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03Pozo muerto, 60 años después06Never Fully Formed, Never Truly Broken09The Saint and the Sultan14Paris, Texas: The Distance Between Wanting and Living18Of Things We Almost Lost: Weaving Ourselves in Carpets21For the maker shall meet his Maker 23Moroccan Madrasa as a Barzakh Space24Rubber Ducks and Writing26Echoes of Modernity: Hotel du Lac and Postcolonial Tunisia27The City and the Sea: A Marginalised Mediterranean Dialogue29The Architecture of Protest: How Public Squares Shape Revolutions32The Artist, the Nafs, and Modernity34A Sound Maqām: God's Melodious Word and Sacred Music in Islam35Reflections on Love: Requiem For A Pan-African Dream 36The Art of Living: Bergsonian Lens in Najib Mahfouz’s Novels 38Cinematic Mercy: God’s Mercy In Cinema39Shifting Paradigms: From Eurocentrism to Intellectual Autonomy40The Rules of the Craft: Islamic Metaphysics and Sacred Creativity41From Jalal to Infinity: Hazarat Sabir Piya’s Sufi Magical Realism42Epiphany of the Infinite: Ibn ʿArabī & the Veil of Divine Beauty43In the Beginning Was the Word: Preserving Culture through Orality44Where is God in the Silence?45Muhammad Asad: The European Trailblazer of Islamic Thought46Picasso’s Calligraphic Alchemy: Merging Masteries47Sacred Tongues: Unveiling Yoruba Language's Spiritual Essence48Holistic Healing: The Bimaristans of Early Islamic Medicine49Exploring the Ineffable: The 'Absolute' in Sufism and Daoism50Mortality's Labyrinth: A Philosophical Odyssey into Death's Abyss51Spirituality in Psychology: Bridging Science and Faith52Sacred & Profane: Animist Ontologies in Islam and Modern Society54Meeting in the Desert of Nacer Khemir55The Concept of Compassion Towards and Between Animals in Islam56Coffee Conundrums: Prohibition and Revival in Early Modern Times58Seeing Faith: Shaping Ontologies through Film and Prophethood59Unveiling the Cosmic Symphony: Elvis's "There is no God but God"61“Our electric blankets and our chicken”62Lilies Tell Us Not to Worry64Exploring the Aesthetic in Quranic Hermeneutics65God in CinemaPoems19
01Desiring Lovesickness: An Urdu love poem by 'Iram'02she.07Self-Portrait of Gemini: After Louise Glück10De-Creation12In Casablanca13Praise and Oneness16A Rhyme for the Muʿallaqātقافية من أجل المعلقات17All Dressed Up & Nowhere to Go19A Dream Within a Dream22Affirmation25Nothing in me left for pain to takeلم يبقَ عندي ما يبتزّه الألم30The Night Your Lord Gave Leaveتَأَذَّنَ رَبُّكَ لَيْلَةَ قَدْرٍ31A Moment of Stillness: The Sacred in Frost’s "Stopping by Woods"33The Spirit of Iqbal: Jawab-e-Shikwa in English Verse37The Damascene Poemالقصيدة الدمشقية53My Salutations to thy Sacred Streets-Nisar Main Teri Galiyon Ke57From the Songs of Africaمن أغاني إفريقيا60The Visaالتأشيرة63Forgotten As If You Never Wereتُنْسى , كأنك لم تكنInterviews3
05Knowing Self, Imagining History: A Conversation with Jamal Cyrus 08Susan Buck-Morss: Hegel's Dialectic in the Shadow of Haiti11Film as Activism: A Conversation with Iymen Chehade of Uprising Letters2
04Letter 2: In Response to Your Selfish Request15Letter 1: A Selfish RequestFictions2
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Desiring Lovesickness: An Urdu love poem by 'Iram'
Poems/Saiyid Ashraf Husain Jafri/5 SEP 2026
Saiyid Taqi Husain Jafri ‘Iram’ (1881-1911) was a scholar, poet, and essayist who wrote in both Urdu and Persian. Born into the Jafri family of Salon (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)…
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