Glossary
The people's identity memory as encoded in the Bible rather than merely lived tradition.
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historical memory
The people's identity memory as encoded in the Bible rather than merely lived tradition.
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diagnosis
Jiang's first answer to missing early records is that Islam began as a revolution against the social order and later had incentives to hide that revolutionary origin.
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Jiang treats Viking funerals as central institutions of historical memory: elaborate, communal, sacrificial events that made the dead person's story part of the community.
definition
He repeats a moral-political claim that US intervention in Iraq and Iran history erodes credibility for future interventionism narratives.
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"...action they wanted. I do think that we have quite long memories here of what happened with Iraq, where we were assured that Saddam..."
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"We have millions of people who are signing up to get visas to come to the United States. They don't want to go to..."
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"...the last thing is this. The last thing is that their historical memory is the Bible. Who are we as Jewish people? What are..."
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"Okay? It is overturning the social order. The problem though is that eventually Islam will become the social order. So you obviously don't want..."
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"...was what they remember the most. Funerals are what contributed to historical memory in the Viking world. As you can see this funeral is..."
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"And this happened in the Viking Rus. So this is diplomat and traveler by the name of Ahmad ibn Badlan. And he is from..."
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"The third thing is he is writing this down after the fact. And if you do that what often happens is that you will..."
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"...really a founder of English culture. And he established his English historical memory, OK?"
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"...lot of their tradition and heritage, including their mythologies and their historical memory. The Vikings were perceived as barbarians by the Christians. And because..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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