Kevin Blankinship د.كيڤن Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Thirty-three years ago, two British Muslim imams complained to Khomeini about "The Satanic Verses." Now author Salman Rushdie is attacked but the crucial influence of these two Brits is still largely unknown. Don't miss @lsmwilson's report for @newlinesmag https://t.co/yAIcK2ukOJ

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I enjoyed Jeff Bristol's excellent review in @LawLiberty of REOPENING MUSLIM MINDS by @AkyolinEnglish (https://t.co/FCKVwCQEri) plus Akyol's gracious rebuttal (https://t.co/iR5fnAxHhs). An instructive exchange for anyone interested in reason, revelation and politics in Islam.

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Academic colleagues: does anyone have a PDF of Rosenthal's Gambling in Islam? 🤞

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This brilliant essay on #Beirut's pigeon breeders by Lea Saad & David Wood recalls what al-Jāḥiẓ said about the matter 1,400 years ago, e.g. that "a pair of pigeons is as productive as a landed estate." A must read from @newlinesmag 🕊️ https://t.co/cNlQpSCNHL https://t.co/T8Rg6wloyh

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#FridayReads - Great to see scholarly books reviewed in the mainstream press, especially when those books are by dear colleagues. @UCLA historian Nile Green reviews @a_el_shamsy's REDISCOVERING THE ISLAMIC CLASSICS (@PrincetonUPress) in @LAReviewofBooks https://t.co/IY8x1FoRAv

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In 1925 Virginia Woolf wrote, "Reviewers we have but no critic; a million competent policemen but no judge." Has literary criticism suffered by becoming professionalized? Great #SundayRead by @mervatim about John Guillory's new book PROFESSING CRITICISM. https://t.co/qUIWOSVoVJ

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@yakabikaj "reifying discursive binaries" 😂🤘 This is an old problem. Hermann Hesse's last novel, The Glass Bead Game, is among other things a takedown of German intellectuals, who despite their massive erudition couldn't stop the rise of Hitler. News flash: academics are navel gazers.

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🎉 CONGRATS William Hutchins, whose translation of "Ibn Arabi's Small Death" by @m_alwan won 2nd place @HamadTAward in the category of "Arabic to English" (no one took 1st place). Hear Hutchins discuss this title with me on the @newlinesmag podcast. 👇👇https://t.co/ybfKyhow6m https://t.co/rfFarLsGsx

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Always glad to see classical Arabic in the press! Here's an excerpt in @laphamsquart from Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's "A Physician on the Nile," an eyewitness account of 13th century Egypt translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and published by @LibraryArabLit. https://t.co/yoKu1Hv9mA

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@newlinesmag @3000yearsmovie @idriselba @SarahHoubolt @KaanGuldur The film is based on AS Byatt's 1994 story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" in @parisreview. @mgmstudios @cevangelista413 @PhilSzostak @812filmreviews @aftabamon @ScottMendelson @dave_kehr @akstanwyck @jazzt @Borys_Kit @awards_watch @ScottFeinberg @ErikDavis @colliderfrosty