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Academia.edu Excerpt: The Ontology of Imagination Henry Corbin and others have demonstrated the importance of imagination for Sufism and Islamic philosophy.6 Ibn al-‘Arabi insists that it is impossible to gain a true understanding of the Islamic revelation without perceiving the role of imagination within the cosmos. “He who does not know (ya’rif) the ontological status (martaba) of imagination (al-khayäl) has…
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By: Abna24 | Date: October 19, 2026 | En.abna24.com AhlulBayt News Agency: According to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, approximately 6% of the population covered by its religious statistics belonged to Muslim communities in 2024. Switzerland presents a distinctive case in the relationship between Islam and the state. While the country’s Federal Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, the 2009 referendum banning…
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Introduction: Israel is suspected of triggering the Ceuta “invasion” in order to punish Pedro Sanchez for opposing genocide and refusing to allow Spain’s facilities and airspace to be used in Israel’s war on Iran (fought in part through the Israeli-occupied, Epstein-blackmailed “US” government). Netanyahu hopes to regime-change Spain and install a Zionist-puppet racist government, as part of the larger effort…
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Reviving All Souls Day … Should We Pray for Dinosaurs? Rupert Sheldrake talks with Marc Andrus, former Episcopal Bishop of California Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, September 2015. Marc Andrus: Rupert, thank you for this conversation. It’s always more than a delight to be in conversation with you. It supports life and supports me. I love it. We’re talking a little…
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Video link RA’IYAT AL-FIKR via Pure Wilayah Substack In a powerful address at the 13th International Bediuzzaman Conference in Istanbul, held under the theme “Quranic Solutions to Global Crises,” prominent British journalist Lauren Booth called for a steadfast return to Quranic values to confront the moral, political, and technological crises gripping the modern world. Addressing the profound challenges of our…
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Editor’s note: Claire Khaw is one of Britain’s most provocatively iconoclastic thinkers. Imagine the reaction she gets, in certain quarters, from statements like: “…my purpose is to restore the patriarchy by means of establishing a one-party theocracy based on the Koranic principles that will replace the immorality of feminism.” Among the many post-9/11 Western reactions to Islam, hers is certainly…
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Belief in angels is the second of the six Islamic articles of faith (arkan al-iman). Islam holds that angels are created from light, are inherently worshipful, sinless and obedient to God, and can assume human form when God so wills. The angel Jibril, who brought the Qur’anic revelation from God to the Prophet Muhammad SAAS, is the best known, but…
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Watch the video at the Al-Andalus Tribune Substack Islamic Studies scholar Salim Mansur is a deeply knowledgeable, sincere, spiritually-engaged seeker of truth with the courage to face both the shortcomings, mistakes, and failures of today’s Muslim community, and the even more egregious failures of contemporary Western civilization—including the ones professors are not supposed to talk about, like the 9/11 false…
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Abbas From Divine Praxis Part 1: The Wretchedness of Poverty Part 2: Poverty and Capitalism Part 3: The Divine Sin of Poverty Excerpt: In Islam and especially Sufism, there is a focus on humility and living with little worldly attachments and opulence. Indeed, decadence and ill gained wealth can only obfuscate and veil the true spirit of Being-in-flux, leading to…
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YouTube video Adnan Husain’s Substack featuring audio Adnan and Marc return with a discussion of a name or attribute, al-Qadeer or “the Powerful” or “All-Powerful”, identified by `Afīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī in his work translated as “The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qur’an” by Yousef Casewit. Notably, the name al-Qadeer is not often…
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