{"id":13369,"date":"2015-10-21T10:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=13369"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:45","slug":"troubled-times-greg-fisher-blogs-on-isis-and-the-destruction-of-history-for-oxford-university-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2015\/troubled-times-greg-fisher-blogs-on-isis-and-the-destruction-of-history-for-oxford-university-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubled Times: Greg Fisher blogs on ISIS and the destruction of history for Oxford University Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Troubled Times: Greg Fisher blogs on ISIS and the destruction of history for Oxford University Press\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">In antiquity, \u2018Arabia\u2019 covered a vast area, running from Yemen and Oman to the deserts of Syria and Iraq. Today, much of this region is gripped in political and religious turmoil that shows no signs of abating. In addition to executions, murder, and a bloody war against the security forces and other armed groups, the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) is also waging a relentless assault on the culture and heritage of Syria and Iraq. This represents a savage attempt to impose its own narrow view of history on the region, as well as to plunder artifacts for sale on the black market. But while contraband dollars support its operations, it is also the suppression of diversity that drives ISIS; the group is particularly devoted to the eradication of any inconvenient reminder of the pre-Islamic past, where communities of Jews and Christians flourished and pagan deities were worshiped. &#8211; See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2015\/10\/arabia-history-religion\/#sthash.nW9Pjryi.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2015\/10\/arabia-history-religion\/#sthash.nW9Pjryi.dpuf<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/greg-fisher-cross-appointment-chum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br>\nGreg Fisher<\/a>&nbsp;is an assistant professor in the College of Humanities cross appointed to the Department of History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014-2015 he is teaching:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CLCV HIST 2904 The Republic (F)<br>\nCLCV HIST 2905 The Empire (W)<br>\nCLCV 3202 HIST 3101 Rome and the Barbarian Kingdoms (F)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In antiquity, \u2018Arabia\u2019 covered a vast area, running from Yemen and Oman to the deserts of Syria and Iraq. Today, much of this region is gripped in political and religious turmoil that shows no signs of abating. In addition to executions, murder, and a bloody war against the security forces and other armed groups, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13372,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions\/13372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}