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Writer, Asst. Prof, Historian of MiddleEast & Islam: politics, gender, Islamic esotericism, astrology & science. Host of #HeadOnHistory Podcast / UCI alum

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A master thread organizing all the threads I've done-. On angels in Islam- On dreams and their interpretation in Islam and Middle Eastern folklore-. On the Zodiac in Islamic astrology-.
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Islamic astrology shares a lot of commonalities and influence with European medieval astrology. For example how they interpret the different signs of the zodiac, or dairat al buruj. A thread on the signs in Islamic astrology:
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RT @AssalRad: He will burn the region down to avoid jail.
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RT @PactFaustian: @aaolomi Wait until he finds out about the Zouaves. Zouaves were volunteer regiments that adopted the distinctive, color….
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RT @TheeAuthoress: One thing about Olomi is that the history degree aint for play play.
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someone remind “Joy” Tunis banned slavery decades before the United States and in fact urged the US to follow suit. 🙂.
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when your Ai doesn’t play along with your bigotry so you crash out lol
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you can read more in Curtis’ Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History
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there were at least 3-4 Muslims named “Omar” who served in the Civil War.
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Private Mohammed Khan, an Afghan born in Persia fought on the side of the Union during the American Civil War. Nicholas Muhammad Bin Said was an African Muslim and earned the rank of sergeant in the Civil War. 291 Muslims served in the Civil War.
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Literally zero men in this pic were named Omar Fateh
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RT @AssalRad: Stop calling it a plan for “humanitarian city,” it’s a plan for a CONCENTRATION CAMP.
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RT @lukeisamazing: this is the type of shit old people should be doing, you fucking demons. they shouldn’t working as Walmart greeters to s….
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RT @PsychicHygiene: Official history in the empire is a re-membering of crime into power.
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the brutality, the mass scale of destruction and death will shock you. Worse, we were never taught it in school. It wasn’t until a took a college course on Africa that i learned.
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the multiple genocides in Africa carried about by colonists werent just the first, they were the blueprint.
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King Leopold is genuinely one of the most evil men in history and the fact that he’s not recognized as on par with Hitler is a crime.
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Punishment for failure to collect rubber quotas in the Belgian Congo, 1908 💔💔
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RT @alon_mizrahi: The saddest picture I've seen.
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RT @TroyOnyango: rest in peace, andrea gibson 💔
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RT @ForensicArchi: A ceasefire is not enough. The Israeli military’s weaponisation of aid and starvation to displace and destroy Palestinia….
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RT @JDiamond1: As we were covering this story, my team & I were attacked by Israeli settlers. The back window of our vehicle was smashed, b….
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RT @JDiamond1: Saif Musallat was just 20 years old. He owned an ice cream shop with his dad in Tampa. On Friday, Israeli settlers beat him….
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