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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 8h

wonderful book

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 10h

أمور تكوينية

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 1d

‘Ramadan starts at the beginning of March in Gaza, but it’s a different March and a different Ramadan to everyone else’s.’

A diary entry by Nahil Mohana from March 2025 in Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls.

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March 2025 | Nahil Mohana | Granta

‘Ramadan starts at the beginning of March in Gaza, but it’s a different March and a different Ramadan to everyone else’s.’ Nahil Mohana on March 2025 in Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls.

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 17h

the full series of seven discussions Horkheimer & Adorno had in January, 1939—focusing on the concept of the individual in Marx, Hegel, Freud, Kant, Hume, Heidegger, Caillois, the Oedipus myth, & more—that would lead to Dialectic of Enlightenment!

James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 17h

here it is!

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 13h

today is world mental health day, and so sharing this article i wrote in grad school, which ends with a plea for compassion for embodied differences, bringing together the prophet muhammad and spinoza

www.jstor.org/stable/43049...

Mental Disability in Medieval Hanafī Legalism on JSTOR

ALI ALTAF MIAN, Mental Disability in Medieval Hanafī Legalism, Islamic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Autumn 2012), pp. 247-262

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 24d

Steven Rings Explores the Sonic World of Bob Dylan in Forthcoming Book ‘What Did You Hear?’ zurl.co/gx4p8

Steven Rings Explores the Sonic World of Bob Dylan in Forthcoming Book 'What Did You Hear?' - That Eric Alper

Discover a new side of the songs of Bob Dylan by exploring the virtues of rough sounds, peculiar intonation, and a raspy voice. Folk troubadour, rock star, country crooner—for a musician who adopted so many personas, Bob Dylan always sounds like himself. While he’s written many of the most iconic and impactful lyrics of the past […]

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

“hasn’t thinking decided, at the most intimate point of its decision for decision, in favor of the ‘grace’ of existence, and not for the fury of essence?”

jean-luc nancy

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

décider contre l'inexistence

ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

"the non-innocence of freedom constitutes the existential condition of possibility of the decision, which makes the existent exist as 'resolute'."

jean-luc nancy

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 1d

A new album from the pioneer of alternative Arab music tempers pain and disappointment with the experimental grooviness she’s known for

#YasmineHamdan - I remember I forget

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Yasmine Hamdan - I remember I forget album cover. Photograph of a young girl with painting added on top of the image, including a yellow background.

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

so this is not nonsovereign autonomy but nonsovereign perplexity and moral obligation at the same time

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

Neither Existent Nor Non-existent, Neither Created Nor Uncreated: Human Agency and Free Choice in Māturīdī Scholar Muḥammad b. Walī b. Rasūl al-Qīrshahrī al-Izmīrī’s (d. 1165/1751) Kitāb al-Masāʾil al-khilāfiyya bayna al-Māturīdiyya wa-l-Ashāʿira

Angelika Brodersen

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Neither Existent Nor Non-existent, Neither Created Nor Uncreated: Human Agency and Free Choice in Māturīdī Scholar Muḥammad b. Walī b. Rasūl al-Qīrshahrī al-Izmīrī’s (d. 1165/1751) Kitāb al-Masāʾil al...

Abstract. The Sunni theological school of Māturīdiyya emphasizes human freedom in making choices and performing acts, particularly in the context of debate

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

"The fugitive condition of flight: the refugee appears. ... Krasznahorkai both uneasily represents the psychological distortions of the end of history and concludes that the inside is all there is; the cage of consciousness is inescapable."
@jakeromm.bsky.social

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

"One must not seek out sheltered places, for precisely such sheltered places are the most dangerous, since—in addition to the fact that my pursuers will naturally look for me first and foremost in such places—sheltered spots tend to increase your fear, the fear of unknown perils outside..."

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

"I’m a prisoner of the instant…an instant that has no continuation…if I had the time to think about this between two instants—that I have no need for either past or future because neither one exists. But in fact, I have no time between two instants. Since there’s no such thing as two instants."

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 1d

this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone

Strange Matters Magazine @strangemattersmag.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.

@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.

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No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters

Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

resisting (the) fall

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 1d

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!

Read his interview with Hari Kunzru in The Yale Reviewon apocalypse, art, and the urgency of the present—and his short story “An Angel Passed Above Us,” also published in TYR.

yalereview.org/article/l%C3...

László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story

Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

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Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 2d

The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.

Abstracts are due November 14.

Abstract submission form QR code for the Post45 graduate symposium at Duke, February 20-21, 2026. The form is also accessible at https://tinyurl.com/2e2dr4wv.

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 2d

🙏🏼

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 2d

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 2d

I wish

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 2d

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 2d

beautiful writing from @calflyn.bsky.social

"Wild flowers freed from their rocky ledges could grow wild in meadows and sunlit clearings – globe flowers, sow milk whistle, yellow bird’s-nest, toothwort. The strains of songbirds on the air. What ecologists call ‘structural diversity’."