Christian Sahner
@ccsahner
Associate Professor of Islamic History @UniofOxford, Margoliouth Fellow in Arabic @NewCollegeOx 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧
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/
📢Job announcement 📢 U Oxford: The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies aims to appoint a Departmental Lecturer (DL) in Classical Arabic Literature, for 18 mos
JOB OPPORTUNITY Departmental Lecturer in Classical Arabic Literature, University of Oxford, from January 2026 to June 2027, to cover for Professor Tahera Qutbuddin, who will be on research leave. Deadline to apply is August 14 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
Pope Benedict XV's prayers for peace during World War I, in Neo-Aramaic and Arabic
The journal "Religion and Society" has just published a nice collection of short essays about Peter Brown (including one by Peter himself). Mine is a personal reflection about Peter's time in Princeton. You can read them here (open access): berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…
New article: Andrew Wilson (Oxford), "The Linguistic Landscape of Late Antique North Africa," Antiquité Tardive 32 (2025) brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.148…
Prophetic words from @BishopBarron the day before the election of Leo XIV: "I remember Cardinal George [of Chicago] often said that, 'There will not be an American pope until we go into political decline.'" 🇺🇸🇻🇦 (link to the key part of the interview: youtu.be/PTbx6KAc1_w?t=…)
The Founders would be astonished that in the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence, the Bishop of Rome would be... an American.
My most recent article: "The Early Aramaic Toledot Yeshu and the End of Jesus’s Earthly Mission in the Qur’an," SLA 9.2 (Summer 2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-ab…
Exciting new article by Teresa Bernheimer and Lorenz Korn: "Eleven Islamic Tombstones from Egypt: A Window into the Histories of Early Islamization and of Modern Dislocation," Der Islam 102 (2025) degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
Newly discovered polemical treatise against Jews and Muslims written by Timothy I (d. 823), the famous patriarch of the East Syrian Church and one of the heavy-hitters in early Abbasid society. By Sergey Minov: academia.edu/128831367/_Tim…
Aaron Koller, "Three Polemical Qurʾanic Citations of the Mishnah and Their Historical Significance," JQS 32 (2025): 99-116 …rsiebeck-com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/artikel/three-…
Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo Archives, Waqf and Society By Daisy Livingston Examining the relationship between waqf endowments and archiving based on the waqf archives of sultan al-Ghawrī, the largest from pre-Ottoman M.E. Edinburgh UP (May '25) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-managing-…
Walid Saleh, "The Qur’an and Communal Memory: Q. 85 and the Martyrs of Najrān," Journal of Qur'anic Studies euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
Coming this summer: Nora K. Schmid, The Ascetic Qur’an and Its Kharijite Readers, Brill, 2025. An important and interesting book brill.com/display/title/…
As of this year, the two issues of @jlaibs will appear separately in early March and early September, respectively. The first issue of volume 4 (2025) is now available online with some exciting content as always. @EdinClassics @EdinburghUP
The first issue of JLAIBS 4 (2025) is now available online featuring articles by Antoine Borrut, Lucy Parker, Galit Noga-Banai and Andreas Liebmann, and Dionysios Stathakapoulos. @EdinburghUP @EdinClassics
Congratulations to my Oxford colleague Seth Stadel, who’s just published an important new book on the catalog of ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha (d. 1318)—think the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm but for Syriac books. Bravo! brill.com/display/title/…
📢 JOB OPENINGS! 📢Come work with me at Oxford! As part of my ERC project UNSEEN, I am recruiting a full-time 5-year project admin, two 3-year post-docs and one fully-funded PhD. The first position is already advertised, the others will follow shortly my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…