#Abbasid

1/The history of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is intertwined. The new status of Constantinople as the New Jerusalem played a direct
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A thread on how a reception studies approach can help us understand racialization in premodern Arabic literature…(warning, it's long) Anyone who studies Classical Arabic literature knows that it is extremely
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“Judeo-Christian” isn’t a thing. It a) positions Jews & Christians against Muslims, is Islamophobic b) elides Christian oppression & murder of Jews over more than 1000 years & c) ignores
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In Islamic eschatology, the world will be flooded by a mighty invasion in the end of days. The great army of the monstrous Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog) will
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Good thread. We must understand the motivations of Europeans in spinning “Greek” origins.The Church was in a war for supremacy with Islam in the Middle East. And Europe.The advent of
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Thread on Muslim Pioneers and Ancient Islamic Contributions to the Scientific World. First of all no thread is going to do any justice to the vast Muslim intellectual contributions
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In medieval Arabic chronicles, the ethnicity of qiyān (enslaved entertainers) is often unstated unless the woman becomes an umm walad (mother of an owner's child), at which point it still
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Indian Muslims protesting against @EmmanuelMacron because he has spoken against Islamic terror after #Francebeheading & expects Muslims living in France to respect the secular French constitution raises a very important
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As Christmas nears, here's a lovely late 15th-/early 16th-century portable nativity scene from a gold ring, found Sleaford, Lincs :) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/642395 A 6th- or 7th-century Byzantine ring featuring
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Perhaps the most profound thing I took away from this book club session is that we shouldn't see the battle between Mu'tazilis and proto-Sunnis in the Mihna as one between
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The Moon is one of the most important placements in a person’s birth chart. In astrology from the Islamic world, the Moon is central after the Ascendant for determining the
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As some of my friends on here know, I’m a Tunisian who was born and raised in Saudi Arabia.I have emotional ties to both countries so I decided to make
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These Moroccan coins feature the so-called Seal of Solomon, often depicted as a hexagram, similar to the Star of David. The coins are dated respectively 1271 A.H. (1855) and 1290
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Every few hundred years Jupiter and Saturn meet in a conjunction. For medieval Muslim astrologers, the cycles of Jupiter and Saturn would be linked to world conquerors, messiahs, and the
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Like announced, I'll start a thread on the symbolism of the (in)famous black & white banner in #Islam. This comprehensive thread will explore its historical origins and cover a list
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The world loves to attribute greatness to a long line of European mathematicians beginning with the Greeks/Romans without realizing that much of this 'history' was conjured up from thin air
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