What If the Arabian Empire Reunited Today?

[HannibalBarca]

@HannibalBarca : fascinating read, Battuta. Dunn's commentary provides needed context.

But especially illuminating for the purposes of this thread is how it was impossible to hold a united Muslim India together: the stronger a Muslim ruler became the more he oppressively taxed the native populace, thus eliminating their incentives to save and produce, resulting in famine and giving his governors every incentive to revolt by promising the people easier terms, or at least hope. Then the cycle would start again...

That's the Endless cycle of "Societies"... that's why everything will end the same...whatever the type of society it is... Demos or not... Religious based or not... Kingdom or not... etc...
Since the only condition that all of them share...is... it's Man-Made ...

Glad you liked it... Now enjoy those two

- An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades; Memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh

- Al Muqaddima Ibn Khaldoun

 

[Solomon2]

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Glad you liked it... Now enjoy those two

Not finished yet. Do qadis today see Battuta as a role model?

 

[HannibalBarca]

Not finished yet. Do qadis today see Battuta as a role model?

Tbh... I don't know... Maybe some...if they had the chance to read him...

 

[Saif al-Arab]

That's the Endless cycle of "Societies"... that's why everything will end the same...whatever the type of society it is... Demos or not... Religious based or not... Kingdom or not... etc...
Since the only condition that all of them share...is... it's Man-Made ...

Glad you liked it... Now enjoy those two

- An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades; Memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh

- Al Muqaddima Ibn Khaldoun

Those two are classics. Try reading the original versions in Arabic. It adds another dimension.

Anyway I wish that there was more literature in English about the many (unrivaled in numbers anywhere in the Muslim world) independent sheikdoms, emirates, sultanates, imamates and kingdoms in the Arab world other than the most famous ones and caliphates such as Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid.

 

[Halimi]

An 'Arabian Empire' is impossible.

The 'Arab World', largely synonymous with the Middle East, is an ethnically-diverse and interconnected region at the crossroads of the world, and trying to collapse a geographic and political entity upon the Arab ethnicity is simply not viable, unless you want to commit acts of genocide and upturn the region's history.

A Middle Eastern unity is possible only with a readiness to bring in a multitude of ethnicity and faith groups: Arabs, Jews, Kurds, Armenians, Berbers, Turks, Africans and so on.

And that's why this is the most beautiful region on earth.

 

[313ghazi]

Learn from the example of RasoolAllah (saws). We don't need empires based on ethnicity or race, we need brotherhood based on faith. Once we have that the empire will build itself. Start with your families and expand outwards.

 

[Deidara]

What if the Arabian empire reunited today ?
All Pakistanis will apply for citizenship.