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		<title>On the Poor Ones and Why They Are Called Sufis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While later medieval Sufism is represented in some extremely subtle, sophisticated, and often very complex texts, produced by and for the intellectual elite, writings intended for a less rarified milieu were also very common. Indeed, many prominent Sufis wrote treatises and commentaries designed to make esoteric, philosophical tenets of mystic though and practice more accessible [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&#038;blog=654852&#038;post=1114&#038;subd=thicketandthorp&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Different Diseases, Different Cures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medieval Sufis were extremely diverse in terms of doctrine, practice, style, social status, and manner of life. As a result, establishing a common thread or unifying theme can be difficult. The  author of the work excerpted below, ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī (d. 525/1133), is no exception. Educated in all of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&#038;blog=654852&#038;post=1108&#038;subd=thicketandthorp&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>These Low, Old Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rose McLarney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ceilings are five feet high, house crowded by history and rotting rafters he&#8217;ll have to tear out- the tall, young man who just bought it. Beside a stooped old apple (too long un-pruned to be bowed by fruit), while the day backs down behind the ridge, he makes plans. He wonders, for a moment, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&#038;blog=654852&#038;post=1106&#038;subd=thicketandthorp&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reluctant Whsipers of Kissed Lips</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jaroslav Seifert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reluctant whispers of kissed lips that are smiling Yes- I&#8217;ve long since ceased to hear them. Nor do they belong to me. Yet I&#8217;d still love to find words kneaded from bread dough or the fragrance of lindens. But the bread&#8217;s become moldy and the fragrance bitter. And all around me the words sneak on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&#038;blog=654852&#038;post=1103&#038;subd=thicketandthorp&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Junipers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Drip the Oil of Your Grace, My God</title>
		<link>http://thicketandthorp.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/drip-the-oil-of-your-grace-my-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Symeon the New Theologian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[_____________ I have removed to a distance, Benevolent One, I dwelt in the desert and I was hidden from You, the sweet Master. I came under the night of life&#8217;s worry, and there I sustained many stings and wounds, having gone up I bear many blows in my soul, and I cry out amid the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&#038;blog=654852&#038;post=1089&#038;subd=thicketandthorp&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concerning the Prayer-Rug, Matters Mystical and Practical</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The translation below comes from a text I have previously written about here, the Futuvvatʹnāmah-ʼi Sultānī of Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī Wāʻiẓ Kāshifī (c.1420-1504/5). For more information on the text and on the content of futuwwa/futuvva, see the above post. In this excerpt, Kāshifī deals with a topic that is not exclusively futuwwa or Sufi-oriented: the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&#038;blog=654852&#038;post=1080&#038;subd=thicketandthorp&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Poems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some poetry of my own composition, for a change. I can&#8217;t pretend that these are brilliant verses or anything, but I liked them, even after re-reading them. I hope you do too. * I nestle into her back, and close Ourselves in, this woven little world of ours, And of others’, of God: so not [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&#038;blog=654852&#038;post=1074&#038;subd=thicketandthorp&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty and the Sublimity, Winter and Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a single discourse from a collection of discourses by the seventeenth century Ottoman Sufi mystic and scholar Ismāʿīl Ḥaḳḳī, featured previously on this blog here: Sufi Concision. It is a rather dense little piece, despite only being a couple paragraphs. I will keep my explication short, in part because I am reluctant [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thicketandthorp.wordpress.com&#038;blog=654852&#038;post=1059&#038;subd=thicketandthorp&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frost on the Garden, End of November</title>
		<link>http://thicketandthorp.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/frost-on-the-garden-end-of-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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