Six Pillars: 1 (c)

The belief in God is of the highest importance in Islam. God exists, and He is One in His Lordship and His right to be worshipped alone, without any partners: Tawheed ar-Rubbubiyyah and Tawheed al-Uloohiyyah. It took me a bit, as I expected, but if God wills, today I’ll get through the last aspect of God’s Oneness quickly… At last we come to Tawheed al-Asma was-Sifaat, the Oneness of God’s Names and Attributes. Continue reading “Six Pillars: 1 (c)”

Six Pillars: 1 (c)

So far, I think we’re mostly in agreement: God exists. He created all. He is the Lord of all and He is alone in His Lordship. As far as I understand it, the Abrahamic faiths—the religions that share Abraham, peace be upon him, as a prophet—agree that God exists and that He is the Lord of all. There might be some disagreement on His Oneness in His Lordship, but this next part—His Oneness in His right to be worshipped, alone, without any partners—here’s where the real disagreement starts… Continue reading “Six Pillars: 1 (c)”

unboxing Printed Web 4

Printed Web 4: Public, Private, Secret appeared alongside the Charlotte Cotton/ICP exhibition of the same name, as well as Mossless 4: Public, Private, Portrait. I wasn’t at all aware of the Printed Web project, which sounds quite interesting and I would’ve spent more time with it, but the website is an absolute pain to navigate (likely intentionally: the whole thing is one big Google Doc…), so I skipped it.

In short, the Printed Web makes print books from web material, more or less. Again: it’s an interesting project, and Printed Web 4 is an interesting document, if only because of the experience of it: it’s unwieldy, virtually unnavigable in any traditional photobook sense and similarly problematic in any newspaper sense.

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