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	<description>CONTEMPORARY  MUSLIM  REFLECTIONS  ON  THE  BREADTH  OF  LIFE</description>
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		<title>Life Spans and Relativity</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/04/life-spans-and-relativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice poem I came across. It&#8217;s in an old paperback I&#8217;ve got: Immortal Poems of the English Language. Language moves. We all know that. It can make familiar information so pointed. This poem (&#8220;On a Fly drinking out of his Cup&#8221;) is by William Oldys (1696 &#8211; 1761). Busy, curious, thirsty fly! Drink [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=528&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Story Impacts</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/05/28/story-impacts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this nice quote on the impact of stories and what they do in human life. The Quran and most other scriptures employ stories that carry urgent meanings. It remains a marvel how we humans, creatures of common flesh and mean fluids, can be so suspended, arrested, taken, and moved by stories. Thank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=523&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waterboarding Language</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/04/23/waterboarding-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caring about language is not an egghead sport. Nothing exists outside of its reach. Why would “revelation” itself be entrusted to words if there wasn’t something special or supernal about them? Like air and water, language can be corrupted, though it&#8217;s hard to notice the toxins. Apparently, the struggle for the meaning of words (especially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=491&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Grief</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/04/09/the-art-of-grief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before my father passed away many years ago, he lived in an hospital connected to a respirator for five months. Fully conscious, aware, and fatherly, it was difficult for him to accept the fact that he couldn’t breathe on his own. Nearly every day of my father’s hospital stay, I visited him for several hours, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=474&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stepford Religion</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/04/02/stepford-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many nations in the Muslim east continue to tax their societies with particular educational practices, in which the nation’s brightest students are encouraged (or compelled) to study the natural sciences and technologies. Conversely, the mediocre students are relegated to fields like Sharia studies. What happens is that the best minds of a society (minds capable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=467&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Magicians&#8217; Epiphanies</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/03/26/magicians-epiphanies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost universally, the confrontation between Moses and Pharaoh is branded on human culture and memory. That epic face-off evokes familiar empathy for things like justice, struggle against apparent odds, and spectacular escape and triumph. If you’re a reader of the Quran, you can’t help but notice how the confrontation is told in several places and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=460&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Seeker&#8217;s Pick</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/03/19/the-seekers-pick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This quote is from one of America&#8217;s most distinctive literary voices, Annie Dillard. I&#8217;ve read it many times and not sure exactly what makes it so appealing, but I think it has something to do with the off-road slant she boldly considers when reflecting on nature. In the &#8220;Koran,&#8221; from which she quotes, we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=452&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confronting Comfort</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/03/12/confronting-comfort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a certain level, I think that the kind of reform &#8220;we&#8221; need, whether it involves matters like the environment or political and social patterns of thought, requires the kind of courage to confront not fear but what makes us comfortable and satisfied and all the paradigms that we have inhaled without inspection. Christopher Lasch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=444&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alcohol and Short Stories</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/12/21/alcohol-and-short-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I looked for something to read a slow Sunday evening and pulled down a volume of short stories on alcoholism, a Graywolf Press collection of short fiction from masters (like Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Frank O’Connor, and Langston Hughes) who had honest and pointed observations to make about liquor and its impact on the lives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=429&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; About Sacred Art</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/08/25/retread-about-sacred-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EDITOR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Saturdays. This piece was originally posted by ABUSHARIF on 4 January 2007. People may disagree on what is “art,” but what can’t be dispute is that art has origins. Many have said that its earliest association pertains to the sacred, namely, human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=396&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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