Philip Grant

Anthropologist & historian (Zanj revolt). Translator (Persian, French-English). @[email protected]

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A US bomber capable of carrying 24 cruise missiles lands at a UK airbase, even though the UK government only permits defensive operations. Imagine using that to try to down a drone. In other news, down is now up & Keir #Starmer is a visionary leader. #IranIsraelUSWar

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...seeing infrastructure not just as things humans have built, but simultaneously a moral, political, and economic order, and as itself an actor in the rebellion that helped determine how, and for how long, both Zanj & Abbasid forces fought. 4/4

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1/4 Please follow me on @philipgrant.bsky.social if you're on it, and I'll follow you back. I really don't want to have to glorify & enrich the world's most obnoxious man by continuing to use this medium, but I understand the "stickiness" of a site that has so many folk on it.

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3/4 If you're interested in rebellions in the first four centuries or so of the Islamic era, have a look. My article in it looks at the "infrastructure" of the Zanj Rebellion from an anthropological perspective,...

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https://t.co/wLspTEYeXt

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Yesterday was Shaaban al-Dalou's 20th birthday. Abed Abubaker spoke to his family about the young man burned alive by the IDF in Gaza. I am struck by his desire to live in Germany, a country whose political classes have closed ranks to suppress any criticism of Israel's actions.

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@politypress https://t.co/khXgx0RZ2j

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#IbnKhaldun + French #epistemology of the sciences + German #Idealism + #MullaSadra? Or why Ibn Khaldun was a cautious innovator, but not the "father" of economics, sociology, or historical science? 20% off Javad Tabatabai's Ibn Khaldun & the Social Sciences:

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Published by @politypress & translated by me (Philip Grant). Out in November.

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@OurShallowState She's unafraid to keep shipping US weapons to Israel & give Netanyahu unconditional support for genocide in Gaza & invading Lebanon. Wow, so fearless!

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@avzaagzonunaada Is it really a Euro/US difference? French books are usually very cheap compared even to US ones--perhaps because, while there are French academic publishers, major French publishing houses ("trade" in US parlance) also publish numerous books by academics.

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@AbulfazlMoshiri @MilkLions did you see this?

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@lameensouag @ait_kisou Or alternatively that Malik & his interlocutors imagined al-Barbar to be intermediate in skin colour between "the whites" and al-Habash?

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@yakabikaj 'Indian corn' is what it was originally called in English, since 'corn' meant 'wheat' (& continued to have that meaning well into the 20th century; even today in the UK the usual term for maize when eaten is 'sweetcorn').

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@maregan_le_fay Wonderful, thank you!

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@thomas_wier Great thread, thank you.
Has jiši ever been used to mean "race" (as in races of human beings)?

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@lawzinaj Yes, folān can be used as an adjective with inanimate objects in Persian. There is also the expression folān folān shodeh (shodeh = has become), which means "that wretched/blasted/bloody person/thing" where folān shodeh substitutes for a ruder insult.

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@lawzinaj @Langzaban In Persian the equivalent is folān ō bahmān.