Skip to content

Thicket & Thorp

Islamic & Ottoman History // Cultural & Political Critique // Poetry & Prose

  • 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

Tag: Wu Man

Wu Man and the Master Musicians of the Silk Road

On August 23, 2012August 23, 2012 By JonathanIn Culture, East & West, History, MusicLeave a comment

 

*

Also see the write-up on the Smithsonian website: Wu Man Brings East and West Together in New Album. The album is definitely worth getting, I might add. A wonderful variety of musical styles and deeply skilled musicians, that makes for very rewarding and enjoyable listening.

Recent Posts

  • Fifteenth Century Text Searching with Aḥmad al-Wansharīsī
  • A Basket of Halwa Sent by God
  • A Holy Historian and a Saintly Blacksmith
  • Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn and the Stuff of Miracles
  • Sharing a Pipe with the Shaykh

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 6,398 other followers

The Twitter

My Tweets

Pages

  • 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

Instagram

We've been very, very busy these last several weeks, including excursions to nearby natural wonders, such as this lovely waterfall deep in Cloudland Canyon, which Cormac and Vera hiked down to and back up last week under their own power- and there are a lot of stairs involved! #cormacchannellallen #verawynneallen #cloudlandcanyon #cherokeefalls #georgianature
Upper Piney Falls, one of my favorite waterfalls since childhood, it was a real treat to get to share it with my kids- just as gorgeous and magical as I remembered it from many years ago! #pineyfallsstatenaturalarea #waterfalls #upperpineyfalls #tennesseenature
Starting out on new adventures the last few days, including a hike- probably the most strenuous the kids have done under their own power (well, mostly- Vera required carrying the last quarter mile or so...)- to Piney Falls, outside of Spring City, Tennessee; pictured here one of the rockhouses on the trail down. #pineyfallsstatenaturalarea #rockhouse #cormacchannellallen #verawynneallen
Examining what must surely be one of the best hollow trees this side of North America, a massive tulip poplar on the banks of Gunpowder Falls, its hollow large enough to accommodate two or three adults and/or several children, as pictured here! #hollowtree #gunpowderfallsstatepark #friends #tulippoplar
Cormac and Vera expertly climbing some very, very old rocks alongside Gunpowder Falls at Pot Rocks just north of Baltimore. #cormacchannellallen #verawynneallen #gunpowderfallsstatepark #geology #rivers
View of the bright colored cliffs of the late Miocene St. Mary's Formation along the Chesapeake Bay, from a fossil hunt last month on a very, very cold day. #stmarysformation #miocene #driftwoodbeach #geology #marylandnature

Categories

  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Art
  • Blogroll
  • Books
  • Culture
  • Current Events
  • East & West
  • Film
  • Gospel
  • History
  • Islam
  • Judaism
  • Listen
  • Music
  • Nature
  • North & South
  • Orthodoxy
  • Ottoman
  • Ottoman Turkish
  • Patristics
  • Peace
  • Persian
  • Philosophy
  • Photos
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Prayer
  • Read
  • Satire
  • Science
  • Scripture
  • Syriac
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • University Life
  • War

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

Archives

  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • February 2022
  • November 2021
  • August 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • November 2016
  • June 2016
  • January 2016
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • March 2014
  • November 2013
  • August 2013
  • June 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • October 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007

St. Moses the Ethiopian, Pray For Us!

Blogroll

  • A Conservative Blog For Peace
  • A Thousand Nations
  • A Vow of Conversation
  • Akram’s Razor
  • Alastair
  • All The Fulness
  • Balaam’s Ass
  • Biblicalia
  • Caelum et Terra
  • Cathedra Unitatis
  • City of Brass
  • Conjectural Navel Gazing
  • Cricket Bread
  • Dappled Things
  • Dharma Bums
  • Endlessly Rocking
  • Energetic Procession
  • Eunomia
  • Fencing Bear at Prayer
  • geeky.music
  • Glory to God for All Things
  • Ideas Man
  • Is and Is Not
  • Islam in China
  • Kata John
  • Khanya
  • Koinonia
  • Lee Bozeman
  • Leitourgeia kai Qurbana
  • Life in Estonia
  • Mere Humanity
  • Mutualist Blog
  • New Distributist League
  • Notes from a Common-Place Book
  • Ochlophobist
  • Parezco y Digo
  • Pontifications
  • Raphael
  • Reading Notes
  • Roger Pearse
  • Ron Paul
  • Sacra Doctrina
  • Sacramentum Vitae
  • Said the Gramophone
  • Second Terrace
  • The Tory Anarchist
  • This Is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis
  • Torn Notebook
  • UTK Orthodox Christian Fellowship
  • Western Confucian
  • Western Orthodoxy
  • Wisdom!: Readings from the Fathers of the Church

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

Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Thicket & Thorp
    • Join 6,398 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Thicket & Thorp
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar