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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #690 - January 12, 2024, 11:42 AM


    glad to see that link of  dr. Christian Casey Sahner  podcast  and his publication link dear zeca.  One must read his other pubs to get a sense of  what went on in Islam after those four unknown caliphs


    https://history.princeton.edu/people/christian-casey-sahner
    https://oxford.academia.edu/ChristianSahner

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b04Z_sHFnmM

    that was some 8   years ago....THESE 21st century YAKEE WOKE fools (not AAs) of Christians  of west and Juicy Juice of west  MUST READ HIS WORKS

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #691 - July 13, 2024, 10:47 AM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpQ81QL7c24
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    A conversation with Emily Neumeier (Temple University) about Ali Pasha of Ioannina (d. 1822), a powerful Ottoman governor of Albanian origin who created a quasi-independent realm at a time when the Ottoman empire was feared to be collapsing. We talk about how he crated his own brand-image, in part by forging closer relations with his Christian Greek subjects and also through archaeological work and use of antiquities. His was an almost post-imperial world, but the nation-state had not yet arrived. We also talk about the concept of the "post-Byzantine", which is used, especially in art history, for works of this period. The conversation is based on three of Emily's articles -- "Mediating Legacies of Empire", "Rivaling Elgin", and "Spoils for the New Pyrrhus" -- that you can find on her academia webpage.

  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #692 - July 13, 2024, 10:59 AM

    This is the video on Byzantium mentioned by Anthony Kaldellis in the intro to the Ali Pasha podcast.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iw-rYmZOTI
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #693 - July 16, 2024, 05:51 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rCRmiuUZJg
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    This lecture will explore early relations between Zoroastrians and Muslims by examining the most important polemical treatise in the Zoroastrian tradition, the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār (“The Doubt-Dispelling Disquisition”), written by the ninth/tenth century theologian and philosopher Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād. A sophisticated work of rationalist theology, the treatise systematically critiques several rival religions of the late antique and medieval Middle East, including Islam. The critique of Islam in chapters 11 and 12 is the only sustained, systematic polemic against Islam in premodern Zoroastrian literature, one that attacks monotheism by focusing on the problem of evil. This lecture will consider Zoroastrians’ relationship with Muslims, the influence of Islamic theology on Zoroastrian thought, and the place of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār in Middle Persian literature.

  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #694 - July 17, 2024, 06:08 AM

    Onsi Kamel - Arabic, a Christian language

    https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/08/arabic-a-christian-language
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #695 - July 17, 2024, 03:49 PM

    New book

    Michael Cook - A History of the Muslim World: From its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

    https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691236575/a-history-of-the-muslim-world
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    This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.

    After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

    At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.


    Preview: https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Muslim-World-Origins-Modernity-ebook/dp/B0CVTFZN3B?asin=B0CVTFZN3B&revisionId=f35e2dde&format=1&depth=1

    Review: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3036728/a-universal-history-of-the-muslim-world/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgQWpdaChEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ3Nt_HtIms
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    In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a conversation with Michael Cook about the history of the Muslim world. They discuss Islamic civilization from origins to modernity, early antecedents before Islam, genesis of Islam, and the Prophet Muhammad and his creation of a monotheistic religion and state. They discuss succession after the death of Muhammad and the caliphate, the Umayyid dynasty, the Abbasid dynasty, and how important Islam and the Arabic language were for an Islamic civilization. They talk about the origin of the Turks, Bilga Qaghan, Turks being pagan and interacting with Islam, and the three ways the Turks spread out of the Steppe. They discuss the Mongols and their relationship with Islam, the Seljuk dynasty, the Safawid dynasty and the impact of Shiism. They also talk about the Ottoman Empire and their administration and integration of other cultures. They discuss the spread of Islam into India by conquest and merchants, Islam in Southeast Asia and around the Indian Ocean, Sahara and central Africa, and conflict between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia. They also discuss Arab identity, Islam’s spread through conquest, Islam juxtaposed with other religions and cultures, Islam in the modern period, future of Islam, and many other topics.

  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #696 - November 15, 2024, 02:58 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcbmhX0VMZM
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    A conversation with Nancy Bisaha about the origins of the idea of "Europe" as a place of identity and not just geography. One of its first theorists was the Italian humanist Aeneas Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), who was in part reacting to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. The problem of whom to include and exclude as Europeans was there from the start. We talk about Aeneas himself and the siege of the City.

    Nancy Bisaha is Professor of History and Director of Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Vassar College. The conversation is based on Nancy's recent book, From Christians to Europeans: Pope Pius II and the Concept of the Modern Western Identity (Routledge 2023).

    Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago.

  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #697 - November 15, 2024, 04:01 PM

    Kevin van Bladel - Written Middle Persian Literature under the Sasanids

    https://www.academia.edu/124235744/Written_Middle_Persian_Literature_under_the_Sasanids
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    Although there was oral literature among speakers of ancient Iranic languages, I have argued that there is no valid reason to assume that Middle Persian speakers, alone among sedentary peoples of their time, never or seldom wrote literary works in their language. Not only are there many Middle Persian literary works surviving in translation, and sufficient testimonies to the existence of Middle Persian literary works now lost and to Sasanian Middle Persian literacy, there are also strong explanations for their general nonsurvival that eliminate the assumption of a theory of predominant literary orality and disinclination to write literature, an argumentum ex silentio. We may reasonably assume that it is wrong to propose that what happens to survive in the original language on stone and metal surfaces and in desert environments represents the true range of Sasanian Middle Persian—the odds are far against it. Especially when propped up by a concept of “ancient Iranians” and without any definition of literature or the literary, it has no sound basis and is contradicted by a variety of extant sources. The arguments presented here can, in most cases, be extended to assume the existence of more written literature in other Middle Iranic languages that, unfortunately, does not survive today.


  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #698 - November 15, 2024, 04:14 PM

    Talk by Christian Sahner
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9MKCgJC84
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #699 - November 15, 2024, 08:46 PM

    Imar Koutchoukali - Linguistic and socio-political change in late antique South Arabia

    https://www.academia.edu/111936859/Koutchoukali_I_2023_diss_Linguistic_and_socio_political_change_in_late_antique_South_Arabia
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