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“How odd it would be to call Homer’s Iliad or Rumi’s Masnavi “the Great Eastern Mediterranean Poem.”
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
“Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.”
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
“Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.”
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
“you come upon the ruins of the abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“The blast wave that passed through my sister’s office doubtless passed through devout Muslims, atheist Muslims, gay Muslims, funny Muslims, and lovestruck Muslims—not to mention Pakistani Christians, Chinese engineers, American security contractors, and Indian Sikhs. What civilization, then, did the bomb target? And from what civilization did it originate?”
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
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