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Showing posts with label sufism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sufism. Show all posts
Thursday, December 26, 2024

love, gnosis & other suicide attempts by amir sulaiman

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Wow, it has been a while since I've blogged. I'm not sure if I will try to "catch up" on talking about what has been happe...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

el zahir, borges and sufism

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If you are interested in some of the intersections between Hispanic/Latin culture and Islam after the Reconquest, you might want to check ou...
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thanksgiving from the islamic perspective

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In contrast to my usual remember-the-Native-Americans type of Thanksgiving post I thought it would be nice to share Thanksgiving from the Is...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

spiritual message of the occupy movement

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Technology of the Heart: Spiritual Message of the Occupy Movement | Driving out the Money Changers, Once Again Bangladeshi blogger Sadiq A...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

from tarim to granada

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h/t to www.caribbeanmuslims.com Granada. In Muslim imagination the mere name conjures up images of a magnificent city. A place where scienc...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

rumi anniversary

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Whirling Dervishes Celebrate Rumi Anniversary
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

sidney, ny wants local muslims to dig up their graves

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A town in upstate New York is trying to force a local Muslim religious community to dig up a small cemetery on its property and never bury a...
Friday, January 29, 2010

legion

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I also caught the movie Legion at a midnight opening last week. The film had its interesting moments but overall it wasn't very well ma...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

"i'm both muslim and christian" (part 3)

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We've mentioned (the former Rev.) Ann Holmes Redding, the Episcopal priest who announced her conversion to Islam, before but here is a c...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

qawwali kissing flamenco

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for more of this amazing fusion and synthesis, you might want to check out the Sologak blog: Sufi Chant: Qawali & Flamenco
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Monday, June 08, 2009

mevlevis in miami

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I finally went to my first local Mevlevi gathering. So far I think that it will be good for me on multiple levels. One of the many interest...
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Monday, April 06, 2009

sufi rap

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The Naqshbandi-Haqqani media library gives this clip the title of African Salawat / Rap / Hadrah I've been to the Burton masjid before ...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

speaking of love...

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and Rumi... I just found out about a local group of Mevlevis and will possibly start attending some of their gatherings. At this point I...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

more room for rumi

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Tonight I plan to go to a Rumi/whirling dervish event analagous to one I went to several months ago where I met a buddhist sufi. Should be ...
Monday, February 09, 2009

sarah silverman on kabbalah

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I sometimes wonder if the practice of Sufism will wind up like the practice of kabbalah and become a Islamic-but-not-Muslim celebrity-ridden...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

dhikr and my "inner taliban"

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So I "went to dhikr" yesterday. I use quotes because in reality dhikr should be part of the basic punctuation of Muslim life so th...
Monday, June 16, 2008

goatmilk: rumi and sufism

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I've linked to Wajahat Ali's blog before but I haven't checked him out in a while. It turns out I've missed a lot of good st...
Monday, June 02, 2008

ken wilber

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So I'm in the middle of reading The Essential Ken Wilber : An Introductory Reader. Wilber's an interesting guy. He's a perenn...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

cheikh lo

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I'm going to have to check him out the next time I go to a CD store. Muslically, he performs African music tinged with Cuban sounds. Spi...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

the devil and al-hallaj

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So I recently finished reading Philp Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. It is a kind of an anti- Narnia series where the heroes g...