"
IN THE COURTYARD OF THE BELOVED is a visual and aural portrait of
Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah, a Sufi shrine in New Delhi, India. Made from over 18,000 still images and ambient sounds recorded on-site, rapid-fire bursts of kaleidoscopic imagery assemble into fractured collages where a moment expands outwards and then converges back into itself, fleshing out a three-dimensional rendering of place."
posted by gman
on Oct 7, 2010 -
12 comments
"White Muslim." Converting to
which Islam? Most of the new Muslims I read about in the usual media feel impelled to join the
"orthodox" Sunni (if not outright
Wahhabi) variety, as if there is no other. But, as many of you no doubt already know, a non-negligible minority of the world's Muslims are
Shi'ite, whose biggest
"Twelver" branch was made famous by this
Ayatollah.
To further refute the image of "monolithic" Islam,within the Shia minority are a minority known as
"Seveners" or
Ismailis , whose
biggest branch is run by this
gentleman , whose
conception of Islam as
"a thinking, spiritual faith, one that teaches compassion and tolerance" seems more congenial to the self-selected strata inclined to, oh, post to MetaFilter, perhaps especially to "Secular Humanist" atheists like me. (I'll bet some of you can even relate to his
divorce.) Further reading from these links (perhaps with Google's help) should further belie much of the dumbed-down propaganda "mainstream" Americans are spoon-fed about Islam, showing the kaleidoscopic nature of one of today's One True Faiths. (And then there are the almost Zen-like
Sufis, and ....)
posted by davy
on Dec 7, 2004 -
58 comments
