Diadem of Mariam the Priestess. Gold (detail), Samaria(?), ca. fourth to sixth century CE, inscription in Samaritan Hebrew: Bli Adi Mariam Kahanta, “Without [likely a defensive formula], Ornament of Mariam the Priestess” (David and Jemima Jeselsohn Collection, Zurich,…

And I bet Durrington Walls was just like London is today - unrealistic house prices, entitled attitudes, snobbishness towards the provinces, Durringtonians thinking they were the centre of everything just because they had the biggest megalithic ritual complex

In response to the video and threads by Uzma Khan Rumi & Professor Dr. Taimur Rahman, what I will say is the following:

Firstly, although it is true that the decline thesis is out of date, it is not like this idea was generated out of thin air. Rather, this was a popular narrative even…

I'm very grateful indeed for this award from Aga Khan University . My thanks to everyone who supported me during my time as Acting Dean: I am very fortunate to have such good colleagues.

The Great Drum of the Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab - 1889: Nihangs alongside Brahmins can be seen with the drum. Researching into the presence of Brahmins in the Golden Temple prior to the 1900s suggests that Brahmins were honored with tributes in the Golden Temple since the…

“A History of the Muslim World” is the best book I’ve read this year.

Michael Cook’s 912 page tome is incredibly detailed & careful, analysing the political economy of empire-building and cultural evolution across the world.

Tremendous!

There was no such term as “sahaba” the way we think of it today during early Islam. I mean the sahaba themselves didn’t understand it that way. They understood it Quranically. There were Muhajiroon, Ansar, and then those who came afterwards from the Tulaqa’ of Quraish. Umar

It sounds like a boring topic, but air conditioning is more important than you realise.

First: there are 2 billion air con units in the world and they account for 10% of all electricity we use.

Second: it has revolutionised architecture and totally reshaped global politics...

The world needs to understand that Congo is going through a silent genocide. The condition in Congo get worsened every day especially this rainy season as over 5 Million have been killed already, millions have been displaced and millions are starving.

People now live in tents

On Tuesday night, an Islamist mob attacked several Coptic Christian owned homes and business in the Minya providence of Egypt, where I grew up. Here is what happened and why it matters. A brief 🧵1/

What sad news. I never met Stephen, but his book on Anatolia, and his essay on Theodore of Sykeon, was a big influence on me.

Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

Map shows the roots of the death march into the Syrian desert. Approximately 1.5 million Armenians were systematically deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths by the Ottoman Empire

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

Alot of effort has been put into this article.

An equal level of effort will be put in this thread، one of my most longest, but most important, worth reading threads.

This thread is a full critique of the article and it's theory.

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In my book 'Quranic Arabic' I argue that if you look closely at the Quranic rasm you can deduce that the text has been composed in Hijazi Arabic (and later classicized into more mixed forms in the reading traditions). Can we identify dialects in poetry?

I suspect a senior scholar has plagiarized my work during peer review. They rejected my submission but published an article with similar arguments. What can I do? This isn't the first time this senior scholar has plagiarized my work. Meanwhile, my article kept getting rejected...

No doubt the one theological concept that escapes both my Christian and Muslim students the most is the Church. Muslims understand Jesus as a prophet who taught Islamic teachings (in his own key) and set an example to be followed. My Christian students often think of Jesus (in a

Oğuzhan Duru (Adamlık Mücadelesi) I think some of the mushrikūn likely did seek forgiveness from Allāh and prayed to Him. What distinguished the mushrikūn from mu’minūn was unbelief in Hereafter, some cultic practices that entailed serving beings other than Allāh, and rejecting Muḥammad’s status as Prophet.

1/10 What is the difference between islām & īmān—or between aslama & āmana, mentioned in Q 49:14–17?

TL;DR: islām means to accept monotheistic worship, manifest in ṣalāt & zakāt. This should not be conflated with genuine faith, which is manifest in readiness to fight for God.

But there has been far less outrage and headlines about the actual shutting down by police of an international conference on Palestine in Berlin, having already barred one speaker, Ghassan Abu Sitta, rector of Glasgow University, entering Germany... aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/12… 2/