Arabiqa is an account dedicated to Arab history and civilization. | Posting a lot on continuity between pre-Islamic and Islamic Arab history.
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Recently, the Comorosโ historic medinas were registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
This rich legacy dates back to a time when Arab sailors traded and settled in these islands, mixing with the locals.
Often forgotten, the Comoros are actually the southernmost Arab country.
Abลซ Zayd pleading before the Qadฤซ of Ma'arrat al-Nu'mฤn, Syria | Maqamฤt al-Hariri.
Arabic miniature painting. Egypt, ca. 1334.
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Two people fishing. Arab miniature from Abbasid Iraq, 13th century.
During the Abbasids' time, Baghdad had a thriving fishing culture. Fishing was done in the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Some Baghdadis, like Umm Ja'far, granddaughter of Caliph Al-Mansur, even raised fish indoors.
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Such a ridiculous lie, and it has become extremely tiresome. These were among the most prominent figures, and they were Arabs living in an Arab empire and writing in Arabic. Even those who lived in what is now Iran were mostly Arabs, descendants of the conquerors who conquered Persia.
Where were your sciences and scholars before the Muslim Arabs, you damned liar? They didnโt exist.
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Thatโs not true
+the majority of those Iranic scientists were from modern Afghanistan and Central Asia
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โข The Persians had no alphabetic writing system of their own at all and borrowed cuneiform from the civilizations of Mesopotamia.
โข The Pahlavi script is derived from the Aramaic script.
โขmore 40% of the Persian terms in everyday use among Iranians are purely Arabic in origin.
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Lost Arab cuisine โ Al-Andalลซs Edition:
1/ Hลซt Mutajjan: oven-baked fish with fermented sauce.
2/ Mu'assal: a honey pudding.
3/ Tharฤซda Tuzฤซd fฤซ l-Bฤh: chicken dish with bread.
4/ Ka'b al-Ghazฤl: almond-stuffed cookies.
MashฤโAllah and Naubakht designed nothing. They werenโt even engineers; they were astrologers.
The real designers were the Arab engineers who planned the city and its quarters, not those two.
Baghdad was designed as a circle in 4 parts: all 4 designed by Muslim Arab engineers.
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Thereโs a lot of Arabs on this app who will see Europeans insult Arabs and think โthis doesnt apply to me Iโm an arabized (insert group that went extinct 4000 years ago)โ and truly belief that Europeans arent grouping them into โArabโ in these insults
Mu'ฤwiya and his servant visiting Maysลซn. Arab miniature, Egypt or Syria, ca. 1315.
The love story between Mu'ฤwiya and Maysลซn is well known in Arabic literature.
Maysลซn was a noblewoman from the Christian Arab tribe of the Banu Kalb and the mother of Yazid I.
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Arabs far surpassed the ancient Greeks in mechanical engineering, as demonstrated by Al-Jazariโs remarkable inventions: water clocks, candle clocks, automated musical devices, and water-raising machines.
From 1504 to 1821, Sudan was the heart of a sultanate ruled by the Funj, an Arabic-speaking group claiming descent from the Umayyads.
According to local traditions, the Funj people were born of the union between an Abyssinian princess and an Umayyad prince who fled the Abbasids.
