the family and the daemon

in order to complete fulfill this turn in these writings, this cycling around and orbiting of the ibrahimic (“with the names of the abrahamic, and even within its silences, the ‘abrahamic phrase’, almost a formula, ‘judaism, christianity, islam’, recurs in proximity to names that recall so-called empirical regions and religions. thus, it is also of history, [...]

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metonymy intersecting augustine

another month-and-some left at this particular grindstone, in sha allah.
i refer metonymy a lot, over and above the other three master-tropes. i’ll leave aside the reasons for now and will instead post some comments largely drawn from a reading class i took last winter, when a professeur and i met every week to discuss the genealogy [...]

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receiving space

my rumination tonight with the al hikmah speaker series (“this earth was made for us a masjid?: an exercise in metaphor”) is about space and place. zainab asked for my notes. these instead some extended thoughts.
the title gains its first impulse from a fairly well-known tradition (cited in the sahihayn and various other collections of ahadith) in [...]

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010309

it\s been a busy past few weeks.
in other places, these recent days are made of lectures and seminars by tariq ramadan, a western amreeka tour by jeffreyfoucault and krisdelmhorst, the suhbah with shaykh nuh. or, here in edmonton, an interview and reading with george elliott clarke.
i can’t make it to all these things upcoming this [...]

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