Liran Yadgar

Summer is sleeping

Summer scene near the Bizz @OU_Libraries #OUskywatch #LibrariesFromTheOutside

I was too dismissive of the Muslim exegetes' claim that "Dhū l-Qarnayn" refers to the fact that he reached the furthest western and eastern reaches of the Earth. Okeanus is often depicted with two horns. Here's a 5th-6th cent. mosaic from the Petra Church in Roman Arabia.

OPEN ACCESS🏆 The Historiography and Memory of the Crusades in the Modern Arab World, ed. A S Baadj, A M Sheir (@thetrivent, July 2025) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… trivent-publishing.eu/home/210-394-t… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalmuslims #crusades #crusading #medievalhistoriography

AMAZING! @LibraryIL invites applications from doctoral students in Jewish studies, Israel studies, Islam and Middle East, music, and general humanities who are planning to reside in Israel for research purposes during the 2025–2026 academic year: nli.org.il/en/at-your-ser…

Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac: an alternative is shown in the nick of time. Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 183; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi; middle of the 13th century; England or France (?); f.2r (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/fm…)

OPEN ACCESS 🏆 Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion, eds. Gregory Bilotto, Farhad Daftary, Shainool Jiwa (I.B. Tauris, July 2025 ) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… bloomsbury.com/uk/fatimid-cos… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalislam

This life is a stolen glance, a blink of the eye— or something faster. —Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr (Baghdad, d. 893)

מְנַמְנֵם עַל גַּבֵּי אֻכָּף סוּס וְהוֹגֶה בַּלְּבָנָה וּבְתֶה שַׁחֲרִית מצואו באשו, משורר יפני בן המאה השבע עשרה תרגום: לירן ידגר

🍷 Curst and poor is every hour that sober I must go, but rich am I whene'er well drunk I stagger to and fro.

New review @ReadingReligion: Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, by David M. Freidenreich, 2023. readingreligion.org/9780520344716/…

Available for review @ReadingReligion: Nathaniel A. Miller (@ClassyArabic), The Emergence of Arabic Poetry: From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization, 2025. readingreligion.org/9781512825305/…

Caroline Gruenbaum, Reading across Cultures: Translating Romances, Fables, and Poetry in Medieval Ashkenaz (@CornellPress, July 2025) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150178… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievaljews #medievalliterature

They asked me as though they were mystified: Is it true your friend’s hands are like clouds? And I told them: They were tied for being too open, and for goodness of heart of hunger he died. Solomon ibn Gabirol (Spain, d. 1057/58), trans. Peter Cole benyehuda.org/read/19411

🌦️ Spread good deeds wherever you can among those far and near like rain clouds— if they pour on soil or rocks they don't care. — Sirāj ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Sirāj (Cordoba, d. 1114)

Beginning of Genesis in Arabic and Bohairic Coptic Wadi Natrun, Egypt, 1273

עַל מַשַּׁק כַּנְפֵי פַּרְפָּרִים בְּסַם סַחְלָבִים אָנֹכִי מִתְבַּשֵּׂם מצואו באשו, משורר יפני בן המאה השבע עשרה תרגום: לירן ידגר

בַּעֲלָטָה גְּדוֹלָה זִיקֵי נוּר בְּמַפָּצָם מַרְטִיטִים וּמֵתִים קוביאשי איסה, יפן, 1763 – 1828 תרגום: לירן ידגר

רַעֲנַנִּים, מַזְהִירִים בְּאוֹרְשֶׁמֶשׁ עָלִים יְרֻקִּים מצואו באשו, משורר יפני בן המאה השבע עשרה תרגום: לירן ידגר

יָם מַקְדִּיחַ וּבָאֹפֶק אַרְבַּע נְהָרוֹת מצואו באשו, משורר יפני בן המאה השבע עשרה תרגום: לירן ידגר