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Two leaves from a manuscript of the Qur'an, Abbasid Caliphate, ninth to tenth century, Ink and Gold on Parchment  On Early Islam

Summer 2000


"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abstract

1.  The Gates of Damascus

2.  The Pride of Haroon

3.  The Path of Reason

4.  The Mystic Tide

5.  The West

6.  Epilogue

Notes, Maps


NB: An edited excerpt from this essay was published as The Station of Light in Nimble Spirit Review, Nov 2004.

 
 
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