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Prof Islamic art @UTAustin, President of @MideastMedieval, Syria, archaeology & heritage, author of THE CITIZEN KANE OF ISLAM-CENTRIC CAT-THEMED TWITTER THREADS

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    Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

    Dear Entire World: #Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it. Vikings had rich contacts w/Arab world. This textile? No. 1/60pic.twitter.com/jpvbrrePQg

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      2. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Actually #Viking textile has no Arabic at all but story has gone viral @NYTimes @Guardian @BBCWorld @NatGeo @ScienceAlert have reported 2/60

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      3. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        There is something very troubling here about relationship between news media & experts, who should have been consulted for verification 3/60

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      4. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        It should go without saying that a single scholar’s un-peer-reviewed claim does not truth make. #medievaltwitter 4/60

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      5. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Here’s the deal with #Viking ‘Allah’ textile, as I have been able to piece it together over past few days. 5/60

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      6. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        1: As an Islamic art historian & archaeologist, I was immediately suspicious about style of Arabic epigraphy. 6/60

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      7. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        It’s really so simple that I spent five days thinking, it couldn’t be that Larsson would make so fundamental and obvious a mistake. 7/60

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      8. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        The issue is a serious problem of dating. #Birka #Viking textile is 10th c. Style of epigraphy in Larsson’s drawing is 500 years later. 8/60

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      9. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        It’s a style called square Kufic, and it’s common in Iran, C. Asia on architecture after 15th c., ex: Safavid Isfahan w/Allah and Ali 9/60pic.twitter.com/pbGJNFITGk

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      10. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Earliest examples of square Kufic on architecture date to the 11th-early 12th century: Panel of Ibrahim b. Mas‘ud, ca. 1059-1099 10/60pic.twitter.com/qGZGb4G8gP

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      11. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Or the Minaret of Mas‘ud III at Ghazni, ca. 1099-1118, so all at least 100 years later than Birka textile h/t @2Kufic 11/60pic.twitter.com/TTy6G0f6ix

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      12. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        But final character in Larsson’s drawing #Viking Allah txtl has Arabic letter 'ha' ـه w/a hook over it that’s not common until 15th c. 12/60pic.twitter.com/4zq6YQXJ1I

        4 replies 38 retweets 210 likes
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      13. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Perhaps there are 10th c. 2Kufic examples on central Asian textiles. If so, I am not aware of them. Especially not w/hooked ‘ha.’ 13/60

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      14. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Even if such examples exist, Larsson specifically cites architecture as comparanda. 14/60 http://www.uu.se/en/news-media/news/article/?id=9390 …

        2 replies 14 retweets 130 likes
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      15. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        2. But let’s assume there are 10th c. Central Asian textiles with 2Kufic. Even so, it turns out Larsson’s drawing doesn’t say ‘Allah’ 15/60

        2 replies 20 retweets 126 likes
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      16. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Dr. Stephennie Mulder Retweeted Marijn "i before j" van Putten

        Instead the drawing says للله ‘lllah’, which basically makes no sense in Arabic. 16/60https://twitter.com/phoenixnl/status/917112486008156160 …

        Dr. Stephennie Mulder added,

        Marijn "i before j" van Putten @PhDniX
        Replying to @PhDniX @Yael_Rice @shahanSean
        This looks like it reads للله in mirror-image, and not الله "Allah" in mirror image. The first option is meaningless in Arabic.
        11 replies 33 retweets 183 likes
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      17. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Arabic phrases like الحَمْد لله al-hamdulillah incorporate 'l-lah' but don’t stand alone, and it’s spelled لله with 2 uprights, not 3. 17/60

        4 replies 20 retweets 139 likes
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      18. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        This is similar to an argument made for another sensational find: the #Viking ring said to say ‘to/for God’ 18/60http://phoenixblog.typepad.com/blog/2016/01/tofor-allah-or-just-a-jumble-of-lines.html …

        2 replies 22 retweets 136 likes
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      19. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        For ring, best conclusion is represents a kind of pseudo-Kufic. This tells us #Arabic was valued by #Vikings as social status/capital. 19/60

        7 replies 43 retweets 232 likes
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      20. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        And we have some evidence of this in the form of pseudo-Kufic inscriptions on weights for measuring silver 20/60 http://www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/csa/Dokument/Volumes/csa_vol_15-16_2007-2008/csa_vol_15-16_2007-2008_s61-71_fernstal.pdf …

        2 replies 20 retweets 126 likes
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      21. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Or even real Arabic, for example dinar of Anglo-Saxon King Offa, who keeps Arabic Shahada intact as he inserts his name in the middle. 21/60pic.twitter.com/Hm6VfNa6YX

        3 replies 61 retweets 252 likes
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      22. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        3. Spanish ‘ribbons’ bearing Arabic writing also cited by Larsson as comparanda, but this also doesn’t seem to work date-wise. 22/60

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      23. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Medieval Spanish textile expert Maria J. Feliciano confirmed to me that known square Kufic tablet weaves are post-13th c. 23/60

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      24. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Here are some examples from Monastery of Santa María La Real de Huelgas in Burgos, 13th c. 24/60pic.twitter.com/lmw2uXfGPW

        3 replies 14 retweets 114 likes
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      25. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        And a bit further north, not far from Paris, maniples w/2Kufic-like patterns from Chasuble of St Edmund, Provins, also 13th c. 25/60pic.twitter.com/g6apRvsjTY

        1 reply 15 retweets 120 likes
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      26. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        Interestingly, these later European examples of supposed 2Kufic actually also bear pseudo-Kufic, not real Arabic writing. 26/60

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      27. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        4. But the final nail in the coffin *cough* I mean burial ship is that Larsson’s claim is based on extrapolation, not evidence. 27/60

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      28. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        As #Viking textile specialist Carolyn Priest-Dorman puts it, text based on “extensions of pattern, not on existing pattern” 28/60

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      29. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        The word “Allah” in Arabic looks like this: الله. It has an upright alif, two more uprights (lam), and a final ـه 'ha' 29/60

        2 replies 18 retweets 111 likes
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      30. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        The tablet-woven textile in the widely-dispersed press photograph shows only design of three uprights connected by a horizontal band. 30/60pic.twitter.com/NUOiLR6zbZ

        2 replies 19 retweets 104 likes
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      31. Dr. Stephennie Mulder‏ @stephenniem 16 Oct 2017

        There is a small triangular shape, but no final ha ـه. Frag. was published in 1938 by Agnes Geijer, original drawing looked like this: 31/60pic.twitter.com/DxDossuWzs

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