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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...
...majority Shi'ites--who make up 60% of Iraq's population--seem united in their desire for elections. Optimistic U.S. and Iraqi officials believe that as elections draw near, at least some Sunni leaders will recognize their interest in having a say in Iraq's first elected government. As Sarmad Mohammad, a Sunni fruit vendor in Baghdad, says, "If there are no Sunni leaders in the new government, all the jobs in the government, police and army will go to Shi'as and Kurds...
What this site is about is anyone's guess, which is one of its drawbacks. However, this site by Shaikh M. Sarmad '97-'99 represents some important site design concepts...
...students, like first-year Shaikh M. Sarmad, chose to splurge. Sarmad explains, "I decided that since I would be eating out, why not eat good food? A couple times, my roommate and I went to Indian restaurants around the Square and Central Square. I'm kind of happy that the Union is open again, so I won't be spending too much money...
...Shaik M. Sarmad '98 was settling in for a quiet night of study when the shrieking alarm began. He didn't even realize there was a flood, he said...
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