[...] nature <--Naveeda-- *a horizon of striving*
}<-- an example of (Iqbalian) reason + revelation
institutionalizing blindness
Iqbal on ahmadies:
•Tipu sultan collapse by the British 1799 = mark of political and psychological subjugation of Muslims --Iqbal--> Ahmadiyya messianic movement = subjugated people explaining to themselves their state of decline (negative enlightenment)
•tolerance = indifference
striving =/= progress
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Naveeda chapter 4 jinn
strident --> engaging speech with vivid imagery
differential --> differing knowledge to proper authority
lack of consensus on what X is (among its varient constituents) ==> (problem of) loss of tolerance
(for example Pakistan:)
contradictions between commitments to:
•existing hierarchies
•tribal ties
•universalistic religion (whose version of community transcends those ties)
(Naveeda) thinking of the potential lines of movement among entrenched differences, cited texts, and possible positions generated by selves encountering others in the world
intensities that burn within you + openness to conversation
attention to time --Naveeda--> draw a consistent picture of an Islam with open future
disputation = a form of experimentation: doing and undoing of known forms (in the spirit of striving) [=/= experimentation: innovation in self-making, or social arrangements]
@apass
disputation: a form of interaction (with risks and ill effects [risk of alienation, estrangement of others])
--> [*]becoming: coming to terms with the trajectories and crystalization of tendencies within the transcriptions of the state and in public culture --> **excavating the resources (that this way of being Muslim) give to itself to reflect upon and evaluate (--> renew its inheritance of Islam)
•approaching history from the perspective of plenitude
•approaching history from the perspective of lack
(upsurge of excitement accompanying the creation of Pakistan --Smith--> a tendency [=/= social movement for example reform or piety with identifiable advocacies and trajectories] called) [*]aspiration: sustaining the striving towards an ideal final form (a state, society, self, etc.) =/= achieving
the aspiration of making Pakistan --> to aspire an islamic state ~~Smith--> muslim way of saying that Pakistan should build for itself a good society
--Naveeda--> demand for a state = demand for a society ~= demand for a self
how to read Pakistan's historical records shaped by the *aspiration to strive as Muslims*?
to effect experimentation <==
•disputation (jadal)
•argument (bahs)
•disputation (monazereh)
•debate + polemic
•building mosques
•
tradition and ethics of debate and disputation
Carl Schmitt --> political theology
*politics discovers its modernity by repressing the theological foundations of its concept and practice*
theology was always about worldly politics <--> religious transcendence }==> run analysis both ways:
•transcendental coming into play (in some instances)
•worldly life coming into play (in some instances) [immanent quality]
--Singh--> self-making & self-perfecting
}--Naveeda--> religious argumentation : expressive of ongoing striving
**one works on oneself by revisiting and reinhabiting theological conundrums (through words and practice)** [same in artists as well?]
perceived eagerness for debate among lay muslims --> (anxiety over) disputation ==>
•indulgence in abstract thinking
•undermine the tenacity of individual faith
•reduce the hold of the daily obligations of ritual worship
•lead to a diminishing attachment to worldly life or stakes in the social
Veena, Cavell > skepticism:
•philosophical efforts at securing one's knowledge of the world unmediated by sense experience (<-- classical)
•human disappointment with our earthly condition of being distinct and separate from others (<-- social)
•efforts to secure unmediated knowledge of others (<-- social)
•
[Veena (giving historicity and ethnigraphic precision)-->] skepticism ==>
•renders other vulnerable to suspicion
•unsettle social relations
•produce the conditions of possibility for suffering and violence
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thunder stone rock fire transportation affect
[source: Engraving by I.F.Schley of the drawing by Y.M.Felten. 1770 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thunder_Stone.jpg] thunder stone rock fire transportation affect [source: Engraving by I.F.Schley of the drawing by Y.M.Felten. 1770 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thunder_Stone.jpg]](images/ajayeb/0082.jpg)
skepticism <--> aspiration
aspiration =/= clear vision of ends
Pakistan:
•idemtifies itself as an ideological state (Islam) [==Naveeda==> (the possibility of) some experimentation within its apparatus : ***articulation and dispersal of ideology is not linear or cumulative*** it flows in directions other than from the top down]
•inherits the colonial administrative structure + imperatives of government (postcolonial state)
(Sina -->) to be ideological about X : driven to ascertain and adjudicate the others relation to X
(certainly as an achievement)
in islamic ideological states (like Pakistan and Iran) you are allowed to experiment on what is it to be a Muslim
(+ skepticism with respect to those who strive)
•skepticism transforms into an *impersonal force* (that can emerge anywhere and strike anyone) [<-- disembodied aspect of skepticism]
discourse of spiritual diagnosis
(takes place through an evaluation of one's physiology)
Deleuze's symptomatology: a creative act bringing about a change in health + affirmation of a way of life
•striving --> good health
Iqbal --> attentiveness to thr physiological as a means to gauge whether one's spirituality is on the right track
•with Bergson --> concern for the futurity of Islam
•with Nietzsche --> concern for the spiritual health
◦Nietzsche: physician of culture, (understood as political act) “striving and self-diagnosis ==> implicates the individual in the world ==> produce charges in the world”
Naveeda's ethnography method of interviewing:
1. locate traces of X in (context:)
◦everyday life
◦public culture
◦
3. see how this tendency crystallizes
◦at particular points
◦within particular persons
◦within particular texts
◦
5. study this crystallization
◦comes to be overlaid
◦expressed through lived experiences
◦be productive of
◾further movements of the tendency
◾countertendencies
◾its dissipation
◦
jinn <--> striving
Naveeda shiwsyin her research a single worshiper's choice of striving: relay upon a jinn for guidance on better ways to be a Muslim
*striving --> put collectivity (for example family) in jeopardy*
*@apass
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(state pronouncements of) correct way to [?how to] *attach to the prophet*
becoming a knowledgeable religious disputant
Naveeda > Iqbal > the weary self that could not be roused to piety by religious zeal strikes a posture as much of resignation to sin by a nonpracticing Muslim as of a certain pride of withholding oneself from conformism.
--> of one goes to prayer in a mosque it is by one's own choice
...to dismiss differences = the political expression of the petit bourgeoisie
Iqbal's disapproval of guidance --variance--> (Sahib) seeking guidance from a jinn for pious pursuits
singularity of Sahib's efforts at improving himself as a Muslim --> (Iqbalian aspiration) posture of the nonconformist
state's fears that the milieu was pervaded by non-Muslim others posting as Muslims --jinn--> [made vivid] *skeptical experience of everyday life as a place of illusion and trance* (go to --> my work on Relaxing Horror Tales for Children and Adults)
bedat بدعت
accretion of customs in the form of innovation
jinn
-what nature of influences jinn introduce into human lives?
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rigs diagram moon finger Sa'di yar fish nakhshab reflection
[source: Sina Seifee] rigs diagram moon finger Sa'di yar fish nakhshab reflection [source: Sina Seifee]](images/ajayeb/0005.jpg)
•library of religious commentary
•prophetic tales
•magicians’ manuals
•folklore
•ethnography
•
--> characterization of jinn
human ~= jinm --> endowed with passion, rational faculties, responsibility for their actions, etc. they eat, grow, procreate, die
constantly evolving relationship between humans and jinns
from pre-islamic --to--> Islamic
both good & bad ascribed to jinn's constitution --to--> to be much more unequivocally associated with evil
the little mischievous nafs نفس that make up a self --> Muslim interiority (projects?)
...in the belief of jinns:
•complex arrangement of cultural memory
•political strategy
•mental illness
•individual subjectivity
•
--✕--> *Naveeda taking the existence of jinn for granted ==> (her effort) to learn more about the family that adopted them and their efforts at striving*
*taking the existence of X for granted ==to==> learn about the people who adopted X*
“Muslim children - how bring them up?” vol 3
(in Islam) child: bring without aghl عقل + ability to communicate with divine beings, without sin
--> always under the threat of being easily led astray
eight-year-old Maryam
-attuned to ways in which this world and the jinn world were mirrored and intertwined
-would look into the palm of her hand to see what the jinn would have her to see
-relayed the requests of human world to the jinn
-bringing forth advice, instruction, expression of desire (from the jinn)
relationship of ventriloquism (between Maryam and jinn)
there was an accepted contiguity of jinn and human selves & possibility of a plurality of voices in Maryam's mediation --> enjoin her family to attend closely to her words
coterminous
هم مرز، هم زمان
Ahmadi in Pakistan
each Muslim group claimed itself the truest of all <-- the idea that *to accept the X's claim to be Muslim = accept one's own annihilation as Muslim*
--Naveeda--> question the limits of contiguity of different forms of life (when copresence was tolerable? when copresence was made intolerable?)
imitato Muhammadi
emulating X (to experience X) --through--> passionate love and ecstatic identification with the X
(for example the prophet: seeing the prophet on one's mind's eye + imitating him)
•sufist approach: prophet is immanent in the world
•varied affective relations to the prophet:
◦ecstatic love
◦reverential love
◦respect
◦
jinns having a dynamic disruptive presence within the human world
Sunni Deobandi's belief that the prophet is alive in his grave in Medina ~= Shia's notion of the hidden imam
*several (competing) bodies of knowledge*
Naveeda --read--> Sahib taking cues --on--> prophet's example --from--> faceless voiceless jinn --with--> little child surving as its medium
-parental disappointment with sons
-children possible abandonment by their fathers
-wife's estrangement from her dying husband
--> ambiguities that undergrid lived relations
“Maryam rushed to greet him at the door of the house but then she fell back screening. apparently a thirty-feet-tall churail (witch) had followed Sahib from India. Sahib immediately dropped his bags at the doorstep and without pause rushed to the mosque to say his prayers. when he returned home, Maryam assured him that the witch had left him.”
Sahib allowed the entry of jinn into his home without the armature of the average amil (who undergoes considerable pain and deprivation to be able to lay claim upon particular force, and undertake continental exercises of the body and mind to control it)
--risk--> potential disruption of the family
--abdicate--> his position of authority within his family --to--> attend to his daughter's words of guidance
*his turn towards Maryam = turn away from the present* (of his everyday life not having the spiritual richness & *authoritative accounts* [he desired to make himself a better Muslim])
from a pedagogical figure --to--> pupil to his daughter
pursuits of the self ~=> incorporate the unexpected --extent--> abdicating full control of oneself
in bringing a jinn into his life --> it became a version of him joining other versions of himself with whom he was bound
--Iqbal--> striving to one's next self
in the famous tale of Aladdin and the magic lamp, a child found a genie and could be literally pulled out of a humdrum existence to soar the skies
•Maryam shared the jinn's joy in discovering human food
•she got to whisper her secrets into his ears
•make him complicit in her projects
•she got to temporally take leave of her body that was changing beyond her control
(Naveeda asks) was Sulayman (the jinn) about the inability to acknowledge friendship over time?
...................................
Naveeda chapter 5 mulla
graffiti --> awareness of X at the level of gesture and affect
participation in change
(Agamben -->) [*]gesture: inhabiting of potentiality
Naveeda four scenes of aspiration:
1. librarians engaged in argumentation over the nature of the prophet's body after his death --gesture--> argumentation
2. neighborhoods embroiled in fights over mosques in attempting to prescribe the rightful atmosphere for prayer --gesture--> seizure
3. the state drawn into theological disputation and legal experimentation over how over should attach oneself to the prophet --gesture--> legal experimentation
4. a pious man trying to seek guidance on how to be Muslim from an invisible being (jinn) --gesture--> search for guidance
}--affect--> accompanied by intensity of seriousness, sincerity, excitement, disappointment, sense of loss
}--commitment--> friendship, neighborliness, familial ties
large arsenal of off-color jokes about specialist fogures of all religious traditions in the popular culture of the subcontinent...
•horror stories
•psychological profile of mullas
•weekly skewing of mullas
•mulla jokes
•cartoons
•
political commentary <--> criticism
--> mulla was to blame for everything that was perceived to be wrong (in Pakistan) --> *pervasive skepticism* [also in Iran]
skepticism shadows striving (?)
the other of the striving muslim in Pakistan:
•shadowi Shia
•deceiving Ahmadi
•bad-tempered mulla بدمزاج
mulla:
•Iqbal --> ossification of the institution of ulama
•Pakistani state --> ossification of commentary upon Islamic texts
...everyday assertion that one's religiousity is superior to others
mulla = full-fledged maleficent persona
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Delphinus surgeon monster marvel encyclopedia curiosity human animal nature figure fish
[source: On Monsters and Marvels by Ambroise Paré 1510] Delphinus surgeon monster marvel encyclopedia curiosity human animal nature figure fish [source: On Monsters and Marvels by Ambroise Paré 1510]](images/ajayeb/0133.jpg)
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snake person assemblage semiotics
[source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Water_Snake.jpg] snake person assemblage semiotics [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Water_Snake.jpg]](images/ajayeb/0077.jpg)
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world multi species contingency assemblage human animal dog space society place
[source: Peter Westenberg / constantvzw.org] world multi species contingency assemblage human animal dog space society place [source: Peter Westenberg / constantvzw.org]](images/ajayeb/0090.jpg)
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stone energy field matter hayula story nunhuman agency
[source: Emanuel Swedenborg] stone energy field matter hayula story nunhuman agency [source: Emanuel Swedenborg]](images/ajayeb/0144.jpg)
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jinn bath human architecture demon hygiene wonder book
[source: Kitab al-bulhan or jinn bath human architecture demon hygiene wonder book [source: Kitab al-bulhan or](images/ajayeb/0078.jpg)
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attention frigatebird media sea anthropology information
[source: wikimedia, photograph by Mario Müller] attention frigatebird media sea anthropology information [source: wikimedia, photograph by Mario Müller]](images/ajayeb/0173.jpg)
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ajayeb wonder
[source: unkown] ajayeb wonder [source: unkown]](images/ajayeb/0053.jpg)
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firefly condensed precision prisma poesis cartography refraction
[source: wikimedia] firefly condensed precision prisma poesis cartography refraction [source: wikimedia]](images/ajayeb/0160.jpg)
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web archive environmental scan wonder
[source: Qazwini / ids.lib.harvard.edu] web archive environmental scan wonder [source: Qazwini / ids.lib.harvard.edu]](images/ajayeb/0127.jpg)
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polaritons layered two-dimensional materials
[source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n2/full/nmat4792.html] polaritons layered two-dimensional materials [source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n2/full/nmat4792.html]](images/ajayeb/0010.jpg)
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space human technoscience monitor system control room architecture extension culture interface outer outside euro house void
[source: Harald Bischoff / DLR - German Space Operations Center] space human technoscience monitor system control room architecture extension culture interface outer outside euro house void [source: Harald Bischoff / DLR - German Space Operations Center]](images/ajayeb/0139.jpg)
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fire rigs darkness black box fossil beyond tool
[source: Sina Seifee] fire rigs darkness black box fossil beyond tool [source: Sina Seifee]](images/ajayeb/0030.jpg)
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moon indexicality finger drawing diagram moon finger Sa'di yar fish nakhshab reflection wonder
[source: Sina Seifee & many others] moon indexicality finger drawing diagram moon finger Sa'di yar fish nakhshab reflection wonder [source: Sina Seifee & many others]](images/ajayeb/0011.jpg)
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vision subject object optics visuality position apparatus organism media
[source: Athanasius Kircher / Deutsche Fotothek] vision subject object optics visuality position apparatus organism media [source: Athanasius Kircher / Deutsche Fotothek]](images/ajayeb/0103.jpg)
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animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story
[source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams] animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story [source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams]](images/ajayeb/0100.jpg)
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snake serpent person reptile limb assemblage body
[source: hiveminer.com] snake serpent person reptile limb assemblage body [source: hiveminer.com]](images/ajayeb/0076.jpg)
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anthropos wonder body human monster marvel
[source: Ambroise Pare - On Monsters and Marvels] anthropos wonder body human monster marvel [source: Ambroise Pare - On Monsters and Marvels]](images/ajayeb/0062.jpg)
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lexicon global architecture interpreter translator standard language international diplomacy vocabulary
[source: LexiconUSA] lexicon global architecture interpreter translator standard language international diplomacy vocabulary [source: LexiconUSA]](images/ajayeb/0158.jpg)
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interaction urban distance measurement vision percept organism Ihde responce environment
[source: galileo.rice.edu] interaction urban distance measurement vision percept organism Ihde responce environment [source: galileo.rice.edu]](images/ajayeb/0110.jpg)
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wonder technology exhibition media image world system planet fuse
[source: Frank Vincentz / Wunder des Sonnensystems, Ausstellung im Gasometer Oberhausen] wonder technology exhibition media image world system planet fuse [source: Frank Vincentz / Wunder des Sonnensystems, Ausstellung im Gasometer Oberhausen]](images/ajayeb/0138.jpg)
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rock material sensation
[source: Sina Seifee 4/4/2016] rock material sensation [source: Sina Seifee 4/4/2016]](images/ajayeb/0019.jpg)
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interference animal jewellery treasure ganj mountain force intensification material plane intra-action percept media data plot
[source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prachtk%C3%A4fer_aus_der_Grube_Messel.JPG] interference animal jewellery treasure ganj mountain force intensification material plane intra-action percept media data plot [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prachtk%C3%A4fer_aus_der_Grube_Messel.JPG]](images/ajayeb/0094.jpg)
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field, geometry, architecture, navigational space, life, line, linear, map, eye, view
[source: Lynn Randolph - Living Lines] field, geometry, architecture, navigational space, life, line, linear, map, eye, view [source: Lynn Randolph - Living Lines]](images/ajayeb/0154.jpg)
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optics reflection mirror sun knowledge metaphore vision raytracing model animal image
[source: Opticae Thesaurus] optics reflection mirror sun knowledge metaphore vision raytracing model animal image [source: Opticae Thesaurus]](images/ajayeb/0152.jpg)
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wonder story assemblage composition affect tale report whirlpool animal media techne tail
[source: reed-cpa.com] wonder story assemblage composition affect tale report whirlpool animal media techne tail [source: reed-cpa.com]](images/ajayeb/0098.jpg)
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stone fire india saint Patthar Baba
[source: anilkgupta1954,] stone fire india saint Patthar Baba [source: anilkgupta1954,]](images/ajayeb/0038.jpg)
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animal turtle tortoise possum cat deer fish snake raccoon
[source: John Lawson 1709] animal turtle tortoise possum cat deer fish snake raccoon [source: John Lawson 1709]](images/ajayeb/0043.jpg)
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simulation representation child human model earth world grasp understanding tangibility memory device vision science
[source: Ender's Game film 2013] simulation representation child human model earth world grasp understanding tangibility memory device vision science [source: Ender's Game film 2013]](images/ajayeb/0145.jpg)
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astronomy geography celestial cosmology tail sea water body collect abyss Andromeda Perseus beast
[source: Joachim Wtewael (1566–1638) - towerweb.net] astronomy geography celestial cosmology tail sea water body collect abyss Andromeda Perseus beast [source: Joachim Wtewael (1566–1638) - towerweb.net]](images/ajayeb/0165.jpg)
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wonder story assemblage composition affect tale report whirlpool animal media techne waterbody fish
[source: NOAA] wonder story assemblage composition affect tale report whirlpool animal media techne waterbody fish [source: NOAA]](images/ajayeb/0102.jpg)
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deer stone kurgan stelae fire
[source: UKRAINE ASKANIA NOVA. Kurgan stelae - Koerganstele 1964] deer stone kurgan stelae fire [source: UKRAINE ASKANIA NOVA. Kurgan stelae - Koerganstele 1964]](images/ajayeb/0027.jpg)
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cosmic order world soul woman panpsychism psyche intensity conscious potential Sadra
[source: Robert Fludd] cosmic order world soul woman panpsychism psyche intensity conscious potential Sadra [source: Robert Fludd]](images/ajayeb/0155.jpg)
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optic visuality system Enlightenment measurement phenomenon
[source: physics.kenyon.edu] optic visuality system Enlightenment measurement phenomenon [source: physics.kenyon.edu]](images/ajayeb/0006.jpg)
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rig sort algorithm machine language series leg arm line map connect
[source: stackoverflow.com/questions/18840088/advanced-sorting-algorithm] rig sort algorithm machine language series leg arm line map connect [source: stackoverflow.com/questions/18840088/advanced-sorting-algorithm]](images/ajayeb/0150.jpg)
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animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story
[source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams] animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story [source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams]](images/ajayeb/0099.jpg)
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Triassic ecosystem marine reptiles system time relationship history
[source: Henry De la Beche 1830. University of Bristol] Triassic ecosystem marine reptiles system time relationship history [source: Henry De la Beche 1830. University of Bristol]](images/ajayeb/0123.jpg)
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fire rigs darkness black box fossil beyond list
[source: Sina Seifee] fire rigs darkness black box fossil beyond list [source: Sina Seifee]](images/ajayeb/0029.jpg)
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ajayeb book taxon categorical classification
[source: A 14th-century AD manuscript of Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini's Aja'ib al-makhluqat (The Wonders of Creation; Persian: ﻋﺟﺎﺋب اﻟﻣﺧﻠوﻗﺎت )] ajayeb book taxon categorical classification [source: A 14th-century AD manuscript of Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini's Aja'ib al-makhluqat (The Wonders of Creation; Persian: ﻋﺟﺎﺋب اﻟﻣﺧﻠوﻗﺎت )]](images/ajayeb/0079.jpg)
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photo camera space stone tech self
[source: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA] photo camera space stone tech self [source: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA]](images/ajayeb/0157.jpg)
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woman horse text dragon assemblage
[source: Gottingen University Library] woman horse text dragon assemblage [source: Gottingen University Library]](images/ajayeb/0107.jpg)
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technology dictionary encyclopedia navigation rhetorics
[source: Le Larousse pour tous: nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique 1907] technology dictionary encyclopedia navigation rhetorics [source: Le Larousse pour tous: nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique 1907]](images/ajayeb/0132.jpg)
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animal pig wolf dog nature ajayeb matter becoming articulation people
[source: Harmen Jansz. Muller ca. 1540 - metmuseum.org] animal pig wolf dog nature ajayeb matter becoming articulation people [source: Harmen Jansz. Muller ca. 1540 - metmuseum.org]](images/ajayeb/0072.jpg)
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Blickmaschinen gaze system visuality vision technique observer perspective situated knowledges positionality
[source: Werner Nekes collection] Blickmaschinen gaze system visuality vision technique observer perspective situated knowledges positionality [source: Werner Nekes collection]](images/ajayeb/0141.jpg)
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moon wonder creation inflow follow rise
[source: Qazwini book of ajayeb] moon wonder creation inflow follow rise [source: Qazwini book of ajayeb]](images/ajayeb/0058.jpg)
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landscape cartography mapping affect architecture narrative space heaven paradise sky God environment embodiment technique
[source: Sina Seifee] landscape cartography mapping affect architecture narrative space heaven paradise sky God environment embodiment technique [source: Sina Seifee]](images/ajayeb/0097.jpg)
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constellation category
[source: NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch] constellation category [source: NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch]](images/ajayeb/0041.jpg)
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Sohrevardi cosmology angel vector animal movement evolution harkate johari rouge field force divine Islam flow mortality excess
[source: Sina Seifee & many others] Sohrevardi cosmology angel vector animal movement evolution harkate johari rouge field force divine Islam flow mortality excess [source: Sina Seifee & many others]](images/ajayeb/0059.jpg)
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cosmology angels nature history king relationship aesthetic
[source: Zubdat al-Tawarikh - Luqman ibn Husayn al-Ashuri - 1593] cosmology angels nature history king relationship aesthetic [source: Zubdat al-Tawarikh - Luqman ibn Husayn al-Ashuri - 1593]](images/ajayeb/0051.jpg)
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travel Hafez aesthetics Spain decorative influence path way frontispiece
[source: Johann August Corvinus - Die Anlandung Konigs Caroli in Catalonien, und Erfolgter Einzung in Barcelona - raremaps.com] travel Hafez aesthetics Spain decorative influence path way frontispiece [source: Johann August Corvinus - Die Anlandung Konigs Caroli in Catalonien, und Erfolgter Einzung in Barcelona - raremaps.com]](images/ajayeb/0084.jpg)
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ocean rigs rigging soft body rigid ware construction name
[source: Christian Schnellhammer] ocean rigs rigging soft body rigid ware construction name [source: Christian Schnellhammer]](images/ajayeb/0149.jpg)
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animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story
[source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams] animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story [source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams]](images/ajayeb/0101.jpg)
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surgeon monster marvel encyclopedia curiosity human animal nature figure fish waterbody
[source: On Monsters and Marvels by Ambroise Paré 1510] surgeon monster marvel encyclopedia curiosity human animal nature figure fish waterbody [source: On Monsters and Marvels by Ambroise Paré 1510]](images/ajayeb/0131.jpg)
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european union communicative process
[source: europa.eu, Frank Toussaint] european union communicative process [source: europa.eu, Frank Toussaint]](images/ajayeb/0177.jpg)
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map cartography trajectory unknown figure diagram composition
[source: Al Istakhri, Kitab al masalik wa l mamalik, Book of roads and kingdoms] map cartography trajectory unknown figure diagram composition [source: Al Istakhri, Kitab al masalik wa l mamalik, Book of roads and kingdoms]](images/ajayeb/0162.jpg)
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ajayeb wonder world past
[source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:SevenWondersOfTheWorld.jpg] ajayeb wonder world past [source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:SevenWondersOfTheWorld.jpg]](images/ajayeb/0055.jpg)
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Fascia body tissue matter animal heyvan hayula terrestrial locomotion flex jell
[source: anatomytrains.com] Fascia body tissue matter animal heyvan hayula terrestrial locomotion flex jell [source: anatomytrains.com]](images/ajayeb/0148.jpg)
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lens beauty decoration science telescope embodiment aesthetics ornamentation divine rich care attention encode decryption value meaning mystery
[source: Galileo Galilei Objective lens, Padua, late 1609 n a frame made of ebony and ivory - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence / astronomy2009.org] lens beauty decoration science telescope embodiment aesthetics ornamentation divine rich care attention encode decryption value meaning mystery [source: Galileo Galilei Objective lens, Padua, late 1609 n a frame made of ebony and ivory - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence / astronomy2009.org]](images/ajayeb/0125.jpg)
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world snow white poison gift life cinderella
[source: Jon Rafman] world snow white poison gift life cinderella [source: Jon Rafman]](images/ajayeb/0085.jpg)
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Wunderkammer exhibition collection environment writing
[source: Alison and Peter Smithson et al., Parallel of Life and Art] Wunderkammer exhibition collection environment writing [source: Alison and Peter Smithson et al., Parallel of Life and Art]](images/ajayeb/0143.jpg)
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nature material computation dell science knowledge representation microscope zoom
[source: http://www.nature.com/] nature material computation dell science knowledge representation microscope zoom [source: http://www.nature.com/]](images/ajayeb/0066.jpg)
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wonder ray light water mechanism knowledge image diagram
[source: Athanasius Kircher] wonder ray light water mechanism knowledge image diagram [source: Athanasius Kircher]](images/ajayeb/0153.jpg)
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Munes al-Abrar moon fish twelve birds taxon
[source: Folio from a Mu'nis al-Abrar fi Deqa'iq al-Ash'ar / top: The Moon and Fish; bottom: Twelve different birds in 2 registers] Munes al-Abrar moon fish twelve birds taxon [source: Folio from a Mu'nis al-Abrar fi Deqa'iq al-Ash'ar / top: The Moon and Fish; bottom: Twelve different birds in 2 registers]](images/ajayeb/0080.jpg)
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Persia native scene scenic oriental frontispiece monument architecture curtain paradise
[source: ] Persia native scene scenic oriental frontispiece monument architecture curtain paradise [source: ]](images/ajayeb/0163.jpg)
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nature material computation atom science knowledge representation zoom simulation innovation wealth Hydrogen asymmetry
[source: http://www.nature.com/] nature material computation atom science knowledge representation zoom simulation innovation wealth Hydrogen asymmetry [source: http://www.nature.com/]](images/ajayeb/0135.jpg)
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map empty space progress gaze geometry exhibition speed frontispiece
[source: David Teniers der Jüngere, Ansicht der Stadt Valenciennes 1656. Öl auf Leinwand, 177 x 205 cm, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen.] map empty space progress gaze geometry exhibition speed frontispiece [source: David Teniers der Jüngere, Ansicht der Stadt Valenciennes 1656. Öl auf Leinwand, 177 x 205 cm, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen.]](images/ajayeb/0116.jpg)
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natural history museum Isfahan Esfehan wunderkammer visualization animal
[source: commons.wikimedia] natural history museum Isfahan Esfehan wunderkammer visualization animal [source: commons.wikimedia]](images/ajayeb/0181.jpg)
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[source: Jurassic Park movie 1993] image projection forest light table round multi-media performance security system representation hack child Linux interface predation [source: Jurassic Park movie 1993]](images/ajayeb/0113.jpg)
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snake star wunderkammer dichotomy lexicon taxonomy nova techne
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[source: Eudes Picard] system cosmology hierarchy matter being planet Venus Mars Luna moon [source: Eudes Picard]](images/ajayeb/0007.jpg)
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[source: Sean Gagnon (commons.wikimedia)] snake skin assemblage river organism environment Barad [source: Sean Gagnon (commons.wikimedia)]](images/ajayeb/0164.jpg)
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wind fact environment affect plot story literature ajayeb wonder inflow signifier nature culture representation
[source: Qaswini] wind fact environment affect plot story literature ajayeb wonder inflow signifier nature culture representation [source: Qaswini]](images/ajayeb/0124.jpg)
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Wunderkammer exhibition collection environment writing
[source: Alison and Peter Smithson et al., Parallel of Life and Art] Wunderkammer exhibition collection environment writing [source: Alison and Peter Smithson et al., Parallel of Life and Art]](images/ajayeb/0142.jpg)
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wind raind text rewriting fold structure footnote palimpsest description poetry architecture stories
[source: On Numerology attributed to Zosimos (d. 1100/493) / nlm.nih.gov] wind raind text rewriting fold structure footnote palimpsest description poetry architecture stories [source: On Numerology attributed to Zosimos (d. 1100/493) / nlm.nih.gov]](images/ajayeb/0118.jpg)
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[source: Sina Seifee] ajayeb rigs existence hierarchy snake world donya [source: Sina Seifee]](images/ajayeb/0126.jpg)
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shahname Ferdosi Div Rostam pit kill articulation agon
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ganj earth stratum desire projection pit treasure mountain ghaf research ajayeb
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sky destiny logic influence inflow intra-action environment
[source: tumblr] sky destiny logic influence inflow intra-action environment [source: tumblr]](images/ajayeb/0122.jpg)
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wood grain Laura Marks Islamic art form techne shape force intensification
[source: wikimedia] wood grain Laura Marks Islamic art form techne shape force intensification [source: wikimedia]](images/ajayeb/0073.jpg)
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kinetic kinect machine vision glitch Amazon rain forest nature culture technology interface enfold digital travel journey perception tactile reality dream surface 3D motion mimesis
[source: Sina Seifee] kinetic kinect machine vision glitch Amazon rain forest nature culture technology interface enfold digital travel journey perception tactile reality dream surface 3D motion mimesis [source: Sina Seifee]](images/ajayeb/0114.jpg)
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sheep horn form social evolution sign meaning hand twist
[source: 2011 - S&P Weaver - Saltmarsh Ranch] sheep horn form social evolution sign meaning hand twist [source: 2011 - S&P Weaver - Saltmarsh Ranch]](images/ajayeb/0134.jpg)
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media literature German discourse database deutsch Sprache language computer link text Bild Ton Video station
[source: widrichfilm.com] media literature German discourse database deutsch Sprache language computer link text Bild Ton Video station [source: widrichfilm.com]](images/ajayeb/0117.jpg)
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polaritons layered two-dimensional materials
[source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n2/full/nmat4792.html] polaritons layered two-dimensional materials [source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n2/full/nmat4792.html]](images/ajayeb/0009.jpg)
skepticism of daily existence
1. ...(they become skeptical) about his rationality and grounds for his beliefs
2. ...(at some point) anything could be said or believed about him
3. ...(he felt like) everyone around him had turned to animals
4. ...(he presumed) everyday life was one of illusion and appearances [go to --> kelile demne این همه سودا است، مجاز]
}--> actualize the potential for *skepticism that existed in the social fabric*
=/= chance encounter
=/= pervasive condition
figure of the mulla [~= collective fear + revulsion] --traverse--> the fragmented public culture of the city
[*]ulama: guardian, transmitter, interpreter of shari'a
+ specific claims of knowledge upon:
1. تفسیر tafsir (commentary upon the Quran)
2. فقه figh (jurisprudence)
3. حدیث hadis (sayings of the prophet)
4. کلام kalam (speculative theology)
+ (in Pakistan) personnel in mosque:
1. امام imam
2. خطیب khatib (Frida sermon)
3. قاری ghari
4. موذن muezzin
mulla --derogatory--> one who is overzealous in upholding the letter of the shari'a
(+ additional connotation:)
•ignorant master [go to --> mulla nasruddin: religious master who gets by in life through hypocrisy and cunning + outsmarting those of noble birth and high cultivation]
•gabza agent (seizure of property)
•sodomizer (one who rapes men)
•a naive fool out of step with his time
•
colonial politics in south Asia --> British colonial administration in India see ulama as outdated, deliberately obscurantist, jahel ==> negative stereotype ----> post-colonial period
mullaism:
•Pakistani state --> fossilized state of knowledge on Islam
•Iqbal --> mullaism =/= freedom of ijtihad
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