Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him)

@mtmiller.bsky.social

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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.

Book cover of "Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism" by Matthew Thomas Miller

Picture of crowd at talk of Professor Chander Shekhar

Program for conference

And so, the most shocking thing about my time over there was how uncomplicated it actually is. Now, I’m not saying the details of it are not complicated. History is always complicated. Present events are always complicated. But the way this is reported in the Western media is as though one needs a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies to understand the basic morality of holding a people in a situation in which they don’t have basic rights, including the right that we treasure most, the franchise, the right to vote, and then declaring that state a democracy. It’s actually not that hard to understand. It’s actually quite familiar to those of us with a familiarity to African American history.