"sacred kingship" is not an aryan phenomenon, aristocratic liberty is kings were never sacred but rather were heavily constrained, the aryan ideal is a round table of warriors led by a first among equals   i agree, but the resonance between what munqidh writes about and what we know about europeans today is undeniable european women (at least northwestern euro women) have always had a much greater degree of personal freedom in daily life than anywhere else in the world, and this observation horrified and baffled the arabs
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