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@Kwasidagbe's 3rd thread today introduces @sfcdaly #historian of #Nigeria @DukeU in @DukeAAAS whose first book https://tinyurl.com/y7e63tt8 bout #Biafra is coming out w @CambridgeUP in July #twitteristorians #Twittistorian ~BNL @s

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The Byzantines often tried to assimilate barbarians by resettling groups of them in other parts of the empire. But this worked at cross-purposes to another desire: to use the barbarians’

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Oyez oyez cocofaaaaaans! We're BACK with more history today. Yesterday we blazed through coconuts' spread around the globe, and today we'll consider Roman (and Byzantine. AND SASANIAN) coconuts!So buckle

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Happy Wednesday, #Twittistorian friends! This is @sliptonmedieval, tweeting again about #Imagesashistory. Yesterday we looked at the evolution of the Jewish caricature. Today: its afterlife in political cartoons. Warning: it will

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1/9 The rise & sudden visibility of (political) #Salafism has led to a frantic search for clarity. Where does this phenomenon come from? How old is it? Shall we locate

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Hi from @_SimonLeese. This week I’ll be tweeting about Arabic literature and multilingualism in 18th/19th century North India. I’m interested in how Arabic writers imagine their place in a larger

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1/9 Is Saudi Arabia alone responsible for popularizing anti-Shi’a #sectarianism on a global scale? Quite the opposite. For this mission, the Kingdom could heavily draw on South Asian expertise, experiences,

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1/9 Modern Shi’i Islam as we know it would not exist without South Asia. It all starts in #Lucknow in North India. From 1775-1856, the city was the capital of

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1/9 The centerpiece of Islamist thought is one idea: only God is sovereign. This implies that only divine law is legitimate. Failure to submit to this conception of God is

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Aw yeah. #cocotwistory in , , ... First, the coconut is a lie. It isn't a nut. It's a drupe, a stonefruit or berry, but instead of eating the fruit

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Good morning #Twittistorian friends! This is @sliptonmedieval; This week I am tweeting about #Imagesashistory. Yesterday we looked at medieval clerics' fears that misread images could create heresy. Today: how images

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Conspiracy! Fear! Loathing! Marriage! Relics! Spy-Craft! Public Execution! Gold! I’m @KrebsVerena, your #Twittistorian this week. Today I’m bringing you the tale of the Ethiopian embassy to Valencia of the 1420s,

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Hi! It’s @KrebsVerena, your #Twittistorian for the week.Today, we’re moving on from Ethiopian diplomacy with late medieval Latin Europe to see how this connects to local Ethiopian history & particularly

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Hello again! This is @KrebsVerena, your #Twittistorian for the week, with a bonus thread — on how 3 Ethiopian monks crossed the Alps in the 1410s, attended the Council of

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Hi! This is @KrebsVerena again, your #Twittistorian for the week. Today we’ll look at how #medieval Ethiopian outreach to Europe got started & trace the very first Solomonic embassy of