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@AdamWalkerGB
Mar 31, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
[Thread] Early Muslim naval commanders and their strategies on the Mediterranean. I'm reading Avraham Elmakias' newly published book on the 'Naval Commanders of Early Islam'. It's an English translation by Limor Yungman of his Hebrew Ph.D. thesis supervised under Michael Lecker. It approaches the subject through a prosopography of the early Muslim naval commanders. We don't have much research on this subject, though, admittedly, the sources are rather thin. Nevertheless, the research we do have is very useful. For example, ...
Jan 4, 2019 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
[Thread on Khālid b. al-Walīd] @shahanSean opened up a very interesting discussion on Khālid b. al-Walīd as military commander (thank you!). Here are some of my thoughts. Sorry, but it will be very long! I begin by stating the obvious: anyone hoping to discover an extensive overview of the Futuḥāt in a twitter thread will be sadly disappointed. At best, only a few examples can be looked at.