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Devin Fitzgerald
DevinFitzger
So, lets talk about one of the great world classics, the Panchatantra. Compiled sometime between 30BCE-200CE, the work is likely the most widely circulated text of the pre-global age. By
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Nick McBurney
mcburney_nick
Ways of looking at a page, since MSS from Iran copied on coated & decorated Chinese paper seem to be a Twitter thing just now: Spencer Collection, Persian MS 41,
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𝐖𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 ⚔ 𝐖𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫
WinEveryday_
When we think of Great People we often think too much about the "Great" and not enough about the "People".Whilst they are extraordinary figures, they were still people like anyone
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Persian Poetics
PersianPoetics
Did Rumi really write, “Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system.”? A thread on the whitewashing and secularizing of
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Historians of Iran
HistorianofIran
Hello everyone, here is @majdanesh Day three1/Today I will talk about the Shah, Farah Diba, and the Committee of Cyrus the Great in the Archipelago, and the role of the
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Guy
ip_Guy_
Iranian people are furious with @nytimes and their Iran reporter @farnazfassihi. Read this thread to know why.#NYTimesPropaganda There are three main elements in what @nytimes reporter @farnazfassihi does which infuriates
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Omer Sayadi
MENAsymbolism
Thanks to a question @salhbdwi asked me some time ago on the notable similarities of the #Qajar flag and the flag of #Kurdistan, we're going to take a look at
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EBN HUSSEIN 🏳️🏴
EbnHussein1424
Ex-Sufi turned Shia Rafidi priest from West Africa (who has been taught fluent Persian instead of Arabic in their Hawzas!): "We (clergy) are about to produce even more material to
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History of Central Asia and Khorâsan
BiruniKhorasan
Thread about carpets in the Persianate world (Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran and by extension the Indian Subcontinent). Carpets most likely originated somewhere in northern modern Iran, around the Caspian Sea,
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Śrīkānta
shrikanth_krish
On the occasion of "Hindi Divas", it is worth our while to reflect on this great but underrated languageAnd also reflect on which variant of Hindi do we wish to
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Amit Schandillia
Schandillia
[QUICK THREAD: WHOSE BIRYANI?]1/9The following screenshot landed in my DM this morning. Found it intriguing, so decided to waste some time on it. This very short thread is about what
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Bhaskar Kamble
MeruPrastara
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,
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mike
lfcmichaelk
A thread of pussies i like: Persian Japanese Bobtail Russian blue British shorthair Ocicat American bobtail Tonkinese Norwegian forest cat Ragdoll -End of thread
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Sāmapriya Vasu | ḫa-am-ap-ri-a-ma-u-iš
samopriya
Linguists (and language enthusiasts in general), how did you get interested in your specific language(s) (or family) of expertise, especially if it's a language that's not your own first language?As
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Dastaan 🍁
Dastaannn
1/ One thing we have to clearly understand is that India’s primary problem with us is not with our regional identity in its’s entirety. Rather it is with a particular
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goIdenxwind
Thread of my dads big chaotic energy I bought this sword that Zoro from One piece has and I was scared he’ll get upset with me spending money on stupid
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