#Medieval

DEVDASI | Journey from GLEAM to GLOOM | Most respected to most dejectedThread to look back in time to where we are today. An untold story in book 'NITYASUMANGALI' by
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Everyone reading this, please take a moment. Extract yourself from your pre-conceived biases, be them culturally driven, or driven by an Abrahamic religion that has built in bigotry and demonization
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Monastery of Ghazali 500AD, makura -christian nubia hope to include more entries from sudan's christian period 500-1400AD,more;https://books.google.co.ug/books/about/The_Nubi
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Every so often at Christmas a piece comes out about Sartre’s play, Bariona. It was his first play, and it is an intriguing one: during his lifetime, it was performed
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This argument is highly flawed. Christians brought civilization destruction & genocide in the name of their religion. They destroyed our past, burned libraries, ran inquisitions, committed genocides, brought us the
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1/Yesterday Sean (@shahanSean) briefly mentioned the doctrine of muḥādatha (محادثة). Typically the medieval literature describes non-prophetic person who converses with angels as muḥaddath (محدث). The prominent caliph ʿUmar
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When tracking the Palestinian national identity, one must not conflate the individual vs. collective. The connecting tissue from the various individuals, whether Christian or Muslim, was rejection of Jewish Zionist
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This one is going to be long. Agincourt (1415), Shakespeare, Henry V, and History. Read at your own peril. When I audition, despite being far too old...apparently, from me, directors
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Ok, clearly I hate myself because I am actually now going to do a line-by-line refutation of this nonsense.https://twitter.com/daniel_dsj2110/status/1334295004790091781 First, a quick transcription of what the photo in the OP
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OK, SO SCIENCE QUEEN @UPULIE SAY HER BIGGEST LORD OF RINGS BRAIN EVER, ME SAY ME SAW MOVIE ONCE AND MAYBE READ BOOKS 800 YEARS AGO, PLUS THAT ONE GAME
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Small thread on the concept of Brahmacharya in Hinduism/Sanatana Dharma versus the idea in other faiths. The central idea of Dharma is restraint. If you look at the Dharma granthas,
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I’m Richard Cole host of Amari Purple Talk with the other versions of Strange Relationship on the Vault Tracks disc of the #SignOTheTimesSuperDeluxe #PrinceTwitterThread Thanks to @djumb and @EdgarKruize and
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Gulab Singh, the founder of the Dogra rule in Kashmir, deprived the Muslims of all proprietary rights of lands declaring that since he had purchased the country he was its
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“Thread: History of Valentines Day”Ancient historical sources have claimed the existence of several saints by the name of St.Valentines who died on Feb 14. Among them, two were executed during
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Volume IV. The Age of FaithEncompassing the history of medieval civilization (Byzantine, Islamic, Judaic, and West European) from Constantinople to Dante (AD 325-1330). As usual, Durant delivers with incredible understanding,
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Thread: The world is celebrating Christmas today. So it’s a good time to explore the unique traditions associated with sacred or holy trees in Ireland & why Christmas trees are
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