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A depiction of Khusraw sharing his poems with a few followers later on in life. (Simerg) On this day in 1046, Isma'ili writer Nasir Khusraw embarked on a seven-year exploration of the Middle East. Born in Bactria (now Tajikistan), Khusraw worked as a tax collector there until he experienced a crisis of faith. Struggling to…
Muhammad Ali (soon Pasha) watches from the Citadel as the remaining Mamluks are massacred by his Albanian mercenaries. (Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1811, the Massacre of the Citadel took place in Cairo, Egypt. A brutal civil war was underway in the country following Napoleon's failed 1798 invasion, and the power vacuum created by…
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