Remembering my friends and I as kids, looking up our names on Urban Dictionary, thinking even then that every definition was clearly some other kid somewhere in the world describing a friend or enemy or crush by that name. Tears welled
@SAIDDRS4@ChudNarodnik True, sure, but the specific caliph mentioned, al-Ma’mun, had well-documented Shi’a sympathies. Famously, he even appointed the Imam Ali al-Rida as his heir c. 817 and the whole Abbasi family revolted against him for it.
Langtry, TX; home of notorious barman and justice of the peace, Phantly Roy Bean, “The Law West of the Pecos”; NOT named for British actress Lillie Langtry despite Judge Bean’s well-recorded obsession with said actress (his saloon, “The Jersey Lily”, WAS in fact named for her)