June 2011
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Rain Forest Take 1 | marcmanley My new sounds
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Greatest Nation On Earth
I’ve always wondered, when disconnected and self-serving politicians [Gingrich, Cain] and self-made pundits [Geller, Malkin] clamour about the United States being the greatest nation on the earth, do they ever take any of these headlines into factor as well:
Philadelphia: a 47-year-old male shot four times, once in the back of the head. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Philadelphia:...
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Supplications In Salah
Taken from al-Bukhari’s collection:
عن أبي بكر رضي الله عنه أنه قال للنبي صلى الله عليه و سلم علمني دعاء أدعو به في صلاتي قال قل اللهم إني ظلمت نفسي ظلما كثيرا و لا يغفر الذنوب إلا أنت فاغفر لي مغفرة من عندك و ارحمني إنك أنت الغفور الرحيم
Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, said to the Prophet, may God send peace and blessings on him, teach me a supplication that I might call upon in...
A Reading of al-Jawzi - Arabic & English |...
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“The modern period has come to an end in the twentieth century with the psychic...”
– From Rediscovering the West: An Inquiry Into Nothingness and Relatedness, by Stephen C. Rowe.
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Make It Easy - Keep It Pleasing
كم لون قد أصفر بالجوع و كم هائم على وجهه بالسياحة و كم مانع لنفسه ما قد أبيح و كم تارك رواية العلم زعما منه مخالفة النفس في هواها في ذلك و كم موتم أولاده بالتزهد و هو حي و كم معرض عن زوجته لا يوفيها فهي لا أيم و لا ذات بعل
“How many have become yellow with hunger, how many have fallen dead asleep due to exhaustion from wandering in travel [siyahah], how many have forbidden themselves that...
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“Sunni Islam is at heart a cult of authenticity, with the science of hadith...”
– Jonathan A. C. Brown. “Even If It’s Not True It’s True”. Islamic Law and Society 18.
While “cult” may be a strong if not derogatory word, it nonetheless leaves me to wonder: Are we perceived as a people who are overcome with the need to be authentic over operational? While not wanting...
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“The genesis and the evolution of the space of interaction between the...”
– Beyond Orientalism? Max Weber and the Displacements of “Essentialism” in the Study of Islam by Armando Salvatore. Published in Arabica, T. 43, Fasc. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 457-485.
I was struck by the use of “West” and “Islam” where one refers an a-geographical...
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“Islamic fundamentalist theory [as it relates to] divine sovereignty is a...”
– From an article by Roxanne L. Euben: Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism, published in The Journal of Politics, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 28-55.
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“Functionalizing of fundamentalist ideas simultaneously assumes and reinforces an...”
– From an article by Roxanne L. Euben: Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism, published in The Journal of Politics, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 28-55.
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Song Seven | marcmanley Doodling. Recorded with...
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Drop
Tear after tear in the puppet man’s hands every time you take a stance you do the puppet man’s dance and the world’s at a stand still, deep in broken mansville trapped in a moat with an anvil, still killin’ ya self and doggin’ your health you ain’t amphibious so get a holda ya self.
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