Associate Professor | Department of Occidental Languages & Cultures at NEOM University
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Al-Biruni claimed Manichaeism borrowed its concept of metempsychosis from Indian religion. Epiphanius of Salamis claimed Mani took the concept from Hellenistic philosophers “or some other victim of delusion.” Al-Biruni seems to have the more convincing case.
It’s not hard to find Americans framing what their country does in the Middle East as “revenge” or “retribution.” The Iraq War was broadly seen as an act of “revenge” in American society, even by many of those who did not blame Iraq for 9/11.
What racist nonsense: as if Middle Eastern men are radically different from westerners in seeking justice or retribution.
One Iranian official uses the word "revenge" and these supposedly intelligent analysts decide Iranians only seek revenge in dealing with adversaries.
One reason George W. Bush famously went to war against Saddam Hussein was because, "he tried to kill my dad!" I guess W. is Middle Eastern man....
wsj.com/opinion/revenge-is-a…
I am listening (🎧) to M. A. H. Parsa’s recent video about the association between the early Sasanians and the “moist and mighty” Anahita, goddess of water and other fluids. Ardashir’s warriors prayed to a fertility goddess for victory against their enemies.
The Hindus making offerings to the shrine of Salar Masud (who is also known as Ghazi Miyan) had counterparts among the Christians of the Ottoman Balkans.
In 1849, a British officer observed Hindus making offerings at the shrine of Salar Masud in Bahraich.
Masud was the nephew of Mahmud of Ghazni, who came to India in the 11th century and attacked temples.
The officer wrote
“The Hindoos worship any sign of manifested might or power, though exerted against themselves.”
We’ve been shopping for oriental rugs. I do like how Nain rugs combine a restrained color palette with an intricate design.
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Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody after I exposed his illegal alien lifestyle.
Marjorie Traitor Greene hired Milo to work as her “intern” where he produced her podcast, wrote her book and lived at her house in Rome, Georgia before she sold it.
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A scion of the Al Shadqam, a clan of Medinese Sayyids who held posts in the Ottoman Hijaz, married a Nizamshahi princess. A notable family of the Hijaz was able to advance their fortunes by marrying into a dynasty that reigned over the northwestern Deccan. #IndianOceanWorld.
Woke 3’s color theme will be blue. Woke 4 will be yellow. Woke 5 will be red. Woke 6 will incorporate occult themes.
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Maimonides allowed Jews to marry converted “Kushites,” a reflection of the social reality in Egypt, where Nubian and other Northeast African (ex-)slaves married Jews. (Some Indian slaves and their children were also absorbed into medieval Egyptian Jewry.)
The original post is a rhetorical question about why someone would travel to see a “decrepit” Muslim tomb over a “beautiful” Hindu temple. She’s expressing common (Hindu nationalist) sentiment in India rather than making a statement about historical preservation per se.
The Lekhapaddhati, a collection of Sanskrit documents from medieval Gujarat, includes texts that affirm slave owners have the right to bind, beat, and even torture their slave girls to death. If the girl commits suicide out of desperation, the master remains free of fault.
Ibn Butlan, an Iraqi Nestorian physician, recommended against buying slave girls from the “house of the sultan” if you were a member of the elite with enemies or skeletons in your closet. (The implication is that these slave girls would act as spies.)
Craig Perry counts Indians as making up almost a tenth of the slaves recorded in documents of the Cairo Geniza dating from 1000 to 1250.
This is what we’re reading this week. (Interestingly, members of both the Egyptian Jewish and Coptic elite took concubines during the centuries Egypt was ruled by caliphs and sultans.)
