The Mazeppist

A Transgressive Transcendentalist manifesto.

: Name: Sidi Hamid Benengeli; Location: Dar ul-Fikr, Colorado, United States

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

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Afghanistan

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Umayyad Mosque, Damascus

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Abu Said ibn Abu'l-Khayr

Read about him here.

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Nishapur

The Met's excavations at Nishapur/Neyshabur.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Weathering the Elements

Photography by Steve McCurry.

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Ikhwan al-safa' - a secret society in medieval Iraq

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Ikhwan al-Safa'

We were sleepers in the cave of our father Adam...

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Academics

I used to believe that, if nothing else, academics are well-read. I have come to see that they read according to the latest fashions--like the food they eat, the clothes they wear, and the thoughts they think. This creates for them the illusion of progress--which becomes a necessary illusion for people who spend their lives chasing their tails.

Monday, April 12, 2021

Ramazan Mubarak!

Hodgson

BBL, Keeper of the Flame.