#Islamicate

Salam Rassi | سلام راسي

salam_rassi

A very interesting perspective from @jbralston. While I understand and respect Dr Ralston’s experience, I feel that it requires redress. I’m usually loath to making these kinds of interventions, but

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

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Venus in Scorpio leads to suspicions and doubt of intentions of potential lovers and jealousy. Enemies will seek to undermine their marriages and likelihood of divorce is high. When in

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

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

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Throughout history astrologers advised kings and queens, guided battles, and determined the fate of kingdoms. But sometimes, astrologers were kings, queens, and rulers themselves!A thread- The first is the iconic

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

In astrology from the medieval Islamic world, Venus in the various zodiac signs spell out the fortunes of a person in love. But the significations of Venus also tell us

Dr. Rachel Schine

RachelSchine

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

Iskander Rehman

IskanderRehman

A few words on this much-discussed (but IMHO problematic) piece in FP. First of all, I share some of the author's frustration. Trotting out the same passages of Thucydides when

Aslisho Qurboniev

aslishahqurbani

I am reading Ahmed El Shamsy’s recent book on the impact of #printing on modern discourses on #Islamic scholarship. Like his previous book, it is extremely readable and insightful. I

Jonathan Parkes Allen

Mar_Musa

And now a super-thread on the winding & complicated (pun intended) history of the tuǧra, a textual feature often defined as a 'calligraphic emblem' for 'Turkic' rulers, though that definition

Simcha Gross

Simcha_Gross

A few days ago, the JTA reported on a controversy over the fact that the MET's catalogue identified what is observably a Jewish phylactery as a 6th century Egyptian amulet.

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

For medieval Muslim astrologers, the goat-fish Capricorn would come to represent a sign of change and stability simultaneously. A mixed omen, it would become one of the more important Zodiac

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