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@gypsy_heart6

Jokes RTs, history (of religion, languages, civilizations, art, politics). Threads on South Asian & Middle Eastern politics, history, religions. (ex-academic)

Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2012.
Rođen/a 30. kolovoza

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    17. lis 2018.

    I guess I've tweeted enough threads to merit a meta thread :) So here are some of those threads and tweets that I feel deserve better than twitter oblivion:

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    14. svi 2019.

    There are 36 documented Safaitic inscriptions containing the name ʿs1y, found in about 8 sites in Northern Arabia. This name is the Safaitic cognate to the Qur'anic ʿīsà. The Safaitic script was used around the 1st century BCE to 4th century CE.

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    This was the defining moment of the Super Bowl. The statement JLo and Shakira made by having the kids singing from these cages was immense.

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    25. stu 2018.

    A learned woman of 15th century Cairo: Umm Muḥammad Kulthūm bint ʿUmar ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Nābulusiyya (d. 856 AH/1452 CE), known by the title al-Kātiba or "the female scribe" (Image: MS Leiden Or. 2415a).

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    A choir of ten Yazidi girls - 5 of them former ISIS slaves, five who spent their childhood under the shadow of the ruin of their people. They look like teenagers off to Disneyworld or something- yet the things they have suffered. One was only rescued a few months back...

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    Viagra or minced baby 🐊 heart rubbed on your balls? (Btw creepy & life-risking remedies for impotence are still very common. Recently during a train trip through Pakistan, a vast majority of ads I saw on walls were of “Bengali” mystics/shamans peddling aphrodisiacs.)

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    One of my favourites: In the 14th century, Sir John Maudeville, on his return from India, described the cotton plant there as “a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the end of its branches and bent down to allow the lambs to graze and feed when they were hungry.”

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    17. pro 2017.

    Rising seas gradually flooded low-lying lands. Some 8,200 years ago, a catastrophic release of water from a North American glacial lake and a 5m tsunami from a subsea landslide off Norway ca 6,200 years ago, inundated whatever remained of Doggerland.

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    Al-Zuhrī reports that there once came to visit the caliph ʿAbd al-Malik a man who spoke Arabic eloquently. When the caliph asked him whether or not he was an Arab, the man replied, “If Arabic be a father, then I am not; but if Arabic be a language, indeed I am.”

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    A towering figure of the 20th century Muslim thought. The late Fazlur Rahman speaking from the University of Chicago on 'the Qur'an & Nature' A rare footage indeed:

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  11. prije 4 sata

    Thread on the historicity of Ibn Battuta. I don’t think there’s any doubt that he, &/or his chronicler Ibn Juzayy, exaggerated, & even invented, some of the stuff he wrote, as did almost all pre-modern chroniclers, from Herodotus to Marcopolo. Not everyone was a Thucydides.

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    11. tra 2018.

    Ugaritic word of the day: ḥkpt /ḥikupta/ - poetic name of the craftsman god Kothar's Egyptian abode, borrowed from the Egyptian name for Memphis, ḥwt-kꜢ-ptḥ ("house of Ptaḥ's spirit"), which also gave Greek Αἴγυπτος (cf. Linear B ai-ku-pi-ti-jo) and, ultimately, "Egypt".

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    So how did I end up writing about Abū Zurʿa? First, take Fred Donner's "The Problem of Early Arabic Historiography in Syria" (), which investigates "historiographical activity" in early Islamic Syria and why not much of it remains. And mix this with...

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    Ever since I started studying pre-modern Middle-Eastern studies, I have found myself less and less interested in reading fantasy literature. I find that even the most creative or imaginative of fiction writers do not come close to reproducing the unpredictability of human history

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    Meaning of country's name. India: Land of the Indus Iran: Land of Aryans Japan: Land of rising sun Egypt: Frontier Nigeria: Land of the Niger river Italy: Land of young cattle France: Land of the Franks Germany: Fertile land China: Qin state Indonesia: Indian islands

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    Passenger: Do you mind if I take a picture out the window? Pilot: Of course, you utter dipshit.

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    29. sij
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    A British Poster for Indians in WW2 The Axis Powers are shown as a 3 headed Rakhshasa while Shivaji, Akbar, Pratap & Banda Bahadur bless the troops "Yes, our Bravehearts are fighting to protect the land, wealth, homes of Indians from the eyes of demonic enemies & fighting them"

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    According to , only 29% of Democrats use Twitter and those not on the platform are more interested in Democratic leaders who will try to “find common ground” with Republicans

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    3. velj

    Imagine being locked up in a Chinese prison for 420 days. You cannot see your family. No justifiable reason has been given. That is what our Canadian friend and colleague Michael Kovrig is facing. .

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