Finally, end the Obama Middle East strategy of creating daylight between Israel and the United States while trying to curry favor with Iran’s rulers. As history has shown, it empowers our adversaries and undermines our allies. The writer is the director of MEPIN (Middle East Political Inform...
among the most eminent historians of the Middle East, a lifelong student of Jews and Islam and himself a Jew, reflected on the 14 centuries of Jewish life under Islamic rule since Muhammad. He concluded that the situation of Jews living under Islamic rulers ‘...
During the 9th century, Arab control weakened and Iran broke into a small number of kingdoms under various Iranian rulers. But soon a new enemy emerged on the horizon. By the mid-11th century, Seljuk Turks from Turkistan had conquered most of Iran. The Seljuks and other Turkish tribes ...
And, the throne of Sicily having later passed to the rulers of Aragon, King Felipe of Spain includes “King of Jerusalem” amongst his many titles. I’m not sure what either the Israelis or the Palestinians make of that. But, effectively, ongoing Latin Christian rule of Jerusalem ended in ...
It seems the rulers of China have no problems with Chinese students and tourists getting knowledge of how western societies work and live by long sojourns in the West – shows great confidence in their system. Peter Wood July 3, 2021 Good Morning, A VERY dangerous man, looking to place ...
The state has long ceased to be an entity attached to the bodies of its rulers . Power no longer lies in persons but in systems, as some of them no doubt realized after they had been barred en mass from spreading their crazed conspiracies on social media. Thankfully, Trump’s brand of...
When it was announced that Spain was now their rulers the people of Louisiana rioted, and when Spanish officials replaced French ones the locals resisted attempts to Hispanicise the French. If anything, the period of Spanish rule saw French identity becoming more prominent. Part of this was ...
Wang Hui, however, concurring with the historian Yu Yingshi, argues that major trends of Qing scholarship were already at work in the late Ming period. In effect, Manchu rulers appropriated late Ming thinkers’ critique of ultra-subjectivism and proposals for reform for their own ends. So ...
Other patronage studies revealed the interests in and substantial support of the mathematical sciences, medicine, philosophy and agriculture in Iran, central Asia and India by the Mongol rulers of Iran, eastern Anatolia and Iraq from the middle of the 13th century to the fourth decade of the 14th...
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