Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹
@Mar_Musa
Islamicate historian w/@open_iti, Orthodox Christian, dad, plant grower, anarcho-agrarian upholder of Gustav Landauer thought. also @jparkesallen.bsky.social 🌻
The second in my blog series on an 18th c. Ottoman manuscript text, this installment focusing on additional paratextual features, the theology of devotion to and visualization of Muhammad, and sources of authority and information: thicketandthorp.com/2023/12/22/man…
There was nothing stopping all the people upset about this from pooling their resources, purchasing this church, and investing the millions and millions of dollars necessary to renovate it and return it to Christian worship, literally just been sitting empty for years
The historic St. Ann's Catholic Cathedral in Buffalo, New York, was sold to the Islamic community for only $250,000 and will now be converted into a mosque. This is sad.
Can add "picked up a big ol' rattlesnake with a stick" to my CV, this one was sunning on a gravel road oblivious to vehicular danger, did not appreciate being moved but got the hint and headed up the mountain, rattling up a storm the entire time lol
In dark hours of the night I sometimes think about the long scholarly genealogy into which I was inculcated, centuries of scholars reaching back into the early modern world, and how I am a terminal branch in this genealogy, as are perhaps all of the others contemporary with me
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
It's not enough that apologists for Israel are cheerleaders for genocide and want everyone else to be as well, they need everyone else to feel sympathy for them in relation to extremely improbable scenarios that haven't actually transpired
As a Vermont Jew who spends a lot of time in the Middle East, it is cold comfort to have concrete evidence that if something were to happen to me here, my senior senator would embrace the perpetrators instead of my parents.
If you're a Catholic or Orthodox and for some inscrutable reason are tempted by the sordid allure of an American Franco just remember statistically speaking this is exactly the sort of assumption he'd be operating under
Part of assimilation in America is becoming Protestant.