[Reader-list] Rethinking Islam

[Rahul Asthana]

Inder,
Kirdar Sahib,I suppose , was being facetious.
Anyways, could you please post the names of the works
using Islamic imagery by the writers you have cited?
Thanks
Rahul
--- inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shuddha's crime that his name sounds Hindu, but
> Garcia Lorca was
> homosexual and yet incorporated Islamic terminology
> in his poems.
> Borges too used efficiently the litrary phrases in
> his famous style of
> writing. I dont know how many more in Latin American
> literature are
> benefited by the use of Islamic sounds. Even in
> Paris there was groups
> led by Paul Gaugin called Nabis and thier first
> painting was indeed
> titled ' Talisman' and who led a strange mystic
> life...
> 
>   It is only in India that this kind of wrting is
> seen a Muslim
> specific only, and in Paskistan anything Hindi would
> be seen as Hidnu
> specific only...
> 
> Besides that Shuddha Laments
>  ............. which exhausted and scattered the
> Islamicate
> intelligentsia, led to the'closure of the gates of
> 'Itjehad'
> (interpretation) and the rise of dogma and clerics,
> which Islam (which
> never had a centralized clergy
> 
> The main thrust of the scholarly piece is that Islam
> is urgently in
> need to restore its true glory by reincoporating its
>  mystical,
> logical and intellecual past.
> 
> In fact all the religions are are pain the ass if
> they dont behave the
> way it should be...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Tapas Ray
> <tapasrayx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hello! i'm a little confused. what exactly is the
> problem you see in
> > shuddha's post? do you think that as someone with
> a hindu name, he
> > should not have read so much about islamic
> thought, or if he did, should
> > not have mentioned that in public?
> >
> > just curious.
> >
> > tapas
> >
> >
> >
> > kirdar singh wrote:
> > > Very interesting... S.Jabbar asked "if there are
> Islamic scholars who
> > > can guide me..." and quickly jumped in Maulvi
> Shuddhabrata Sengupta to
> > > guide her. I can very well see Maulvi Shuddh in
> the sorely needed role
> > > of a mujtahid in Islam in the times to come...
> Hail Mutazilites, Hail
> > > Farabites, move away you Yogis... Here comes the
> New Age Islamic
> > > Ijtehad, Sarai being the new Baghdad...
> > >
> > > (Sorry I'll give you the references later, since
> I am in a flight
> > > between Babylon and Ankara.)
> > >
> > > KS
> > >
> > > (sorry, just couldn't help break the serious
> silence on this issue
> > > from the other Sarai fellows who are as usual
> spellbound).
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Shuddhabrata
> Sengupta
> > > <shuddha at sarai.net> wrote:
> > >> Dear Sonia,
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for your post. I have been studying Ibn
> Arabi, Ibn Rushd and
> > >> the Mutazila for quite some time now. And have
> always been struck by
> >
> >
> >
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