Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds, by Natalie Zemon Davis, Faber & Faber, 2008, Paperback, 464 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0571234790, £10.99. Close to completion of reading it, a beautifully designed and comfortable to hold paperback, handy to meet the need of a traveler. This is the first time I publish […]
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Or why resolving the force fields between an academic white-collar and a DIY self-ascribed authority can be surprisingly arduous, and how arguments across the board including the Sokal affair and COVID-19 conspiracies tend to be articulated and take flesh over bones. And thy shall not ask what Humboldt and Gauss […]
This Unknown Land [in English], by Marco Schöller, Janet45, Sofia-Bulgaria, 2020, Paperback, 548 pages, ISBN: 978 619 186 543 7, BGN 23.75. I have my reading habits, clearly, with all my ups and downs. Scanning quickly through working documentation, reading in details essential information, focus reading on stuff you need […]
Hashtag Islam: How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority, by Gary R. Bunt, North Carolina University Press, Chapell Hill, 2018, Paperback, 232 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1469643168, $24.95. Been a while since I promised myself a review of one of my good academic reads recently – the “Hashtag Islam” of Gary R. […]
Parallels tend to spill over into, and down over to funny directions. Inevitable as it seems, we are easily tempted to project one’s own epistemological prejudice upon what’s out there. A natural act of building syllogisms, good or bad ones. Following a happy path of process design along the confirmation […]
As it has been made clear, sources of Muslim educational tradition provides both prescriptive and descriptive information on legitimate use of flogging as indispensable part of the educational process. The chart below presents a high-level outline of the intersecting instances of beating (ḍarb) in its most general sense, ʾadab or […]
Обрязването на жените, известно на английски като „осакатяване на женските гениталии“ (FGM, female genital mutilation) е спорна тема, що се отнася до религиозните основания на практиката. Имам чувството, че трябва да се поговори за това и да се внесе малко яснота. Не е достатъчно само да харесваме Аян Хирси Али. […]
In case someone poses the curious inquiry on the nature of fatwas and the ways they come to be in Islam. I believe the chart is somewhat self-explanatory, yet have it broken down textually as follows: A problem has been identified, based on the context and the need to comply […]
Казусът с ислямското прасе като устойчив исторически топос до Съдния ден се заплита все повече. Да би знаел Пророкът колко известност ще докара на клетото зурлесто, не би иждивил толкова усилия да го забранява в Корана. Става малко като Волен Сидеров: колкото повече му обръщаш внимание, толкова повече му придаваш […]
Отново в светлините на прожекторите застава прасето, тази презряна Аллахова твар. Както става ясно от съчинения като „Чудесата на творението“ на ал-Казуини, то все пак намира своето място в мюсюлманските наративи, където да се свре. Този път кътчето е оградено от друг автор – Камал ад-Дин Мухаммад ибн Муса ад-Дамири, […]