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METAMODERN SCENE: Islam for a Time Between Worlds w/ Jared Morningstar

The Integral Stage

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Islamic Calligraphy and the Prophet Muhammad

I think Islamic tradition in its genuinely traditional forms does a good job with iconoclasm for the most part. I don't think it falls so so far on that latter side of things pathologies that can develop with any of these strong positions. But yeah, despite this certainly iconoclastic orientation, you do have depictions of the the prophet Muhammad and sort of Persian miniature art. Oftentimes his face will be veiled, and sort of that's kind of the expression of the sort of hiddenness or the occultation of this sort of highest spiritual instantiation in in creation.

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