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[Aziz alk @Genericuser212]

@tonyhawktruther He has the “what kind of x is this” Chinese
voice

[Hamza K @afro_hamza]

Strauss was spot on. Religion lost social prestige because it was subjected to ridicule, satire, mockery, and cultural pressure rather than being decisively refuted philosophically.

[Retired Average Saïd Mohammedi Enjoyer ⵣ۞🏴🏳️ @SaidMohamm1527]

You kiІІеd the man🇪🇹
Not the idea🇩🇴

[سَارة @HatraofIRAQ]

My ancestors built some cool stuff.
(The Mesopotamian Arabs)

[л @yetoshi24]

It is said that the Abbasid Caliph Al-Maumun declared war upon the Byzantinians for abandoning the works of Plato and Aristotle and adopting Christianity, which he considered as "culturally inferior" to the great civilization of the Greeks.

[Aziz alk @Genericuser212]

No, the exact opposite really, in the first centuries of islamic history people were discouraged from converting to islam, and there were no forced conversions in egypt. Opposed to the forced Christianization of Rome and the Mediterranean after the states conversion to Christianity. Egypt has been under continuous islamic rule for around 1400 years, if there were forced conversions there would be no sizable christian minority in Egypt when in fact they still comprise 10% of the population, additionally egypt didn’t become majority until the 13th ( 600 years after the conquest of Egypt) century where as in the americas Christianity became the overwhelming majority, through slavery massacres and genocide, in just a century.

[Aziz alk @Genericuser212]

@R8nd0mTw33t3r @ronaldnzimora The ancient Egyptians weren’t Christians either. After Christianity egypt was a backwater

[Fukuyama's Top Ex-Gal @top_s8789]

By the time Arabs conquered Egypt, the country was a backwater Byzantine province with retarded Christian sects fighting over retarded theology while mobs of monks and zealots were destroying pagan monuments.

The great age of pharaonic culture was long gone and, if anything, Arabs delivered them from their misery and gave them a new identity to embrace.

[Omar @omar_dddg]

The secular version of Mohamad ﷺ is more puzzling than the religious divinely inspired one.

The combination of roles Mohamad ﷺ had is the rarest in history.

Most world-historical religious figures occupied one lane. Jesus and the Buddha were teachers who held no state and commanded no army; their political and legal systems were built by others, later.

Muhammad ﷺ was simultaneously a religious founder, a lawgiver, a head of state, a judge, a diplomat, and a field commander,( and his enemies also accuse him of being a great poet, a knower of Greek science, philosophy, and Judeo- Christian apocryphal scripture spread across hundreds of monasteries and scrolls,) and he was also effective in all of those roles at once, in the same lifetime.

Very few people in history have done even two of those well.

The starting conditions were also unpromising. An orphan from a respected-but-not-ruling clan, no inherited wealth, no kingdom, no army, by tradition unlettered, who didn't begin preaching until around forty.

He then spent over a decade as the leader of a persecuted minority, was driven out of his own city, and still ended up, roughly 23 years later, with most of the Arabian Peninsula unified under a single religious-political order for the first time.

The slope of that trajectory, from those starting conditions, is very very very steep.

[Alyasa' @ytrihs]

A thread on a very interesting, but subtle point of intertextuality: The Not-So-Mundane Mundane Language of Sūrah Yūsuf

[Omar @omar_dddg]

Mind boggling.

The author of the Quran had an in-depth and lived-in knowledge of the Bible that very few Christian clergy and biblical scholars have.

Another mystery for the secular academics to solve.

[IbnHikmah @BaytAlHikmah1]

Just so everyone knows, this is one of those New Atheist-era talking points that refuses to die online. Serious historians and scholars of religion have long shown that religion is rarely the sole cause of wars, violence, or misery. Reality is far more complex than slogans.

[Longswordwife ★ @Longswordwife]

Backrooms if Clark met famed renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer

[akhivae @akhivae]

Damn they had dudes like this in 2007?

[л @yetoshi24]

"PRAISE BE TO ALLAH THE MOST GRACIOUS THE MOST MERCIFUL. IT IS YOU WHOM WE WORSHIP AND TO YOU WHOM WE BELONG".

"uhhhhh Alexan—"

"BURN ALL IDOLS, DEMOLISH ALL TEMPLES, DESECRATE ANYONE WHO BREAKS THE LAW OF GOD AND ESTABLISH TAWHID WHEREVER YOU GO".

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Even Hunzvi didn’t know where his nickname came from, allegedly. He simply said “it is a very good name. It doesn’t mean I’m a fascist.”

[Maqamat @AlMaqamat_]

This is hilarious. Ibn Sina once treated a Buyid prince who thought he had been transformed into a cow

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

Reminder that winning coalitions in American politics are almost always *disproportionately low education*

If a candidate ever looks around and realizes their supporters are disproportionately educated, that candidate is fucking DOOMED

Educated voters are an albatross

[Joseph @aestheticist_]

this is very well documented and there is actually a really good book about how particular manifestations of mental distress are social contagions spread by the media and institutions.