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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #480 - September 26, 2019, 09:15 AM
    Maria Mavroudi - Byzantine and Modern Homer: A Thousand Years of Reception
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-oAXeH_rl4w
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #481 - October 06, 2019, 09:48 AM
    Thread on women’s participation in warfare: https://mobile.twitter.com/afzaque/status/1180525481424232448
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #482 - October 30, 2019, 04:39 PM
    Michael Cooperson - The Abbasid "Golden Age": An Excavation

    https://www.academia.edu/35276287/The_Abbasid_Golden_Age_An_Excavation
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #483 - October 30, 2019, 05:53 PM
    Quote from: zeca on October 30, 2019, 04:39 PM
    Michael Cooperson - The Abbasid "Golden Age": An Excavation

    https://www.academia.edu/35276287/The_Abbasid_Golden_Age_An_Excavation

    ...thank you for that pub link zeca..

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    Jurjī Zaydān., Tārīkh al-tamaddun al-islāmī , 4th ed (Cairo: al-Hilāl, 1935; originally published 1902-06)

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    After zipping through the political history of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Spanish Umayyads, and Fatimids, Zaydan declares that it would take too long to go through all the other Islamic dynasties that have existed in the world. So he lists them in tabular form, giving their capitals, how many kings each had, the year each was founded, and the year each came to an end. The table takes up four pages. He then continues..

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    ..........To sum up, from the earliest days of Islam until now, over a hundred Islamic dynasties have come into existence, with some 1200 leaders, among them caliphs, sultans, kings,emirs, atabegs, ikhshīds, khedives, sherifs, beys, deys, and more; by origin Arabs,Persians, Turks, Circassians, Kurds, Indians, Tatars, Mongols, Afghans, and others; and ruled from Medina, Kufa, Damascus, Baghdad, Egypt, Cairawan, Cordova, Istanbul,Sanaa, Oman, Delhi, and elsewhere... But in as much as the Abbasid dynasty is the most famous of them all, and the first to attain civilization (tamaddun), we shall base our description of tamaddun for the most part on the Abbasids..............

     Here Zaydān does not quite say that the early Abbasid period was the golden age. But hisdecision to use it as the exemplar of Arab-Islamic civilization...



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    Jurji Zaydan  (December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine Al-Hilal, which he used to serialize his 23 historical novels....  In 1910, the newly opened Egyptian University offered Zaydan a professorship in Islamic History, which Zaydan accepted only reluctantly because of his unpopularity amongst conservative Muslims. He was dismissed before beginning in response to significant outcry from the Muslim public, who objected to his Christian origins and secular leanings.
     

    ....
    1901–1906: Tarikh al-Tamaddun al-Islami 5 vols. (History of Islamic Civilization)
    1907: al-'Arab qabl al-Islam (Arabs before Islam)
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #484 - November 07, 2019, 10:15 AM
    Aleksandr Naymark - Sogdiana, its Christians, and Byzantium: a Study of Artistic and Cultural Connections in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

    https://www.academia.edu/27959139/_Sogdiana_its_Christians_and_Byzantium_a_Study_of_Artistic_and_Cultural_Connections_in_Late_Antiquity_and_Early_Middle_Ages._Ph.D._Dissertation_Department_of_Central_Eurasian_Studies_and_Department_of_Art_History_Indiana_University_Bloomington_2001
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #485 - November 13, 2019, 07:53 PM
    Ian David Morris threads on slavery in the Islamic world.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1193852876071849987
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    Hello everyone! Shall we talk a bit about slavery in the medieval Islamic world?

    The contours of Islamic history are deeply shaped by slavery and manumission (the freeing of slaves).


    https://mobile.twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1194369147867684864
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    Following yesterday’s thread, let’s talk about slave soldiery in Islam.

    Enslaved people have been made to fight across many ancient and medieval societies, but they were nowhere so prominent as in the Islamic world.


    https://mobile.twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1194700315444023297
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    Hello again. @iandavidmorris here. Let’s wrap up our discussion on slave soldiers.

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #486 - November 14, 2019, 02:27 PM
    Arab Apostates in Byzantium: Evidence from Arabic Sources, Byzantina Symmeikta 29 (2019), 273-314  by Abdelaziz Ramadan  King Khalid University-Saudi Arabia

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    Islamic-Byzantine relations have attracted close attention of many scholars specialized in the history of the two worlds. Several studies have appeared on various political, diplomatic, and other cultural aspects of these relations.However, there are still some aspects that need to be further highlighted,including the status of the minorities of each side on the territory of the other


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qXNMdmJ__M

    and here is  interview of that dare devil    Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun from  Canada

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJIOxnr_YiE
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #487 - November 14, 2019, 05:44 PM
    Thread - Ian David Morris on slavery: https://mobile.twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1194981737752862720
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    Thanks for all your comments and questions! Let’s go through some of them.

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #488 - November 14, 2019, 09:45 PM
    New issue of the Journal of Middle East Medievalists

    https://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/al-usur-al-wusta/current-issue/
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #489 - November 14, 2019, 11:08 PM
    Thread on early Islamic coins

    https://mobile.twitter.com/ccsahner/status/1194598601873334272
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #490 - November 16, 2019, 06:22 PM
    Coin with shahada in Sanskrit

    https://mobile.twitter.com/ccsahner/status/1195327294505705473
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #491 - November 25, 2019, 11:42 AM
    Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/ilhanmiharbi/status/1198513096278585349
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    I often wonder how/when Sufism was made to be synonymous with pacifism. The greatest forces of resistance against colonial imperialism in the Muslim world followers of a Sufi tariqa. Imam Shamil in the Caucasus, Sidi Omar al-Mukhtar in Libya, Sidi Muhammad Abdullah Hassan...


    https://mobile.twitter.com/shahanSean/status/1198781937025867776
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    Sufism facilitated and provided the ideological basis of the expansion of empire for most premodern/early modern Muslim states: Ottoman, Safavid, Timurid, Mughal, etc.



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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #492 - November 29, 2019, 10:33 PM
    Embedding Conquest Team twitter account: https://mobile.twitter.com/EmCoteam
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    Scholarship to date has overwhelmingly relied on ‘literary’ sources in Arabic (e.g. chronicles, legal treatises, theological tracts), composed centuries after the conquests and shaped by court politics at their time of writing. This has created a false impression of the embedding of Muslim rule as a top-down process, directed from the centre, built on military coercion and control through administrative systems. Now, however, ‘documentary’ sources in multiple languages on papyrus, leather and paper from all over the empire (e.g. letters, contracts, fiscal accounts, petitions, decrees, work permits) are becoming increasingly available. These sources, whose impact has been limited by linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, offer a direct, contemporary view of how the empire worked on the ground, and how political and social structures were experienced, modified and appropriated by its subjects.

    This project will uniquely incorporate all available documents reflecting Muslim rule from the first 400 years of Islam, to reconstruct the system of social relations that enabled the crucial transition from a conquest society to a political organism that survived the breakdown of central caliphal control, and remains the region’s benchmark model today. It will critically advance our understanding of a world historical event, make a radically new contribution to empire studies, and connect and synergise area studies and disciplinary inquiry.

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #493 - December 01, 2019, 07:11 PM
    Philip Wood - Christian elite networks in the Jazira, c.730-850

    https://www.academia.edu/41132872/Christian_elite_networks_in_the_Jazira_c.730-850
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #494 - December 04, 2019, 04:52 PM
    “Do Prophets Come with a Sword?” Conquest, Empire, and Historical Narrative in the Early Islamic World   
     a pdf pub by by THOMAS SIZGORICH

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    Thomas Sizgorich is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. His first book, Militant Pieties in Late Antiquity: Monks, Martyrs, and Mujahidun, is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is currently working on a second book, tentatively titled Where the Dark Wine Flows: Memory, Desire, and Dominion in Islamic Late Antiquity.

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #495 - December 04, 2019, 05:04 PM
    BLAKE, SWEDENBORG, AND MUHAMMAD: THE PROPHETIC TRADITION, REVISITED., a pdf pub by dr.  Humberto Garcia. 

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    Surprisingly—given past and recent rebellions in the Middle East and North Africa—Norman O. Brown's 1982 essay has not received due attention in Blake studies. He argues that William Blake belongs to a prophetic tradition in which Islam is not a foreign non-European religion but a reformist offshoot of Judeo-Christianity.

    Like Muhammad, Blake is a revolutionary prophet who, inspired by his conversations with the angel Gabriel, supplements Christianity with a new revelation about the inherent holiness of sex and the body. In treating Islam as a living tradition that anticipated the Protestant Reformation and includes Blake, Brown denies an essentialist logic that ascribes this religion to Arabs only.

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    For him, Islam is a universal response to church-state corruption rather than an exotic religion distinct from Judaism and Christianity, and is therefore not reducible to a fixed set of doctrinal beliefs or to any specific geographical locale....

    ..................

     that is the bit of intro of his paper ., good one to read

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb9ZsDIeruE

    Dr. Garcia    lectures (University of California) answered this question by focusing on the life of the Mughal emissary Mirza Shekh I’tesamuddin (1730-1800), who wrote a Persian travelogue, Shigarf-nama-i Vilayat (“The Wonders of Vilayet/Europe”), based on his visit to Britain in 1766-68.  He is famous for his book on Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #496 - December 04, 2019, 05:18 PM
    Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/ccsahner/status/1202214978109034501
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    This is an exciting (and potentially controversial) finding because it suggests that the emergence of an Arab, Muslim majority in the the Fayyūm owed not to the arrival of outside nomads, but to cultural and religious "costume changes" within the native Coptic population

    Put simply, most of the "Arabs" of the Fayyūm may have simply been "ex-Copts." Something similar probably happened in other parts of the Middle East where Islamization and Arabization occurred as a kind of one-two punch (e.g., #Spain, North Africa, #Syria, #Iraq, etc.)

    This sheds light on a much bigger historical point: On the eve of #Islam in the 7th c., relatively few people across the Middle East considered themselves to be Arabs (they were #Berbers, #Copts, Himyarites, Aramaeans, #Persians, etc.)

    But in the modern day, many descendants of these same people regard themselves as #Arabs, speak #Arabic, and are #Muslims. Considering that very few ancient peoples were displaced by the #Arab conquests, and that relatively few Arabs settled across the M.E. at this point ...

    We are left to wonder: How did everyone suddenly become an Arab?

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #497 - December 10, 2019, 06:18 PM
    Who preserved Greek literature?

    https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2019/12/who-preserved-greek-literature.html?m=1
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #498 - December 10, 2019, 06:24 PM
    Quote from: zeca on December 10, 2019, 06:18 PM
    Who preserved Greek literature?

    https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2019/12/who-preserved-greek-literature.html?m=1

    Hmm., Arabs preserved Greek literature?? WHO WAS ARAB at that time??.. and was he/were they Muslim Arabs? Non-Muslim Arabs??
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #499 - December 12, 2019, 10:52 PM
    Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/NaqadStudies/status/1204952892907675649
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    Dr Myrian Rosen-Ayalon, Mayer professor of Islamic Art and Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, demonstrated many stylistic continuities between Nabatean art of Late Antiquity and the Umayyad period (mid 7th-mid 8th c CE).

    Let's briefly explore just one similarity.

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #500 - December 18, 2019, 04:44 PM
    Kecia Ali - Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: The Handmaiden’s Tale

    https://islamiclaw.blog/2019/12/06/muwaṭṭaʾ-roundtable-the-handmaidens-tale/
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    As someone who researches and teaches about early Islamic law, I have longed for a translation of the Muwaṭṭaʾ which renders legal terminology with consistency and precision, suitable for skimming, quoting, recommending to interested lay readers, and assigning to students. There have been two “nonacademic” English translations, primarily aimed at “pious Muslims” (2). The first, published in 1985, appeared in Pakistan; the second, by Ayesha Bewley in the U.K. in 1989. Neither is well-suited to classroom use. Of the two, I’ve had more recourse to Bewley’s version over the years. Though generally clear, it occasionally misrepresents points of law. This new translation involves Mālikī law experts and so avoids that pitfall. Yet it presents other challenges for scholars and teachers, especially in its euphemistic rendering of references to enslaved women and girls...


    Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/waraqamusa/status/1207133386420244480
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #501 - December 23, 2019, 03:17 PM
    Thread of threads: https://mobile.twitter.com/docstobar/status/1208552628579377152
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    Here are all of my threads for @HistorianofIran on the topic of Iran and global spirituality:

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #502 - December 31, 2019, 01:05 PM
    Adam Gacek - Arabic Manuscripts: A Vademecum for Readers

    https://ia601609.us.archive.org/7/items/ArabicManuscriptsAVademecumForReadersHandbookOfOrient/Arabic-Manuscripts-a-Vademecum-for-Readers-Handbook-of-Orient.pdf
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #503 - January 05, 2020, 11:19 PM
    Anthony Kaldellis podcast - The case for Shenute the Great and the Coptic tradition

    https://byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/13-the-case-for-shenute-the-great-and-the-coptic-tradition-with-sofia-torallas-tovar-and-david-brakke/
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    A conversation with Sofia Torallas Tovar (University of Chicago) and David Brakke (The Ohio State University) about Coptic Egypt, the life and works of Shenute the Great, and how Coptic and Byzantine Studies can talk more with each other, just as the people they study talked to each other in the fourth-seventh centuries.

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #504 - January 30, 2020, 06:11 PM
    S J Pearce - The Myth of the Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: The Extreme Right and the American Revision of the History and Historiography of Medieval Spain

    https://www.academia.edu/41779498/The_Myth_of_the_Myth_of_the_Andalusian_Paradise_The_Extreme_Right_and_the_American_Revision_of_the_History_and_Historiography_of_Medieval_Spain


    Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/homophonous/status/1222717262676877313
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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #505 - January 30, 2020, 11:26 PM
    Anthony Kaldellis podcast - The Parthenon mosque, with Elizabeth Key Fowden

    https://byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/16-the-parthenon-mosque-with-elizabeth-key-fowden/
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    A conversation with Elizabeth Key Fowden (University of Cambridge) on the Parthenon mosque and Athens under the Ottomans. When the Parthenon was done being a Christian church (which lasted from the fifth to the fifteenth century), it became a mosque, but little has been written about that phase of its history. Fascinating new sources are now coming to light. Elizabeth is writing a book on the topic; for now, see her article 'The Parthenon, Pericles and King Solomon: A Case Study of Ottoman Archaeological Imagination in Greece,' Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 42 (2018) 261-274.



    Also this talk by Anthony Kaldellis on the Christian Parthenon (scroll down to ‘A Heretical History of the Parthenon’):

    https://onassisusa.org/education/academic-programs-webcasts   
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    Professor Kaldellis examines the fusion of pagan and Christian culture that took place in Athens and makes the argument that paradoxically the Parthenon was more important as a church than it had been as a temple...

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #506 - January 30, 2020, 11:40 PM
    Elizabeth Key Fowden - The Parthenon, Pericles and King Solomon: A Case Study of Ottoman Archaeological Imagination in Greece

    https://www.academia.edu/38477417/Fowden_The_Parthenon_Pericles_and_King_Solomon_BMGS.pdf
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    What made Athens different from other multi-layered cities absorbed into the Ottoman Empire was the strength of its ancient reputation for learning that echoed across the Arabic and Ottoman worlds. But not only sages were remembered and Islamized in Athens; sometimes political figures were too. In the early eighteenth century a mufti of Athens, Mahmud Efendi, wrote a rarely studied History of the City of Sages (Tarih-i Medinetü’l- Hukema) in which he transformed Pericles into a wise leader on a par with the Qur’anic King Solomon and linked the Parthenon mosque to Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem.

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #507 - May 05, 2020, 09:24 PM
    Touraj Daryaee and Khodadad Rezakhani - From Oxus to Euphrates: The World of Late Antique Iran

    https://www.academia.edu/42905410/From_Oxus_to_Euphrates_The_World_of_Late_Antique_Iran
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    This book is meant to be a brief introduction to the Iranian World for those interested in history of late antiquity, and in turn, an introduction to late antique historiography for those more intimately familiar with Iranian history. Late Antiquity – a relatively recent chronological demarcation of the history of the first millennium CE – is commonly studied in the context of the Mediterranean World and in particular the empire of Rome and its continuation in Byzantium. More recently, however, many have argued for a need to consider the history of the Near East, including Iran, in the same context, giving equal attention to the political and cultural boundaries of the Sasanian Empire.We hope that this book would raise interest in a civilization that is foundational to the medieval and modern Near East and whose history is often studied merely as a footnote to Roman or Islamic histories.

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  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #508 - May 05, 2020, 09:59 PM
    Quote from: zeca on January 30, 2020, 06:11 PM
    S J Pearce - The Myth of the Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: The Extreme Right and the American Revision of the History and Historiography of Medieval Spain

    https://www.academia.edu/41779498/The_Myth_of_the_Myth_of_the_Andalusian_Paradise_The_Extreme_Right_and_the_American_Revision_of_the_History_and_Historiography_of_Medieval_Spain


    Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/homophonous/status/1222717262676877313

    Interesting counter attack of a she-white leftist who feels the soil cracking under her feet. Nihil nove sub sole.
  • Random Islamic History Posts
     Reply #509 - May 05, 2020, 10:12 PM
    Archimedes Palimpsest tells a fascinating tale of one of his lost works being preserved by monks! The work was scraped off and rewritten on as a prayer book. Modern technology means we can read the original!
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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