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Cinder
@Triquetrea
It bothers me that the only periods of history I know at all follow this principle (i.e. friendships between well-situated individuals dominate era), yet this is almost never a lens historians use. Confirmation bias, random convergence, my lack of erudition or a blind spot?
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Incidentally, my inability to put too much faith in both states and markets is a core driver of why I’m so obsessive about making friends. In my frame, both mechanisms are complex abstractions of “people helping people”, and I prefer to approach it from first principles twitter.com/HelloShreyas/s…
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you might be interested to know al-Bukhari has made the most detailed investigation into the history of those who claimed the prophet has did this and said this. he examined evidences on whether they have told a lie publicly before and whether there's anyone to testify to it
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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This seems a precise echo of Herodotus' method in the Histories, which I haven't read much of in far too long. Sort of strange to think I've read 100s of books on (European & West Asian) antiquity, but scarcely touched one in over 5 years. Need to freshen up, but also to expand.
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Islamic & Persian scholarship has interested me for a while, and makes sense since it both has common referents with both Europe and areas further into Asia and Africa, so that I would then have more referents through that to those areas as well... Any other recommendations?
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