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An Anthology of Ottoman Saints’ Lives
Devotion to Muhammad in Early Modern Islam
History 308B: A History of Islam and Islamic Societies, 1500 to the Present
Music of Islamicate Worlds: A Sampler

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On July 25, 2011 By JonathanIn Culture, Nature

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About
An Anthology of Ottoman Saints’ Lives
Devotion to Muhammad in Early Modern Islam
History 308B: A History of Islam and Islamic Societies, 1500 to the Present
Music of Islamicate Worlds: A Sampler

On Mercy

And what is the merciful heart? It is the heart’s burning for all of creation…

St. Isaac

On History

To study something of great age until one grows familiar with it and almost to live in its time, is not merely to satisfy a curiosity or to establish aimless truths: it is rather to fulfil a function whose appetite has always rendered History a necessity. By the recovery of the Past, stuff and being are added to us; our lives which, lived in the present only, are a film or surface, take on body—are lifted into one dimension more. The soul is fed… One may say that historical learning grants men glimpses of life completed and a whole; and such a vision should be the chief solace of whatever is mortal and cut off imperfectly from fulfilment.

— Hilaire Belloc, The Old Road, 1904

St. Moses the Ethiopian, Pray For Us!

On The State

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently. ... We, who have imprisoned ourselves in the absolute state, must realize the truth: we are the state! And we will be the state as long as we are nothing different; as long as we have not yet created the institutions.

Gustav Landauer

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