Christian Sahner
@ccsahner
Associate Professor of Islamic History @UniofOxford, Margoliouth Fellow in Arabic @NewCollegeOx 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧
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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/
Depiction of Jesus before the high priest (here dressed like a Muslim cadi) from a 13th century Syriac Gospel manuscript. British Library (London), Ms. Add. 7170 (ca. 1216-1220 AD)
A terrific discussion for the 1700th anniversary of Nicaea. Jack and Gabriel touch on some fascinating similarities and differences between Christian and Islamic monotheism. Please, another episode!
Jack Tannous!!! Did the Council of Nicaea "Invent" the Trinity in AD 325? Replies from a... youtu.be/OdBMv8-9S4s?si… via @YouTube
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New article: Seth Stadel, "The Legal Constructions of Christian Slavery in Fars at the End of Late Antiquity," Journal of Late Antiquity (2025) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…
My new article for JIQSA (the Journal of @iqsaweb) is now available online: “On the Historicity of ʿUthmān’s Canonization of the Qur’an, Part 1: The State of the Field” It is open access – link below!
Ubi sunt? (Baruch 3:16) Quite a nice thread on Devin's recent article -- though he himself doesn't say it, the Qur'an's use of this homiletic topos makes a great argument (among many) for its inclusion in the western canon.
🧵 The Quran frequently presents ruins rhetorically, showing the cyclical nature of history. Past nations rise, thrive, collapse, and leave traces. Columns, rock dwellings, overturned cities, and preserved ships are not passive, they argue. (1/10)
I confess I had no idea this mosque existed. Do the remains actually go back to the Umayyad period?
The Umayyad Mosque in Harran, Türkiye, was built by Marwan II, the last Umayyad caliph, when he made Harran the Umayyad capital. It matched Damascus’s mosque in size and extravagance (see ALT) but was destroyed 800 years ago during the Mongol invasion.
A fantastic tour de force. This word isn’t attested in the epigraphy of North Arabia (yet), but let’s see what future finds reveal …
Mabrook, Josef!
And with that, the DPhil journey is complete! So many people to thank, especially the brilliant Michael Macdonald and @ccsahner for all their support and advice along the way.
A carnelian seal depicting Ali seated on a horse with a sword in hand: the design is an Arabic inscription comprised of the names of the 12 imams written in the form of a horseman holding a split sword (Dhu l-Fiqar). britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…
📢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=…)
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Bishop Barron Discusses Papal Front - Runners with EWTN
The Founders would be astonished that in the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence, the Bishop of Rome would be... an American.
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