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1/25 A central part of my research is guided by poetry and by its incredible importance for historical study. Unfortunately, some historians have abused poetry, ransacking it for historical argument
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1/25 Today, I will continue looking at the lives of Palestinian poets in the context of the intellectual battle over modernizing Arabic poetry after 1948. A marginalized and maligned figure
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It's the final day of my #Tweetistorian x #EarlyModernPeriod crossover and we're going to cover one of the strangest accusations of cannibalism I've come across. This gif is an accurate
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Welcome to Friday! I'm glad you made it, especially because our topic today is European medicinal cannibalism. This is is basically my origin story as a person who researches cannibalism
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On this #EarlyModernPeriod, I'll be talking about two European authors who reacted to accusations of anthropophagy and other "inhuman" acts with compassion. I want to challenge the idea that inflicting
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Welcome to day two of my #tweetistorian and #EarlyModernPeriod spree. Since yesterday's thread was about the colonist origins of the word "cannibal," today we'll explore those late 15th and early
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Researching the early Islamic period in North Africa is challenging for many reasons-The written sources usually used for this period, like histories, pay less attention to the Islamic lands west
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The only surviving manuscript of Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma was completed in 869AH/1464 CE. You can see the date in the colophon here. There’s no information on the manuscript itself about
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Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma has been described as taking a harsher approach to non-Muslims than that found in earlier discussions. Is this true? For some parts of the text, yes. Let’s
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Good morning #Twittistorian! This is @sliptonmedieval, tweeting about #Imagesashistory. Yesterday we looked at the afterlife of medieval anti-Jewish caricature in modern political cartoons. But we've seen only 1 Jewish woman!
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SECOND THREAD: SENDERO LUMINOSO AND THE PERUVIAN INTERNAL ARMED CONFLICT. After 12 years of military rule, Peru held presidential elections on May 18, 1980. Months before, a national assembly had
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Just a small note on teaching tafsir today. Qasimi did not only write his tafsir, he also taught tafsir actively, most likely in the process of writing his work. His
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