#Samarra

Tartu Krab 🌐

koutchoukalimar

Last evening a small back and forth btw @stephenniem and myself about the famed minaret of the mosque of Samarra made me wonder: hey, where did the idea come from

Chris Adamski

C_AdamskiTrib

Steelers LT Alejandro Villanueva has the name Alwyn Cashe on the back of his helmetCashe was posthumousky awarded the Silver Star for heroism after his death at 35 while on

TØM CΛT (OK tbh I'm tweeting between classes)

TomtheBasedCat

New updates on Farhatiyah massacre will follow here.Speaker of the House just put out a bulletin calling for immediate investigation into the crime.https://twitter.com/TomtheBasedCat/status/1317480800263245824 PMO sent a delegation to Balad

Farid

Farid_0v

-=[On this day, around 1200 years ago, Shia claimed that the "Mahdi" was born in Samarra'.]However, his father, Al-Hasan, feared for his life from the tyrant Abbasids, and thus, his

i say

mamamamaicaa

can u tell your moomoo journey — OMG GAWA AKO THREAD LATER OR TOMORROWhttps://curiouscat.qa/mo_onica/post/1128841726 HEADS UP!!! THIS THREAD WOULD BE SO LONG, WELL, I THINK SOOO... 2017, wala akong

Hayder al-Khoei

7ayder87

I sat on the edge of the Malwiya minaret overlooking the beautiful city of #Samarra and Al-Askari shrine and my friend went berserk: you really think if anything happens to

XVIII Airborne Corps

18airbornecorps

1 of 11:15 years ago today from FOB McKenzie, near Samarra, he was looking ahead. The end of a 12-month deployment to Iraq – his second of OIF – was

Jonathan Parkes Allen

Mar_Musa

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

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/12A vast majority of Shia Muslims belong to a subsect called Šī'eh-ye Davâzdah-Emâmī or, more commonly, the Twelvers. The sect is also the official State religion of Iran. This thread

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Hello again. @iandavidmorris here. Let’s wrap up our discussion on slave soldiers.https://twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1194388946861600769 As we have seen, in the first 200 years of Islam, enslaved people ran the households of wealthy

Tom Holland

holland_tom

An early night tonight, ready to get up early tomorrow to catch the tide, & build AN EVEN BETTER SANDCASTLE THAN LASY YEAR!!! https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1147052584521347077 A sign from the gods! A

Haggard Hawks 📚🦅

HaggardHawks

The new HH book AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WORDS is OUT NOW!https://www.amazon.co.uk/Around-World-80-Words-Language/dp/1783964006The book tells the stories behind 80 different words and phrases whose origins lie on the world map—so

🖤🏴Ahmed Al-Khazraji

Hamoud3I3

The Shia Genocide. A Thread: This is to those who continuously deny that we are facing extreme persecution. To be murdered solely for being called “Shia Muslim.” I have

Dr. Abbas Kadhim

DrAbbasKadhim

Today is Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s 90th birthday.He ascended to the position of “al-Marja’ al-A’la” after his teacher Grand Ayatollah Abol’Qasim al-Khoei passed away in 1992.Sayid Sistani was born in

van

rcngerwalker

Dean being a danger to himself and Sam being a danger to others for each otherDISCLAIMER: I didn't include every time they sacrificed for each other, I'm talking about the

Tea of Babylon 🇮🇶

Iraqicon

Sunni Iraqis: The Arab Supremacist Narrative [THREAD] Before I start, crying I hate Sunnis is not a defensive argument and should be discredited unless you have a counter argument. Here