Images made to illustrate class transcriptions at Jaffe Institute for the book project, which is now on hold while whoever is responsible decides whether to include transcriptions, new prose, or what.


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bismillah ir-rahman ir-rahim!

dictionaries, delightful piles of words. As a kid I would spend hours reading dictionaries. Then in college I got Greek and Latin dictionaries & did it again.

english, my lugha / glossis / sprache of choice, spoken by a greater variety of people and peoples than any language ever before, with probably the ( Read more... )

Explicating this list gives me some idea about where my world is right now. Not sure how much this list skews things in favor of the mental section or overlay of my world, but hey ( Read more... )

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim ( Read more... )

(thanks to blostopher1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc ( Read more... )

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bismillah!

a week without reading email & all i got was error messages from my lists. someday, when i'm on a faster connection & can stand monkeying with them, i'm going to divest myself of these beasties. insha'allah.

http://www.omniglot.com

My dear sister Sabura has a workshop ( Read more... )

Today is Waqfat al-`Arafat, when the pilgrims in Mecca stand on Mount Arafat at the height of the Hajj. I was inspired to share the following station written by my guide, Sidi Muhammad al-Jamal, on the inner nature of the Hajj. I'd like to share it to give the flavor of the work I'm doing ( Read more... )