Rspinelli @librarianchef.bsky.social Independent researcher, archivist and librarian researching in the fields of conspiracy theories and death studies. Always open to discussing new projects and collaborations.
https://www.robert-spinelli.com
School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social The School for Advanced Research.
Create. Connect. Understand.
SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
Steve Cook @pearsall.bsky.social Jesus-follower, liberal cleric. No longer active fencer, no longer active cabinetmaker, but remember how to do them. Work and family are my life and to protect them, I support democracy at all times and in all places.
Precedent Journal @readprecedent.bsky.social The declared system and the operating system are never the same. Power lives in the gap between them. The person who can read that gap holds the position everyone else is still arguing about. Subscribe to https://readprecedent.substack.com/ to support.
Maxim Romanov @maximromanov.bsky.social Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader (“The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” /EIS1600/), Uni Hamburg
Dr Paul Overend @pauloverend.bsky.social Former priest and educator, living a semi-retired philosophical life as a writer and editor.
🌱 Editor of ‘Sofia’ in 2026 - https://sofn.uk/sofia/
🦉 Co-editor of The Sea of Faith Network's 'A Philosophy of Life: The Spirituality of Don Cupitt' (out 2027)
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Kori Pacyniak (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ @kpacyniak.bsky.social PhD in queer & trans studies in religion @UCRiverside | Lecturer in LGBTQ studies @SDSU | lived religion, ethics, gender, sexuality, religion, pop culture, practical theology | sometimes tall ships and nerdy things | https://www.transgendercatholics.com
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
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
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social Historian | Islamic origins, Hadith, textual criticism | Research Fellow at RUG | DPhil from Oxford | anti-imperialism, anti-Islamophobia
https://islamicorigins.com
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
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
Ryan Lynch @ryanjosephlynch.com Professor of Islamic History @ The Citadel. Work on the Islamic state throughout history. Love tech + games + punk rock. Writing a book about history in games. Views my own. ryanjosephlynch.com
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
Misbah Hyder @misbah-hyder.bsky.social Pedagogy nerd who thinks about agency, peacebuilding, & Islam. 🕌
Diagnosed as a high-performing paradox… 👀
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, PhD @mchidarazvi.bsky.social Mughal Art & Architectural Historian; Specialist Lecturer on Cultural Tours; Associate Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
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"
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.😤
GloQur – The Global Qur'an @gloqur.bsky.social ERC-funded research project @UniFreiburg on the modern history of Muslim Qur'an translation. PI: Johanna Pink.
https://gloqur.de
Conor Dube @conordube.bsky.social Research Fellow in North African Medieval History @uclarchaeology.bsky.social; postdoc with the MEDGREENREV project; philologist and historian working on the Islamic West. Rock climber in my spare time.
Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer for Team18k
William Rees Hofmann @wrhofmann.bsky.social Research Associate, SASU, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Historian of music and poetry in Islam in South Asia / Sufi, Nizari Ismaili, and Shi'a devotional thought and practice
Working on a monograph: Amir Khusraw and Sufi Ecologies of Song (EUP)
Michael Payne @mlawrencepayne.bsky.social Translator and historian | PhD from Brown University | Writing about al-Jāḥiẓ, animals, race, and enslavement | Interested in early Islam and late antique Christianity.
https://www.mlawrencepayne.com
Alison Vacca @medievalqabq.bsky.social editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social
historian of Umayyad & early Abbasid rule in Armenia & Caucasian Albania
currently working on marriage and matriliny in the Khazar Khaganate
associate prof at Columbia University
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
Ashraf Hassan @ashraf1974108.bsky.social Lecturer of Arabic.
BA & MA in Arabic and Islamic Studies, PhD in Arabic Studies.
Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 ليمون نعناع.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Here for nerd shit, all else is accidental seepage.
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)
Sarah R. bin Tyeer @sarahrbintyeer.bsky.social Scholar of adab, Arabic and Comparative Literature
A. Melle Lyklema @amelle.bsky.social On a long journey to a PhD on wa'z and da'wa
Zishan Ghaffar @ghaffarzishan.bsky.social Professor of Qur'anic Exegesis at the University of Paderborn. 
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.
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Sufism on Bluesky @sufism.bsky.social Curator of conversations about Sufism, amplifying progressive Islamic voices on Bluesky.
Seyma Kabaoglu @skabaoglu.bsky.social PhD Anthropology | Northwestern | Critical Finance Studies
Matthew D. Taylor @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social visiting scholar at @faithandjustice.bsky.social | creator: "Charismatic Revival Fury" podcast | author: "The Violent Take It by Force" | www.drmatthewdtaylor.com
Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies @princeton.edu | Analyst for Red Sea Futures | Former Non-Resident Fellow at USAFA Institute for Future Conflict & @wilsoncenter.org History & Public Policy Program Global Fellow
Katherine Zimmerman @katiezimmerman.bsky.social Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups.
katherinezimmerman.substack.com
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
jihadologyplus.com
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
Marya Hannun @maryahannun.bsky.social Managing Editor of MERIP.
Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. 
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"
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
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
K.A. Tuley @katuley.bsky.social Medieval Mediterranean (13th c Mamluks, Mongols, Latin East, Armenians, Byzantines, Seljuks, etc. oh, my!), Social Network Analysis, cats, books, cats and books.
Public Scholarship specialist at Bucknell University Library.
Zotero is for notes. 
Crossing guard respecter @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social Bike-mounted historian specializing in medieval & early modern Sino-Iranian contact and Persianate political & cultural history. YIMBY, NUMTOT, and caregiver for undemanding plants. Chicago mostly-southsider. He/him.
Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social Islam in South Asia, modern Islamic thought, history of Pakistan and its religious minorities. Princeton PhD. Huge fan of Star Trek and George Eliot. Book: https://www.mqup.ca/Books/R/Rethinking-Islamic-Modernism
Hannah Parsons-Morgan @beathas-ailsa.bsky.social African & Islamic Archaeology. Art history. Anthropology. History.
Chinese ceramics in Ethiopia, East Africa & the Indian Ocean World.
BA (SOAS), MA (SRU, UEA), PhD (IAIS, UoE)
I enjoy yoga, cycling & weightlifting. 
Issa Adeli @isadeli.bsky.social Researcher, Policy Advisor | United States Foreign Affairs and the Middle East | Security and Defense Policy | PhD in International Relations | usinmena.substack.com
Sohaib 🔻 @sohaibology.bsky.social religious studies. pedagogy. libraries.
abolish. eat the rich. have dessert.
The colonizer lied.
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
https://classy.org/campaign/gaza-fundraiser/c577024
Arwa Hussain @arwahussain.bsky.social Ph.D candidate Islam, Bohra community, gender, social media | Concordia University |2022 Public Scholar | Sacred Writes fellow| Mother | Trying to survive in Montreal
Jan Jelinowski @janjelinowski.bsky.social PhD candidate in Medieval History, working on history writing in the Mongol Empire. A quantitative fiddler and structure enthousiast.
@ Université de Strasbourg and Polish Academy of Sciences. 
SCORE @rebellionuhh.bsky.social Emmy Noether research group, 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)', Hamburg. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html. "Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World" (EUP, Dec 2024, OA!). Shared account.
Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social Digitally distracted Professor. Researcher/author on Islam, Muslims and the internet. Emoji-free zone. Posting does not imply endorsement, etc. Based in Wales. X antidote. https://virtuallyislamic.com 
Nathan S. French @innesseff.bsky.social Researching & Teaching -- Religious Studies, Islamic Studies, Religion & Law, Jihadi-Salafi Studies, 9/11
Baseball spectator.
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
edin h @edinh.bsky.social 
sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social historian, walker.
Najam Haider @nhaider.bsky.social Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
Theo Beers @t6e.dev Father, husband, Persian/Arabic philologist, programmer
Senior course producer @Boot.dev, non-res. fellow @FUBerlin
Socdem, civil libertarian, anti-identitarian
https://www.theobeers.com/
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
Khalil Andani @khalilandani.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion, scholar is Islamic Studies, Quranic studies, Ismailism, Sufism, and Muslim Philosopher of Religion
Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social Political Anthropologist｜IR: Diplomacy, Authoritarian Rule｜Arab/Saudi Studies — Historiography, Ethnography, Tribe)｜US Policy Intersection | Non Exec Dir UKG | NRS
Jonathan AC Brown @jonathanacbrown.bsky.social https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYoCAAW/jonathan-brown
https://georgetown.academia.edu/JonathanACBrown
Jon Hoover @jhoover04.bsky.social Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
Hizer Mir @hizmir.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient.
Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at UMD @roshaninstitute.bsky.social Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland is one of the leading centers for Persian Studies in the world, and the home of the Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities.
https://sllc.umd.edu/fields/persian
Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social Islamic Studies/Religious Studies prof, maker of pies, grower of jalapeños. I like birds. #firstgen
she/her
Charles Tieszen @charlestieszen.bsky.social FRHistS & historian of religious thought | Christian-Muslim relations | Ed., @cmr1900project | https://bio.site/tieszen | 🍉 | he/him
Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
Denis McAuley @denismcauley.bsky.social Independent researcher (when I get half a chance): classical Arabic poetry, especially Sufi. Also Persian. All views my own.
Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Middle East/International history. Three books on Iraq w/ Oxford UP. One forthcoming w/ Stanford UP. Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own.
https://www.samuelhelfont.com
Kayla Renée Wheeler @kaylarw.bsky.social Umi. Ohioan. Womanist. Black Islam and Fashion Studies scholar. #BlackIslamSyllabus curator.
Cleveland is the reason.
Javi Albarrán 🍉 @jalbarran.bsky.social Loving husband, proud father and passionate historian of the Medieval Islamic West at the University of Granada. Living the Albayzin. Writing on the loss of al-Andalus, Crusades in al-Andalus, jihad, Andalusi Christians, Andalusi memory... Antifascist.
Saleema Burney @saleemaburney.bsky.social Academic mom| Sociologist of Religion| Interests: people, places and seeking justice…
Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
Tobin Johnson @tobinjj.bsky.social PhD candidate working on the medieval Balkans, Caucasus and Middle East at UMD. Gender & sexuality, literacy and statehood. They/them.
Views expressed here are my own and do not represent any institution or organization.
Ima Sri Rahmani @rahmaniis.bsky.social Researcher on anti-religion racisme (especially Islamophobia) at RSCS UCLouvain Belgium
Jordan Denari Duffner @jordandenariduff.bsky.social Catholic theologian of Muslim-Christian relations. Scholar, educator, author, activist. Georgetown Hoya. Books: #FindingJesusAmongMuslims; #Islamophobia; Forthcoming: #PopeFrancisandIslam
Maho Sebiane @mahosebiane.bsky.social Anthropology of Music | CRAL-EHESS | Heritage Studies on the Margins | Afro-Arab Music History | Music & Slavery | Possession Rituals | MENA | Arab-Persian Gulf & Western Indian Ocean | Posts : Fr / Eng
Rob Haug @robhaug.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
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
Tanjil Rashid @tanjilrashid.bsky.social Culture Editor, The New Statesman
Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Scholar of anthropology, Islam, gender, and higher education
Views are always mine only
@spicysourdough on X
koonjblog.wordress.com
Like what I do? https://ko-fi.com/shabana
Zareena Grewal @zareenagrewal.bsky.social Yale Prof, Anthropologist, Historian, Author of ISLAM IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: AMERICAN MUSLIMS AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AUTHORITY, Director and Producer of BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT
Bylines: NYT WashPo Atlantic NPR
Omid Safi @brotheromid.bsky.social Islamic studies prof (Duke U). Jedi-wannabe.
Rumi, Martin, Malcolm, and my Momma's love.
Leads spiritually oriented Turkey & Morocco, Spain & Umrah.
Teaches online http://illuminatedcourses.com
Maribel Fierro @mifierro.bsky.social Research Professor Arabic and Islamic Studies. CSIC
ਅਕਸ਼ਜ Akshaj, (they/he/elle/él) @cevahirulebrar.bsky.social DPhil-ing Islamic Art and Architecture, Oxford (MPhil Islamic Art '25)
Ottomans, Uzbeks and everything in between.
Oxford-Nizami Ganjavi Scholar, Khalili Research Centre+New College. Also translator, Hindi and Urdu to English. very 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Noam Leshem @noamleshem.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography, Durham Uni. Violent conflict, political resurgence, colonial history.
Author of: 'Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land' (Chicago 2025); 'Life After Ruin' (Cambridge 2017)
https://tinyurl.com/mtyd9m
Justin Stearns @kaohu11.bsky.social Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi