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Article: Hamid Parsania: Existence and the Fall: Spiritual Anthropology of Islam.(Book review)
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- Islam & Science
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Hamid Parsania: Existence and the Fall: Spiritual Anthropology of Islam, translated and annotated by Shuja Ali Mirza London: ICAS Press, 2006, x+198 pp., PB, ISBN 1-904063-23-3
Far from the chaotic modernity of big cities, certain small, ancient centers of Islamic learning keep functioning as they have over the centuries. Qum is one such place. On any given morning one can see students rushing toward the mosques at dawn, where they sit with their teachers after the prayer and do what their ancestors have done for centuries: learn the mysteries of the cosmos and existence from scholars who have themselves received these sciences from their teachers in similar ...