{"podcast":{"title":"We're Not So Different","slug":"we-re-not-so-different-1380118","podcast_index_feed_id":1380118,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5784124/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/were-not-so-different","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6c8e140f573c0d2e0efddef5f2d06fca.jpg","author":"WNSD Pod","episode_count":281,"summary":"A mostly Medieval history podcast about how we've always been idiots patreon.com/wnsdpod welcometothecrusades.com","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T16:17:09.960252+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-re-not-so-different-1380118"},"episode":{"title":"Premodern Iran 4: Vindication","slug":"premodern-iran-4-vindication","published_at":"2026-05-21T06:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-re-not-so-different-1380118/premodern-iran-4-vindication","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-re-not-so-different-1380118","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/premodern-iran-4-vindication--72090481","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72090481/ep_274_premodern_iran_4.mp3","summary":"folks, we finish up our series on Premodern Iran by looking at Greater Iran from the arrival of the Mongols in 1219 until the fall of the Timurid Empire and the Rise of the Safavids in 1501. we talk internal Mongol civil wars, the Ilkhanate, the Timurid Renaissance, the strains of apocalyptic thought amongst the peasantry, the Iranian Golden Age, and the final vindication of a nearly 900 year old ideological project with the rise of a new ethnic Iranian empire. we hope you enjoyed the series! cover image: the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Observatory and madrasa in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (built in the time of Timur)","meta_description":"folks, we finish up our series on Premodern Iran by looking at Greater Iran from the arrival of the Mongols in 1219 until the fall of the Timurid Empire a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5355,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/we-re-not-so-different-1380118/episodes/premodern-iran-4-vindication/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-re-not-so-different-1380118/premodern-iran-4-vindication.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}