#Safavids

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

Hi there, @fran__olmos one day more talking about Central Asia in Iranian history. Today we will discuss about the rivalry between the Safavids and the Shaybanids from the Khanate of

Jonathan Parkes Allen

Islamicate Architecture Tuesday returns with a look into one of the best known architectural and artistic components of the Islamicate world, muqarnas (a word of uncertain etymology), in its origin

Mithraism is a religion that spearheads the Mazdaist god Mehr (Mithras in the West) at its helm as a purveyor of light, justice, truth, covenant, and etc. In this thread

Onaiz Qutabzada 🇵🇰

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵 𝗜𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹

رها رفیعی گربه نیست

So to point out some problematic elements that seem to be overshadowed by the multimedia format of this piece and the focus on visual analysis...ahttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/02/arts/design/shah-jahan-chitarman.html 1 - "

After reading this article today, I had some time to collect my thoughts on it after my initial outrage. Persecuted groups in the region continue to struggle precisely because history

Manimugdha Sharma

It's a tad surprising to see Indians cheering Turkey's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia into a mosque. I also see claims that the Ottoman Sultan and not the Mughal emperor

Tamara 🇬🇪🇹🇷🇦🇿

A thread about the Turks did not take the lands of armenians by force:The territory in which the armenians lived together for a time never was ruled by them as

#sunnigenocidea certain sect and ignorant cucks will ridicule the ongoing genocide against sunnis and show their hypocrisy by supporting the people responsible for it. Here is a thread about the

Aslisho Qurboniev

aslishahqurbani

I am reading Ahmed El Shamsy’s recent book on the impact of #printing on modern discourses on #Islamic scholarship. Like his previous book, it is extremely readable and insightful. I

Alice Wickenden

// live tweeting of the below @SRSRenSoc event we start with @SLevelt introducing us to the Utrecht psalmer and tracing its provenance -- despite being once owned by Robert Cotton,

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

Going to start a thread about architecture in Khorasan and Khwarezm and also its offshoot, India:The Tilla Kari madrasa was commissioned a decade after the adjacent Shir Dar madrasa (1619-1636)

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

Going to start a new thread about battles, tactics, armies, warriors and military titles in Eastern and Western Iranic lands, right under this tweet. At the Battle of Gaugamela (October