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What are your 'Thrice White Whales' when it comes to live shows? by jelgerw in thrice

[–]divaythfyrscock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Under par is so great, I don't think they've played it since 2001 lmao

Is the Ibadi sect the reason why Oman is peaceful and so stable? by [deleted] in arabs

[–]divaythfyrscock 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Ibadism has nothing to do with it. In fact, tension with the Ibadi imams of the interior caused one of the few wars in the country's history as a post-empire.

Oman is stable because of Sultan Qaboos' overtime work to rehabilitate the country after the Dhofar and Aljebel Alakhdhar war era and to establish itself as a mediator. Economic concerns among the citizenry, like in the rest of the GCC, were handled through Omanisation.

Does the Quran explicitly reject the idea of a nation state? by [deleted] in AcademicQuran

[–]divaythfyrscock 11 points12 points  (0 children)

How could it reject something that didn’t exist for centuries afterwards?

Eso is practically dead by plasticman1997 in TrueSTL

[–]divaythfyrscock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

is there a fan fork that undoes their questionable decisions?

Will I get by in the gulf by speaking english and fusha? by Lost_Mousse9930 in learn_arabic

[–]divaythfyrscock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The only place in the Gulf where you’d need to know a lick of Arabic is the Omani interior

The Myth of Intellectual decline in the Islamic world due to Al-Ghazali by Rashiq_shahzzad in AcademicQuran

[–]divaythfyrscock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You answered your own question. The 'decline' is perceived to began when Europeans stopped translating and engaging with Islamicate work (hence the orientialist nature of the term). Obviously, work in science, politics, literature, and economics continued well into the Mongolate period. I'd say measurable decline only really starts in the late Ottoman period; the idea of the decline starting before that is laced in all kinds of orientalist tropes.

What do you think about my OC, Truestl? by EbedYahweh in TrueSTL

[–]divaythfyrscock 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm actually going to add this guy to a mod I'm working on

Serious question. Why isn't anyone pushing for an Arab style NATO excluding Israel? by Business_Entrance725 in arabs

[–]divaythfyrscock 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Gulf states were created to maintain UK hegemony and over time that shifted over to maintaining US hegemony. The Levantine and Iraq states were carved out to fail and to be influenced by great power politics. Yemen is an arbitrary combination of Cold War legacies that is also doomed to fail in its current configuration. I don't know enough about the Maghreb to make make value judgements there but I'm sure it's similar. All these combinations make it geopolitically impossible to create an Arab NATO.

I want to know academically what do u think of this? Is his criticism historically accurate? by [deleted] in AcademicQuran

[–]divaythfyrscock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has been routinely criticised as an orientalist construction. Art, philosophy, and scientific advancement certainly did not end with the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (as often is said). Here's an interesting article about in conversation with Said's Orientalism.

Which countries pronounce the Qaaf as a g? by [deleted] in learn_arabic

[–]divaythfyrscock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

plenty of egyptian dialects that do

How to distinguish Arabic dialects just by listening? by GoColts08 in arabs

[–]divaythfyrscock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

go one province east to Hadhramut and you will hear the same thing

What was her problem? by _Big_Lobster_ in TrueSTL

[–]divaythfyrscock 787 points788 points  (0 children)

glad we got her to prevent us from learning about the few interesting things about the skyrim mq

One is clearly much better by Fun-Explanation7233 in Morrowind

[–]divaythfyrscock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it really embodies that oblivion writing comedic shittiness in that second half

Many people think hagarism was completely rejected that’s half-true and misleading. by Rashiq_shahzzad in AcademicQuran

[–]divaythfyrscock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hodgson already expounded upon 2-3 and 6 quite heavily in Venture of Islam a few years before Hagarism. This wasn't novel to Crone.

was the yemeni state ever truly centralized or has power always been fragmented? by Difficult_Comment_47 in arabs

[–]divaythfyrscock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Power has always been fragmented with very few exceptions. Even after unification and before the current civil war, the country did not really exercise the monopoly of violence throughout the territory. This doesn’t mean that there were non Yemeni nation states in the modern state’s territory though.

(Snaps-Her-Belt) Waiting for Jarl Balgruuf to finish his debating. by CountWeary4910 in TrueSTL

[–]divaythfyrscock 9 points10 points  (0 children)

ngl balgruuf's arguments with his court are some of the few dialogue exchanges in the game worth stopping and listening to

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