The Mazeppist

A Transgressive Transcendentalist manifesto.

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Location: Dar ul-Falsafah, Colorado, United States

Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.

Sunday, January 25, 2026

The Works


 

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Emersonian Gnosis


 

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Triumph Over Ignorance


                                             Sebastiano Ricci, 18th CE


 

Monday, January 12, 2026

The search for Naguib Mahfouz

Saturday, January 10, 2026

When Will the State of the Country be Sound?

                                                                 Italy, 1972

Restore balance to our politics: the farther right the government goes, the farther left the people should go. "Moderates" in a time of fascism are complicit with the thugs.

Naguib Mahfouz asked 'Abd-Rabbih al-Ta'ih: "When will the state of the country be sound?" The Shaykh replied: "When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity."

Monday, January 05, 2026

The Cairo Trilogy


 

Thursday, January 01, 2026

Historical Cairo


                                                     Nour El Massry.