How Identity is Manufactured to Serve the State: The Baghdad Overwrite
TL;DR:
Identity is not an organic evolution but a State Technology used to manage land rights and labor. This post deconstructs how the Abbasid Baghdad Overwrite transformed indigenous, Basal Eurasian populations into Zanj outsiders to justify land seizures and cultural erasure.
The history of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa is often presented as a…
