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	<description>CONTEMPORARY  MUSLIM  REFLECTIONS  ON  THE  BREADTH  OF  LIFE</description>
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		<title>Question: Conversation</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/question-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SA'ILA</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are good conversationalists just people who know how and when it&#8217;s appropriate to talk a lot?
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		<title>Turkey Diary: The Cistern and the Gorgon&#8217;s Head</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/turkey-diary-the-cistern-and-the-gorgons-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ANNA</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Istanbul, July 3
The biggest fish are nickel grey, though some of the smaller ones are gold. I do not know if they lose their color as they grow, or if perhaps the more beautiful ones are not, in the end, fit to thrive. I remember my mother&#8217;s disdain for flair. She would be pleased by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Darcy</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/my-darcy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Austen&#8217;s Pride and Prejudice showcases the handsome and wealthy but also proud and aloof Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. As the story goes on, his character surprises and develops in ways that Miss Elizabeth Bennet, prejudiced by first impressions, is quite unprepared for and which eventually lead to Colin Firth stepping out of a lake distractingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything is a sign of something</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/everything-is-a-sign-of-something/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/everything-is-a-sign-of-something/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MOZAFFAR</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are taught that the world within the Qur’an, as well as the world around us, and the world within us is composed of signs, of ayahs of God. The message that we overlook in these teachings is that in our world of perception, we already take everything in the world around us, the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question of the Week: Corruption</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/question-of-the-week-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/question-of-the-week-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SA'ILA</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are people inherently corrupt, in that it is built into one’s culture? Or are people corrupt depending on alternative incentives offered?
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		<title>Goodbye with Lemonade</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/jannahs-rivers-lemonade/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/jannahs-rivers-lemonade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ANNA</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ANNA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is consensus about Jannah among the children. Everyday we&#8217;ll have lemonade. &#8220;In rivers?&#8221; Hamza wants to be sure. Sister Isra nods her head. &#8220;In rivers. In Jannah,&#8221; she holds the room with her eyes, &#8220;you can have any drink that you want.&#8221;
The class is abuzz at this. &#8220;In Jannah, I will be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Converts</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/testing-convert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t expect anyone to believe straight off the bat that Basil didn’t convert to Islam for me.
Granted, God alone knows if he would have ever converted had he not met me. But though I may have opened a then unthought-of door, I didn’t force him through it. Both of us were very clear that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change in Muslim History</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/change-in-muslim-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MOZAFFAR</dc:creator>
		
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The interesting thing about Muslim history is that the great changes did not take place at the hands of social activists. Change in Muslim history did not take place at the hands of savants. Consistently, great change has come from the works of powerbrokers and from scholars.
We can understand change forged by powerbrokers. These are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question of the Week: Love, Twice</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/question-of-the-week-love-twice/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/question-of-the-week-love-twice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SA'ILA</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Islam, polygamy is effectively allowed. Can a man be in love with two women at the same time&#8212;and should it acceptable that he may be?
Further, can a woman be in love with two men at the same time?
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		<title>Riverview</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/riverview/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/riverview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ANNA</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot remember whose idea it was to go swimming in the river. We walked down ravines, thick as lines on my hand, in sunlight metered through vines. Far at the bottom, the gully widened where water began to flow. A stream the color of hog snakes bubbled along our toes. We followed it, empty [...]]]></description>
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