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Just finished reading Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali. It was definitely an insightful account of the Spanish Inquisition from the perspective of an aristocratic Moorish clan, the Banu Hudayl. The book revolves around this noble family situated in the outskirts of Gharnata (Grenada) who for hundreds of years ruled, only to lose their last foothold in Spain as King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella rise to prominence. The noble family is depicted as respectable people possessing the various vices an elite family would normally partake in, such as sexual immorality, intoxicants and high philosophy. As the Christian Monarchy strengthen, it forced the remaining Spanish Muslims to either bear harassment of the new Kingdom that purports tolerance, or convert to Catholicism to remain. However those who sought tolerance were found in circumstances unbearable, if they didn’t flee eventually their fate was fatal. Among those who converted, including the Jews were looked down with suspicion and ostracized. All in all, a good read.
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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
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Our December 2015 reading is: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali
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"Know that everything in the human organism has a certain function, otherwise it is idle. The function of the eyes are to see, otherwise it is idle. The function of the ears are to hear, the absence of which they are idle. Likewise, the function of the heart is to love, in the absence of which it is idle"
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November 2015 book club meet up. Good food, good reads and great company!
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Unlike other doctrines,Ghazzali, in the Sawanih maintains that there is no distinguishing line between human and Divine love. That it is impossible to draw the line between the metaphysics of the spirit and the erotics of flesh. As per the author, Ghazzali implies love is a single reality composed of graduations of intensity and weakness. That it (love) differs in degrees but not in kinds as it originates from an Ultimate source (God).
What do ‘you’ think love is?
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"Love veils the spirit from seeing himself and so it overwhelms his eye of inspection. As a result, love takes the place of the spirit's image in the mirror and the spirit sees it instead of himself. This is where he says:
'I have your image in my eye so much
That whatever I perceive, I think it is you.'"
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November 2015 Reading
Sawanih by Ahmad Ghazzali.
In short it is about the metaphyics of love. It is the earliest Islamic treatise composed unsystematically by Ahmad Ghazzali, an author who is overshadowed by the famous Islamic theologian and older brother Abu Hamid Ghazzali.
For everyone else who want to join us friends for this month’s reading, the pdf is conveniently linked here.
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