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“Good character is compromised of three matters: forbearance (hilm), modesty, and being gentle. One who possesses these three qualities has good character, otherwise not.” Ibn ‘Ajiba

They're still making "new" claims of sexual violence on October 7th. Lets see what "evidence" they bring this time.... 🧵

Anybody still yapping about antisemitism 21 months into an islamophobic genocide is looking real sus right about now.

Fareed Zakaria was a leading proponent of the Iraq war, which killed a million Iraqis. Now, in the face of the horrifying Gaza genocide, he says Benjamin Netanyahu has been doing “remarkably well.” Arab lives mean nothing to him. This is who he has always been.

Zionist denial isn’t accidental. It’s generational. It’s taught. It’s inherited. It is the desperate lie of a project that knows, deep down, if it ever tells the truth, it won’t survive the morning after.

Eyal Yakoby A list of genocide experts that have concluded that Israel is commiting Genocide: Melanie O'Brien (President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars), William Schabas (Author of "Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes," Professor of International Law at

That's how war works, soldiers attacking strategic positions. But as you are Israeli, I can see how something other than indiscriminate slaughter of civilians would confuse you.

As someone forever in awe of what our minds do with language—and what language, in turn, does with our minds—of how thought emerges through linguistic intentionality, I find it increasingly difficult to make sense of how easily we have chosen to outsource this part of ourselves.

2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention. The effects were similar to being a decade younger.

Everyone in Islamic Studies should be aware of the new Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies that has just been launched, providing courses, journals, and publication grants, among other endeavors tokatinstitute.org Please share.

“To deny dogma is simply to be confused about one’s own dogma.” Caner Dagli 📿 Metaphysical Institutions: Islam and the Modern Project

The best academic papers don't just fill knowledge gaps. They reframe entire conversations. Instead of asking "What hasn't been studied?" Ask "What have we been studying wrong?" That shift in perspective is what turns incremental research into novel work.

The New York Times has just published an op-ed by an Israeli genocide scholar who agrees with all the other genocide scholars and human rights organizations who say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The debate is over. The Israel apologists lost.

Ibn Rajab al-Ḥanbalī says “The deeds of the Ummah are presented to their Prophet ﷺ in the Barzakh, so let every servant feel a sense of shame that his Prophet ﷺ might be shown deeds he was commanded to avoid.” أعمال الأمة تُعرض على نبيها في البرزخ، فليستحِ عبدٌ أن يُعرض

Frank Zappa, 1981: "Schools train people to be ignorant... They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus." "They prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower." "As long as you're just smart enough to do a job,

“Read books because you will never be able to meet and spend uninterrupted time with the thoughts of so many brilliant and unique people.” ― Mark Manson

Kids rely on men. Women rely on men. Who do men have to rely on? Themselves. This is why men need brothers they can talk to and share their struggles with. Look out for you, brothers.

Always a pleasure to attend Changchun Mosque for Friday. It is a lovely site and now established as ‘First-Class Cultural Relics’ (一级文物) for Jilin Province. I have many pics of the various corners of this site and am putting a video together on it. Will upload that soon.

in class this week I summarized Saïd's "Orientalism" by comparing it to AI: "you know how AI content is getting worse because it's now being trained based on its own output? that's how the West creates stereotypes about the Orient and teaches itself about its own superiority."

I just checked all of the major news sites and not a single one has a story about the starvation of the entire population of Gaza, which is at a crisis point. Palestinians are dehumanized every single day and their suffering inflicted by Israel erased and normalized.