This is a re-write of an original article I did back in 2003, previously featured at http://www.kali-yuga.org/esoterica/roshaniyya.html The Rawshaniyya – Islam’s Illuminati, and Bayazid Ansari – the Dark Elder By Kamal S. (Revisions: June 2003, June 3 2006, August 2 2009) At the close of the 18th century, and the dawn of the first few […]
Religion
Thoughts on Pessimism and Optimism..
I used to know someone who went around saying “Optimism, its for the weak.” The sentiment’s not new, the phrase is the title of an LP by the Dark Ambient electronic musicians “Tugend” I have to agree and disagree with the sentiment, at the same time. Both optimism and pessimism, in certain forms, may be […]
Richard Burton on Arab Womenhood as depicted in 1001 Arabian Nights
By El-Hajj Sir Richard Francis Burton, in his translation notes on 1001 Arabian Nights. “THE next point I propose to consider is the position of womanhood in The Nights, so curiously at variance with the stock ideas concerning the Moslem home and domestic policy still prevalent, not only in England, but throughout Europe. Many readers […]
A project worth supporting
My friend Anna Kipervaser, is an artist of great talent, who is working on a film with her partners at On Look Films. The movie is called Voices of the Adhan: Egypt, and it aims to be a sensitive look at aspects of the culture and Islamic religion in Egypt involving the “adhan”, the daily […]