文学与历史

Lecture-style deep dives of about two hours per episode: dates, texts, sects and institutional history all trace back word for word to the footnoted full transcripts on the official site

TopicsHistory

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1:56:24

Literature and History 0815

Sufism Is Not a Low-Carb Islam — It Is a Backlash Against the Caliphate

European Orientalists described Sufism as a mysticism spanning Eurasia; modern Western promoters call it a message of "love, harmony and beauty" — but its roots are thoroughly Islamic, inseparable from the cultural history of the first caliphates.

8 Points 8 Quotes IslamSufism

2:02:18

Literature and History 0715

He wrote poetry in the conqueror's language, and was sewn into a sack and thrown in the river

Bashshar ibn Burd was the grandson of a slave and a blind poet who used Arabic to mock the Arabs and insulted a caliph and lived twenty more years — until one poem put him in the Tigris.

8 Points 8 Quotes Arabic poetryAbbasid dynasty