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is it really social distancing if we are all surrounded by the djinn
couldn’t help myself #quarantinethoughts
if you’re bored remember I’m doing a thread on famous wizards, sorceresses, and magic workers from the Middle East tomorrow.

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Ali A Olomi
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Mages, sorcerers, sorceresses, and magic-workers rose to great prominence in Middle Eastern history. Claiming fantastic powers, these figures consulted kings, worked miracles, and became legendary.

A thread on the magic-workers of the Middle East and Islamic world
There were several pre-Islamic soothsayers and jinn conjurers that earned mighty reputations among later Muslim writers.

One was the monstrous, Satih the Boneless. A Damascene he was said to have no bones except for a skull, he was consulted by the King of the Sassanians
The magical soothsayer is reputed to have warned that a prophet was to come from Arabia to bring the Sassanian empire to an end.

Another pre-Islamic prophetess also predicted the coming of Muhammad, Fatimah bint Nu’man was said to possess a jinn familiar or reya
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Ali A Olomi
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Just as Merlin is famous in European lore as a great wizard, so too do we find mages, witches, sorcerers, and sorceresses in the Middle East and Islamic world.

A thread on the legendary and historic magic-workers of the Middle East
One of the most famous jinn-binders of his day, Muhammad al Tabasi lived in the 10th-11th century. He is accredited with highly popular works on conjuration and sorcery.

He was once asked to demonstrate his power and so conjured a jinn for all to see.
The jinn appeared as a smoke-like being in broad daylight.

He was said to be skilled in the art of talisman-making and conversed with the jinn regularly
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Ali A Olomi
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay

A quick thread on the North African prophetess queen, Al Kahina who fought against the Ummayd armies with the skills of a warrior and the powers of a sorceress
Al Kahina, or Dihya, was an Amazigh queen ruling over a territory in modern day Algeria. She fought against the invading Umayyad armies led by Hasan ibn al Nu’man.

Defeating him time and time again she gained a reputation of using magic and prophecy to win
With foresight she could predict the tides of the battle, birds were said to warn her of the movement of her enemies, and one time she set fire to the grass and used the wind to direct it into enemy lines.
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If the sheer number of people expected to attend did not scare you, read the above line again. PEOPLE WILL BATHE IN THE RIVER.

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