Tag Archives: Khwarezm

Burnley Literary Festival (2016) day 7 – Sufi Music

Posted on December 9, 2018 by TP Archie

The following has been rewritten from fragments / reconstructed following some difficulties with a Windows 10 upgrade that deleted my profile nearly 2 years back. Rumi and The Wings of Love Be in the world but not of it, so … Continue reading →

Posted in General, History, Opinion, Philosophy, Review, Writing | Tagged Burnley Literary Festival, Genghis Khan, Juvaini, Khwarezm, Rumi, Sufis in Burnley, Tajiks, The Mechanics, The Turks, Turco-Mongol, Whirling Dervishes | 1 Comment

What kind of detail do you consider when Creating a Fantasy World or an SF Universe?

Posted on March 28, 2015 by TP Archie

It’s time for another go at this. What is world creation? For several months now I’ve been reading Juvaini’s The History of The World-Conqueror. This work is relatively unknown in the West and was written as an account of the … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Opinion, Writing | Tagged Baghdad, Doris Lessing, Genghis Khan, Golden Age of Islam, History of the World Conqueror, Idries Shah, Juvaini, Khwarezm, Origins of the West, Philip K Dick, the Silk Road, Turco-Mongol, World Creation | 1 Comment

The Origins of the West

Posted on June 9, 2014 by TP Archie

The Origins of the West are complex.

Posted in History, Writing | Tagged Ain Jalut, Baghdad, Baibars, battle of Ain Jalut, Berke, Cumans, Golden Horde, Hülegü, Il-Khanate, Islam, Khwarezm, Mamluks, Mongols, Origins of the West, Polovtsy, Qutuz, The Crusades, The Poetics, What to write | Leave a comment

What is Zaporozhian?

Posted on April 14, 2014 by TP Archie

I was going to deal with this today but a number of pressing business issues came up leaving me with very little time. The answer to this question is more than just a question of history. Of necessity, I’m going … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged City Dweller, Deluge, East Slav, EU, Europe, Golden Horde, History, Jin, Kazakhs, Khwarezm, Kiev, Kievan Rus, Mongols, Moscow, Noble nomad, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Rossiya, Russia, Sich, Sung, Tatars, The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Tver, Ukraine, Wild Fields, Zaporozhian | 1 Comment

Russia in the long term

Posted on March 16, 2014 by TP Archie

This is about how the dearth of strong regional civilisations near to Russia gives it a free hand, in for example, the Ukraine – Crimea crisis. A couple of weeks back, I posted Were you paying attention to history in … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Balkh, Bukhara, China, City Dweller, Crimea, India, Iran, Islam, Kazakhs, Khwarezm, Old Urgench, Prophecy, Russia, Samarkand, Tajiks, Ukraine, US | Leave a comment

In Case you weren’t Paying Attention in Class

Posted on February 26, 2014 by TP Archie

Here’s a couple of maps and some notes to follow on from Who were the Khwarezmians? In Context… at this time, the last city of the Romans; Byzantium, had just been sacked by the Fourth Crusade. It was incredibly wealthy … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Big European Cities, Cordoba, Florence, Khwarezm, Mongols, Roman, Thirteenth Century Cities, Venice | Leave a comment

Who were the Khwarezmians?

Posted on February 25, 2014 by TP Archie

The answer to this lies in a comment of Kirakos Ganjaketsis in his History Of The Armenians; where he refers to Baghdad as a Tachik city. Tachik or Tajik means city dweller When the Mongols came for Baghdad, they sent … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Abbasid, History, History Of The Armenians, Khwarezm, Kirakos Ganjaketsis, Mongol, Rome, Tachik, Tajiks | Leave a comment

Easter 2013

Posted on April 3, 2013 by TP Archie

Intermittent Diary 23/03/2013 My Telegraph Blog There’s Snow Up North 25/03/2013 My Telegraph Blog Nine Princes in Amber – Roger Zelazny 26/03/2013 Begin to research Lucky. 27/03/2013 Writing – Begin Lucky. I expect this will be about 2,000 words long. … Continue reading →