May Shaddel

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May Shaddel

May Shaddel

@MayShaddel

Full-time humanist, pedant, & historian @Cambridge_Uni—part-time human—purveyor of heterodox takes—tamed rebel—pastime: reading papyri/dating apocalypses

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May Shaddel
May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
This paper presents an edition and study of five early Abbasid monumental inscriptions from Mecca. Comparing the contents of three of these inscriptions which are from the Masǧid al‐Ḥarām to juridical discussions of pilgrimage rites, it argues that, academia.edu/55099627
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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@andfogle My Royal Dutch Marine friend who went to Afghanistan still can't live with his trauma because he realised he was lied to when told he was fighting for democracy & freedom.
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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@andfogle & above all the troops you're sending to their deaths need to be convinced they're dying for a just cause. That's not exactly through these books but through Fox pundits who regurgitate these same stereotypes.
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Andrew Fogle@andfogle·
one reason I take all the manufacturing consent and Orientalist tropes stuff with a grain of salt is that you ask most Americans what they think of countries we attack and they answer like this
Jesse Watters@JesseBWatters

Spring Break goes WILD☀️ 🍺🤪 and the students have NO IDEA what’s going on🤣 “The BIGGEST issue in America is what BIKINI I’m wearing tomorrow”👙 “We’re going to war with IRAQ that’s been crazy”🤔 “I’ve NEVER heard the word Ayatollah in my life”🫢 “Is Venezuela in SPAIN?”😬😬😬

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May Shaddel
May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@RomeInTheEast @DrMichaelBonner Yes, classic racism. I hate this ethnic determinism that requires one to only study one's own tradition, whatever that means (in fact, one of my favourite academics at Cambridge is an Afghan-English guy who does mediaeval Welsh history).
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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@theodorebeers @sharghzadeh I think these are all signs of unwitting jealousy that could also be seen in conservative Christian parents but don't necessarily mean anything beyond that. And I think the source of the statement that he only ever loved her is William Shirer, a notoriously unreliable source.
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Theodore Beers
Theodore Beers@theodorebeers·
@MayShaddel @sharghzadeh Stopping her from dating; firing the chauffeur; keeping Geli under house arrest at his apartment and watched at all times; later saying she was the only woman he ever loved; etc. No evidence he got her pregnant or had her killed, but it may well have been a sexual relationship.
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May Shaddel
May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
Spot on @sharghzadeh. Exiles live off exile. They entertain & pander to their audience's prejudice as a form of living. Like, Hitler had a nephew who left for the US during WWII & claimed that Hitler had raped & impregnated his niece, then had her killed. theguardian.com/world/2017/may…
شرق‌زده sharghzadeh@sharghzadeh

She has many fans who are upset. Here's the problem: The fact that she uncritically presents this propaganda as truth shows that her perception of Iran is inorganic and colored by Western lies about us. People like Marjane are an orientalism laundry. They absorb Western propaganda about their homelands, remix and repeat it, thus lending it creedence (look, one of them said it, it must be true!!!). Their only role is to lend legitimacy to Western lies. Some are innocuous: they entertain upper class liberal Whites with pretenses of appreciating the East (Oh you're Persian? I loved Persepolis!). Others are not so harmless, they manufacture consent for imperial destruction of their homeland. Remember Khaled Hosseini? Is there any wonder that George Bush liked him so much? In my school, we were made to read the Kite Runner to explain why we were fighting the Taliban. They don't produce anything new or interesting. They are not subverting the Western narrative. They are not native voices. They are parrots for the West. That's why they are celebrated and awarded far and wide, because they are mouthpieces for empire. If you look, you will notice these people everywhere.

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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@theodorebeers @sharghzadeh What's the disturbing part? The only thing I remember is that Hitler was too domineering and forbade her from seeing his chauffeur.
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کیوان@kayvanseyedin·
Satrapi auctioned the first 44 pages of the original manuscript of her comic in October of 2022, just after the Woman, Life, Freedom movement erupted in Iran. She claimed that she had no intention of coordinating this, as auctions take months to plan, even hinting that only a
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Woke up to Marjane Satrapi hate on the TL

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کیوان@kayvanseyedin·
Woke up to Marjane Satrapi hate on the TL
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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@chonkshonk1 I don't think it's post-Muhammadan. Not sure about the whole sura but it does exhibit textual homogeneity.
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chonkshonk@chonkshonk1·
@MayShaddel I think I understand your position now - so you date Q 30:2-5 post-629 as a response to Mu'tah. Do you place Q 30 as a whole to this later period or do you just see vv 2-5 as a very late Prophetic or early post Prophetic insertion?
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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
All attempts to read a Byzantine prophecy in Q 30:2-6 are flimsy & untenable, to put it extremely politely. One can't postulate intertextuality between two texts merely on the basis of a victory-defeat parallelism, which happens all the time, everywhere. My opinion:
Delman 🏁🔻@dmontetheno1

There are such uncharitable takes on this prediction in Surah Ar-Rum within secular academia. For the sake of argument, let’s grant that the Qur’an is not divine. Based on probability alone, is it not possible that the Prophet ﷺ could have gotten at least one prediction correct?

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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@shahanSean @sharghzadeh Yes, and all that diversification drive in hiring practices were a total squandering of great opportunity.
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Sean W. Anthony
Sean W. Anthony@shahanSean·
@MayShaddel @sharghzadeh These native informants largely replaced the old school, gentlemanly orientalists of elite instuttions. They're urbane, cosmopolitan and connected to elite literary/media circles and trade in the faux authenticity of their cultural capital.
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May Shaddel
May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@chonkshonk1 That is the whole point, why would M's people be happy about Byzantine victory? This is only one way of reading it that hinges on a pro-Byzantine bias, which makes your argument circular. I thought my original post was clear, Q 30:2 says the Romans were victorious, over Muslims.
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chonkshonk
chonkshonk@chonkshonk1·
I see! My understanding of the pro-Byzantine argument for this passage, is that it says that the believers will rejoice when the Byzantines win (verse 4). However, I guess that would not compel you, since (correct me if Im wrong) you interpret Q 30:2-5 to be about a victory of Muhammad's group over the Romans?
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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@chonkshonk1 I'm engaging with the Tesei-Shoemaker thesis, who don't postulate a pro-Byzantine bias. At any rate, I don't see a pro-Byzantine bias anywhere in the Quran or early Islam. The Quran considers trinitarianism to be shirk, full stop.
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chonkshonk
chonkshonk@chonkshonk1·
Isnt the lynchpin here whether we are talking about a neutral group? Juan Cole (in Rethinking the Quran in Late Antiquity) takes Muhammad's group at this time to have been pro-Roman. He also has an earlier article, "Muhammad and Justinian", which argues for an interesting Byzantine legal parallel to Q 5:33 (although I cant recall at this moment whether Holger Zellentin's follow-up found this parallel in other late antique texts outside of Justinian Novellae). Whats your thought on that?
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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@chonkshonk1 Let's look at it this way: it's 1942 & the US has just lost the Philippines but vows to return. Newspapers all over the US run headlines like 'we'll be victorious!' Now would you expect that to influence neutral Afghans to similarly run headlines like 'America will win'?
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chonkshonk@chonkshonk1·
Could the Neshana have a more suggestive parallel? In addition to its own Roman-Persian defeat-victory sequence, it already has a purported intertext with Q 18. Im also thinking that the volume of well-known texts with a sequence or predictions of something like this could speak to a broader, shared context.
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May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@docstobar @shahanSean @sharghzadeh As someone who went to school & college in Iran & had college mates from all over the country I can assure everone neither me nor my pals were ever given any keys other than the keys to our dorm rooms. Satrapie just writes whatever she thinks fits westerners' conception of Iran.
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شرق‌زده sharghzadeh
شرق‌زده sharghzadeh@sharghzadeh·
Marjane Satrapi's work is orientalist garbage for Whites. Everything I've seen from her is cringe and anti-Iran propaganda.
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Mohammed Al-Firas
Mohammed Al-Firas@al_firas27·
An early Islamic inscription from Jordan which possibly mentions the Prophet's wife A'isha within a decade of her death. It reads: "May Allah and the angels and His pious servants send salutations/blessings upon A'isha. (It was written in) the year 70"
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May Shaddel
May Shaddel@MayShaddel·
@Sebilooo اقا حرف شما متین، ولی ادم باید اجازه داشته باشه به کسی که اومده دم درش کاسه گدایی دست گرفته یه چیزی بگه دیگه! کسی که احترام میخواد باید خودش عزت نفسش رو حفظ کنه.
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سبیلو@Sebilooo·
نظر نامحبوب اینکه ترامپ گه خورده بخواد به یه ایرانی‌ حتی اگه رضا پهلوی باشه توهین کنه. #ایران
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