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Part 16 -- Ismaili RoundUp: The Best of YouTube
Features Mawlana Hazar Imam talking about journalists to observe professionalism, Dr. Ismail Serageldin giving a lecture about the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Jonah Steinberg on his Book, "Ismaili Modern", Learning By Heart - Ismaili Muslim Volunteer by Aleem Karmali, IIS Video: Fatimid Rejection of ghuluww: Kitāb al-Kashf attributed to Jaʿfar b. Mansūr al-Yaman, The Fatimid Dynasty in Egypt ... and more. ...
Continued Here » http://isma.li/xepBby
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VIDEO: Аga Khan Music Awards
At the inaugural prize-giving ceremony of the Aga Khan Music Awards, His Highness the Aga Khan remarked that "in some parts of the world, the words 'Muslim' and 'music' are not often linked together in the public mind. But they should be". He went on to note that music is a strong cultural anchor, "deepening a sense of community, identity and heritage, ...
Continued Here » http://isma.li/dk6wbo
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The Age of Experts
BROWNSTONE.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1987: "Professional standards and assumptions can provide a form of intolerance, pride and myopia as intractable as the rigidities of traditional societies."] ARTICLE: Once upon a time, a man could brandish his doubt in public with a certain degree of dignity and honor. Being unsure was a mark of an inquiring mind, open to fresh evidence and new horizons. But, in this modern era, there is little room for old fashioned doubt and skepticism. In this Age of Certainty, of 140-character zingers and bumper-sticker morality, silence isn't a sign of humility: silence is violence. So, to keep pace with the flood of subjects, the modern man turns to the "Expert Class" for blind guidance. And blind guidance is what he gets. Indeed, on the Grand Subjects, these lodestars of knowledge are rarely in doubt and as confident as they are myopic. The experts are ...
Continued Here » http://isma.li/OrubHS
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Learning under the Fatimids -- BoAI Vol #2
GOOGLE.COM -- The history of the Fatimids has suffered considerable distortion. This is perfectly understandable given the majority of our "historical" sources, stem from historians who were patronised by the Abbasids, or groups closely alied with them. Due to the impulse to abolish anything noteworthy about the Fatimids, historical facts about the Fatimids were both reduced and distorted. One particular aspect of the Fatimid Empire was its avid interest in learning. In particular, men of learning who did not subscribe to the Fatimid creed were given protection and encouraged to contribute to the intellectual life of the Empire. Cairo became the centre intellectuals of diverse views and persuasions. "There were study circles ... in the mosques or houses ...
Continued Here » http://isma.li/VPG6yM
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VIDEO: Pocket Performance: François Houle
Clarinetist François Houle has established himself as one of today's most inventive musicians, in all of the diverse musical spheres he embraces. Inspired by collaborations with the world's top musical innovators, François has developed a unique improvisational language, virtuosic and rich with sonic embellishment and technical extensions. He has worked with Dave Douglas, Mark Dresser, Joëlle Léandre, Benoît Delbecq, Evan Parker, Samuel ...
Continued Here » http://isma.li/EoAvZA
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Religious Architecture: Tainan Tung-Men Holiness Church, Taiwan (ROC)
ARCHDAILY.COM -- The new church is surrounded by secular residential buildings and so, responding to this contextual city fabric as well as the pastor's vision, the lower floors of the church are used as socializing spaces including a coffee shop and family-friendly book store, inviting the community in and knitting the church closely with the life of the neighborhood. While the dematerializing, white staircase leading to the sanctuary above transforms the spatial characteristic from the mundane to sanctified space by guiding the act of rising and turning through spilled natural light. The spiritual sanctuary is a raised two-story cubical volume illuminated by soft and sacred light filtered through the aluminum perforated screens on ...
Continued Here » http://isma.li/rxAkIA
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News Flash for Digest + Ignition NanoWisdoms Extended Quotes (via Ismaili Digest)
Perhaps the best kept secret in the Ismaili community, and NanoWisdoms' Crown Jewels, the Extended Quote collection brings together most, if not all, of Mawlana Hazar Imam's remarks (and many from prior Imams) related to some 250 topics so we can better understand the full depth of his full insights and perspectives about each of them. Topics include Hazar Imam's successor, the Imam's gender, secularism, dogma, innovation and thinking independently, marriage and children, miracles, Ayat al-Nur, tradition and modernity, dasond and Imamat finances, the Left, cautionary notes on Western social values, alcohol, accountability, reincarnation, women, and much, much more you probably never knew Hazar Imam has talked about.
Continued Here » http://isma.li/a7kQ0p
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