People sometimes ask me what's the weirdest thing I've ever found in an #archive. I once found a porn magazine cutting (in a folder from the 1930s) and a friend stumbled upon a letter bomb, undetonated but duly filed.

Here's an absurd highlight from the #Jerusalem Municipality Archive: A short note from the #Sephardic Cheif Rabbi to the #Saudi Consul in #Palestine, conveying his best wishes to the King for the 1942 Christmas holidays. Of course, neither of them celebrated Christmas!

Why on earth would a rabbi send Christmas greetings to the Arab world's most conservative muslim state? I'm open to theories.

Happy holidays, be that #Christmas or #Hannukah!

#histodons #history #jewishstudies #middleeasternstudies @histodons

Are you also still looking for academics in #IslamicStudies or #MiddleEasternStudies or related fields? Then I can recommend you to go through the follow list of @omarcheta. There I discovered some people I hadn't found until now.

And also the list of @floris, on which unfortunately only a few from our subject are included so far.

https://florisre.github.io/mastodon-iranian-studies/

Hi folks, we had some serious issues on hcommons.social and lost some posts, follows and followers along the way. I look forward to discovering who has joined within the last week and I hope we can connect again.

@islamicstudies #IslamicStudies #IslamicHistory #MiddleEasternStudies

Trying to activate this group @islamicstudies again .. for the three or four of us on here 😬 working in this field. Any other (and broader) ideas for building such a group? I am not really into #mustafidons .. sorry, folks!

For newcomers: When you follow a group, you will receive all posts in which other users have mentioned that group in your home feed. The group is not moderated, the posts are automatically reposted.

#IslamicStudies #NearEasternStudies #OrientalStudies #MiddleEasternStudies #IranianStudies #TurkishStudies #OttomanStudies ... please add ...

Many scientists have already arrived here on Mastodon.

Unfortunately, I am not aware of any from my own discipline (Iranian Studies). Therefore, I have created a list to collect accounts, follow them all at once and change this: https://florisre.github.io/mastodon-iranian-studies/.

Feel free to contact me with suggestions or if you would like to be on that list yourself!

#Iran #IslamicStudies #Orient #MiddleEasternStudies #ArabicStudies #OrientalStudies #IranianStudies #joinmastodon

Viele Wissenschaftler:innen sind bereits hier auf Mastodon angekommen.

Leider sind mir aus meiner eigenen Disziplin (Islamwissenschaft) bislang quasi keine bekannt. Daher habe ich eine Liste angelegt, um das zu verändern: https://florisre.github.io/mastodon-iranian-studies/

Meldet Euch gern mit Vorschlägen oder fall ihr selbst auf der Liste stehen möchtet!

#Iran #Islamwissenschaft #Orient #MiddleEasternStudies #Arabistik #OrientalStudies #OrientStudien #Islamstudien #joinmastodon