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The Crusades: An Arab Perspective Ep1
« on: February 09, 2021, 11:01:02 pm »
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Re: The Crusades: An Arab Perspective Ep1
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2021, 02:35:16 am »
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):

https://incels.co/threads/reminder-arabs-were-more-cucked-than-whites-up-until-very-recently-islamcopers-btfo.276759/

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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".
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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.
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THE FIRST EVER ISLAMIC THEOCRAT WAS A FEMALE AS WELL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27A%27isha_al-Ba%27uniyya

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Re: The Crusades: An Arab Perspective Ep1
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2023, 08:40:09 pm »
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1715828481722814742?t=rrgv-EFBmfKDGyaMP_d5Dg&s=19 (video at link):
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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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« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2024, 03:03:15 am »
Our enemy's view on Islamic Autocracy

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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.

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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.”

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Posted on November 19, 2019 Thinking About the Ottoman Threat James Hankings, The New Criterion, November 2019

https://www.amren.com/news/2019/11/useful-enemies-noel-malcolm-ottoman-empire-christendom/
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