#Seljuk

Hasib Noor

hasibmn

The Debate on Rumi's "Identity"There is a rising ethno-national debate about claiming Rumi's legacy with some bigotry inserted by Irani Persians speaking against Afghans claiming that Rumi "wasnt Afghan," even

Soner Cagaptay

SonerCagaptay

Turkish towns that have grown most disproportionately since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire:1. Kirikkale2. Batman3. Karabuk(Hardly villages in 1923, these 3 boomed due to state-led industrialization drive)4. Urfa (due

Fidato

tequieremos

“When Osman Ghazi met Mevlana Rumi” Ala'din Kayqubad who was the Seljuk Sultan organised a feast for the purpose of declaring his spiritual master. Ertuğrul Ghazi was present amongst the

Sheldon Cooper

Bazingaa_aaa

“Qutub Minar was built by Hindus,If Ms built it,why don’t they have such grand structures in Central Asia,the place they have come from”Argument of sanghi not knowing that 60 such

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/17 Short thread on Sunnism. A common mistake made by non-specialists would have us believe that the events following the death of Muḥammad in 632 AD precipitated the Shiʿi-Sunni divide.

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

Fran Olmos

fran__olmos

Caravanserais were key for the development and success of the trade routes. A safe place for travellers that combined the functions of a storehouse, inn and even fortress. Unfortunately, not

Onaiz Qutabzada 🇵🇰

YeniceriQ

Mevlana Rumi, the Whirling Dervishes and the Islamization of Asia Minor (Turkey)!An interesting thread on how Islam was spread in the Anatolian (Turkish) region during the Seljuq Rule. (1/N) The

Cynical 🇪🇺

Prodactiv_

How ISIS, Marxist Leninists Kurds, the fight for Kobane a video in YouTube led me to discover a silent Armenian Minority in TurkeyThe Hemşin peoplesArmenian: Համշենցիներ, HamshentsinerTurkish: HemşinlilerA thread full

Fran Olmos

fran__olmos

Central Asia's khans, emirs & conquerors rest in eye-catching mausoleums...Thread The Samanid mausoleum (10th c.) is a fine example of the Persian dynasty that dominated much of the region. It's

𝖘𝖞𝖉 🦇 𝖇𝖊𝖉𝖗𝖔𝖘𝖎𝖆𝖓 🇦🇲🕷

sydbedrosian

So earlier I was in a thread about Turkish origins and told “that they aren’t from Mongolia and saying so is racist” by another Armenian and I wanna talk about

Omer Sayadi

MENAsymbolism

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

JDog Pitler

ZBcasghamber

[THREAD]What led to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453?It wasn’t the Ottoman muslim turks. The Byzantine Empirewas rotting within for centuries due to its false sense ofsecurity and a series

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ChrisKhach

1) Let’s talk about #Nakhichevan - a lost homeland. 2) The the name "Nakhichevan" in #Armenian literally means "the place of first descent", a Biblical reference to the descent of

Raziye Akkoç

RazAkkoc

When 2018 arrived, I told myself I would memorise all of Turkey’s 81 provinces. That proved relatively easy so I decided I would visit each one (yes Kirikkale too IA).

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