Who runs Bayt al-Fann, the Islamic art Twitter account that recently catapulted to 100K followers, posting dazzling threads nearly every single day?

What's the purpose of their project?

How do they post such captivating content every single day?

Well, now we know. A thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/still_reading/status/1615343484491403269

2/ I could never figure out Bayt al-Fann. They're an artist collective? But their tweeting felt like the work of a business: prolific posting, consistent quality, prompt "thank you 🙏❤️" replies and, in the early days, templated DMs inviting [your name] to view the latest thread.

Sadly, I have to boycott @BaytAlFann

They just plagiarized @Internalstrife's article for the 'Muslim kung fu' thread. Then they plagiarized Ziauddin Sardar for their #Qawwali thread.(criticalmuslim.io/qawwali/)

Hausa architecture thread? Plagiarized. (e.g. guardian.ng/life/pre-colon…) Bayt al-Fann consistently takes the art, imagery, scholarship and narrative voices of others, and uses them without permission or acknowledgment - both here and on their website. They've built a 100k following on Twitter alone.

A textbook case of cultural appropriation.

I think if more people could read fiqh texts, fewer people would care what those texts have to say. Sometimes I wonder what people imagine is in these books. Do they think they will find a reassuring explanation for the troubling things they’ve heard quoted from scholars? I’m so sorry.

Singing in mosques: a thread that shouldn't need to exist. 🧵 Singing in a masjid in Gaza

Dear historians of Islamic law:

Please stop describing hitting a wife as "discipline.”

Call it what it literally is. Accuracy matters a lot here, and “discipline” is irresponsibly vague.

A thread. 🧵 By using words like “discipline” to refer to hitting wives, we obscure the meaning of fiqh texts and invite readers to speculate about the meaning of something that should actually be quite clear. We may also be normalizing violence against women.

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