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Posted in academese, discourses, polemica, tagged , , , , on November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

no attempt will ever be sufficient that presents midrash and its hermeneutics in simple opposition to logocentrism, with the latter being characterized as a greco-roman or christian development [or philhellenic, christonormative, globalatin...] and the former as a jewish one. to read midrash [or: islam, or ibn arabi, or, or, or...] as a rewriting of derrida, [...]

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Posted in academese, tagged , , , on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

following a line of thought:
in the paper i presented at the europeanists history colloquium last month (“relating alterity in al-andalus: historiography, maimonides, difference”) i tried, among other things, to broach the ways maimonides employs metaphor in his codification of the Law specifically as it regards muslims – how, by making muslims the halakhic analogues of the [...]

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Posted in academese, discourses, islam, tagged , , , , on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

it is in the light of all this that i propose now to try and elaborate the first part of a theory of semiotics, valid in the main for both medieval and modern islamic theology, starting with the dictum already stressed before that everything signifies. this may ultimately be developed semiotically in four distinct ways [...]

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Posted in living, tagged , , , , , on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

the seasonal saskatoon trip earlier this autumn became a harvest trip, returning loaded with clover honey and all colours of tomatoes, red and white potatoes, squash and peppers. the combining was not quite done, and the patchworked fields followed the weather patterns in varying stages of undone. some swathes lay waiting, thick ribbons across the [...]

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remembrance days 1

Posted in living, polemica, tagged , , on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

postcolonial…? what!
did i miss something?
have they gone?
- bobbi sykes
in the houses of history, ed. green and troup (manchester university press, 1999), 278.

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Posted in encounters and dialogues, living, tagged , on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

a couple of weeks ago i was returning home after an anti-bush protest (gwb is on a speaking tour, and made it to edmonton – i have things to say about speechifying like that in general, and about activism in alberta, and about energy, but these will be another post sometime): i’d got to the [...]

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