Last week I gave my Twitter/X following a choice of four topics to discuss in celebration of passing 10,000 followers. A substantial plurality wanted to know more about the origins of Islam. Here is that recording. Some amount of repetition was necessary throughout, due to technical difficulties I have edited out of the recording, and because new people were coming into the space. If you hear that a fatwa has been issued against me, this is the reason.
What 'The Left' Still Gets Wrong About Iran
In his 1993 book Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic, Ervand Abrahamian writes that what happened in 1979 was a “bourgeois revolution” all along. Shi’a clergy used leftist rhetoric to frame themselves as saviors of the people from the despotism of the Shah throughout the 1980s, leaving no room for a political left. Indeed, if there was a ‘reign o…
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