Clément Salah

@clementsalah.bsky.social

Social and Religious History of Islamic North Africa | Mālikism | Islamic Manuscripts

We’re launching a new seminar series at @ox.ac.uk this term: the ‘Maghrib History Seminar’ at Queen‘s College. The inaugural lecture will be given by Amira K. Bennison (University of Cambridge) on Tuesday 27 January. If you’re in or around Oxford, all are very welcome!

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For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

Princeton Geniza Project Dataset

Since 1986, the Princeton Geniza Lab has been studying and digitizing historical documents from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of roughly 400,000 fragments of paper and parchment preserved in a medieval Eg...

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First day of the Schooling and Deschooling Islamic Law (SDIL) workshop in Madrid — great to be back in this beautiful city and to reconnect with colleagues working on Mālikī and Ḥanbalī traditions. Excited for the conversations ahead!

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Quand ils s'ennuient en cours, les enfants dessinent sur leurs cahiers... qu'on soit en 2025 ou au XIe siècle ! On le voit bien sur ce papier daté du XIe siècle : un élève fait ses exercices d'écriture en hébreu et griffonne un bonhomme souriant dans un coin... 😆😍 T-S K5.19

Papier médiéval montrant des exercices d'écriture en hébreu. Dans un coin, l'élève a dessiné un petit bonhomme en bâtons, souriant, saluant de la main.