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VIDEO: Loyalty | #IsmailiSounds
The Ismaili is pleased to present "Loyalty" by Ismaili music artists from Syria. The song was produced to celebrate Mawlana Hazar Imam's 86th Birthday, and illustrates the Jamat's unconditional love and devotion for our beloved Imam-of-the-Time. #Music #Salgirah #AgaKhan #Ismaili ...
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Part 6 -- Religion RoundUp: The Best of YouTube
Features an explanation of the difference between cult and religion; a conversation between Irshad Manji and Salman Rushdie at 92nd Street Y; a discussion with the Dalai Lama and Seyyed Hossein Nasr; a talk on the Psychology of Religious experience with Huston Smith; and a lecture on the historical life of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan...and more. ...
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Cairo's House of Knowledge
ARAMCOWORLD.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Despite its unflattering start, the article is otherwise outstanding.] ARTICLE: For more than 100 years, Dar al-'Ilm distinguished itself as a center of learning ... All were welcomed, and it remained unfettered by political pressures or partisan influences. "There is no evidence that it ever served as a propaganda institution. It was created simply as a public academy," says Paul Walker of the University of Chicago.... "Egypt was a real center of learning during this whole classical period, and Cairo in particular. People came there to learn from all over the Islamic world," says Paula Sanders of Rice University.... Among the most notable drawn to it was Ibn al-Haytham, who today is regarded as the father of modern optics. ...
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Psychology and Religious Experience in Islam -- BoAI Vol #3
GOOGLE.COM -- One of the most radical transformations brought about by the rise of science in the West is the weakening of conventional religion. Through the contact between the West and the East through trade, colonialism and, last but not least, improved communications, a similar tendency towards indifference to traditional religion has been observable in non-Western countries. In Islamic countries, the conflicts and strains resulting from this trend are generally considered as aspects of the so-called "Muslim Modernism." A very important factor in the controversy over the meaning and value of religion has been the rise of such academic disciplines as history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc. These disciplines have ...
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Groupthink: The brainstorming myth
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- NEWYORKER.COM -- The results of the first test of brainstorming, at Yale in 1958, were a sobering refutation of brainstorming. Solo students came up with twice as many solutions as the brainstorming groups, and their solutions judged more "feasible" and "effective." Decades of research have consistently shown the same. "There's this Pollyannaish idea that the most important thing when working together is staying positive and getting along, to not hurt anyone's feelings. Well, that's just wrong," as a 2003 experiment suggests. Another experiment demonstrated that exposure to unfamiliar perspectives fosters creativity.... Building 20 [at MIT] was a legend and widely regarded as one of the most creative spaces in the world. The lesson, of Building 20, is that when the composition of the group is right -- enough people with different perspectives ...
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VIDEO: Family Sunday activity: Fountain of Sound
Looking for ideas for your next arts-and-crafts adventure? The Museum's Collection is a "fountain" of inspiration. Using one of the grandest artifacts in our main gallery as a muse, construct your own pan flute from easy-to-find materials. Watch this video for the instructions! Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between peoples. To ...
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Tuesday's Teachings (From Life) How Darwin Thought: The Golden Rule of Thinking
FS.BLOG -- One of Darwin's great strengths was his extraordinary breadth of curiosity. He read eclectically. Over the years he collected an enormous quantity of interconnected facts across scientific fields. He looked for patterns but was intrigued equally by exceptions to the patterns, and exceptions to the exceptions. Not only was Darwin thinking broadly, taking in facts at all turns and on many subjects, but he was thinking carefully. He was on the hunt for truth and not necessarily to confirm some highly-loved idea. Darwin's great success, by his own analysis, owed to his ability to see, note, and learn from objections to his cherished thoughts. ...
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Philosophical Significance of the Imam in Ismailism
By Sami N. Makarem While the Sunnis believe in five pillars in Islam, the Isma'ilis raise them to seven. Al-Qadi an-Nu'man devoted the first volume of his famous book Da'a'im al-Islam to the description of these pillars and an elaboration of them. The first of these seven pillars, as al-Qadi an-Nu'man mentions, is Faith (Iman). He also calls it walaya, which ...
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News Flash for Digest + Ignition Editor's Choice: Ismaili Digest -- 3 randomly chosen articles
DAILYSTOIC.COM -- A person isn't brave, generally. We can only be brave, specifically. In the moment. This is true for you or me or the most decorated soldiers. The criteria for two highest U.S. military honours are virtually identical but action in the moment is what changes everything. It's not fighting off of 12 insurgents for 5 hours -- it's sprinting across an open plain for 20 seconds, exposed to gunfire on three sides, to aid a fallen comrade. Twenty seconds of insane, embarrassing bravery. That's what courage is. Think about that today, as you're deciding whether to speak up or go along with something you disagree with. Give yourself a few seconds of courage. Something great will come of it. Promise. ...
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