Cultural studies
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9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the s...
To know how uneducated crusaders were, Read what Usama ibn Munqidh says in his book ( كتاب الاعتبار ) Usama says: The ruler of Moneitirah who was a Frankish Prince asked my uncle...
Buddha as Khizr, as Hanif, as the Indic Prophet; Buddhism as a Sufi initiatic order; Hindu deities as angels, as jinns; and alternatively as Satan himself—thus did the Sunni percei...
Why "Amar shonar Bangla" should not be Bangladesh's national anthem ( A big thread 🧵) https://t.co/v1QJ71wjUs
I've heard this argument before from Muslim apologists. Problem is, you have to explain how it is that the region surrounding Mecca had Christian inscriptions, the close proximity...
Al-Ṣabunī's (d. 1442) Refutation of Modern Muslim Views on Dowry: "today people have looked at the dowry with a purely materialistic perspective, so they made it the foundation an...
Imagining an honest, genuinely inquisitive move to link the medieval to the "diverse" in historical linguistics—e.g. a study that examines to what degree British and American diale...
Here is a picture from Harmandir Sahib in 1919. On the left is General Dyer. This was a few weeks AFTER Dyer kiIIed hundreds of innocents in Jallianwala Bagh. On the right is the...
Thread on the Extraordinary Chola Empire🧵 One of the greatest & longest-ruling dynasties the world has ever seen, the Chola Empire was truly legendary. (Open to explore further)...
This theory is blowing my mind. The movie starts off with “Sandy” on a beach (sand, sleep, dreams). “Rydell” High school. Cars are a theme (cars, karma, incarnation) greased lighte...
“God is dead”, and so is Christianity. The native religions of EVROPA are making a return. A thread on why we MUST return to our native PAGAN religions in order to succeed in our...
Unique among divine names in the OT is "God of Heaven," almost exclusively uttered in Persian contexts. If the correspondences in Chron/Ezra are genuine, it may demonstrate that Ac...
Modernism, as a cultural and artistic movement is often differentiated from Realism, the latter being characteristic of bourgeois era novels, aiming to portray the world, the autho...
🧵~Sanskrit poets of the Kayastha caste known from Inscriptions: Part II- Buddhist records~ In this thread we shall document some interesting Buddhist eulogies in Sanskrit composed...
For the sake of better understanding the inner workings of the "mysterious Russian soul", I've compiled a long list of polls which, put together, make for a rather compelling image...
Religious Tolerance in Malaysia 🧵 Revathy was born to parents who had converted to Islam . She was raised as a hindu by her grandmother,Revathy married a hindu,wants to be a hindu...
Today, I am going to argue that the Pentateuch, particularly Genesis and Exodus, were written by Jewish scholars at the Library of Alexandria in approximately 272 BC. https://t.co/...
🧵 ~Sanskrit poets of the Kayastha caste known from inscriptions: Part I~ Medieval Kayasthas were ardent scholars of Sanskrit. Thus, they feature prominently as composers of Sanskr...
The Guardian, Oct. 2023 "The Barbican’s new exhibition looks at the way ecofeminism has evolved – from anti-nuclear protests at Greenham Common to ‘multiple clitoris’ art"..🍿🎶 ht...
Alright folks, I've got people yelling at me here because they're ignorant about the #Ramayana saga and its evolution over time. A basic review (warning: if you dislike history, st...
Today people are asking, «Allah, Allah, who the flip is Allah?» It's a good question. In fact, «Allah» not who you've been told he is. 🧵 https://t.co/Uhejq8JhjD
The Harvard Gazette : "Study suggests shamans acted as the first professional class in human society".. https://t.co/2Nw8gf9FdK https://t.co/DuByOvgor6
Have you ever heard about “Taharrush Gamea (collective harassment in Arabic)? By creating fake crowds, dozens of men cooperate to sexually abuse women. It became worldwide news d...
Lot of Sikhs bet on the strategy of completely divorcing themselves from the bad reputation and stereotypes of India by calling themselves “Punjabis, Sikhs” and believing in that e...
