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<\/a>Having purchased lilies and visited the light shop where I had a question about halogen bulbs, I returned home. \u00a0The lily sale at the main Bachman’s is at the extreme southern end of Minneapolis and far from our home here in the outer suburban ring well north of Minneapolis.<\/p>\nPicked up many interesting lilies, sticking roughly with the purple theme of our garden, though there are some yellows and whites mixed in for contrast.\u00a0The martagons, which I wanted, were $22 a bulb, too precious for my taste this morning.<\/p>\n
On the drive I continued listening to the Teaching Company’s Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition<\/a> course. \u00a0Taught by a professor from UNC, Grant Hardy, this has been, by far, the greatest number of thinkers of whom I had never heard. \u00a0It’s a course I’m going to have to listen to twice and follow up with some reading to begin to have even a faint idea of what’s going on.<\/p>\n To give you an idea, here’s a name I’d never heard,\u00a0Muhammad Iqbal<\/a>. \u00a0He’s considered the foremost Urdu language poet, but was also a philosopher and religious thinker. \u00a0In particular his\u00a0The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>sounds like a very helpful contribution to the current turmoil in the Muslim world. \u00a0It was written in 1930 and is Iqbal’s attempt to rethink Islam in light of modernity. \u00a0According to Hardy, it’s highly recommended reading.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Harvest Moon Having purchased lilies and visited the light shop where I had a question about halogen bulbs, I returned home. … Continue reading Matters Asian<\/span>