#Persians

1/n This happenned last in 1783 when Sardar Jassa Singh Ramgarhia and Sardar Baghel Singh defeated Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and hoisted the nishan sahib flag on red fort.
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Thread on the unreliability of hadith and Zoroastrian influence on early Islam While the Quran is the central text in Islam, the religion would be massively different without the hadith.
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This is both a dogwhistle to gun nuts and Nazis/KKK/Proud Boys/III Percenters and all the fascists.Let's talk "molon labe."https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1352005648125292544 At the Battle of Thermopylae, Xerxes deman
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Thread with excerpts from Michael Axworthy’s “The Sword of Persia Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant” The author’s view on the historical importance of Nader Shah: he kept
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The achievements of Sultan Fatih Mehmet 2 are no less than that of Alexander the Great! [Thread]Mehmed’s predecessors had laid the foundation for a state ruled over by an absolute
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Thread on Sanatan Dharma. Part 1Hinduism,the world's oldest known Dharma, its not like an organized religion like christianity or islam. It has no founder no pope no hierarchy and even
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A thread of Indian cuisine that you must try at least once in your lifetime: Panipuri:what's the point if you haven't tried this? The more tangier and spicier the better.
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Short background thread about the significancehttps://twitter.com/comparativist/status/1327224546089345024 China is somewhat peculiar in that there was no settled endonym (name you call yourselves) for what what we call China today for most
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Afghan identity: does it really exist? [thread]If you ask an afghan nationalist about the history of Afghanistan he will tell you that in the 1700s Ahmad shah Durrani rose up,
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Year 1497, in his Lisbon palace King Manuel I (called 'the fortunate') was finishing his dinner and was washing his bland food down his lily-white throat sipping Porto wine when
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On 4th January 1761, 3rd Battle of Panipat took place.What’s often overlooked is that besides Abdali’s army from today’s Afghanistan, forces belonging to almost all major areas of today’s Pakistan
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In the 5th Century BC in the Battle of Salamis, a Greek fleet won a decisive battle against Xerxes, King of Persia, destroying Persia's superior naval capabilities. In 479 BC,
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A (very serious and definitely not humorous) Thread: A Man’s Beard in Muslim Culture and Society… I recently watched a video of a man cutting his dad's beard as he
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Since this unintelligent debate about #Mawlana´s origin goes on, I feel forced to weigh in and start a #Thread about #Rumi´s origin, the nature of the Persianate #civilization, what labels
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There are many problems in the world today.  The main problem of which is cultural slavery.  Let's talk about it.  You might not even know about it. Let's take the
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>they believe the dark ages meme,the dark ages was nothing more than the trade routes being cut off from the east,it stunted the growth of european civilization itself, due to
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