#caliph — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #caliph, aggregated by home.social.
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#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Geschichte der Ommaijaden in Spanien: nebst einer Darstellung des Entstehens der spanischen christlichen Reiche" by Joseph Aschbach[Frankfurt a.M.: Varrentrapp, 1829]
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#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Geschichte der Ommaijaden in Spanien: nebst einer Darstellung des Entstehens der spanischen christlichen Reiche" by Joseph Aschbach[Frankfurt a.M.: Varrentrapp, 1829]
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Ottoman Caliphate a bit lacking in the moral authority department, it would seem
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Cute lil' pachyderm present from the Caliph!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1474805/cute-lil-pachyderm-present-from-the-caliph
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Cute lil' pachyderm present from the Caliph!
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Cute lil' pachyderm present from the Caliph!
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Cute lil' pachyderm present from the Caliph!
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Cute lil' pachyderm present from the Caliph!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1474805/cute-lil-pachyderm-present-from-the-caliph
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#Kitchener's misunderstanding of #Islam ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111484767553360519
— monolithic homogenous bloc controlled by the #Caliph &
— blind spot toward the #Shia-#Sunni divide
were magnified by his failure to understand the constitutional nature of #Islamic society.In choosing Grand Sharif #Hussein as the #Arabian #Caliph, the #British intention was only to prop up the "Pope" of Islam, and through that Islamic papacy, control #Britain's #muslim subjects all over the world.
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Just as Roman culture shaped Christianity, so Iranian culture shaped Islam. It is remarked that Iran lasted millennia without needing Arabs, while after the conquest, Arabs couldn't last a day without Iranians.
That even applied to the calendars. The Arabs were using the purely #moon-based Lunar Hijri calendar, which is OK for desert nomads, but as the civil servants impressed upon #Caliph #Umar, a sedentary agricultural society needs a calendar that tracks the #sun.
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