{"id":108947,"date":"2017-10-15T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T03:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=108947"},"modified":"2017-10-15T09:02:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T03:32:51","slug":"fabrics-with-allah-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/fabrics-with-allah-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrics with Allah-Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"m_8565876367169753851m_231234110192705656gmail-article__summary m_8565876367169753851m_231234110192705656gmail-summary\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Archaeologists studying clothing worn by ancient Vikings have found evidence of a link between the Nordic tribes and Islam.<\/div>\n<div class=\"m_8565876367169753851m_231234110192705656gmail-article__text m_8565876367169753851m_231234110192705656gmail-text m_8565876367169753851m_231234110192705656gmail-js-mediator-article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers from Sweden\u2019s Uppsala University examined garments uncovered at 9th and 10th-century burial sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They found that what they thought were typical Viking Age patterns in silver bands and embroidered clothing, were actually Kufic characters invoking both \u2018Allah\u2019 and \u2018Ali,\u2019 two central figures in the Islamic faith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108948 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Viking-grave-allah-ali.jpg\" alt=\"Fabrics with Allah-Ali\" width=\"800\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Viking-grave-allah-ali.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Viking-grave-allah-ali-768x363.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kufic, an ancient Arabic script dating back to the 7th century, appeared in Viking Age chamber graves and boat graves in areas around the capital Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Astonishingly, the same characters can also be found in mosaics on burial monuments and mausoleums in Central Asia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists studying clothing worn by ancient Vikings have found evidence of a link between the Nordic tribes and Islam. Researchers from Sweden\u2019s Uppsala University examined garments uncovered at 9th and 10th-century burial sites. They found that what they thought were typical Viking Age patterns in silver bands and embroidered clothing, were actually Kufic characters invoking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[55608,55605,55611,55604,55609,55610,55606,45318,55607,55612],"class_list":["post-108947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-9th-and-10th-century-burial-sites","tag-archaeologists","tag-central-asia","tag-fabrics-with-allah-ali","tag-kufic","tag-mausoleums","tag-nordic-tribes-and-islam","tag-sweden","tag-uppsala-university","tag-viking-graves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bra-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}