Mīkāʾīl
@ArabOccultist
Sufi Pervert
🧵- In this thread, I will be posting books I have finished as well as my favorite excerpt from them:
“National orientation must depict the life of the state as an organism all of whose parts, all of whose members do not struggle among themselves but [rather] work, or should work, together in solidarity toward one end, namely, that the entire nation be vigorous and healthy, that…
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I hold a quiet fascination with Carthage, much less for what it opposed, or what it could have been, than for what it already was: a Semitic polity whose dignity endures not in what happened, but in what can still be intuited. A crystallization of Semitic statecraft transposed on…
It never fails to amaze me whenever I remember that a tribal enclave of 500 people managed to produce within two generations an empire that united the Arabs, destroyed the Sassanians, shattered Byzantium, and reached the gates of France in the west and China in the east.…
“A nation is not merely a geographical entity, but a spiritual order; and a nation that has lost its spiritual life is no nation.” - Pearse (1915) “Japan is not just a nation; it is a spiritual entity, and without the spirit of the past, it ceases to be Japan.” - Mishima (1969)
The cited quotations and testimonies highlight the national character of Muḥammad ʿAlī and Ibrāhīm Pasha’s military campaigns against the Ottomans. The war embodied the Arab national struggle and the Arabs’ need for independence from the Turks: 1. It is said that after the…
Seems like the Umayyads aren’t that different from their Alid cousins: Ziyād said: Muʿāwiyah summoned al-Aḥnaf ibn Qays and Samura ibn Jundub and said: “I see that al-ḥamrāʾ (the non-Arabs) have become numerous, and I see them slandering the predecessors, it is as if I can…
From Ḍurays ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, he said: I heard Abā ʿAbd Allāh (peace be upon him) say: “We are Quraysh, our Shiʿa are the Arabs, and our enemy are the ʿAjam (non-Arabs).” (Bihār al-Anwār, vol. 64, p. 176)
"greetings stranger. one of us tells only lies, the other tells only truth"
Hey @grok, based on ALL my tweets, I am: Which dictator? Which philosopher? Which fictional character? Which politician? Which religious figure? Which historical figure? Which artist?
Hey @grok, based on ALL my tweets, I am: Which dictator? Which philosopher? Which fictional character? Which politician? Which religious figure? Which historical figure? Which artist?
Orientalism is a very complex topic that I’d like to eventually discuss here, I’ve reached many different conclusions about it but I’ve finally settled on one indefinitely for now. But I’ll say this: Orientalism is a “guilty” pleasure of mine—though “guilt” isn’t how I’d prefer…
إِذَا عَرَبيٌّ لَمْ يَكُنْ مِثْلَ سَيفِهِ - مَضَاءً عَلَىٰ الْأَعْدَاءِ أَنْكَرَهُ الْجَدُّ - اِبنُ هَانٍئ الْأندَلسيُّ
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī summarized the causes of social corruption in the second Abbasid era as follows: 1. The rule of non-Arabs over Arabs. 2. Entrusting authority to foreigners, Turks, Berbers, Persians, Romans, who prioritized their interests over those of the Arabs. 3.…
