RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 29, 2021 at 12:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2021 at 12:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Anywho, back to the 7 and 800's. Ironically, had Irene been more effective (or there not been internecine war in europe), things may have gone differently for the umayyid caliphate, which was stuck in it's own war against the abbasid.
-and...ofc, had all four of these factions not been fighting themselves and each other for centuries..it just might have been a bit more difficult for the mongols to sack baghdad in 1258, bringing the golden age of islam to a screeching halt, a disaster from which it would never recover.
All of that is mere history, though, which appears to have no value or utility to whatever it is rattling around in our islamist friends head.
-and...ofc, had all four of these factions not been fighting themselves and each other for centuries..it just might have been a bit more difficult for the mongols to sack baghdad in 1258, bringing the golden age of islam to a screeching halt, a disaster from which it would never recover.
All of that is mere history, though, which appears to have no value or utility to whatever it is rattling around in our islamist friends head.
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