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From here to the shrine of Nabi Moussa was some twenty-five miles. Allah, wanting to placate his favorite, and mitigate the punishment which He had imposed on him in His anger, had…
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Yitshak Shami
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1928
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Some time later, two or three months had passed, David sends for me again.
Bathsheba is there, her hair beautifully arranged, very pretty and self-confident. Already the mistress of this palace.
David…
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Grete Weil
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1988
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In the women’s prison where the Guards had taken Peacock, six people slept in a cell designed for one. They sat on the floor, occupying every rat-infested inch, blindfolded and handcuffed for weeks in…
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Gina Barkhordar Nahai
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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1991
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Zédé Schulmann
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1950
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In most of the current reflections on the relation between philosophy and society, it is somehow taken for granted that philosophy always possessed political or social status. According to F arabi…
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Leo Strauss
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Chicago, United States of America
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1952
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I was out of the cavern no more than a minute, taking a last look around the square at the minarets, the moon, the domes, the Wall, when someone was shouting at me, “It’s you!”
Standing in my path was…
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Philip Roth
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New York City, United States of America
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1986
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I did not sleep; I let myself be rocked by the inexorable battle of the waves; soon the monster of seasickness flashed in my innards, but I overcame it. A god held sway in me; he triumphed: it was the…
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Ignác Goldziher
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Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
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1873
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It cannot be doubted that the two designations ahl al-ḥadīth and ahl al-ra’y originally referred to branches of legists occupied with the investigation of Islamic law: the former were…
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David Tevele
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Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Leipzig, Holy Roman Emprie
(Leipzig, Germany)
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1883
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My brothers, my children, and my friends know this: I understood with great clarity that the True One, whom I alone have known for many generations and for whom I have strived so much, wants me to…
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David de Castro Tartas, Shabbetai Tzvi
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1666
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[Sabbatai’s] illumination grew steadily more intense up to the thirteenth day of the month of Adar [23 February]. On that day his brother came for a stay, along with four of Vani Effendi’s men.…
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Jacob Najara
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
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1671