The legacies of scholars like Ibn Sina and Al-Farabi transcend borders, belonging to all of humanity. https://timesca.com/scientists-of-ancient-central-asia-still-relevant-in-the-modern-world-the-idea-of-the-averaged-turkic-language/ #Science #Central Asia #IbnSina #AlFarabi #IslamicGoldenAge #IntellectualHistory #ScholarsOfHistory
2024 Wrap-Up: Talks
Some of my talks from this year are available online.
* Why You Should Read #TheLastMan by #MaryShelley
Link: https://youtu.be/_k9pH0dNPVg
* Why You Should Read #Frankenstein by #MaryShelley
Link: https://youtu.be/19gOThR5dZw
* A Fortnight in the Wilderness with #Tocqueville
Link: https://youtu.be/OaT-17hgAFU
* “Missing Students & Their Fictional Afterlives: #TrueCrime, #CrimeFiction, & #DarkAcademia" (given at the Popular Culture Research Network’s “Guilty Pleasures: Examining #Crime in #PopularCulture” conference)
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q221yilebjot8zb6yn8a1/Missing-Students-and-Their-Fictional-Afterlives-presentation.mp4
#SFF #ScienceFiction #History #Literature #19thCentury #IntellectualHistory #Books
The dossier on the history of early-modern and modern Islam, which #AnnalesHSS published in 2018, is now available in English. It was curated by Augustin JOMIER and Ismail WARSCHEID.
We will present the articles one by one over the next few days, but here is the table of contents:
For a History-Oriented Approach to Islamic Studies
the introduction to the dossier by A. Jomier and I. Warscheid
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.6
“In Pursuit of Reform”: Historiographical Renewals and Debates on the Religious and Intellectual History of Islam from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century
by Catherine MAYEUR-JAOUEN
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.7
The *Book of the Desert*: The Worldview of an Early Nineteenth-Century Muslim Scholar in the Saharan West
by Ismail WARSCHEID
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.8
Islam, Purity, and Modernity: “Blameworthy Innovations” in the Maghreb, 1920–1950
by Augustin JOMIER
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.9
Secularity, Sociology, and the Contemporary History of Islam
By James McDOUGALL
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.10
#AnnalesinEnglish #histodons @histodons #islam #maghreb #sahara #religioushistory #intellectualhistory #secularism #islamicstudies
Paul Conkin’s Zettelkasten Advice
In the second lecture of David Blight's Devane Lecture Series 2024 entitled “Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, the Civil War and Their Legacies”, he makes a passing mention of historian, professor, and prolific writer Paul Conkin's office desk and side tables being covered in index cards full of notes. Further, he says that Conkin admonished students that for every hour they spend reading, they should spend an hour in reflection. The comment is followed by a mention that no one [...]
https://boffosocko.com/2024/09/16/paul-conkins-zettelkasten-advice/
Great book forum on Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan's *Code: From Information Theory to French Theory.* I especially appreciated Geoghegan's reply, but the whole forum was excellent.
Upon the death of Italian philosopher Antonio Negri, José Neves published the essay "Empire, Marxism, and Nationalism: On the Death of Antonio Negri" on the Journal of World-Systems Research.
Available on #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2024.1268
A whole lot of things are going badly wrong in my life at the moment, so I will write about three good things that happened today in an attempt to cheer myself up:
- My son sat the ACT test today and felt that he had done well.
- I was in a library earlier where I had the pleasure of watching the Music Core stages of Kep1er -- Shooting Star, Nicole -- 5!6!7!8!, and ARTMS -- Virtual Angel. All three songs hit the spot with me, and today I was particularly taken with the Kep1ian audience's vocal support, Nicole's disco strings and male dancer, and Choerry's mauve minidress and silver stiletto heeled boots.
- I was fascinated to learn more about C17 French political thinker and librarian Gabriel Naudé. I am both attracted and repelled by what I have read of his ideas, so I am keen to learn more.
My new book is out! Conceptualising China through Translation, from Manchester University Press. #translation #translationstudies #china #chinesestudies #FilialPiety #face #guanxi #connections #fengshui #intellectualhistory
Today is the release day for Roland Allen’s new book The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper (Profile Books, 2023). Those in the note taking, #zettelkasten, #PKM, and intellectual history spaces may appreciate it.
#intellectualHistory #notebooks #personalKnowledgeManagement #PKM #stationery #Zettelkasten
When I searched Bar Bahlul's dictionary for the *gloss*, I saw the word ܐܢܕܘܟܝܣܘܣ, which (apart from the erroneous yod) is clearly representing the good Greek adjective ἔνδοξος. A scribe transposed the d and the w before the word was accidentally split into two. The erroneous word division was helped that (after the transposition) a Syriac w does not connect to the left, so it could just look like two words written withno space.
I don't know whether the transposition and word division were due to a scribe copying Shbadnaya, Shbadnaya himself, or Shbadnaya's copy of Bar Bahlul.
But just to trying understand the #IntellectualHistory of a manuscript age requires doing #TextualCriticism.
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One of the things I did not expect when I started editing this #medieval #Syriac text (#Shbadnaya 's magnum opus) was catching places where he must have misinterpreted his own source(s). He never cites Bar Bahlul, but he uses hundreds of glosses from Bar Bahlul's dictionary, so it's one of his most important sources.
Today again I tried to explain a word in Shbadnaya's work which is not in any dictionary (ܡܦ̈ܘܫܐ), and the closest I can find anywhere is in Bar Bahlul's definition of "luminary" (ܡܲܢܗܪܢܐ), where he gives as synonyms ܐܡܦܘܡܐ and ܐܡܦܘܫܐ (a near match, with an extra letter in front). Bar Bahlul then defines it as "which gives light to the house and is called al-rawzana" (ܕܡܲܢܗܪ ܠܒܝܬܐ ܘܡܬܩܪܐ الرَوزَنة). The last word is #Persian and means "window," but Shbadnaya seems to be referring to a lamp, so perhaps he didn't understand the Persian word in Bar Bahlul.
Even Bar Bahlul's form ܐܡܦܘܫܐ seems to be a mistake for ܐܡܦܘܦܐ (a different penultimate letter)!
#IntellectualHistory
Putting the “Political” Back Into Adam Smith’s Political Economy: Smith on Power and Privilege, Faction and Fanaticism, and Corruption and Conspiracies
A new paper from David M. Hart given at this year’s History of Economic Thought Society of Australia conference.
http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Papers/Smith/Smith_ClassFactionCorruption2023.html
h/t @mzwolinski
Was haben der Beatles-Song „All you need is love“ und Milton Friedmans Hafenrundfahrt in Hongkong gemein? Globales Denken!
Hier kann man es genauer nachlesen: In meinem gerade erschienenen Büchlein zur "Geschichte des Globalismus". Es ist als Publikumsbuch konzipiert – also gerne verbreiten!
https://www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-books/artikel-detail/globalismen/d/2831/Globalismen/2/
#histodons #globalgeschichte #Globalisierung #GlobaleIdeengeschichte #IntellectualHistory#Ideengeschichte #EineWElt #HamburgerEdition
Here's an updated #introduction.
I love #improvisation & collaborative storytelling, so play #GMLess #TTRPGs and other #StoryGames.
I’m not #reading as much as I used to, but I still love #books and used to know a lot about #writing. Now I get my story fix from #movies and #gaming. I’m a big fan of #comics, #FilmNoir, #IntellectualHistory, and #SciFi.
Important post (and book): The Forgotten Half of History: Why Women Philosophers Matter - De Gruyter Conversations
https://blog.degruyter.com/the-forgotten-half-of-history-why-women-philosophers-matter/
#intellectualhistory #historyofideas #Ideengeschichte #Idehistorie #filosofi #skolechat
Happy to share that my article on the interrelation of Caribbean intellectuals' work in London and the institutionalisation of research and higher education in the West Indies in the mid-20th century has been published (open access) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/johs.12417
The article brings together the fascinating #intellectualhistory of #Caribbean social thought and the institutional history of colonial science policies and interprets the case as one of paradoxical politics of academic knowledge production.
