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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, NatureLeave a comment

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A Day in the Life of an Early Modern North African Scholar-Farmer
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meditations at the K-Pg Boundary, Wahalak, Mississippi
for the vultures of Chattanooga Valley

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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

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Scenes in the garden these days, always something new coming up or blooming or fruiting! #gardening #plants

Water is still kind of cold, summer hasn't quite kicked in, not that that's going to stop Vera... #verawynneallen #fosterfalls #tennessee

Cedar glade and calcareous forest blooms near Chickamauga Creek, the purple prairie clovers are the show-stoppers right now but there are so many floristic treasures, and more gearing up for the advent of proper summer weather in coming days, you love to see it. #chickamaugabattlefield #cedarglades #prairieclover #southeasterngrasslands

The kids enjoying a gorgeous little cave in the sandstone while on a hike up on the mountain recently; the fabulous shapes and colors the sandstone that caps the Cumberland Plateau never ceases to amaze! #zahndwma #cumberlandplateau #lookoutmountain #georgianature

A couple of recent shots of Cormac and Vera posing on top of objects while hiking, something they've taken to insisting on doing lately... #cormacchannellallen #verawynneallen #littlehikers

It's like a switch got thrown and almost overnight full-on spring arrived in our corner of the Southern Appalachians: spring wildflowers just positively bursting everywhere, went from virtually none about yesterday to tons of butterflies, bees, wasps, and other insects flying and hovering about today, the forest is just filling with color and life. Without fail, when we reach this point in spring I feel giddy, the same as I did as a kid, it's just about the most exciting time of the year, every new species encountered blooming is like opening a present under the Christmas tree, or seeing an old friend after a long time apart. #wildflowers #cloudlandcanyonstatepark #georgianature #spring

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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

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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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