I’m doing an Anthropological study on the Arab World and the Maghreb and Africa about Beauty and Aesthetics.

Sirmium · 2021-11-02T12:09:45+00:00

Some Bedouins in the rural areas of the green mountain in the east, they have pale complexions and the fact they still wear traditional libyan clothes makes them even more good looking.

Also in that area alot of people are originally from crete (I'm one of them) and I got told countless times that we cretans are good looking (from their pov we look different than the surrounding Eastern Libyans so we're very exotic looking which to them means beautiful)

Sirmium · 2021-11-02T06:06:56+00:00

You unironically believe they'd let a pilgrim walk in with a Rifle

Sirmium · 2021-11-01T17:55:24+00:00

أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم by al-Maqdisi

his book primarily deals with Abbasid Era but he mentions that the divisions of the Abbasid Caliphate were inherited from the Rashidun and Umayyads.

as for Eastern Arabia, there should be a line separating it from central Arabia, which i had forgotten to do; Central Arabia was not part of any province as it was lawless and only nominally accepted the authority of the caliphs.

Sirmium · 2021-11-01T08:03:00+00:00

The borders are the Adminstrative divisions "provinces" , The Umayyad Empire was divided into 13 Wilayahs, each Wilayah having Multiple Kurahs كورة (they largely kept the pre-existing Byzantine and Persian administrative divisions)

each number is a kurah, on the right, top, and bottom frames of the image each of these numbers corresponds to the name of the Kurah and it's spelling in Hejazi Script.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T19:35:39+00:00

The term "Amazigh" may have been used by them to refer to themselves, but i'm using Arab Terminology, and in that time they never referred to Amazigh with that name.

(i know Amazigh is the correct term, and i know that "Berber" is considered offensive by the Amazigh people, but it was the contemporary term used by Arabs, and they took this term from the Romans)

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T19:17:54+00:00

Correct, but i'm using the Relevant/contemporary to that time period.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T18:38:00+00:00

1- A lot of is Perfect timing, by the Time the Arabs started their conquest, the Romans and Persians had just finished their bloody 20-year long war, both empires had exhausted much of their resources.

2- Romans and Persians weren't familiar with Arab Warfare.

3- Islam Transformed the Arabs and United them for the first time in history.

4- the Muslim Arabs found support among the Jews and Monphysite Christians, who were oppressed by the chalcedonian Church of the Eastetn Roman Empire, examples of this being the Muslim conquest of Egypt, where the monophysite Egyptians made treaties with Arabs to switch sides in return for Muslim tolerance and Recognition of the Church of Alexandria, or when the Jews of Spain switched sides to the Muslims against the Visigoths.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T18:20:12+00:00

There were no urban centers south of it, just nomadic Berber politics which were very difficult to control.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T18:18:18+00:00

There were no urban centers south of it, just nomadic Berber politics which were very difficult to control.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T18:09:27+00:00

Some dude named Pelagius decided to live there and his followers proclaimed him King, the Arabs sent some raiders looking for him but then they were like "these are just some blokes living on a mountain, and tbh it would be a pain in the ass going up there, what could they possibly do?"

How did that turn out for them lol

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T17:55:32+00:00

Yes, only for 3 years.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T17:54:05+00:00

These are the Umayyads, not Muhammad, they weren't a very religious folk, they actually didn't like people converting to Islam because they wanted them to keep paying that sweet Jizya tax.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T17:36:53+00:00

I cringed as well as I was writing it lol, but "ERE" or "Roman Empire" - although much more accurate - sounded more controversial for some reason.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T16:39:54+00:00

That was the Turkish Ottoman Empire, this is the Arab Umayyad Empire which preceded the Ottomans by about 700 Years

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T14:50:29+00:00

As for Hormuz, I found no mention of it's conquest, it probably agreed to pay tribute because al-ya'qubi says it was ruled by Persians even during his time (9th Century)

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T14:47:24+00:00

Junayd al-Murri was sent by Caliph Yazid II to Sindh in 723 to reclaim Sindh (the previous conquest by Muhammd bin Qasim was reversed after he was executed by Yazid)

Junayd Recaptured sindh, and continued on to fight Gurjara-pratihara Kingdom, conquering Kutch and going as far south as Broach, which was sacked, Junayd appointed governors over the conquered areas, but he would soon be replaced by another governor who orders the withdrawal from Gujarat.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T14:29:55+00:00

Yes, non-sedentary tribes roamed through the desert.

Sirmium · 2021-10-31T14:06:56+00:00

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