Religions history
The Geopolitics of Theology: The Iran-Rome Wars and Islam
Religions history
The Geopolitics of Theology: The Iran-Rome Wars and Islam
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What is İbrahim Kalın saying?
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Iran’s Never-Ending 20th Century
The Geopolitics of Theology: The Iran-Rome Wars and Islam
Safavidism, like Zoroastrianism’s reaction against India, first developed as a reaction to Mongol remnants. Later, the ancient geopolitical Iran–Rome dialectic reemerged, leading to the Ottoman-Iran wars. Safavid Shiism fully defined itself as Iran’s war against Rome. These wars, lasting until the mid-18th century, ended with the victory of the Ottomans (the Muslim Rome).
What is İbrahim Kalın saying?
By stepping away from the context of the speech on which this article is based, we may ask ourselves whether we can free ourselves from our habits or preconceptions in the face of the situation we are confronting today. When unforeseen decisions and necessities arise on the social level before Ankara, will we remain confined within the limits of our thinking, or will we shape our mental boundaries with our own truth and build peace in our geography? That is the real issue…
Iran’s Never-Ending 20th Century
Today, Iran, under attack from imperialist and arrogant forces, has transformed into a state that is crumbling but whose silhouette remains standing from its ruins, paralyzed but somehow functioning, having lost its legitimacy but maintaining its power, without friends but finding support from geopolitical balances. Therefore, what the United States and Israel are waging war against is the silhouette of a stalled, even collapsed, Iran. It is not possible to change this silhouette through external intervention.
Human as Symbol-Maker: Animal Symbolicum
With the rise of modernity, which gathered momentum with the Enlightenment—and particularly under the influence of evolutionary theory—the traditional anthropological understanding that sought to interpret the universe by placing the human being at its center gave way to a naturalistic view that attempted to explain the human being on the basis of the physical knowledge he had produced about the universe.
An Unusual Deviance: Child Sacrifice
It is said that God sent many prophets to guide the Jewish people to the right path. However, as clearly stated in the Torah, Jewish kings, the wealthy, and religious leaders continually strayed into deviance despite the messages of these prophets—indeed, they even killed many of them. The most well-known of these deviations was sacrificing children to their idols.
The Geopolitics of Theology: The Iran-Rome Wars and Islam
Safavidism, like Zoroastrianism’s reaction against India, first developed as a reaction to Mongol remnants. Later, the ancient geopolitical Iran–Rome dialectic reemerged, leading to the Ottoman-Iran wars. Safavid Shiism fully defined itself as Iran’s war against Rome. These wars, lasting until the mid-18th century, ended with the victory of the Ottomans (the Muslim Rome).
What is İbrahim Kalın saying?
By stepping away from the context of the speech on which this article is based, we may ask ourselves whether we can free ourselves from our habits or preconceptions in the face of the situation we are confronting today. When unforeseen decisions and necessities arise on the social level before Ankara, will we remain confined within the limits of our thinking, or will we shape our mental boundaries with our own truth and build peace in our geography? That is the real issue…