Two leaves from a manuscript of the Qur’an, Abbasid Caliphate, ninth to tenth century, Ink and Gold on Parchment  On Early Islam

Summer 2000

 

 


"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

     Abstract

1.  The Gates of Damascus

2.  The Pride of Haroon

3.  The Path of Reason

4.  The Mystic Tide

5.  The West

6.  Epilogue

                 Notes, Maps

 


NB: An edited excerpt from this essay was published as The Station of Light in Nimble Spirit Review, Nov 2004.


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Nalanda University

Rereading Naipaul

An MSc and a Ph.D

On Shooting People

Respecting Religion

The Dilwara Temples

Land of the Asiatic Lion

Ghost Town in the Levant

Respecting the Holocaust

Which Thousand Words?

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka

Al-Farabi, Islamic Philosopher

Gandhi's 'Inconsistent Pacifism'

Second Date

Size Matters!

The Carvakas

On Patriotism

Potala-in-Exile

The Namesake

The Idea of India

James Nachtwey
Anandpur Sahib

Al-Beruni's India

Jerry Falwell, BIH

Land of Two Rivers

Wise Man Socrates

Our Moral Compass

A Day Trip to My Alma Mater

A Mousetrap for Metaphysics

America and the Cold War

On History and Historians

Respecting the Holocaust

Omar Khayyam of Persia

A Hammam in Damascus

Democracy in Athens

A Qawwali Concert

Putty in Her Hands
The Rann of Kutch

Asian Art Museum
Nagarjunakonda

On Diversity

Reporting from Home

Truth, Lies, and Photos

Global Democracy Index

The Bold and the Beautiful

Le Corbusier's Chandigarh

Peter Brook's Mahabharata

Amartya Sen on Globalization

The True Cost of Our Gadgets

The Burning Ghats of Varanasi

Who's That Pretty Pachyderm?

The Giant Tortoises of Galapagos

Melting Girls and Serpent Women

Servitors of Divine Consciousness

On Dignity, Rights, Responsibility