Calling Prithviraj Chauhan A Gurjar King Is An Act Of Identity Grabbing: Rajput Body
A few Gurjar groups have threatened to not permit the screening of Akshay Kumar-starrer movie ‘Prithviraj’, if the emperor is depicted as a Rajput king.
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10 Interesting Facts About Cleopatra Most People Donât Know
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Cleopatra has captivated our imagination for centuries. She is said to have been a beautiful and mysterious seductress that put the political and military titans Julius Caesar and Mark Antony under her spell. While we may never know what Cleopatra looked like or how she was in person, there are some basic facts about her life that are clear: for one, she wielded great power and ruled over one of the greatest kingdoms in the ancient Mediterranean region.
After 2,000 years, historians, writers and Hollywood producers of all sorts continue to attempt molding her enigmatic persona into an image that, more often than not, fits their narratives. Even Augustus, Rome’s first emperor following Julius Caesar’s assassination, attempted to slander her. This, most experts agree, was out of fear for her ability to sway other men of power eventually threatening his position as Emperor of R
The Zanj rebellion of Black slaves, which took place in lower Iraq from 868 to 883 CE, is one of the remarkable episodes of Medieval Islamic history that often goes untold. Much of what we know about the rebellion comes from the historical works of Al-Tabari (
Annals of Prophets and Kings) and Al Mas’udi Murudj al-Dahab.
According to these accounts, in about 869 CE, Ali bin Muhammad, a slave-descended Arab, journeyed into the slave quarters in the marshlands East to Basrah, where Black slaves were employed by large landowners to dig away at the nitrous surface soil, reclaiming the land beneath it for future sugarcane cultivation. It was exacting work, and the slaves were expected to obtain saltpetre from the upper layers of the soil for their master’s profit. Their well-being was often neglected and their oppression was gruesome. Al-Tabari recounts that Ali received an audience among these slaves by claiming that he was an agent acting on behalf of a Caliph’s son. Having alre
What did the Egyptians think of Cleopatra?
In his book “Egyptology: The Missing Millenium”, Okasha el Daly claims that hieroglyphics were decoded several 100 years before Champollion by scholars during the height of the Islamic empire. There was a great interest in retrieving lost knowledge” and they translated every piece of papyrus they could get their hands on.
El Daly maintains that the Arabs referred to Cleopatra VII as the “Virtuous Scholar”. I can t read Arabic, but in the French and German translations, I’ve never seen anything ressembling this term. However, in following up his references, the Arab scholars clearly respected Cleopatra’s accomplishments as defined in the ancient records they translated. There’s a couple of references to Cleopatra the scholar, and a few more as Cleopatra the builder.
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