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The student comment adds that Baghdad's cultural openness and ability to bridge traditions helped explain Islamic creativity beyond religion alone.
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Baghdad
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Jiang applies Doug's point to Islam: when the Islamic empire shifted its capital to Baghdad, it became a multicultural universal empire forced to absorb different traditions and cultures.
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Jiang contends that Jews and Muslims historically coexisted well in the Middle East, that Christian powers were more central to anti-Jewish persecution, and that the Zionist project later redirected Jewish populations toward Israel through fear and violence.
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Jiang says that after 1948 Israel faced a manpower problem and cites rumored or argued false-flag attacks in Baghdad as a mechanism that pushed Iraqi Jews toward Israel.
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"...the 1950s and the 1940s uh the jews were welcome in baghdad they were welcome in tehran they were welcome throughout the middle middle..."
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"...And you need laborers. OK? So what's happening was that in Baghdad, where there was a very large Jewish diaspora, and they were very..."
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"...the talisman that comes afterwards as Professor said it moves through Baghdad. And right now we think of Baghdad and Iraq as a place...."
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"and bridge traditions in a way that isn't or in western Europe you know"
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"...where the new Islamic empire when they shifted their capital to Baghdad they now became a global empire and as such they had to..."
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"...a Mayan and you visited Europe, if you were living in Baghdad and you visited Europe, if you were living in China and you..."
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"...decapitation strike. And so what they did was they went into Baghdad, seized Baghdad, and the regime collapsed, and the war was over."
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"...this theory. I haven't. Right. So 2003, the Americans went to Baghdad and they took control of the government and then access to all..."
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"...that's when Trump ordered the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad. And this was clearly an act of war. And it seemed as..."
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"air supremacy very quickly and they rolled into Baghdad in a very, very quickly and toppled the regime. So that was a very quick..."
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"...places in Britain, and you might think you're in Cairo or Baghdad. And this has caused tremendous conflict throughout Europe. I wouldn't be surprised..."
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"...on the news you saw these americans doing thunder runs in baghdad it was good optics but what was not reported was that the..."
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