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May Shaddel
MayShaddel
A rather important find, a 'new' milestone from the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Saffāḥ. Here are my reading and translation of it, with some brief observations: هذا ما أمر
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THE POLYMATH ➐
shahowais__
1) The Book of Ingenious Devices (كتاب الحيل), published in 850 by the three brothers, known as the Banu Musa working at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, Iraq, under
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Faisal Al Yafai
FaisalAlYafai
Was Abu Nuwas an Arab? / A Thread. So this week @newlinesmag we published @alexjrowell's unsurprisingly popular essay about the love early Arab poets had for wine. (Unsurprising because it
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
1)Rana here, we are here at the end of this Tweeting journey and I want to dedicate it to al-Awzā‘ī (d. 774), the most famous inhabitant of Beirut, with whom
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
Hello, I'm @ChenHuailun and I'll be continuing to tweet about Christianity in Tang China. Yesterday, I introduced the Xi'an stele and its narration of Christianity's entrance into Chang'an. Today I'll
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ابراهيم المقاتل الصاخب
ibnErnest
It would be beautiful if people were as willing to talk about the conditions (shuroot) of khilafa and their evidences as they are to make statements like this. Furthermore, it's
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Χοδαδάδιος Ρεζαχανίδης 🇮🇸🇪🇺
sasanianshah
After 484, the death of Pērōz and loss of the east to the Hepthalites, Sasanians abandoned the east (which the Hephthalites forged into Miirosan/Khurasan) and switched the centre of their
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Ali 🍃
3a8ee8
I started reading "A History Of The Arab Peoples" by Albert Hourani. ___It's a nice academic unbiased introduction to Arab history. Naturally, it covers some topics in more detail than
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Historians of Iran
HistorianofIran
There are several important figures in Chinese history from Parthian or Sassanian backgrounds. These figures reflect the cultural and political connections ancient China had with Iran.Let's begin with An Shigao,
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Sayyid Ali
Aal_e_Imran
[Thread - A Continuation] Theological presuppositions & shortcomings of anachronistic scientific interpretations: The trend alluded to in the previous thread shows that there is a belief that Islamic textual sources
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Ali Karjoo-Ravary علی کارجو راوری
akarjooravary
I'm excited about this, even if somehow, tens of thousands of years in the future, Hollywood thinks jihad is taboo. Herbert defined jihad as a crusade and saw them as
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Bhaskar Kamble
MeruPrastara
I have always suspected that the narrative of the "Islamic Golden Age", "Islamic Mathematics" or "Arabic Mathematicians" is just myth and propaganda. In this thread I explain why. (cc @GarudaPrakashan,
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Islam & Science
IslamScienceNet
Mustansiriya Madrasah was a medieval era scholarly complex that provided a universal system of higher education. It was established in 1227 C.E and was named after and built by the
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
Swenson's argument was that the four social stages seemed prevalent to human society, but, of course, that's a big leap--society isn't always one-size-fits-all. Changing gears, let me discuss the scholarship
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Sunni.supremacist
Sunnisupremaci1
Brief History of the suspension of hajj [thread]As we have come to know , this year's hajj has been cancelled but many Muslims do not know that hajj has been
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
Safaitic
Rainy weekend thread: I wanted to write a thread to connect to the fierce debate on Twitter regarding Arab identity, the Arabian Peninsula, and its relationship to the languages we
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