Middle Eastern Studies
206 Threads
A reminder of the US and EU complicity in what is happening in Palestine: Hamas, which initially rejected the Oslo process, participated in the 2006 elections *within* the Oslo pro...
Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini’s Revolutionary regime witnessed extreme Shia uprising. Khomeini advocated the doctrine of Wilayat al-Faqih. This doctrine advocates a guardianship- b...
Hamas is an acronym for Harafat al-Muqawama Al-Is- lamiyya, or Islamic Resistance Movement. Its spiritual leader is Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who, despite his fiery anti-Israeli sermons...
🧵Thread Salafism in Afghanistan Khawaarij elments, some western haters of Salafis & some salafis who hate Taliban, have have claimed that Taliban have cracked down on salafis. Ho...
Historical miracle & A prophecy - both in one Ḥādīth 🧵 the prophet Muḥammad ﷺ said that Arabia was once filled with meadows and rivers and that it will return to that state once ag...
The funny thing about Al buti and The Ahbashis is that both criticise each other, and both are Assadist supporters. Al buti was the guy who believed that joining Jihad under the c...
🧵 The time extremist Jahmiyyah fought against the Muslims: the Battle of Al-Buhayra in 1130. https://t.co/Z0kPPm0EWf
((Kingdoms ended by the Arabs)) https://t.co/ZR3QoZiupA
Lack of unity was a much bigger factor in every military victory of the kafir West over the Muslims than any technological gap. Even today, if there was strong solidarity among M...
The Myth of Shia Oppression in Iraq 🧵A Thread https://t.co/rOw25DHkxF
1/ MUHAMMAD II KHWAREZM-SHAH 'Ala al-Din Muhammad ibn Tekish was the penultimate ruler of the Khwarezmian Empire from 1200-1220. In the opinion of contemporaries like Ibn al-Athir...
4. "He says also that he has the keys of paradise, which is incredible" This is also very interesting, Muhammad actually seemed to have said something similar either literally or...
Calligraffiti is an artform that combines calligraphy & graffiti. It is an aesthetic experience & provocation—mixing tradition with self-expression. Calligraffiti is an urban art a...
The Yemenite Jewish community, an ancient and indigenous group on the Arabian Peninsula, has a rich history dating back over 2,500 years. Pre-Islamic Arabia has been a melting pot...
Shams al-Aʾimma al-Sarakhsī: “[Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan] said: Today, in the land of Iraq, [the Jews] testify that ‘there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Alla...
BORROWED 👑 A LETTER FROM PROPHET MUHAMMAD S.A.W TO THE ROMAN EMPEROR 📜 The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ addressed this letter to Heraclius: “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, th...
1/4. Iraqi Israeli British Historian Prof. Avi Shlaim & Naem Giladi Iraqi Israeli once a member of the Zionist underground in Iraq both describing the bombings of Jewish buildings...
One of the most common Zionist myths about the 1948 War is that Israel expelled Palestinians for security reasons. Let’s talk about the village of Zarnuqa, a peaceful Palestinian...
Today is #Nakba75. 700K Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes in 1948 by Israel. Here are 5 threads to learn about what happened in '48 & why the Nakba is not hi...
The Nakba in photographs: a thread.
Decoding the India-Israel Connection 🧵 The Jerusalem Fund’s educational program, the Palestine Center, recently hosted author and journalist Azad Essa, who discussed his new book,...
This 🧵 is about one of my oldest friends, who I've admired for literal decades, and who is Sudanese. I met her in Cairo, a million years ago when I was desperate to *not* live in...
Origin of a narrative: The 1969 Soriya massacre did not enter the known historical record until 2015 with Sargon Donabed's book "Reforging a Forgotten History", where Donabed doubt...
The Haraki Ikhwani or the anti-Salafi Jahmi will attack Ibn Baz for his Fatwa in seeking aid from the USA during the Gulf War conflict of 1990-1991 But they really should focus on...
