Excellent thread on how most polemicists railing against 'postmodernism' are, in fact, ideologues with no understanding of the texts they're supposedly criticizing. Reason sacrificed at the altar of 'anti-woke' in this next episode of an exhausting culture war.
Was @VinceEbert hier behauptet, ist sachlich falsch.
1. „Das postmoderne Denken“ ist eine nachträgliche, polemische Konstruktion aus den 1980er Jahren. Ihm entspricht keine ideengeschichtliche Einheit.
2. Den Vertretern des gemeinten Denkens ging es durchgängig um …
Racism against Afghans is sadly normalized in Central and South Asia. Happy to see this rejoinder and reminder that Afghanistan birthed many of the greatest Sufi figures we know, including Mawlana Jami and Abu Ishaq Shami, the founder of the Chishti order.
Junayd al-Baghdadi, one of the leading authorities on Sufism, called Ibn-e Adham as "the key of mystical sciences" adding that he was one of the first Sufis in Khurasan/Khorasan (an old name for Afghanistan and the surrounding region). researchgate.net/publication…
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"Put simply, ressentiment takes a despondent individual and transforms him into an antagonistic one." - Paul Katsafanas (paper cited in reply)
Dostoevsky on the man of ressentiment relishing in hatred, both of himself and the world:
Taken from 'Notes from Underground' (pg. 17)
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Ressentiment and Identity
Paul Katsafanas
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Gilles Deleuze on the two errors of technocracy and totalitarianism. Taken from the Logic of Sense (pg. 49)
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Tons of misinformation being shared lately by "anti-imperialist" accounts like @RaniaKhalek , notorious connoisseur of fake news, to justify their prior support for Assad and revel in schadenfreude. Case in point: repurposing images of Assad's brutality for their own agenda.
Misinformation.
The correct news is: Syrian dentist and chess champion Dr. Rania al-Abbasi was abducted by Assad’s security services With out Just Cause in 2013, along with her husband, Abd al-Rahman, and their six children.
Link to the Syrian Network for Human Rights article: snhr.org/blog/2023/01/13/ran…
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Iran has consistently conducted its foreign policy in the Middle East along sectarian lines since the 1979 revolution, but it is inconvenient to say so because of how effectively they have misappropriated decolonialist discourse to win over Western audiences.
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From supporting the use of chemical weapons to engineering demographic change, Iran has undermined the Syrian people's right to self-determination for a decade with violence, mostly against children. So much for "decolonization".
foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/15… leilashami.wordpress.com/201…
This ties in neatly with the 20th century sociologist Karl Mannheim's writings. Historylessness as an essential feature of fascism: the negation of history as a context of meaning and critical standard and of historical conditioning (and thus of the value of historical knowledge)
“The marriage of oligarchs and ethnonationalists...is spawning a culture that supports it...sustaining the culture that buoys economic nationalism is an ignorance—or romanticization—of history.” un-diplomatic.com/p/gen-z-te…
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I love how the conventional wisdom among online Muslim communities is that women going to college causes lower marriage rates. The data, however, paints a very different picture to this reactionary perception:
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"Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying."
“If I could prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
...there is too much noise.”
--Søren Kierkegaard
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Imam al-Ghazali explicitly says this as well in his book on the 99 Divine Names of Allah under the section Al-Rahman, Al-Rahim.
Very fitting too, that the translation links understanding of compassion with wisdom.
It is unfortunate to find Muslims who go into excessive despair when lamenting on the conditions of our time. They will claim that the teachings of the pious saints have been lost to time. Nothing could be further from the truth, as the following passage indicates:
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Thanks for this. The speed with which people immediately begin to question one's faith simply for questioning the conventional wisdom on history or politics is disturbing. Referring to some replies in Firas Alkhateeb's post on the caliphate.
P.S. I can't reply so quote-tweeting.
You could study Islām for 50 years, have dozens of Ijāzāt, but the second you say something a Muslim doesn’t agree with, you’re the worst person alive to them. It’s self-destructive. But if your intentions remain clean, it doesn’t matter what people think. Remember Nūh (ﷺ).
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I wonder if not being tenured actually provided him a good environment to reflect over the state of contemporary philosophy without being compelled to publish. Reminds me of what Peter Hacker said about philosophy being "in a state of grievous decline".
I see Timothy Williamson being called out for misrepresenting = I like. 😌
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Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad notes in his book "The Maturidi School" that this belief was characterised as Mu'tazili by early and late Maturidi scholars.
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. @KhalilAndani I am a Sunni but I want to commend you on your debate with Jake. It's extremely embarrassing for a self-professed Sunni who holds heterodox beliefs (time being an attribute of God) that nobody in the Sunni AND Shia philosophical tradition held
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to then speak on their behalf. He, like Dr. Craig, believes that God's knowledge changes and contingent things emerge in His Essence. Jake did not provide a single positive argument for his anthropomorphic creed (see @Raaaatiba 's feed for his interpretation of the hadith)
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