zizek gets criticized

i don't know a whole lot about religious philsophy but i'm reading a fair bit about the reformation at the moment so any information is handy. plus carefree wandering is a good yt channel for stimulating listening. thus with this, which i've really been quite enjoying 

sufis

 

way back in the day when i briefly studied a tiny bit of islamic history i kept bumping up against these sufi poet guys and, even at that age, i really liked what i read. over the years i kept coming across them and they still number against the poets i'm most intrigued by. i say intrigued as i can't speak or read any of the languages they're actually written in so the issue of translation is a real one. coleman barks, it seems, is taken as a particular offender in this respect. i don't know enough to give an informed opinion but i note on his wiki pages his work is described as 'interpretations' rather than translations. as for their treatment of islam, again as a european anglophone reader, it's impossible for me to say but i did read sholeh wolpe's conference of the birds recently which was utterly, beautifully, rooted in the idea of faith, so much so that, reading it, i kept saying to myself that, in the original, as a believer, this must be fantastic.

anyway, i'm happy aeon came up with the goods in my feed over the weekend with a discussion of sufism and the video above

beatus of facundus

if you absolutely must look at only one set of 8th century spanish illustrations about the apocalypse then it's this one.