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2013-05-07T18:36:58-05:00

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Yoginder Sikand on “unveiling the hidden history of women ulema”

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

Yoginder Sikand has an informative book review of a pioneering book written in Urdu (yes, Urdu; for a change, something enlightening on gender relations will be translated in the other direction) on women scholars. Sikand is a treasure, btw. He’s being churning out illuminating studies of Sufism and Islam in India based on hard to find primary sources for many years. Book review: unveiling the hidden history of women ulema | TwoCircles.net Books in English and Urdu on Muslim history... Read more

Women in Islam

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Johann Hari: The loathsome smearing of Israel’s critics

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

Examples like this is why I get such a kick out of the complaints about the supposedly inordinate influence of CAIR and Muslims in general in American politics. As if Muslims can generate a fraction of the heat constantly unleashed by all these pro-Israeli pressure groups. But frank discussions of the predations against open debate by the imaginary yet curiously powerful and visible Israeli Lobby is to traffic in conspiracy theories, so I’ll shut up. Conspiracy theories about pro Israeli... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:58-05:00

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Lou’s passing

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

Louis Cantori has returned to his Maker. Lou was a friend, a brilliant scholar of international affairs, and a courageous and outspoken voice of dialogue between America and the Muslim world. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon. May Allah bless him and his family. Lou was a truly unique individual and an inspiration. And he had a wonderful sense of humor and an infectious, booming laugh that I will miss. Here’s a tribute on his university website, though it doesn’t... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:58-05:00

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US Court blocks long distance triple talaq

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

A Muslim tries to pull a long-distance triple talaq and rightly gets shot down by a US Court. Assuming philosophical reforms are made to make the traditional institutions responsive to the needs of a radically different–and in some respects almost unrecognizably so–world from that of the early Muslims, I believe shariah continues to have an important role to play for Western Muslims. The un-Quranic and far too easily abused triple talaq, however, has no place as a universal practice in... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:59-05:00

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A church in the works in KSA?

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

Baby steps towards some semblance of religious freedom in in KSA. BBC NEWS | Europe | Vatican-Saudi talks on churches The Vatican is holding talks with Saudi Arabia on building the first church in the kingdom, where some 1.5m Christians are not allowed to worship publicly. This comes after the opening of a church in Qatar, which leads the cynic in me to wonder this is the latest a new example of the scourge of intra-Khaleeji competition. If so, I’m... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:59-05:00

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Who needs the gym? Just move often.

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

14 hours to pack a still fairly unpacked house before the movers arrive at 7 AM on Saturday. Had been hobbled by a nasty toothache, but it lifted today alhamdulillah just in time for Heimdal to blow his horn signaling Ragnarok. To mix religio-cultural metaphors, I felt like Samson, praying for my old strength for one last mighty feat, and lo and behold it was granted (at least the strength–we’ll see about the victory over all these Philistine boxes). Have... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:59-05:00

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Our trail of tears begins

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

We’re off to parts western in connection with the Missus’ job (she’s starting a tenure track position this fall). Had been worried we wouldn’t find a subletter for the summer. The good news is that one has popped up. The bad is that because of my uni’s early summer school schedule, we have a week to vacate the premises so that the next crop can settle in. A freakin’ week. We were expecting June. Speaking of Passover, in hastiness this... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:59-05:00

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Merry Pesach

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

A belated Happy Pesach to fellow Abrahamic dissidents on that whole Crucifixion & Resurrection thing. We attended a Seder last weekend, which was nice. I can almost hear the millions of Jews around the world piously and miserably chomping away at their Matza wafers. Which is, of course, the point, given what it’s commemorating. I can relate. I got pretty tired of Matzoh as a kid. Odd, you say, given that I’m not Jewish. Well, the goyim eat it, too.... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:59-05:00

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People pray in the darnedest places

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

From an email circulating. At least wudu is a snap. (Or is it? Do you end up doing a paradoxical version of tayammum?) Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:59-05:00

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What knowledge is for

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

As I franticly slave away on my masters thesis (which is on Sufi notions of sainthood in the light–or, in some cases, darkness–of Sociology of Religion), I came across this exquisite and pithy yet encyclopedic summary of Sufism by the great Sufi Quranic commentator Najm al-Dīn Dāya (d. 1254 CE): The awlīāʾ are the lovers of God and the enemies of their souls. For welāya is the knowledge of one’s own soul; knowledge of God means looking upon Him with... Read more

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