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		<title>SOPA Strike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This and all of the sites that I run were on strike today and would have sent you to this address instead: http://sopastrike.com/strike If you have yet to read anything about SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act, House Bill 3261) or PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act, Senate Bill 968) then you can do so at any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theurgy in the Medieval Islamic World &#8211; MA Thesis &#8211; AUC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American University in Cairo School of Humanities and Social Sciences THEURGY IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD: CONCEPTIONS OF COSMOLOGY IN AL-BŪNĪ’S DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE NAMES A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts by John D. Martin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Occult Sciences in Islam &#8211; Dr. Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My thesis advisor is giving this lecture next week. If you are in Cairo and wish to come, please join us at the AUC New Cairo Campus. The Occult Sciences in Islam Dr. Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad 21 November 2011 4:00-5:00pm AUC, New Cairo &#8211; HUSS P071 Sponsored by: The Arab Literature and Islamic Studies Unit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2011/11/14/the-occult-sciences-in-islam-dr-saiyad-nizamuddin-ahmad/</link>
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		<title>Temporary URL change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am migrating my domain names to a new registrar and there has been some snag with youcantmakemistakes.com. I&#8217;ve temporarily changed to another of my domains http://johndmart.in. I might stay at this domain once the other is back up and running. Hard to say. We&#8217;re living life minute by minute here. Apologies for any inconvenience.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Some People Learn Faster Than Others?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read an interesting article by Jonah Lehrer at wired.com about learning styles and praise for the intelligence that struck me as being very relevant to this site&#8217;s (and my own personal) credo. From the article: The problem with praising kids for their innate intelligence — the “smart” compliment — is that it misrepresents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primum Non Nocere: Gray Area in Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a paper that I gave at the 12th annual International Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, 17-19 March 2011 in Prague. It was published in a volume of papers selected from the proceedings of that conference. Abstract: The Arabic term hisba is defined classically within Islamic juridical and theological writing as being the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Conceptual Development of Deviance among Islamic Mystics: The Malāmatiyya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a paper which I submitted to Prof. Amina Elbendary&#8217;s seminar on &#8220;Protest, Rebellion and Revolt in the Pre-modern Middle-East&#8221; in the Fall semester 2010 at AUC. Abstract: The concept of deviance in early Islamic mystic piety developed as an aspect of the same social and intellectual processes which defined Sufism as a normative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2011/06/15/the-conceptual-development-of-deviance-among-islamic-mystics-the-malamatiyya/</link>
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		<title>Norman Finkelstein at AUC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of seeing Dr. Norman Finkelstein speak for the first time ever in Egypt last night at the American University in Cairo. It was not well-publicized. Indeed, it was not publicized at all. I found out by word of mouth that he was speaking in the evening seconds before I would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2011/05/17/norman-finkelstein-at-auc/</link>
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		<title>The True and New Democratic Egypt &#8211; Erudition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article appears in this month&#8217;s Erudition, edited by Sally Cervenak. You can view the original article here: http://www.eruditiononline.co.uk/article.php?id=935 ﻿Egyptian citizens are celebrating after nearly three weeks of continuous demonstrations in Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere in Egypt; and right they should. Their tenacity and dedication should be lauded; it will surely be remembered. To have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johndmart.in/2011/02/15/the-true-and-new-democratic-egypt-erudition/</link>
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		<title>Istanbul not Constantinople</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we have fled the country temporarily. We are currently refugees in Istanbul (not Constantinople) which offers all of the typical trappings of a refugee environment: stunning views, great food, a local beer, Ottoman history everywhere. The usual. For the time being we are safe and sound. Depending on how the situation in Cairo progresses [...]]]></description>
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