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Need to read this fascinating article slowly but one quick observation: the ritual practices of Islam seem to be very much bound up with the cycles of the sun (daily prayer) and the moon (Eid, Ramadan). A kind of alignment with the cosmos (as Hakim Murad intimates in a lecture of Nature).

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Sorry for the manic writing Justin but "I'm your number one fan" (Annie Wilkes) and I really enjoyed this article (esp. the 'wild speculations').

Also, the monasticism bit reminded me of my mother phoning me from London a few years back, asking if I was safe back in the land of the pure.

Me: "Why?"

Her: "Well, India has just attacked!"

Me: "Oh. really?"

Thought you might like this:

https://www.theawl.com/2012/06/how-silence-works-emailed-conversations-with-four-trappist-monks/

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