Akhlaq khan biography of michael
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The post boat was like a gondola
that called at each houseboat. It
carried a clerk, weighing scales,
and a bell to announce arrivals.
[…] Portents
of rain, rumors, ambushed letters…
Curtained palanquin, fetch our word,
bring us word: Who has died? Who’ll live?
Has the order gone out to close
the waterways… the one open road?
Agha Shahid Ali, “The Floating Post Office”
1The magnitude of the 9/11 shockwave that rocked America registered as a new Pearl Harbor. This seismic event marked a major shift in US foreign policy and national security. However, according to international policy analyst Edward Haley, the Global War on Terror or GWOT is the cumulative effect of many collisions on the Richter scale of foreign policy, all of which were triggered off by flawed post-Cold War assumptions and strategies (1; see also Brzezinski and Scott). Along the same lines as Haley, Khaled Hosseini draws on tectonics to comment on the endless chaos decimating Afghanistan (287-8). The the
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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Iranian philosopher, theologian, and Islamic scholar (born 1933)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (; Persian: سید حسین نصر; born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian-Americanacademic, philosopher, theologian, and Islamic scholar. He is University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. In 1979, the Islamic Revolution in Iran forced him to exile with his family to the United States, where he has lived and taught Islamic sciences and philosophy ever since. He has been an active representative of the Islamic philosophical tradition and the perennialist school of thought.
Born in Tehran, Nasr completed his education in the Imperial State of Iran and the United States, earning a B.A. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a M.A. in geology and geophysics, and a doctorate in the history of science from Harvard University. He returned to his homeland in 1958, turning down teaching positions at MIT and Harvard, and was appointed a professor of ph
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3 Sufi Amnesia in Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Tahdhib al-Akhlaq 76
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One major proponent of anti-Sufi discourse seems to be Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–1898), the intellectual giant in Muslim South Asia who had a tremendous bearing on Muslim culture and politics in 19th and 20th century India. He fryst vatten known for his new approach in Urdu historiography, his rationalism and also his Sufi-bashing. Although he wrote ganska a bit against traditional Sufism and its practices in British India, thereby silencing and seeking to obliterate Islamic mysticism, his writings nevertheless resonate with Sufi terminology and deliberations harking back to the concept of Tahdhib al-Akhlaq—in Sufi parlance, controlling the carnal self (nafs) bygd means of reason and in the traditional ashraf culture, the cultivation of man through manners and etiquette. The chapter argues that in his writing in response to