Ali A Olomi
Writer, Asst. Prof, Historian of MiddleEast & Islam: politics, gender, Islamic esotericism, astrology & science. Host of #HeadOnHistory Podcast / UCI alum
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one of the most famous horoscopes from the Islamic world, a stunning 15th C Timurid piece combines artistry, astrology, and geometry The astrologer assigns one complete sign to ea...
in about 5 years time American public education is going to be entirely unrecognizable and colleges are completely unprepared for the all out assault on education underway https://...
over the next few days if you wake up early and look towards Polaris you’ll see a fuzzy, greenish comet Medieval Muslim observers called comets “tailed stars” and recorded their a...
a US soldier, Mast, kidnapped an Afghan girl from her only living family—the DOJ and State Dept both agree she should be returned, but here is @CBS_Herridge and her colleagues givi...
this is my Christmas https://t.co/9Xu4mYvbo3
first semester as a socal professor done, final grades submitted, and I got a sweet present from an awesome student to top it off. No one bother me, i’m going to sleep for 48 hours...
Stories of magical items, weapons, and legendary objects are abound in the Islamic world. From talismans created to command the jinn, to the famous flying carpet each have unique o...
later tonight Venus is moving out of Sagittarius and into Capricorn. We can tell a lot about how people of the past thought about love and desire by examining what they wrote about...
yesterday I presented my paper “Queen of the Stars: Buran and the Role of Women in Astrological Knowledge in the Abbasid Caliphate” at @MESA_1966 on one of the first named women as...
In Islam, the devil is known as Iblis. He is the leader of the evil jinn, or shaiytan. Some of these evil jinn are actually his direct descendants and family a thread https://t.c...
i saw the unseasoned monstrosities some of you posted for thanksgiving and may god have mercy on your souls
In popular depictions like Disney’s Aladdin, genies are trapped in lamps with possession of the lamp granting the owner dominion over the genie and its powers via wishes. But the r...