Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli

@SWWDTP @AHRC PGR at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter | History of Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

Hi there! I am a historian of Iran and Central Asia undertaking an @SWWDTP-funded PhD at @ExeterIAIS. My research examines medieval Muslim Persian and Arabic sermons and popular preaching to learn about religion and society in the 13th-15th Centuries 1/2

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@hamood7abibi7 Did a deep dive on this a few years ago - it’s a textbook example in how orientalism bleeds into the popular imagination (while also revealing the level of anxiety that existed around Iran/Lebanon in the American psyche!)

https://t.co/0t0avrBSQI

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

1/BATMAN IN BEIRUT: I recently came across a Batman comic whose plot revolves around the Middle East. It gets a lot of details *hilariously* wrong, but it also provides a perfect illustration of the problem with how pop culture represents the region and its people—buckle up!🧵

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@gbrew24 I would read میزِ واقعیت‌ها as the opposite of the negotiating table - he means Trump must now negotiate not with Iran, but rather with hard objective realities (the limits of US power, as Tehran sees it). Jalili is not referring to negotiation, but capitulation.

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

This is beyond shameful. Do we only care about women’s rights when they can be weaponised to justify wars? Britain should be looking to attract the best and brightest from all over the world. Sincerely hope that @ShabanaMahmood does the right thing and reverses this awful policy.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Labour govt rejects even the brightest from Afghanistan https://t.co/48TjIaHjTM

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@MayShaddel Sure, but how do you conclude from this that al-Husayn had no infant son when other early sources indicate that he did?

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@MayShaddel Agree to disagree. Drawing a strong conclusion from silence seems untenable in this case: Many reasons a source might omit a detail, "he didn't exist" is only one, and IMHO not a very likely one given other affirming contemporary sources.

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@MayShaddel Yes, but it seems unsound to infer his non-existence from Mus'ab's silence when Abi Mikhnaf, Ibn Sa'd, and al-Fudayl ibn al-Zubayr (all early sources) report that al-Husayn had an infant son who was slain at Karbala.

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@MayShaddel The earliest source on the Battle of Karbala (Abi Mikhnaf) reports that al-Husayn’s infant son (no name mentioned) was shot by an arrow while his father held him. This has been embellished in later accounts, but I don’t think it can be dismissed as a later fabrication.

[Cyrus Ali Zargar @czargar]

We're very excited to announce the publication of the first issue of Islamic Intellectual Traditions! In print and online (open access).

Wonderful articles in this issue, so please have a look:

https://t.co/Uit0ccb1Iv

[Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ @abhistoria]

I’m afraid the reading of this statement that’s gaining traction online is done by non-specialists who don’t understand Shii clerical culture. Sistani didn’t issue this; his local office in Mashhad did. It is not a fatwa. And it doesn’t call communal defence.

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@Osint613 This is being widely misinterpreted — (unofficial) translations and context here: https://t.co/4xpibUZQeB

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@ArtaMoeini This is being widely misinterpreted — (unofficial) translations and context here: https://t.co/4xpibUZQeB

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

IRAN: A fatwa from the office of Sayyid al-Sistani is circulating and being widely misinterpreted. To help clarify the context — it's actually a response to a question — there are (unofficial) translations in multiple languages here: https://t.co/4xpibUZQeB

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

Islamic history is full of women scholars & scientists, some of the first, like mathematician Sutayta al Mahmali, pious teachers like Umm al-Darda as-Sughra & Hafsa bint Sirin, astronomers like Mariam al Astrulabiyya & chroniclers like Gulbadan Begum

Shame on the Taliban

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

In light of the Taliban’s un-Islamic restrictions on women’s access to education, I am reposting this thread I wrote a few years ago, highlighting some of the brilliant women from the history of Afghanistan:

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

1/ WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN: People often describe the Taliban as “medieval” because of (among other things) how they treat women, as they imagine this reflects the status of women in pre-modern Islamic society. History, however, tells a different story!🧵⬇️
https://t.co/NLMmLhwfa8

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@asmaras97 @TahaNaqvi114 This ☝️

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

International Law will not protect us if it does not also protect our enemies. That’s the point of justice: It’s for everybody. A reminder to those abetting war crimes.

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@SanaSaeed @ProfSunnySingh Recall that the outrage caused by the IDF driving through a Shi’a Muharram procession in Lebanon in 1983 helped galvanise armed resistance to the Israeli occupation amongst Lebanese Shi’as.

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@SanaSaeed @ProfSunnySingh Recall that the outrage caused by the IDF driving through a Shi’a Muharram procession in Lebanon in 1983 helped galvanise armed resistance to the Israeli occupation amongst Lebanese Shi’as.

[Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli @Alex_Khaleeli]

@SanaSaeed @ProfSunnySingh Also important: This is a short distance from the Sayyida Zaynab Shrine belonging to the grand daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, hugely significant to Shi’a Muslims. Any perceived threat to the shrine likely to trigger a response.