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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>al-Hakim</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2010/12/14/al-hakim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague Amanda Propst wrote a brilliant limerick this evening about the 6th Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim. He is the clear front-runner in my in my list of favorite historical figures. Amanda mentions in her introduction the the poem that he is probably in hiding. What she forgot to mention, though, is that he [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2010/12/14/al-hakim/' addthis:title='al-Hakim '  ><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>A Walk Down al-Darb al-Ahmar</title>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2010/03/31/a-walk-down-al-darb-al-a%e1%b8%a5mar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day Jeff and I took a walk down al-Darb al-Aḥmar, one of the city's most famous streets, and one that I had never walked before.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://johndmart.in/2010/03/31/a-walk-down-al-darb-al-a%e1%b8%a5mar/' addthis:title='A Walk Down al-Darb al-Ahmar '  ><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>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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