Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #Ismaili

Most recents (4)

Thread about Taliban war crimes 1990s.

Several massacres are documented by Human Rights Watch & other independent observers in which Taliban terrorists carried out targeted attacks against Hazaras, Uzbeks and Tajiks.

#DoNotRecogniseTaliban
@hrw, July, 1999: Taliban bombed the town of Dara-i Suf, a predominantly Hazara enclave in Samangan, with incendiary cluster munitions; ground forces burned down the entire central market and destroyed wells and homes. Later 500 Hazaras were killed by Taliban. #TalibanWarCrimes
According to @hrw in May 2000 Taliban forces summarily executed at least thirty-one Ismaili Hazara civilians near #RobatakPass, northwest of Pul-i Khumri in Baghlan province.
#Ismaili #hazaragenocide
Read 16 tweets
Taliban Massacred 14 members of Hazara community which includes 12 former members of ANDSF, plus 2 civilians including an eight YO girl. Incident took place in Khedir district of #Daikundi province after ANDSF members handed over their weapons to taliban.
Yesterday @EzzatMehrdad also reported about this incident.

Taliban amnesty = target killing when there are no international media around.
Here is the link to the Washtington Post journalist's report about this massacre
Read 19 tweets
#EidGhadir is widely celebrated not just by #Twelver but also #Ismaili and #Zaydi #Shia - the impact on the arts is also considerable 1/
Extensively in painting (and let’s not even bother with the so called prohibitions on figuration) such as classic illustrations on manuscripts and #Farschian 2/
But one of the best ways in which the actual words of the event are memorialised and enacted is the #qawwali in #Hindustani culture #من_کنت_مولاه_فهذا_علی_مولاه 3/
Read 12 tweets
More #ShiiTheology commentary by a little known 9/15th century #SayyidAbdalWahhabAstarabadi on #NasiralDinTusi (d. 672/1274) pithy four chapters on divine simplicity, prophecy, the Imamate, and the afterlife published by the shrine of #ImamHusayn 1/ Image
Precious commentaries included #Tusi contemporary #MaythamalBahrani (d. 699/1300), #MiqdadalSiyuri (d. 826/1423) but the work was a mainstay of the #Hilla school of #ShiiTheology 2/
Of course the #Fusul of #Tusi is often thought to have first been penned in his #Ismaili phase in #Persian although most of the commentaries are in #Arabic following the Arabic translation of Rukn al-Din Hilli student of the famous #’Allama_Hilli 3/
Read 10 tweets

Related hashtags

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!