"Our insecurities, fears, and doubts can never be banished by the knowledge of who we are. They can only be banished by the knowledge of 'I AM.'" (Jen Wilkin)
The support of the Jews in the Middle East was vital for the propagation and spread of the word of Muhammad... Leading Jews Jews in the town, pledged their support to Muhammad in return for your guarantees of the mutual defence. - Peter Francopan: The silk roads P. 79
A letter sent in the 1640s by a prominent cleric reports that the new rulers (Muslims) not only did not fight against Christians,'but even commend our religion, show honour to the priests and monasteries and saints of our Lord', and make gifts endowing religious institutions -Peter Francopan: The silk roads P. 82
Ramisht of Siraf in the Persian Gulf ... personally funded new fabric Chinese cloth 'whose value cannot be estimated' according to one account of this period, that was draped over the Ha'ba after the original became damaged. Peter Francopan: The silk roads P. 148
Nishapur was one of the locations that suffered devastation. Every living being from women and children and the elderly to livestock and domestic animals -what that should as the order was given that not even dogs or cats be left alive. All the corpses were piled up in a series of the enormous pyramids as an gruesome warning of the consequences of standing up to the Mongols' Peter Francopan: The silk roads P. 160
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