Antoine Borrut Serving as YouTube Consultant and Visiting Professor
June 06, 2023
UMD Historian Consults for Popular YouTube Channel
Antoine Borrut served as historical consultant for a popular YouTube channel (“Epic History”) with almost 2M subscribers, for a two-part series on the Abbasid dynasty (r. 750-1258 CE). The first part was released mid-May and has already been seen by over 275k viewers HERE.
Antoine was in Paris in May 2023 as an invited Professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) where he gave 4 talks on his current book project tentatively entitled "Heaven and History: Astrology and the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Early Islam." See the EPHR website HERE.