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The Crusades: An Arab Perspective Ep1
By: guest5 Date: February 9, 2021, 11:01 pm
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Shock: The First Crusade and the Conquest of Jerusalem | The
Crusades: An Arab Perspective Ep1
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HProiNnmGwI
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Re: The Crusades: An Arab Perspective Ep1
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 10, 2021, 2:35 am
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On a related note, our enemies do our work for us in repeating
(as I have previously stated) the relatively low sexism
(contrary to popular stereotype) in the medieval Arabic world
(though our enemies consider this a negative thing):
HTML https://incels.co/threads/reminder-arabs-were-more-cucked-than-whites-up-until-very-recently-islamcopers-btfo.276759/
[quote]Medieval Arabia and Islam VS Medieval Europe:​
Ignaz Goldziher predicted himself that perhaps as much as 15% of
medieval hadith scholars were women. Note that this is against
the Medieval European 0% women scholars.
Ruth Roded writes that
"In reading the biographies of thousands of Muslim women
scholars, one is amazed at the evidence that contradicts the
view of Muslim women as marginal, secluded, and restricted".
...
Women were able to manage their financial affairs privately and
separately from their husbands, and contract divorces. They
could also grant inheritance and keep their surnames. And this
is all under the traditional interpretation of sharia, not just
a cherrypicking of examples from the most progressive classes of
society.
In 15th century Egypt, a very interesting survey was done of the
marital history of 500 women, in which about a third of women
married more than once, many because they had completed a
divorce.
This, for many many years in Europe, would have been unheard of.
French laws didn’t remove restrictions like this until 1965, and
significant problems arose in the Middle Eastern areas
controlled by the British Empire, where the institution of
common law stripped many women of their wealth and removed their
legal identity entirely.
...
THE FIRST EVER ISLAMIC THEOCRAT WAS A FEMALE AS WELL
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27A%27isha_al-Ba%27uniyya[/quote]
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Re: The Crusades: An Arab Perspective Ep1
By: rp Date: October 24, 2023, 8:40 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1715828481722814742?t=rrgv-EFBmfKDGyaMP_d5Dg&s=19<br
/>(video at link):
[Quote]
Turkey’s public broadcaster will screen a locally produced TV
drama on Saladin, who captured Jerusalem after defeating the
Crusaders in 1187
TRT promo:
"Justice for the world, freedom for Jerusalem!
The story of Saladin who saved the holy city of Jerusalem from
occupation centuries ago...”
“Jerusalem is a matter of morality and justice. History bears
witness to times of prosperity. To realize…”
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Islamic Caliphate
By: antihellenistic Date: January 13, 2024, 3:03 am
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Our enemy's view on Islamic Autocracy
[quote]As Europe descended into religious war, some Western
writers began to appreciate the relative tranquility and
prosperity of Ottoman lands and to wonder whether Turkish
autocracy was superior to Western royal and republican
governments. They noted with unease the numerous Christians
fleeing to Ottoman lands to escape religious civil wars, some of
whom even converted to Islam. The Sultan, after all, allowed
people of different faiths to practice their religions without
molestation, whereas toleration of any kind was hard to find in
Europe. Western humanists had long been critical of legal
pettifoggery and endless delays in resolving cases in Western
courts, but the Ottomans seemed to be able to deliver justice
that was both swift and fair. Western governments were
ineffective in part because royal power was shared with nobles
and other intermediate and subordinate powers whose interests
diverged from those of the crown. By contrast the Ottomans, some
Western observers believed, had a meritocratic system where
officials were appointed by the sultan on the basis of their
virtue and accomplishments, not their noble descent. Such
officials were not in a position to place their private
interests before that of the empire, and their loyal service
made Ottoman government the best in the world.
...
More important for the history of Western political thought,
however, was the concept of “oriental despotism” that first
emerged in the sixteenth century. It became a major analytical
category in Montesquieu’s De l’esprit des lois, the most
important treatise on politics of the eighteenth century (and a
major influence on the American Founding Fathers). According to
Malcolm, who devotes three chapters to discussing its evolution,
the concept of oriental despotism had its roots in Aristotle’s
Politics, where its theoretical role was marginal, but it was
“revived and developed specifically in order to describe the
power wielded” by the Ottoman sultans. Despotism for Aristotle
differed from tyranny in that tyrants used armed force to
exercise arbitrary rule over free men, while despots commanded
their subjects as masters commanded slaves.
It was Luther’s learned follower, Philip Melanchthon, who first
associated despotism with the Ottomans in his commentary on the
Politics (1530). ... The Ottoman Empire was peaceful, but its
peace came from subjects too slavish and terror-stricken to
disobey their rulers. The sultan allowed no rivals to his power
and thus ruled through officials rather than a hereditary
nobility. The great men of his kingdom had no independent
political rights. Unlike the absolute sovereign described by
Bodin, the Sovereign of the Sublime House of Osman regarded the
property of his subjects as his own. He discouraged letters and
sciences as such studies tended to make men independent and gave
them dignity. “Ignorance,” wrote one Spanish diplomat, “is the
main foundation of the Ottoman Empire.”[/quote]
Source :
Posted on November 19, 2019 Thinking About the Ottoman Threat
James Hankings, The New Criterion, November 2019
HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2019/11/useful-enemies-noel-malcolm-ottoman-empire-christendom/
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