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...Nevertheless, it has also been Sufism's fate to fall afoul of more narrow-minded dogmas - even during an earlier golden age. The tomb of Sarmad the Armenian, a storied Sufi saint, sits close to Delhi's Great Mosque. Sarmad looked for unity within Muslim and Hindu theology, and famously walked the streets of Lahore and Delhi naked, denouncing corrupt nobles and clerics. In 1661, he was arrested for heresy and beheaded under the orders of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, a ruler admired now by Pakistani hard-liners for his championing of an orthodox Islam and the destruction of hundreds...
...games." Without the international pressure, as well as appeals by both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, many suspect, Saberi could still be sitting in prison, like others charged with similar crimes, whose cases have not received similar international attention. Among them is Silva Harotonian, an Iranian-Armenian humanitarian aide worker charged with "plotting a soft revolution...
...were there or were affected and speak with these living primary and secondary sources. It shouldn’t be too difficult to find someone—cities all over the world, from Boston to L.A., Montreal to Fresno, Moscow to Sao Paulo, and Paris to Beirut, host thriving Armenian communities made up of scattered survivors and their descendants, all of whom have a story to tell. And, when we do talk to them, instead of asking, “Was it a genocide?”, we should simply ask, “What happened?” That...
...Armenian Studies Professor James R. Russell first submitted a Gen Ed course proposal for his Freshman Seminar 39k: “Literature Humanities: The Foundation Texts of the West,” in November, only to find out this month that the course, founded on a rigorous sequence of canonical texts, had been rejected...
...interview from Israel, where is now on sabbatical, that he is now no longer planning on teaching the course as a freshman seminar—nor is he planning to teach any Gen Ed classes, House seminars, or freshman seminars. From now on, he said, he will simply teach Armenian studies...