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The genocide that Afghans inflicted on Hazaras is still really a secret. Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901, using fatwa by Sunni mullahs that declared Shi’a
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I am embarrassed to admit that until recently I had no clue how awful it is to suffer through pregnancy. Somehow we have been indoctrinated,via Bollywood & other popular media
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Fascinating observations on the Indus Valley Civilization: 1) It's a myth that IVC was a peaceful utopia. Trauma & disease were prevalent though more so near the end of the
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This is excellent! I read the tale of prophet Ibrahim’s clash with king Namrud/Nimrud in qasas-ul-anbiyya during my school days, along with his conflict with his idol worshipping father, &
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Excellent interview of @JonathanACBrown on his recent book, Slavery and Islam. Some thoughts: 1) He points out how much Islamic legal tradition borrows from pre-Islamic Roman & other traditions, but
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A short time ago, I lived in Houston with 3 Pakistanis: a devout Muslim & his coke-addict son, & a germaphobe who had a
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I wrote this for BBC Urdu on the first recorded history of a series of plagues about 3800 to 3200 years ago. Basically, every piece on plague that I’ve read
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Brief history of Shia-Sunni conflicts in South Asia (from Andreas Reick's The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority): The first major polemical treatise against Shia doctrines, which has
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This is among the weirdest & scariest stuff I've read. A 3500-years-old exorcism ritual from Babylonia (from W Faber’s essay, How to Marry a Disease: Epidemics, Contagion, and a Magic
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1. In modern Persian, zamin-dar means 'the one who holds land' but it might be related to Middle Persian Zamin-i dātbar (Land of the Justice-giver). Zamin-i dātbar/Zamindawar was capital of
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Thread on a Babylonian poem that is remarkably similar to Biblical Book of Job (Hazrat Shoaib, sabr-e-shoaib): With greater awareness of the religions & literature of ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia,
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Reading up on understanding of contagion & plague in Muslim traditions, & though there is a hadeeth in which Prophet asked Muslims to not enter a plague infested region nor
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