Joel Blecher
@joelblecher.com
History Professor at George Washington U | Islamic History & Thought | Said the Prophet (UC Press) | Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics) | Now writing for Basic Books | ex-berliner, Wissenschaftskolleg | sometimes morse code www.joelblecher.com
A fascinating history of the world told through the prism of the evolution, domestication, and migration of the horse!
Wanted the chapters on the Islamic world to have a bit more horse poetry…
can we please collect some here? Is Imru’ al-Qays on blusky yet?!
Wanted the chapters on the Islamic world to have a bit more horse poetry…
can we please collect some here? Is Imru’ al-Qays on blusky yet?!
January 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A fascinating history of the world told through the prism of the evolution, domestication, and migration of the horse!
Wanted the chapters on the Islamic world to have a bit more horse poetry…
can we please collect some here? Is Imru’ al-Qays on blusky yet?!
Wanted the chapters on the Islamic world to have a bit more horse poetry…
can we please collect some here? Is Imru’ al-Qays on blusky yet?!
Wine, coffee, hashish, opium, tobacco, qat… Teaching a class on „Islam, Drugs, and Empire“ this semester… soliciting any and all suggestions for recent scholarship to read….
January 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Wine, coffee, hashish, opium, tobacco, qat… Teaching a class on „Islam, Drugs, and Empire“ this semester… soliciting any and all suggestions for recent scholarship to read….
dog heaven is probably a january snowstorm in the woods near sligo creek
January 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
dog heaven is probably a january snowstorm in the woods near sligo creek
From my dear friend andrew hui… and @princetonupress.bsky.social a marvelous study of studies to read in your study
December 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM
From my dear friend andrew hui… and @princetonupress.bsky.social a marvelous study of studies to read in your study
Ok in this one he is basically human
August 15, 2023 at 10:12 PM
Ok in this one he is basically human
Just going to be posting photos of my 9 year old puppy in honor of @sarahehorowitz.bsky.social who generously bestowed me with an invite code.
August 15, 2023 at 7:32 PM
Just going to be posting photos of my 9 year old puppy in honor of @sarahehorowitz.bsky.social who generously bestowed me with an invite code.