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		<title>From Religiones to Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom, 2nd Edition (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing), 2003, 70-71: What was surprising to contemporaries about the Christian Church [around the year 300 AD] was the extent to which activities, which had tended to be kept separate under the old system of religio, were fused into one. Morality, philosophy, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=915&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Policeman&#8217;s New Clothes: &#8216;In October 2010 a new Industrial Police Force (IPF) became operational in Bangladesh. After years of refusal, reluctant to provide the extra funding, the government finally agreed to demands of the garment manufacturers and established a permanent paramilitary force to deal with workers unrest in the industrial zones. The widespread strikes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=910&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War, Travel, Commentary, Alchemy: An Ottoman Life</title>
		<link>http://thicketandthorp.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/war-travel-commentary-alchemy-an-ottoman-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following life is a marked departure from the two previous biographies from Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah’s Shaqa’iq that I’ve translated and posted here and here. Whereas the previous two figures are depicted as mystics and having an ambiguous, even conflicted relationship with both wider society and the Ottoman state structure, the subject of today’s biography does not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=899&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sufi Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another selection from Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah&#8217;s collection of biographies of early Ottoman scholars. Here we have a man who is unambiguously a Sufi, though his order (perhaps Halveti?) is not given (for this order specifically, see the recent work by John Curry on the Halveti order in part of Anatolia[1] ). At [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=890&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The State and the Shari&#8217;a</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If divine guidance is needed, it is for the purpose of setting human life in good order. The purpose is not to control discipline, the two most salient missions of modern law and the modern state that commands it. Rather, in Muslim thinking, it is to live in peace: first, with oneself; second, with and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=896&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mundane and the Mystical</title>
		<link>http://thicketandthorp.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/the-mundane-and-the-mystical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a translated excerpt from a work by an Ottoman scholar writing in the first half of the sixteenth century, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah. Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah wrote a number of works in Arabic and Persian (and perhaps in Ottoman Turkish-not sure on that though), including a tabaqat (biographical dictionary) on early Ottoman &#8216;ulama (scholars). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=886&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tourist Guides of Jerusalem, Circa 1641</title>
		<link>http://thicketandthorp.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/tourist-guides-of-jerusalem-circa-1641/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guild [of Jerusalem tourist guides] had ten members, one of whom was the head; it was very zealous in guarding their vested interests. They apparently had ample reason to be anxious: in 1641 it was reported to the kadi that unauthorized guides were meeting the pilgrims outside Jerusalem’s walls and showing them around holy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=882&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here Four Mountains Circled Round</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans beginning to form, I set out, walking-stick in hand, hiking alone through gorges and across streams, into mountains and over ridgelines, crossing summits without resting, tracing creeks back without pause. Combed by wind and rinsed by rain, or stepping into dew among the stars, I sifted through our shallow thoughts and left their tight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=880&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Roundup</title>
		<link>http://thicketandthorp.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/friday-roundup-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Land-Grabbing and Climate Change in Uganda: Nothing new here, unfortunately: statism and capitalism have a long relationship, indeed inter-penetration, that has often been most exemplified in the &#8216;developing world.&#8217; The creation of a particular sort of market, and a particular sort of polity, with rules, regulations, and institutions that favor the lop-sided concentration of both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=869&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much Tafsir and Tarikh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following little story is related in al-Sharazuri&#8217;s entry on the famous exegete and  historian al-Tabari. As you could gather from the story, al-Tabari&#8217;s two most renowned works were his massive tafsir and his equally massive history (tarikh) of the world, with a particular emphasis upon the parts he knew best, of course (the image [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=654852&amp;post=875&amp;subd=thicketandthorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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