Posts tagged Constantinople
Bridging the Gap: How a Greek University is Supporting Thessaloniki’s Muslims
Bridging the Gap: How a Greek University is Supporting Thessaloniki’s Muslims

Some Muslims, Jews and other religious minorities in Thessaloniki also believe the city has found harmony between Abrahamic faiths in the past and can do so again. And one such olive branch toward religious understanding is taking root at the School of Theology in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which is the first Greek university to implement an academic program on Islamic studies.

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Christianity, Solutions, Travel, The State of Religion, Society, Religious Freedom, Religious Equality, Religion, Primary Feature, Politics, Orthodox, Islam, History, EducationPuneet BsantiPuneet Bsanti, Thessaloniki, Muslims, Greece, Greek, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Islamic Studies, Ioannis Kiourtsoglou, Greek Empire, Thessalonians, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire, Abbasid Caliphate, Ottomans, Ottoman Empire, Turkish, Greek Orthodox, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Dimitris Kairidis, hioros, Nikos Maghioros, Hagia Sophia Christian Church, Primary Feature, Primary feature, News, Secondary feature, recharge, RechargeComment
White Supremacists And QAnon Enthusiasts Are Obsessed – But Wrong – About The Byzantine Empire
White Supremacists And QAnon Enthusiasts Are Obsessed – But Wrong – About The Byzantine Empire

(ANALYSIS) Medieval imagery has been on display repeatedly at far-right rallies and riots. Conspiracy theorists may love to use the symbols, but they fundamentally misunderstand the Byzantine Empire.

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Analysis, North America, NewsRoland BetancourtRoland Betancourt, QAnon, white supremacist, white supremacy, The Conversation, Byzantine, Charlottesville, Crusader, Byzantine Empire, Roman Empire, Istanbul, Hagia Sophia, The New Byzantium, 8kun, Constantinople, analysis, Secondary FeatureComment
Turkey is moving toward a neo-Ottoman regime with calls to convert Hagia Sophia
Turkey is moving toward a neo-Ottoman regime with calls to convert Hagia Sophia

(OPINION) With Turkey President Erdoğan’s AKP party having suffered losses in municipal elections, his response to these drawbacks has been to emphasize his Sunni-Islamic credentials and to link these to the restoration of the splendors of the Ottoman Empire. One aspect of this propaganda effort has been to threaten the status of Hagia Sophia.

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Opinion, Middle EastPaul MarshallPaul Marshall, Hagia Sophia, Turkey, Christianity, Islam, Catholicism, Erdogan, Protestant, Ottoman, Constantinople, Istanbul, Religious Freedom Comment