Dr Robin Douglas
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"Milestones" by Sayyid Qutb - A thread.This, if you'll excuse the metaphor, is the Bible of political Islam. Originally published in 1964 as Ma'alim fi al-Tariq, it is the enduring
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Resuming my thread on Apollonius of Tyana./1https://twitter.com/Robin_C_Douglas/status/1286702905056268288?s=20 From around the first century BC, the Pythagorean movement underwent a reinaissance. Pythagoras came to be seem as a kind of sem
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Was there an esoteric/occult revival in the late Victorian period?A thread/1 It's fairly uncontroversial in the secondary literature to speak of such a thing (see e.g. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053265?seq=1 and https://link.springe
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A note on the survival of the #Cornish language.It's often said that the Cornish language died out with Dolly Pentreath (1692-1777) - but in fact it has long been known
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One popular theme in mediaeval English culture was the "Harrowing of Hell", or the descent of Christ to the realm of the dead between the crucifixion on Good Friday and
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