By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2026
Britain Should Shut Down Iran’s Subversive Islamic Institutions
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The Suffering of the Israeli Hostages Taken By HAMAS
A Note on the Concept of Sacral Monarchy in Iran
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2026
The idea of sacral Monarchy stretches back to the foundations of the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great, over 2,500 years ago, who ruled as Shahanshah (King of Kings), an office originating with the Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda, and all Kingly successes were attributed to this god. It is this sense of Persian Kings as vessels for divine will that explains why they are so anonymous when compared to, say, the Roman Caesars: what mattered was the role, not the idiosyncrasies of the individual playing it.
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John Wansbrough’s Review of ‘Hagarism’
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 June 2025
In 1978, shortly after Patricia Crone and Michael Cook published their book challenging the traditional story of Islam’s origins, Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, it was reviewed for the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies by John Wansbrough, their mentor and the most important figure in the “Revisionist” movement that arose in Islamic Studies in the 1970s. Wansbrough’s review is reproduced below.
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