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Christian Sahner

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Associate Professor of Islamic History @UniofOxford, Margoliouth Fellow in Arabic @NewCollegeOx 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧

 Oxford, England
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Joined November 2010
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I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, "The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam," just out with Liverpool University Press in its series "Translated Texts for Historians" 1/
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khalid yousef@khalidsyossefOct 29
#NewPublication Beyond the Silk Road A New Economic History of the Ancient World from Eurasia to Africa Sitta von Reden, Princeton University Press, 2027 Preview, Front Matter, Introduction ⬇️ press.princeton.edu/books/ha… press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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New online handlist of all the manuscripts of New College Library, Oxford. 'NC has the largest collection of manuscript books remaining in situ of any of Oxford’s medieval colleges,' including Oriental manuscripts. @NewCollegeLib @CJSkeltonFoord new.ox.ac.uk/MSS/MSS_List
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Der Islam Journal@DerIslamJournalOct 13
📢 Volume 103, issue 2 has just been published. Please check out our latest articles! degruyterbrill.com/journal/k…
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Replying to @BeardyHowse
@BeardyHowse on the late, great Sidney Griffith
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How many languages can you speak? How about Arabic, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syriac, Sabaic, Turkish, Persian, Armenian, and Sanskrit? That’s how many D. S. Margoliouth mastered! 🤯 Read about him in @ccsahner’s #NewCollegeNote 👇 ow.ly/cZPq50Zy3HZ #EuropeanDayOfLanguages
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A nice interview between my friend Margarita Mooney Clayton and my teacher Peter Brown on the theme of friendship in the life of Saint Augustine: Augustine’s Friendship for Freedom | Plough plough.com/articles/augustin…
Augustine’s Friendship for Freedom | Plough

Augustine’s Friendship for Freedom | Plough

From the social club to the monastery, Saint Augustine’s friendships shaped him.

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JLAIBS 5/2 is out! A thematic issue on "How Rebellion Ends. Conflict Resolution in Late Antique and Early Islamicate Political Culture (Part I)" by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Alasdair Grant. euppublishing.com/toc/jlaibs… @EdinburghUP @EdinClassics @SPBSUK
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The village of Jubb'adin north of Damascus defies the standard rule of religious and linguistic change in Syria across time, namely that Islamization usually entailed Arabization. Here we see Muslims speaking a language usually associated only with Christians 1/
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🇸🇾 Crianças arameias falando aramaico, a língua falada por Jesus Cristo. Jubb'adin é uma aldeia nas montanhas de Qalamoun, na Síria, conhecida por preservar o neoaramaico ocidental. Próxima a Damasco, seus habitantes são arameus de etnia e, muçulmanos por religião.
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I’d like to know when Jubb'adin became predominantly Muslim. The more famous village of Maaloula, located nearby, is Aramaic-speaking but mainly Christian, which follows the typical pattern 2/
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The ambassador’s level of Arabic is impressive and—I’d venture to say—unusual by the standards of Western diplomats willing to speak Arabic on camera!
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UK Ambassador Stephen Hitchen marks one year since arriving in Saudi Arabia with an Arabic post thanking the Saudi people for their generosity and warm hospitality, reflecting on visits to Madinah, Ta'if, Jeddah, Abha, and other cities across the Kingdom.
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#Syria: yesterday, the Basilica of Deir Semaan (St Simeon) saw its first pilgrimage in 15 years. The event was held on the occasion of St Simeon the Stylite's feast day, according to the Christian calendar. The column of St Simeon was restored last month in the Basilica: nitter.cf/QalaatAlMudiq/status/2…
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#Syria: Qalaat Semaan (St. Simeon) is a majestic Byzantine site dating back to the 5th century, located in the NW. #Aleppo countryside. The site features a large Church, built with monumental masonry and imposing arches, as well as a monastery. According to the tradition, Simeon - an ascetic monk - lived atop a pillar for decades, earning him the name "Stylite" (from the Greek stylos, meaning pillar). St. Simeon is part of UNESCO World Heritage. The site was bombed multiple times during the war and sustained severe damage with a monumental arch & the main column destroyed. It was also struck by a Russian airstrike on 12th May 2016: nitter.cf/thiqanewsagency/status… The current goal is to consolidate the structures, with the aim of reopening the site to tourists. More on St. Simeon: curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/th…
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NEW BOOK: The Medieval City in Central Asia by A.M. Belenitsky, I.B. Bentovich, and O.G. Bol’shakov, translated by Pierre de Trémiolles, BAR Publishing, 2026 An important work of Soviet-era archaeology apparently unnoticed by Anglophone academia barpublishing.com/book/the-m…
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JOB POST: Assistant Professor in Pre-Modern History of the Islamicate Middle East or Central Asia at @UChicago @NELC_UChicago. Salary $90,000-120,000. Deadline 19 October 2026. apply.interfolio.com/190288
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The year of D.S. Margoliouth @NewCollegeOx comes to an end with the publication of four essays about his life and legacy in "New College Notes." Margoliouth was the most important Arabist and Islamicist in Britain of his generation 1/ new.ox.ac.uk/new-college-not…
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Robin Lane Fox, "D. S. Margoliouth’s Biblical, Homeric, and Islamic Studies" 5/ new.ox.ac.uk/d-s-margoliouth…
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Thank you and congratulations to @CJSkeltonFoord and @NewCollegeLib for publishing these essays!
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#NewRelease Syria down to Saladin Ibn Asakir’s History of the City of Damascus David Cook, Edinburgh University Press, 2026 degruyterbrill.com/document/… degruyterbrill.com/document/…
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