Hi!

Wondering if anybody can help me. Currently writing my dissertation on King John of England and my main issue is lack of primary sources. I have Wendover, Barnwell, Anonymous of Bethune and Howden available to me online but I'm struggling to find others. Any suggestions would be great.

I'm going to be completely honest here: I am writing a paper and although I don't strictly need to know this to write the paper, it would help, and at this point I just really want to know because this is bothering me. If you're curious, the paper is about the administrative, cultural, and intellectual compromises made by the rulers of the Delhi Sultanate that allowed them to govern an overwhelmingly Hindu population while also trying to uphold the Shar'ia.

Ibn Qasim argued that "the idol-temple is similar to the churches of the Christians, to the synagogues of the Jews and to the fire-temples of the Zoroastrians", and the Hanafi legal school just accepted that reasoning?

That seems highly unlikely; the People of the Book are considered to be in submission to God not because their places of worship are similar, but because the prophet they follow received the same revelation as Muhammad. If anyone knows of any Islamic legal scholars who have made that claim regarding Hindus, that would be awesome too.

A liberal interpretation of Sura 2, Ayah 256, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" could justify the treatment of idolaters as people of the book without actually including them in that group, however I know of no point at which that Sura was actually invoked in support of the Brahmanabad Settlement.

You could argue that Albiruni's argument supports the Settlement, but Albiruni wouldn't publish his work on Indian culture and religion for another 300 years, so that's out too.

For the purposes of the paper, in theory I could just gloss over that like every one of the damn authors I'm reading did, but that is distasteful to me. Halp?

I've heard a lot about ancient jokes from the Egyptians and Greeks, but I've never heard anything about humor from the Americas. I'm particularly interested in the MesoAmerican societies, but I'll take anything really.

What did the Native people of this new, vast land say and do for the LOLs?

Edit: C'mon guys, I'll take an "I think all the Aztec knock-knock jokes were erased by the Italians" or something...

You always hear that life expectancy was around 30 years, but I recently read that that's because they factor in infant mortality. So, for example, you have half of the people dying a t 1 year old, half at 60, life expectancy is 30 years. (Obviously I made those numbers up or I wouldn't have a question)

I did a little background on this, and it seems that the rise of the scientific method, or at least quantitative experiments, in Europe pushed Alchemy away from being a serious practice.

I'm aware that the line between the two is blurry, but when and where would it have been known and acknowledged that alchemists and chemists were different?

As in, why did the title of Caliph fall out of favor in the early 20th century [after the fall of the Ottoman Empire] and why have there been no attempts to revive the title?

I thinking of doing my research paper on this topic. I'm interested in learning about pre-ww2 antisemitism.

But searching on the internet for sources is more miss than hit. It's not examined as much as the political and economic causes of the revolution. So I was wondering if anyone could share sources with me? Books, articles, primary sources, documentaries, I'm looking for anything (as long as it has a historical spin to it and has a certain level of reliability).

And if you have a good understanding of this topic please feel free to share your thoughts about how antisemitism contributed to instability in russia.

How would I live my day to day life in this situation?

It seems like the ability of the German Army to blitz through the Ardennes and surprise the French was key to their ability to so easily defeat France. If the French were so convinced an attack like this was impossible, how did the Germans accomplish it without second thought?

Eg. Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania.

is it a best guess?

If you were a healthy American male of age serving in a branch of the military from 42 to 45, what are the chances you were never shot at?

What did he do? Did he really exist?

I already know about the Roman Empire. But what else? Carthage? Celts? etc..