/u/jurble's posts
What was the opinion of the Islamic scholars, the 'ulema, and the wider Muslim community towards sending kids to Western missionary schools in colonial times?
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Reading a book on ancient India, it seems there are no chronicular native histories and much of what is known has to be reconstructed from references in non-historical texts (religious texts, plays, treatises, etc). But what did these texts use as a reference?
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According to the Wikipedia article on Grendel's mother, Grendel's mother is referred to by a word that could mean she was a valkyrie or a goddess. If this were the case, how would that square with Beowulf being a poem composed in pagan times and then written down by Christians?
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The British aristocracy and gentry smashed their castles and built country houses and then demolished those because inheritance taxes on them were too high. Did a similar process play out in other European countries or were castles, mansions and manors better preserved?
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I've encountered on a Reddit (a) user(s) arguing that Chan and its Japanese counterpart Zen are not Buddhism. Was this a position taken by historical practitioners/masters of Chan or Zen Buddhism?
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How did Ataturk's Turkish language reforms impact the Turkish-speaking minorities of Iraq, Syria and elsewhere? Do their dialects resemble pre-reform Turkish in anyway?
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What's the deal with Syria's dead cities? Why were they abandoned and why wasn't the area resettled?
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Wikipedia says that Babylonian and Assyrian records referred to Arabs as Ishmaelites. What does this imply? Was this adopted from Jewish mythology or were Abraham and Ishmael possibly inherited into Jewish/Israelite tradition from earlier proto-Semitic mythology?
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