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#dhawq
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Al-Ghazali says some knowledge has to be tasted. Is that an argument, or a way out of one?
Last month I read al-Ghazali's Deliverance from Error in an English translation I found online, and one part keeps bothering me. He goes through the theologians, the philosophers and the Batinites, finds each of them lacking, and then turns to the Sufis.…
Started by Fajar Nugroho5 replies163 views -
Nine countries in one kitchen and no agreement on salt: can food be judged like art?
I run a kitchen in Dubai with twenty-two cooks from nine countries. Every one of them arrived knowing exactly how much salt, sour and heat a dish needs, and every one of them knew something different. My Keralite cooks find the Lebanese…
Started by Joel D'Souza4 replies202 views -
What do Sufis mean by “tasting” (dhawq) as a way of knowing?
I make batik in Yogyakarta and I love the Sufi poetry that has been sung here for centuries. My teacher, an old woman who learned from her father, often says that certain things cannot be known from books, only "tasted". I always…
Started by Ratna Wulandari4 replies196 views