Tag Archives: Abbasids

Return of the Abbasid

  And so yesterday the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham committed another barbarity. A captured American journalist, Steven Sotloff was beheaded on camera as a “message” to America. Presumably this atrocity was ordered by Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi, self-styled “Caliph … Continue reading

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Madinat al-Yasmin (for Damascus)

A Repost Oh, Madinat al-Yasmin! You of the Street called Straight ‘twas on the road to thee that Paul saw  the Christ   Abbasids and Fatimids Seljuks and Mamluks Timur and the Black Death Gone and still you live.   … Continue reading

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