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Fatimid History
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Historian of West Asia and the Persianate world with a focus on the Fatimids. Subscribe here https://fatimid.substack.com?r=4szyls&utm_medium=ios
Really sorry to hear Yan. I hope you get a lot more from elsewhere.
March 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Indeed!
February 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I am not trying to make a point. I genuinely don’t know. I know Cordoba was a big city and other cities were big too in Muslim Iberia. But Paris, London, were small. Venice, Palermo?
January 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
What’s the rival city outside of Iberia in the Middle Ages?
January 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
But it was perhaps the largest city in Europe for some time?
January 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I am coming to it from a lot of struggle with programming language. What it offers is pretty cool. Actually it will ask you to paste your csv. Or it will ask to give you a sample and will offer a script to deal with the problem :)
January 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
True. Though DeepSeek’s thinking process which is shown in realtime looks impressive. I asked it to look at a badly structured URI’s and extract only the relevant parts and it did a good job at extracting and converting those with little context.
January 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I guess both. I don’t know how these ranking work. Of course it is said that Deepseek is very efficient (it’s as efficient if not better I think) and that share in US firms has just drops. On the other hand tech billionaires seem to be quite about it while some dismissed DeepSeek. Lots of ????
January 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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If you want to know why I’ve spent so much time thinking about camels (apart from their inherent excellence) follow the link below for a story of international relations, Biblical PR and many, many camels

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How is the Emir of Cordoba like the Queen of Sheba?
When in 865 Emir Muhammad I of Cordoba (r. 852-886) sent back the Frankish envoys he had received from Charles the Bald (r. 843-877) the previous year, he entrusted them with a number of gifts, whi…
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December 30, 2024 at 9:31 AM
This one for the top spot: ex-Shii Muslims accusing another ex-Shii Muslim of practicing taqiye (sic) - disguising his actual Islamist beliefs (the modus operandi for Islamists according to these lunatics) without any sense of irony.
December 22, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Hello! Me too.
November 29, 2024 at 9:47 PM