[...]) ludic ='lgc'>[playfull, spielerisch='lgc'>] transcendence of ='lgc'>[the='lgc'>] ="trms">present

obdurate سرسخت
="prgrph">-showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings-
(picture of the ="trms">world as) pristine ="trms">nature طبیعت بکر being destroyed by humans (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narcissistic='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>=/= view of theology/="trms">religion on ="trms">ecology
='lgc'>=/= (="trms">stories of humans and dogs='lgc'>:) shared creatureliness and companionship entailing a turn to cofeasting on the flesh of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">mutual fate

does islamic theology (in both elite and popular belief) offers us a way toward ='strcls'>*sensing our embeddedness in this ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-might ="nms">ajayeb (creationist='qstn'>?) ="trms">narratives be generative of ="trms">interconnections between humans and other ="trms">animals within the predominant muslim context='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-why climate ="trms">science doesn't/hasn't effect a meaningful engagement with the ="trms">world='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an image of thought that is not ="trms">interiorized='strcls'>***
(="ppl">Strauss='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*thought is always in the ="trms">world.='strcls'>* being in the ="trms">world subsumes realms of both abstractness and concreteness) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[a tradition of thought that produces (& works with)='lgc'>: “Abstraktheit ='lgc'>=/= Greifbarkeit"='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***how ="nms">ajayeb naratives provided the filaments of (muslim) ="trms">ecological thought as a perspective on our ="trms">interconnectedness and ="trms">mutual entanglements='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[="ppl">Naveeda, ="ppl">Anand, ='lgc'>]

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> (wanting a) most perfect creation (to leave the best part to the end='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>==> God created humans last of all ='lgc'>==> consigned humans to a state of ='strcls'>*belatedness to the ="trms">world='strcls'>*
(unapologetically) ="trms">anthropocentric='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*making the human drama the most important one to watch='strcls'>*

acts of worship (that bears witness to)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•regularity in ="trms">nature
="lsts lst1">•one's own ="trms">nature

(agian) Khidr, the prophet in green, who is as="trms">sociated with hermeticism and also has a ="trms">presence ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] as a way to sug="trms">gest a subterranean connection between ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] textual tradition and the everyday lives of riparian (رود کنارى) Muslims ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]

riparian context ساحل کنار ,رود کنار ,حریم رودخانه
='lgc'>[context ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? کنار='lgc'>]


“BE!” بععععع بع ع ع ع ع ع ع ع ع


Ikhwan='lgc'>: every creature knows and speaks of creation
that knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is not privilege of humans
that it is the fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of humans to ="trms">imagine that they live in the ="trms">presence of mute ="trms">nature

نکیر و منکر ="trms">interrogations by Nakir and Munkar, faith-testers of deads in their graves

دجال Dajjal as a dead body returned to life, many will follow him, but as dogs!
="prgrph">-return of humans as dogs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idea of rebirth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> not homogeneously muslim space
“='lgc'>[who is='lgc'>] compelled to return as if it were a cosmic debt they owed the ="trms">world”
="prgrph">-pathos of the inability of humans to sustain cross-="trms">species companionship ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">visceral dislike of the dregs of the many existence of dogs
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dogs’ quality of aliveness; being more or less useless other than the occasional and fitful دمدمى protection of households that made them serve as the singular sign of life, a trace of God's surplus creativity. (="ppl">Naveeda's work in chauras)

one's future ="trms">animal self

(هشتاد ساله) octogenarian mindful of life's ="trms">finitude
="prgrph">-what do you say/do when your feet is one on the land breaking beneath and the other in the afterlife='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-polysemy of imagery and wordss

“earth breaks so much” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>?>

sug="trms">gesting a چاره (chareh)
inflection of chareh and fetrat
چاره ی فطرت


='strcls'>***="nms">ajayeb's heterogeneously muslim spaces
="lsts lst1">•traces of Hindu, Chinese, ="trms">Greek ="trms">interest and thought
="lsts lst1">•occasion for cross-="trms">species sentience (="ppl">Naveeda's beautiful research in chars)

visiting of shobhe to the town
(shobhe gave the town a visit)
شبهه
شبح شبهه

bringing bits and pieces of songs from many places... over their cell phones... being well versed in the ="trms">different types of music to be able to tell the songs apart...
(="frds scrmbld">Sven, )

attention to the physical surround of the ="trms">religious consciousness rather than to the inner workings of their body

.

آخرت

آخرش


smells, rotting bodies, eroding bodies, soil com="trms">position, etc.

(to ="trms">imagine dogs and humans coexisting as) competting possibilities within unformed ="trms">matter='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? companion ="trms">species='lgc'>]

dwindling quality of life (and diminished humanity)

(="ppl">Anand, van ="ppl">="ppl">Dooren, ="ppl">Naveeda ="trms">wondering) how in certain geographies disappearance of ="trms">species seems not to give the people a moment's pause

='strcls'>* what_ gives a pause ='qstn'>?


='strcls'>*="trms">species self-perpetuation is sometimes with='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•biological reproduction
="lsts lst1">•becoming
="lsts lst1">•trans="trms">figuration
="lsts lst1">•rebirth
="lsts lst1">•="trms">symbolic dispersal
="lsts lst1">•resynthesis
="lsts lst1">•


sunnat to kill (فى نفسه intrinsically evil) snakes (='lgc'>=/= jinn snake in ="ppl">Anand research/="trms">stories of saint ="trms">animals)

straw, chaff, rice, wheat, lentils,
ماشوره، کاه، بوريا
سبوس
گندم
عدس

the gift of death for the ="trms">animals='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•عید Eid, God in sacrifice, release from hardship and burden; blithe disposal of ="trms">animal; euthanize
="lsts lst1">•چشم‌زخم evil eye or witch="trms">craft as the cause of ="trms">animal's death, if they are lost through illness, theft, or accident

bonanza
anthrax

euthanize

inoculate

cagey
="lsts lst1">•canny حيله گر کمرو
="lsts lst1">•showing self-="trms">interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
="lsts lst1">•characterized by great cautious and wariness
="lsts lst1">•reluctant to give information owing to caution or suspicion

بو
="prgrph">-treating smell as indicating an unsettled ="trms">situation
="prgrph">-inadvertent stench of dead bodies disrupts the ="trms">composed mental image of the ideal corpse within ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] funereal practices
='strcls'>*odors introduce terror or the terror of the uncontained within the ="trms">social='strcls'>* (Neveeda > Siegel 1983)


double-="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgeed prospect

common curse

“in the riparian contextm land forms and breaks with regular irregularity” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#entropy='lgc'>]
shifting its course, the river inducts new ="trms">affectees into how to live (this way)
="prgrph">-there is a manner in which life proceeds='lgc'>--instead of feeling in step with it one begins to feel out of ="trms">sync='strcls'>***

='at'>#start a geographic learning, riparian thought; thinking by rivers (& not countries)

_='lgc'>->='lgc'>{.\_,;,_/;-=,/


rural ="trms">cosmology
="trms">cosmology of ="trms">modern ="trms">science

human conception='lgc'>: flirtation with the fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure to arrive


='at'>#two moveis='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Exodus='lgc'>: Riddly Scott ='lgc'>+ Creation Bible ='lgc'>+ Big Bang ='lgc'>+ extinction theory ='lgc'>+ fluid animation research
="lsts lst1">•Noah='lgc'>: Nolan ='lgc'>+ Creation Bible ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Darwin ='lgc'>+ motion graphic research
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> solving a problem proposed by _='qstn'>?_ ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the dream catcher” !!!
(in these cinematic examples we see the ="trms">society imposed to the same spatiotemporal re="trms">presentational framework that ="trms">science “discovers” in ="trms">nature)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%">
the insistent entanglements of physicality with the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical

soil='lgc'>: earth rendered in the ="trms">scientific register

“The alluvial sediments that come in the waters of the Jamuna river either become de="trms">posited as silt across floodplains or fall in the river to become ‘chars’” (="ppl">Naveeda ="ppl">Khan 2014)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ...the time of the arrival of clay is not assured
the inability to perpetuate human life='strcls'>*

the ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of Creation in non-elite belief

“you should not let a dog lick you.”
or “pigeon feather containing 40 ="trms">different microbial diseases.” ='at'>#clean
or “they are very dirty and will pass their germs to you.”

cross-="trms">species fraternity to the assertion of superiority over all ="trms">animals

="trms">pragmatic ='lgc'>+ theological spoke='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- divine privileging of humans
="lstsrd">2- human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to transcend the ordinary (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to aspire to God's ="trms">position)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:154%"> ...lush growth of eucalyptus trees at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the ="trms">market
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yesssss things that grow on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my life-long attention (the cat who entered the house, the ants, the plants in ="nms">Tehran, ...) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><== because of my own marginalized being='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


being fated (together)

...although the earth breaks, it reconstitutes
people find themselves in diminished form, or occupying a lesser form of life, or having the status of the resurrected dead, but they will nonetheless always find themselves here at this place in this moment='strcls'>****

...End Times bringing a fearful apocalyptic future into the ="trms">present, evok[...]