General Islamic culture. Was fascinated by the boundaries of border cultures though. What used to be considered the ‘Classical’ period.
Have lived through enough and have seen enough to not be too surprised. I told folks in the 70s what I thought ME types would do (martyr themselves) if they believed in something enough. It has been the classical training that took me to the veil between the West and the Occident.
Sheesh. Sometimes jargon sounds just like another JAFO word.
I’d lay in about a week’s worth of food and 2 of water if I were in the area, I must say. “Foreign and domestic, etc.”
Boots
While I was in Iran in the 70s I (and many other) considered the only threat possibly strong enough to stage a violent large-scale revolution to be the communists/socialists.
There was already islamic terrorism since decades, but always quickly put down. Few did anticipate that black reaction, the Quran thumping turbans, would be capable of beating both the Monarchist/pro-Western forces and afterwards the Communists. 1979 was a rough awakening for the world, bringing Islamism as a global player into the forefront.