Sean W. Anthony
@shahanSean
Professor, historian, specialist in Mashriqī Studies at 𝕿𝖍𝖊 @OhioState University #GoBucks
My new book, co-authored with Stephen Shoemaker, has has just been released. It's published #openacess but feel free to buy a hardcopy, too! isac.uchicago.edu/research/publi…
Ozzy and Hulk Hogan appearing to some guy in Missouri tonight after his 12th Michelob Ultra
Fidèle à son engagement historique pour une paix juste et durable au Proche-Orient, j’ai décidé que la France reconnaîtra l’État de Palestine. J’en ferai l’annonce solennelle à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, au mois de septembre prochain.…
If the student hasn't read, the teacher can't educate.
If the student hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught. - Zig Engelmann
EBook formatting is an absolute disaster for scholarly books across all publishers. Just post the pdf dammit and quit wasting our time with your ugly ass typesetting.
Footnotes.
What trade could you confidently say you've 'mastered'?
UChicago's Department of History is in the Division of Social Sciences, not Arts & Humanities ... so I wonder how they're doing. It's mostly people who do language and culture stuff getting hit with the business end of the admin's baton here.
How to destroy a world-class university? Chicago's Islamic and Middle Eastern studies department is among the largest and most prestigious in the world, but the shortsightedness of the university administration is destroying it. @UChicago UChicago Arts chicagomaroon.com/l7o1
Me arriving at liberal arts school in 2007
1/2 Al-Fārābī has argued that some arguments for theological fatalism rely on the assumption that God's knowledge of P implies the necessity of P (i.e., KgP -> NecP). However, what we can say about God's knowledge is merely that Nec(KgP->P).
My own contribution in this volume is on "Al-Fārābī on Future Contingency". brill.com/display/book/9… Please drop me an email if you'd like a copy of it.
Ever since watching The Barbarian Invasions (2013) I've flirted with the idea of experimenting with hard drugs at the end of life (the end end). Heroin was at the top of the list, because it was the protagonist's choice, but Hunter may have convinced me to put crack at the top.
It's hilarious that him and his father have the same voice and that the only thing you've heard this voice speak lucidly about in 20 years is how amazing crack is
Children of Men (2006), establishing shot
Officers are deployed at key points along the route as well as the form up point. There are additional officers in the vicinity of the counter protest. This week we have also distributed leaflets and deployed signage as a clear reminder about relevant offences.
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.
