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The French Orientalist Louis Massignon helped shape Catholic thinking about Islam before Vatican II: he founded the Badaliya, an interfaith prayer movement in Cairo (which included the later Pope Paul VI—“an Islamophile”); affirmed Islam’s Abrahamic roots; and his students, such as Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil—a Moroccan convert from Islam to Catholicism—helped present Islam and Muslims more positively to their fellow Catholics.
How to tell arrogance from confidence—the latter compares one's past with one's present, while the former compares oneself with others. If only Iblis had said, "I am better than I was," rather than, "I am better than him!"
Surprising cops from my local library’s book sale—both anthologies with some rare-in-English excerpts and a merging of my 2 worlds:
What’s the best way I can move to Europe? Fully-funded PhD program? Just getting a job? Waiting for a specific Balkan nation to enter the EU? Taking a boat with $2 in my pocket? I yearn for the Old World.
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Here’s my poem in alliterative verse inspired by the Anglo-Saxons, but with an Islamic setting:
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"Listen! to this tale of loss, but be al-Lateef to my rudeness!"
Khalid ibn Sinan—the "prophet whose people failed him"—laments his apparent ill fortune before God in the barzakh.
A new poem inspired by Ibn Arabi and the Old English elegies:
traversingtradition.com/2026…
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A serious, imaginative, and thought-provoking deep dive into the relationship between Islam and the ‘Modern Project. (Hardcover, 368 pages).
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As someone who has been following him for a while, and tried to read most of what he posted, I think this one was the most pleasantly surprising read yet.
It's all very well-knit and the letter that the author receives is quite poetically the very answer to his plight
Fromherz also has a book on the history of the Persian Gulf that just came out 2 years ago and is prob even more relevant today:
I loved this, though be warned that it's pretty much almost exclusively about Ibn Tūmart (which is why I liked it so much tbh). Fromherz randomly has some absolutely banger quotes too. Will probably read Maribel Fierro's book on 'Abd al-Mu'min next.
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I loved this, though be warned that it's pretty much almost exclusively about Ibn Tūmart (which is why I liked it so much tbh). Fromherz randomly has some absolutely banger quotes too. Will probably read Maribel Fierro's book on 'Abd al-Mu'min next.
Ibn Tūmart—self-proclaimed Mahdī of the 12th c. Maghrib—tried to imitate the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, by having his own hijra with parallel versions of the Ansar and Muhajirun. However, he also developed a unique hierarchical social pyramid and created his own sunna:
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There, I fixed it for you Pimlico:
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The flag of Montenegro is *tacky*?
To the contrary, Montenegrin flag is one of the most vibrant, historic flags in the world — based on the 15th-century banner of Zeta, it's nearly 300 years older than the current Union Jack.
Absolute nonsense.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
“As he approached his home in the Maghrib, at the very edge of the Muslim world, he became more radical, more certain and more confident about confronting all that stood in the way of his absolute message. He had reached the point of almost reckless courage. He was, in a sense, confronting his former self. He was reborn as he attempted to reshape, revolutionize and even reject the world of his childhood and outward journey. It was not in leaving home, but in coming back that he realized who he was and for what he lived. Perhaps this is the true power of pilgrimage: the homecoming.”
