Islam, Modernity and Tradition with Abdal Hakim Murad
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The Importance of Understanding Islamic Sufism
Gynall: The current fundamentalized or idealized versions of religion nowadays don't represent the great historic spiritual depths of those traditions. One has to set aside the froth the media focuses on and then if you're looking at islam yeah i mean gennon is a very good place to begin even though in his amazing rigor, he thinks that's a language that's particularly unvarnished and intelligible to the modern western mind. He also says one must cultivate a sense of mercy for humanity and look at the disasters of modernity with the eye of pity rather than contempt this was the way of my teachers always in the middle east they told me never to despise people in
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