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Saudi liquor store runs short because of Iran war bottleneck (www.newarab.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Infrapink@thebrainbin.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Saudi Arabia's only official alcohol shop has run short of supplies ranging from beer and wine to tequila, as the disruption caused by the Iran war has delayed shipments, visitors to the store said.

Situated in Riyadh's diplomatic district, the shop, which has no name and no sign, opened in 2024 to serve non-Muslim diplomats and last year expanded to cater for wealthy non-Muslim foreign residents.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you have sauce for this because I want to dive in to this research rabbithole

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm reading The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer. One of the numerous things he talks about is attitudes to wine in the Ottoman court, which set the time for all of contemporary Türkiye. Baer compares Turkish attitudes toward wine with similarly positive attitudes in Iran and the Arab nations, also noting that the Ottomans and Safavids both condemned each other as being drunk as good Muslims must never be. (The Ottomans and Safabids were constantly calling each other blasphemous for indulging in the very things they themselves loved doing).

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Or was it because Ottomans and Turks drank before Islam took popularity. Not that muslim turks believed in drinking