#Abbasid

Sean W. Anthony

I promised @gypsy_heart6 to write a thread with examples of ‘heretics’ executed in the early Abbasid period today. Keep in mind that we don’t have hard numbers, just anecdotes. Or,

Sean W. Anthony

The Abbasid scholar Jāḥiẓ (d. 255 / 868) often provides a bird’s-eye view of topics in the Abbasid period and, luckily for us, he wrote on a ton of topics.

Nicolas Baumard

baumard_nicolas

We are interested in the former, not the latter: what do portraits display for others to perceive, be it real or not. The last piece of historical knowledge that informed

Between 869 AD & 883 AD, enslaved Africans in Southern Iraq, carried out the most violent & bloodiest slave insurrection in history, by African People against their Enslavers. A thread

Tweeting Historians

Hello again! @iandavidmorris here.Following yesterday’s thread, let’s talk about slave soldiery in Islam.Enslaved people have been made to fight across many ancient and medieval societies, but they were nowhere so

Mr. Spock 🏳️‍🌈

Most modern historians present a milder view of yazid, and consider him a capable ruler, albeit less successful than his father. But yeah you can go trumpeting the validity of

For everyone thinking that Hajj being cancelled certainly signifies the end of the world:A thread on when Hajj was cancelled: 865: Massacre on Arafat Mountain - Hajj cancelled930: Qarmatian attack

Jupiter Saturn conjunctions were the most important in a hierarchy of world astrology techniquesThe one in 1226 CE which is the most similar to 2020’s was used to predict the

Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi (Al-Khwarizmi/Algorithmi) the great #Persian Muslim mathematician of the celebrated Golden Era. Born and brought up in Khiva, modern day #Uzbekistan, #CentralAsia; he later moved to the

Beautiful & Peaceful Pakistan 🇵🇰

PakistanInPeace

Sadiq Garh Palace!!!The palace was constructed in 1895. It has seen its days of splendor and magnificence, being the principle residence of one of the wealthiest princes of British India.

In the writings of medieval Muslim astrologers, Scorpio takes on contradictory meanings as a sign of prophecy and sorcery. One of the more complex zodiac signs, it offers us interesting

Sejarah IslamBAGAIMANA SATU ORANG MONGOL MENYELAMATKAN DUNIA MUSLIM PASCA HANCURNYA KHILAFAH ABBASIYAH ?( A Thread ) Kali ini kita akan membahas seluruh dunia Muslim abad pertengahan yang di selamatkan oleh

Sean W. Anthony

The Abbasid-era belletrist+theologian al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 869) did not tolerate prudishness. In his *Mufāḫarat al-Jawārī wa’l-Ġilmān*, he pokes fun at a man who displays piety by rearing in horror at the

Ali Karjoo-Ravary علی کارجو راوری

I'm excited about this, even if somehow, tens of thousands of years in the future, Hollywood thinks jihad is taboo. Herbert defined jihad as a crusade and saw them as

I have always suspected that the narrative of the "Islamic Golden Age", "Islamic Mathematics" or "Arabic Mathematicians" is just myth and propaganda. In this thread I explain why. (cc @GarudaPrakashan,

Sean W. Anthony

The Abbasid-era belletrist+theologian al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 869) did not tolerate prudishness. In his *Mufāḫarat al-Jawārī wa’l-Ġilmān*, he pokes fun at a man who displays piety by rearing in horror at the