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The Qurʾan calls Pharaoh ‘Ḏū l-Awtād’ (‘possessor of stakes’; e.g., see Q. Fajr 89:10)—no one really knows the significance of it … I'm among those who think it refers not

Sorry, but Muslim scholars did 𝒏𝒐𝒕 write about evolution, let alone natural selection, 1000 yrs before Darwin ..."A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection" https://www.vice.com

The Abbasid scholar Jāḥiẓ (d. 255 / 868) often provides a bird’s-eye view of topics in the Abbasid period and, luckily for us, he wrote on a ton of topics.

I promised @gypsy_heart6 to write a thread with examples of ‘heretics’ executed in the early Abbasid period today. Keep in mind that we don’t have hard numbers, just anecdotes. Or,

My shit view: At the root of this Islamic Studies + Arabic divide is that the secular academy has taken a theological category (“Islam”) and deracinated from its community(s) and

The earliest description of Europe (أروفى|urūfā, not أوروبا; from Εὐρώπη) in Arabic literature comes from a book called *Routes and Realms* by Ibn Khordāḏbeh (fl. 800s CE), by the caliph’s

The Abbasid-era belletrist+theologian al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 869) did not tolerate prudishness. In his *Mufāḫarat al-Jawārī wa’l-Ġilmān*, he pokes fun at a man who displays piety by rearing in horror at the

The Abbasid-era belletrist+theologian al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 869) did not tolerate prudishness. In his *Mufāḫarat al-Jawārī wa’l-Ġilmān*, he pokes fun at a man who displays piety by rearing in horror at the

-=[On the Origins of the Flying Carpet]=-Many regard flying carpets as the quintessential symbol of the magical folklore of the Arabian Nights, but the flying carpet is quite rare in