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'...debut novel explores contemporary issues through fiction. Using his own experience and creative writing, Darkness Inside promises to be one of the darkest, most timely and relevant novels of the year by one of the UK's most original journalists.'

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Much under appreciated film!!

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: I came across Ahmad ibn Fadlan around 2006 Damascus, in the film “The 13th Warrior,” featuring the Muslim Arab character, Ibn Fadlan, played by none other than Antonio Banderas- m.youtube.com/watch?v=v_yMzG

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The Life of a Medieval Envoy Illuminates Forgotten Histories

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19. You can read more about Ibn Fadlan here:

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Ahmad ibn Fadlan traveled far and, like the man who found his works centuries later, shone a light on the world he found

18. I wrote a homage to Ibn Fadlan in my book: The Travels of Inn Fudayl whilst at SOAS-

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The Travels of Ibn Fudayl

The Travels of Ibn Fudayl is a satirical tale written in the style of an academic who has translated a medieval manuscript. It comes complete with foreword, introduction, bibliography and copious f…

17. Eaters of the dead was read by Hollywood when director John McTiernan read Crichton’s book and wanted to turned it into a movie 13th warrior. McTiernan made some of Hollywood’s all-time great blockbusters like “Die Hard” and “Predator,”

16. At the time, Crichton wrote bestsellers like “Jurassic Park. He combined the bowulf story with Ibn Fadlan as the narrator. “Ibn Fadlan had a distinct voice and style. He was imitable. bn Fadlan appeared in Crichton’s book “Eaters of the Dead” in 1976

15. Meanwhile, Togan’s accounts of Ibn Fadlan, the Abbasid ambassador, occupied a place in the libraries of SOAS University of London and Harvard University where a young Michael Crichton 👇 came across the text in the 1960s as an undergraduate.

14b. His intellectual endeavors helped shape a Turkish nationalism that went beyond an Ottoman and Islamic identity. But it also caused him problems; the Turkish state, subjected him to imprisonment and internal exile due to his pan-Turkism. Map of Turkic languages 👇

14. And so began the second part of Togan’s life, when he met Sigmund Freud and the celebrated poet Muhammad Iqbal 👇 , established research institutes on Islam and attended conferences in Europe and Asia.

13. He went into exile and headed toward Persia and Afghanistan in 1923 and in Mashad, Iran he came across the Ibn Fadlan’s account.

A politician involved in Bolshevik revolution mixing with Lenin, Gorky, Kerensky. An advocate for Bashkir republic, a statesman and one of the leaders of the Bashmach rebellion which failed. This is really fascinating:

Russian Civil War in Central Asia I THE GREAT WAR 1920

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11. Togan was born in modern-day Bashkortostan in 1891 in the Volga. A polymath who knew Arabic, Persian, various Turkish dialects, German, Latin, French and English. In his teens read al-Ghazali, Ferdawsi,al-Hariri, Abduh & Schopenhauer.

10. Tsarist Russia was more familiar with Islam than Europe. Unsurprising to find Muslim characters popping up in 19th-cent Russian lit, in Dostoyevsky’s “House of the Dead” to Tolstoy’s novella, “Hadji Murat.” But that did not mean that Muslims weren’t misunderstood

9. Also shows that sizable Muslim presence in Russia is indigenous — the fruit of Mongol invasions and the khanates that sprung up after Genghis Khan’s death, many of which converted to Islam. Long before Russia was even an idea, the Volga and the Urals had a Muslim presence.

8. His account serves as a cornerstone for those studying the Vikings. But perhaps more important for Turkic scholarship, Ibn Fadlan provides one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of Turkic Tatar peoples before the advent of Islam.

Disgusting Viking "hygiene"

Refreshing ablution in The 13th Warrior movie. Watch and learn!

7. Ibn Fadlan unlike other travelers who didn’t mind stretching the truth and mixing their stories with the fantastic, his account was sober. Coming from an Islamic legal tradition obsessed with the veracity of eyewitness oral testimony accuracy was key: archive.org/details/TheRis

6. Ibn Fadlan was an Islamic jurist who served the Abbasid caliph Al-Muqtadir in the 10th century. He inhabited a cosmopolitan world and came from a society that was familiar with distant cultures including the Bulgars on the Volga. m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1H_RR)

Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World , PBS Documentary

Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible WorldFilmmaker Robert H. Gardner explores and celebrates the richness of Islamic art and architecture throughout the wor...

5. Even more extraordinary was the life of Zeki Velidi Togan. Both Ibn Fadlan’s and Togan’s lives and endeavors were so important that they affected not only how their societies understood themselves but also how we understood ourselves in the West (picture)

4 After I returned to London and was pursuing my postgraduate studies, I was pleasantly surprised when I came across an Arabic account of Ibn Fadlan. That’s when I realized that Ibn Fadlan’s fictitious life was far less interesting than his real one.

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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness

3. Watching a Hollywood film with an Arab hero was surreal, because of war on terror, the best American cultural output at the time depicted Arabs as terror sleeper cells- e.g. “24,” with Kiefer Sutherland hunting terror .

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2. Ibn Fadlan was an Abbasid envoy/poet sent to the Volga, Russia. On the way, Banderas & friend played by legend, Omar Sharif, are saved by Vikings from a Tatar attack. This leads to a friendship. They reciprocate by beating a man-eating tribe -

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🧵: I came across Ahmad ibn Fadlan around 2006 Damascus, in the film “The 13th Warrior,” featuring the Muslim Arab character, Ibn Fadlan, played by none other than Antonio Banderas-

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Fentanyl has killed 100,000 Americans. Is Europe next?

Djamel-Eddine Taleb

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Feb 3

What a debut! I started reading this novel and it is captivating from the 'debut'! Congratulation Tam

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Fentanyl has killed 100,000 Americans. Is Europe next?

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Europe has been warned that a flood of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, is heading this way.Belgi

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I have had the pleasure of listening to this- really really compelling stuff. Have a listen!

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@SignCurve

Jan 26

Alert: The latest episode of my crypto spy thriller podcast, The Jabbari Lincoln Files, dropped today. I hope all bankers and payment professionals give this one a listen!

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Pakistan mosque blast: At least 28 killed after explosion in Peshawar

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Pakistan mosque blast: Police targeted in attack that kills 47 - BBC News

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More than 150 were injured in an explosion at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.

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Jan 29

The Ukraine war has gifted the Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev a chance to unseat Putin's strongman in Grozny. Will his wager end in a rerun of the brutal conflict of the 1990s?

A Chechen Separatist Aims to Unseat Putin’s Man

unpacks Chechnya’s bloody history.

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For Akhmed Zakayev’s wager to succeed, he has to defeat the real enemy — the legacy of Chechnya’s recent history

Jan 29

Love the humility of Beterbiev. He is a “simple boxer” - As a world champion he has the right to boast but he doesn’t.

Artur Beterbiev Vs Anthony Yarde • FULL POST FIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE |...

#Boxing #BeterbievYardeArtur Beterbiev speaks after his sensational victory over Anthony Yarde.Subscribe for updates - http://goo.gl/meA2GBFollow on Twitter:...

“Boxing is a corrupt and dirty business…but it also retains the capacity to produce fights such as this epic contest. This was a night that will live long in the memory – and belong forever to both extraordinary fighters.” -⁦⁦

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Brilliant Artur Beterbiev stops brave Anthony Yarde in thrilling title fight

Britain’s Anthony Yarde was stopped in the eighth round by the still-unbeaten world light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev

Character is everything - 👇 Yarde has just shown what he’s about

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Teddy Atlas

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Yarde showing he knows how to fight like a Champion, but more importantly he’s behaving like one! #BeterbievYarde

Incredible fight - brave men!

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Michael Benson

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Artur Beterbiev TKO8 Anthony Yarde scorecards at the time of the stoppage…

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Bhortas Are Anything But Basic — Whetstone Magazine

Sharing one of the pieces I’m most proud to have written. On Bangladeshis love of bhorta. For the fab

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#bangladeshifood #bhorta

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The story of how a simple mash made of humble, locally available ingredients has become one of Bangladesh’s culinary cornerstones.