The Islamic ummah is currently unique amongst the Abrahamic peoples in the depth of its deference to science and technology. (There might be a postcolonial reason for this or, perhaps, the deference has a more indigenous lineage, back to a rationalist subjectivity the Muslims themselves invented centuries before Europe took and ran with it so [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Science & Islam
Posted in Cosmology, tagged bucaille, falsification, Islam, religion, science, Sufism, yahya on December 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Merry Christmas
Posted in Love poems, tagged christmas, Sufism on December 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Merry Christmas. Jubilation at the emergence of the Son of Man from the Virgin Womb, whose derivative containment is closest, by a triad, to that Most Underived Love, Jubilation at this Vine of Truth whose Human Body is our Life, the voice existent, now polyphony! Oh, such rhizomatic vocabulary in glorious bifurcation of that Word, [...]
Thank you!
Posted in Love poems, tagged suficore, tailor of the good garment, tailorism, tailorite, thanks on December 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It has been two years to the day that I began peddling my wares here at the Doctrine. 167 entries, 366 comments and 43,623 views (and a few public engagements, dubious TV appearances and a spinout multimedia publishing portal) later, the site has grown into, if not a successful business, then, at least, an important [...]
Ewan Wesi on the Friends (8th Track)
Posted in Love poems, tagged awliya, friends of allah, friends of design, suficore on December 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
(Excerpt from rock journalist Ewan Wesi’s article 100 greatest nasheeds of the 15th Century, NME, Muharam 1501 AH.) “Authority Flow” is the 8th track from the Friends of Design’s eponymous debut album. It is what Sally Deen would refer to as their “Ringo” track — the one song on the album that features the Tailor [...]
Ewan Wesi on the Friends (12th Track)
Posted in Love poems, Tailorite Tafsir, tagged ewan wesi, jinn, NME, shakespeare, suficore, taming, the friends of design, women in Islam on December 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(Excerpt from rock journalist Ewan Wesi’s article 100 greatest nasheeds of the 15th Century, NME, Muharam 1501 AH.) “Taming of the New” is the 12th track from the Friends of Design’s eponymous debut album. Its title is a dubious play on Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew”, a comedy we know featured occasionally in Tailorite reading [...]
The Friends of Design: Unleashed!
Posted in Love poems, tagged sufi music, sufi pop, suficore on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After two years’ of work, Sally, myself and the Geographer have finally released our debut album as the Friends of Design on the Fernmind label. Sufi pop has a new face: that mellifluent mystic Matronita minor! Our first single, “The Pilgrimage”, can be viewed here: WARNING: do not click this if you have objections to [...]
The Tailor and the Exiles
Posted in Cosmology, Tailorite Tafsir, tagged apostates, exile, jack and jill, Kabbalah, Sufism on December 10, 2010 | 15 Comments »
The Tailor would sometimes sell his garments in the lands north of the City, wherein resided wild men and women, nomads and tribes and communes, loosely conflated as self-governing collective. He never made any sales, but would always get into heated debates with the wild men regarding difficult, obscure or superficially offensive verses of the [...]
The Boss
Posted in Cosmology, tagged tantra, the king on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes twistin’ I just got to keep insistin’ Oh baby you sure do swing When it comes twistin’ I just got to keep insistin’ Oh daddy hey, you are the king Baby you got me beat up and down inside out and across Oh yeah But in the middle of the night when [...]
