Azhaar

May Allah protect Muslim women from the horrors of western education

when my obstetrics professor was like "in an emergency situation we do everything possible to save the baby" and i was like ".....and the mother 🤓" and she was like "well yes but the baby is our priority"

The Mongol destruction of Baghdad in 1258 is overrated as a turning point, the real civilizational collapse happened 200 years earlier and was self-inflicted. Everyone has the 1258 story. Hulagu Khan, the Tigris running black with ink, the end of the Abbasid Caliphate. It’s the perfect tragedy; external, dramatic, blame clearly assignable. Muslims reach for it instinctively when explaining decline. But look at what was already gone before the Mongols arrived. Al-Ghazali died in 1111. His Tahāfut al-Falāsifa, whatever its genuine theological merits functionally delegitimized rational philosophy as a pursuit worthy of serious Muslim intellectual energy. Not immediately, not totally, but the trajectory it set was real. By the time the Mongols came, the institutional appetite for speculative rational inquiry had already been declining for over a century. The great translation movement, the engine of the Golden Age had essentially exhausted itself by the 11th century. The bayt al-hikma model was already fading. The madrasa system that replaced it was explicitly designed around naql over ’aql, transmission over generation. Ibn Rushd, the greatest philosophical mind the Islamic world produced, died in 1198 ignored in the East, his works preserved and debated by European scholastics who built their entire university tradition partly on him. He was more alive in Paris than in Cairo. So when the Mongols burned Baghdad they were largely burning a library of a civilization that had already stopped writing the books. The deeper wound is that Defeat is recoverable. The Mongols themselves became Muslim within two generations. But a civilization that loses the will to think, that decides curiosity itself is dangerous.. that is a different kind of collapse entirely. External conquest you can survive. You’ve seen it in Islamic history repeatedly; Crusades, Mongols, colonialism, communities rebuilt. What you cannot easily survive is when the internal legitimacy of inquiry gets revoked by your own scholars in the name of protecting the tradition. That’s the move that actually broke something. And it was made from the inside.

Despite the lack of records regarding foot fetish as an intimate and sexual conduct in the pre-modern world there's many elements and displays of foot fetishism in Islamic/Arab literature.