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moral-autism liked this Years ago, I went to a lecture by the historian Juan Cole in which he argued that modern Islamic extremist groups...
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bamboocounting liked this - Most of the bushido tradition as we know it today (esp. all the quasi-spiritual aspects) are a modern invention....
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unknownthinkingprocesses liked this There’s a classic book about this sort of thing, Hobsbawm & Ranger (eds., 1983), The Invention of Tradition. (I haven’t...