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Reading a story on theatlantic.com concerning the death of
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader (well, former leader) of ISIS. It includes information about his philosophical predecessor, back in the 1200s.
Reading a story on theatlantic.com concerning the death of
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader (well, former leader) of ISIS. It includes information about his philosophical predecessor, back in the 1200s.
And now, like the Abbasids, he is dead—smashed to bits, according to Trump, by a self-detonated suicide vest. (His death was less tidy than that of his immediate Abbasid predecessor, al-Musta’sim Billah, 1213–58. The Mongols who deposed him believed that splattering his blood on the streets of Baghdad would bring bad luck, so they wrapped him in a carpet and stampeded their horses over it until his corpse was nicely tenderized.
