Astrolumos @astrolumos.bsky.social 🇨🇳新晃人。搞天文的。喜欢古典音乐，彩虹小马，轨迹系列，东方Project，迷宫饭 | Astronomer. Brony. Anime and classical music. | 宇宙のことをもっと知りたい。クラシック音楽、アニメ（特にダンジョン飯）と東方Projectと軌跡など大好き。weibo:_蔡宝智_
Natasha Hall @natashahall.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
Javed Iqbal @javed1.bsky.social Nationalist,Music lover,Columnist
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.
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
@shabanamir1 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
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet.
phd in african american history.
i write about culture, identity, empire and books.
author of: child of a stolen homeland
for more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
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
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.
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
Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social Assistant Professor at #BostonCollege. Latin American literature. Food Studies. Dad. Turco. Comparativist at heart. South-South shenanigans. Views mine.
substack: alikulez.substack.com
website: alikulez.com
insta: instagram.com/theprofessoreats
Yücel Yanıkdağ @yanikdag.bsky.social Professor of History and Global Studies | Studies the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic | Emotions and Masculinities | The Ottoman First World War | First generation college grad.
Anna Bigelow @annabigelow786.bsky.social Walking the dog, learning, teaching, and writing about religion, Islam, South Asia, material culture, death, and other things
Tazeen M. Ali @tazeenmali.bsky.social scholar of islam & gender in the US • currently writing on US & UK Muslims on TV • author of The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam NYUP • she/her • views are my own
Zahra Ayubi @zahraayubi.bsky.social Associate Prof of Religion: Islamic Studies at Dartmouth College | Gender-Islam-Ethics | author of Gendered Morality at ColumbiaUP
Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social Beiruti, historian, ex-archaeologist
Andrea Stanton @andrealstanton.bsky.social Professor of Islamic studies & Middle East historian, University of Denver.
Research foci: digital Islam, Mandate Palestine, Arab-world radio.
Twin mama. Wordy by nature.
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social Bismillah.
Peace on Muhammad & his Family.
We are a rationalist, spiritualist, supra-legalist academy for UNITY! in Islam and abroad.
Y1 Principles of Islam
Y2 Islamic Jurisprudence
Y3 Islamic Phylosophy
Y4 Islamic Mysticism
https://unityhawza.world
Anna M. Gade @profannag.bsky.social Academic concerns, religion, environment, Asia/Indonesia | [Envir. Ethics (forth.)] | Muslim Environmentalisms (Columbia UP) | The Qur’an: An Introduction | opinions my own | she/her
Eric Calderwood @ericcalderwood.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Illinois. Interested in al-Andalus, Morocco, Spain, comparative literature, multilingualism, cats, hip hop, and movies.
Cherubic @beastsoulfury.bsky.social Birbthing on the internet typing very carefully with my talons. Fursuiter, ouji, religious studies/philosophy major, TTRPG enthusiast/writer. He/they. I study esports and have three degrees. Ask me about monstergames and weird edgy idol boy franchises.
Chris H | End Days Engine (he/him) @enddaysengine.bsky.social Educator by day, RPG writer by night. Patron of the beautifully weird and strange.
Lives on Treaty 7 territory.
Sophie @sophieaziz.bsky.social Recovering from spinal surgery | Coeliac | Mother of 3 | Art lover | F1 #TEAMLH
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
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.
Ansar-ul-Dabbat @ansaruldabbat.bsky.social In honour of Abu Bakr’s sahaba father and son - Abu Quhafah (ra) and Shaheed Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr (ra) - two great early Muslims who rejected Abu Bakr’s taghut.
mia @littletwiggy.bsky.social Shia. "My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude" - Warsaw Shire
Sirius @sirius2368.bsky.social The Glass Bead Game
“The game is essentially an abstract synthesis of all arts and sciences. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics”
Ima Sri Rahmani @rahmaniis.bsky.social Researcher on anti-religion racisme (especially Islamophobia) at RSCS UCLouvain Belgium
Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social Political Anthropologist｜IR: Diplomacy, Authoritarian Rule｜ME 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 | charlestieszen.com | 🍉 | 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.
Aliya D @alinasu33.bsky.social Advocate, Educator
ᦔꪊꪑꪖꪀ 🥷🏻🐈⬛ -҉ ҉d҉i҉e҉ ҉b҉r҉u҉t҉a҉l҉e҉ ҉H҉y҉ä҉n҉e҉ ҉.҉ @frankfurterschule.bsky.social antifaschism, humanism, antiextremism, decolonialism, antiracism
nicht integrierbarer Typ
Bluesky Notebook 📝🏛️🧬🔭📜🗄️
il n’ya que la vérité qui blesse
Eintracht Frankfurt
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social.
John @aguyincincy.bsky.social Refugee from that other site. Seeing what's out there. Gay Dem into reading, art, travel, and whiskey. Also working on trying to like myself more. Just trying to make the world a better place.
🏳️🌈 📚 💙 🧳 ✈️ 🇺🇸 🌎
Not interested in crypto, so don't even bother.
rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social I've been curating classics social media since the 1990s and still feel a need to do it!
Classics /Ancient World feed:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7vzz4ghj44y5xzq/feed/7cb2f06b13c0
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
John D. Bikefeller @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.
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
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.
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
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
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 
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
Anders Ackfeldt @ackfeldt.bsky.social PhD in History of Religions, Deputy Director Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). Malmö/Istanbul.
“If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life? That’s easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez. No question about it.”
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
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
Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com Posts many cat pics. Former scholar of Islamic history who now writes about new SFF at nerds-feather.com and podcasts about SFF history at Hugo History: klaxoncomms.com/hugo-history
Queer/Ace/ADHD. #Vancouver 🇨🇦
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. 
Jan Vömel @janvoemel.bsky.social Historian | contemporary Turkey & Indonesia | Global History, intellectual & cultural history, Islamism & revivalism | researching civilizational worldmaking in 🇹🇷 & 🇮🇩 @DÉCRIPT / Inalco, Paris
PDFs of my articles:
https://inalco.academia.edu/JanVomel
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
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
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"
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