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Was Hitler a vegetarian?
Was Hitler a vegetarian? According to biomedical analysis of Hitler’s remains, the answer is yes. Additionally, because Nazi leaders were vegetarians, the first “vegetarian burger” was produced in Nazi Germany in 1940.
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Origins of Fascism (Prof. Passmore)
Secular religions included, for instance, the republicanism of Mazzini. Notwithstanding this distinction, Gentile tends also to make any pre-1914 secular religion into a forerunner of fascism, while other sources of fascism become ‘secondary’, or ‘circumstantial’ (E. Gentile, ‘The Conquest of Modernity: From Modernist Nationalism to Fascism’, Modernism-Modernity, 1 (1994), 55–87). He regards the search for…
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People are worth more than animals, but some animals are worth more than others (Prof. Kagan)
Article According to this view, otherwise similar harms or benefits for people and animals count equally from the moral point of view. “Pain is pain,” as the point is sometimes put (Singer, Animal Liberation, p. 20; DeGrazia, Taking Animals Seriously, p. 234). In this sense, animals and people can be said to have the same…
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Abraha’s Christology (Prof. Segovia)
Article (Around 525, or 531 (Robin 2012b: 283-4), Ǝllä Aṣbǝḥa Kaleb (Greek Hellestheaios), king of Aksūm, defeated the self-proclaimed (in 521 or 522) Jewish king of Ḥimyar Yūsuf As’ar Yaṯ’ar (Greek Dounaas, Arabic ḏū Nuwās), who following his rise to power had the Aksumite garrison in Ẓafār killed, Ẓafār’s church destroyed, the coastal regions of…
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Abraha & the Expedition (Greg Fisher)
The historicity of an expedition of Abraha against Mecca, and its resounding failure, does, however, appear plausible, because such an event provides an acceptable explanation for the primacy of Quraysh in the last decades of the sixth century, while this tribe, settled in an inhospitable region, was notoriously small in numbers and lived in poverty.…
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Elephants & Aksumite Kingdom (Michael Charles)
Article A study where the Aksumite kingdom used elephants for war and had access to them during the 6th century when the expedition is said to have taken place
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Yaṯrib & Abraha
‹Yṯrb› is basically Yaṯrib And so, we have an inscription in Najrān mentioning that Abraha went to Yaṯrib in his expedition
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Other Elephant Inscriptions
A. Muhammad Al-Maghdawi,
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Elephant Inscriptions (Deroche, Robin)
Fig. 1 – Arabia on the eve of Islam, with the illustration of two ÿimyarite campaigns known from inscriptions, those of kings Maÿdÿkarib Yaÿfur (521, continuous line) and Abraha (552, broken line). Another very important document (Murayghÿn 1 = Ry 506) commemorates a “fourth” expedition of Abraha into desert Arabia. The king had it engraved…
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Was there a “Bedouinization of Arabia”? (Prof. Macdonald)
Article Some sixty years ago, Werner Caskel produced a theory which he called “the Bedouinization of Arabia”. For a man who had devoted so much of his career to the study of pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabia, it was based on a shock ingly superficial, and often incorrect, view of a very limited amount of…