S Saleh Al-Batati @salehalbatati.bsky.social
- N @ndawsari.bsky.social @ndawsari.bsky.social
@mohammedalqadhi.bsky.social @mohammedalqadhi.bsky.social 
Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social Berber linguistics // linguistique amazighe // ⵜⵎⵓⵙⵏⵉ ⵏ ⵜⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
Universiteit Leiden
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maarten-kossmann
Profile picture: Votive stone, Musée des civilisations de Rabat
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. she/her.
(specifics @ profirmf.com)
Reading Islamic Texts @islamtexts.bsky.social Islamic studies researcher ⚡ Sharing beautiful & fascinating Islamic art, thought and history. ✨ Original translations of Classical Arabic
https://www.readingislamictexts.com
#islam #quran #hadith #sufi #arabic #calligraphy #art #manuscript #islamic
Laury Silvers/Jayne Green @laurylsilvers.bsky.social Muslim Canadian author of mysteries and thrillers. #Toronto Thrillers by Jayne Green. Rat City, The #Sufi Mysteries Quartet and its spin-off, Ghazi Ammar (2025), by Laury Silvers. Fan of the IJC/ICC. Keeping my handles, but I'm not here
Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social Scholar and researcher of ancient languages, August prize-nominated author. Hebraist, Ugaritologist, Semitist, moonlighting in Indo-European.
Ordained in a rare religion.
Abyssum per Sapientiam Linguā Incarnandō.
Ola-Wikander-eng.se
Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social Working with manuscripts at HMML, probably posting cats. Philadelphia. Hoping this app works (he/him)
Dr Matthew L Keegan @drkeegan.bsky.social Professor of Arabic Lit, reader of riddles, lecturer of the ostensibly old and obscure. Formerly in the bad place: Lit_as_Adab https://barnard.academia.edu/MatthewKeegan (Opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.)
Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn
https://upenn.academia.edu/SimchaGross
El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social He/him/هو/إيّاهُ; Particle physics PhD candidate with a love for science and the humanities
Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com History Professor at George Washington U | Islamic History & Thought | Said the Prophet (UC Press) | Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics) | Now writing for Basic Books | ex-berliner, Wissenschaftskolleg | sometimes morse code www.joelblecher.com
Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer for Team18k
A. Z. Foreman: Serious Philology, Silly Behavior @azforeman.bsky.social Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: medieval literature, free speech, translation, poetry, & linguistic history of Arabic, English and other languages.
antonio musto @amusto.bsky.social phd @ nyu
social and intellectual history (mainly Sufism)
i like to read old stuff
Tom Abi Samra @tabisamra.bsky.social premodern arabic lit @ princeton
Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics.- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Arabic Bible | Manuscript Studies | Book History | Provenance | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/team/tarras-peter/
Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College | Maturidi and Husserl | Editor: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology: http://bit.ly/3DLOOB5
Middle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social Beiruti, historian, ex-archaeologist
Johanna Pink @jabunna.bsky.social Prof of Islamic Studies @UniFreiburg. Mostly busy with GloQur–The Global Qur'an. And three children. And my chili 🌶 plants.
Current mood: Trying to write a global history of modern Muslim Qur'an translation. 🤩 Being kept from finishing by admin work.😤
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social Historian & writer. Editor & co-founder of Women* Write the Balkans. Aspiring corgi haver.
Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social I’m not clumsy, I’m just sensitive to gravity.
Historian | Professor | Traveler | Foodie |
👨🏽🤝👨🏻@pistorin.bsky.social | ATX & SATx | Usually in bed by 10.
Pronouns & langs: He / él / هو / hey you
christophersrose.com
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Ali Al-Sakani @alisakani.bsky.social Yemeni journalist 
Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social Scholar @univofmaryland.bsky.social. Islamicate Affect/Emotion, Sufism, Iran, DH, Academic Labor. Author: Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism. President @local6741.bsky.social; Part of @uam-umd.bsky.social, @aaup.org, @aft.org. Piscataway Land.
Aaron Jakes @aaronjakes.bsky.social Assistant prof at UChicago history. Working on a book about the Suez Canal and global inequality. Mediocre saxophonist but always striving for improvement. 
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social historian of the Middle East and its diasporas | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)