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		<title>Theurgy in the Medieval Islamic World &#8211; MA Thesis &#8211; AUC</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2011/12/20/theurgy-in-the-medieval-islamic-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American University in Cairo School of Humanities and Social Sciences THEURGY IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD: CONCEPTIONS OF COSMOLOGY IN AL-BŪNĪ’S DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE NAMES A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts by John D. Martin [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2011/12/20/theurgy-in-the-medieval-islamic-world/' addthis:title='Theurgy in the Medieval Islamic World &#8211; MA Thesis &#8211; AUC '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Primum Non Nocere: Gray Area in Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2011/10/06/primum-non-nocere-gray-area-in-commanding-the-right-and-forbidding-the-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a paper that I gave at the 12th annual International Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, 17-19 March 2011 in Prague. It was published in a volume of papers selected from the proceedings of that conference. Abstract: The Arabic term hisba is defined classically within Islamic juridical and theological writing as being the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2011/10/06/primum-non-nocere-gray-area-in-commanding-the-right-and-forbidding-the-wrong/' addthis:title='Primum Non Nocere: Gray Area in Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Conceptual Development of Deviance among Islamic Mystics: The Malāmatiyya</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2011/06/15/the-conceptual-development-of-deviance-among-islamic-mystics-the-malamatiyya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a paper which I submitted to Prof. Amina Elbendary&#8217;s seminar on &#8220;Protest, Rebellion and Revolt in the Pre-modern Middle-East&#8221; in the Fall semester 2010 at AUC. Abstract: The concept of deviance in early Islamic mystic piety developed as an aspect of the same social and intellectual processes which defined Sufism as a normative [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2011/06/15/the-conceptual-development-of-deviance-among-islamic-mystics-the-malamatiyya/' addthis:title='The Conceptual Development of Deviance among Islamic Mystics: The Malāmatiyya '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul not Constantinople</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2011/02/03/istanbul-not-constantinople/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we have fled the country temporarily. We are currently refugees in Istanbul (not Constantinople) which offers all of the typical trappings of a refugee environment: stunning views, great food, a local beer, Ottoman history everywhere. The usual. For the time being we are safe and sound. Depending on how the situation in Cairo progresses [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2011/02/03/istanbul-not-constantinople/' addthis:title='Istanbul not Constantinople '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Bab to Bab</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2010/04/06/bab-to-bab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a bunch of my friend Peter Waters&#8216; mates mosque-walking around Fatimid Cairo the other day. We walked from the north gate to the south gate of the old city&#8212;Bāb al-Futūḥ to Bāb Zuwayla and then into the Qasaba. We then continued on from there and wound up near Sayyida Zeinab Mosque, but only [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2010/04/06/bab-to-bab/' addthis:title='Bab to Bab '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Agency and Authority</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2009/12/17/agency-and-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discourse regarding qadar in early Islamic political thought is significant with regard to caliphal authority and represents an avenue for dissent in the nascent caliphal state system. If free-will can be applied to parsing right and wrong in human actions and thought, then the responsibility for action falls to the actor, particularly in the case of unjust actions.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2009/12/17/agency-and-authority/' addthis:title='Agency and Authority '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Mosqueing in Cairo &#8211; August 2009</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2009/08/15/mosqueing-in-cairo-august-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Mosque on Every Corner. While Nigel and Johnny were in from Taiwan, Megan and I decided to take them Mosque-walking from the Sayyida Zeinab Mosque to very near the Citadel in Islamic Cairo. We swiftly coined the term &#8220;Mosqueing&#8221; to refer to this activity. Check Webster&#8217;s in a few years, it will be there. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2009/08/15/mosqueing-in-cairo-august-2009/' addthis:title='Mosqueing in Cairo &#8211; August 2009 '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Iran and Revolution</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2009/06/29/iran-and-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberation Theology for the 21st Century I caught this article from the Christian Science monitor this morning on the trepidation of Arab states over reacting to the current situation in Iran. They cited the &#8220;voice of a disenfranchised [Iranian] people&#8221; as the mechanism for the current political and social unrest and that this is the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2009/06/29/iran-and-revolution/' addthis:title='Iran and Revolution '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Honorable Mention</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2009/04/28/honorable-mention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got an e-mail containing this link today: On Being a Better Muslim<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2009/04/28/honorable-mention/' addthis:title='Honorable Mention '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Two Bits</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2008/03/13/two-bits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It still costs the same I had the best haircut experience of my life today. See, the air in Cairo is astoundingly dirty. I never feel clean: especially my face. It also doesn&#8217;t help that the water is so heavily chlorinated that it bleaches your skin (Eat that &#8220;Fair and Lovely&#8220;) by stripping off the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2008/03/13/two-bits/' addthis:title='Two Bits '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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