/lit/ - Literature

>>21979735
I don't think there's going to be a regressive free for all. The post-War liberal world order is on its way out and thank God but all this is shifting to, unless something changes, is Chinese predomination of markets and thus technological and cultural direction. Which, personally I'm excited for as multipolarity and illiberal societies will bring entirely new directions of technology and its supposed uses, systems of production, cultural initiatives and so on and it's from these things (we used to have) that we get our writers, painters, musicians, etc. The US world order has been congealing blood in an increasingly putrid corpse since the 90's.

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>>21347010
Kitab al Aghani and Sirha al Hilal, I also enjoyed Kitab al Miraj, Manaqib al Malik bn Anas and Majma al Tawariq, but keep in mind these are just some of my own personal favs and I'm not particularly well read, I just browse, read, like or dislike

i dont get it

>>20393489
>Robert Spencer
>Organization: David Horowitz Freedom Center

>>20390667
Qur'an, brother

>>20365179
>The Federalist Papers
Why? Is he trying to spite us?

>>20096029
I should add that I mean no major work *by an American*. Pic related is the only known attempt at it, and it was by a Frenchman.

On the rare cases where we do cite a philosophical basis for our politics, it comes from a European source like John Locke.

What's your favorite work by Alexis de Tocqueville?

I still think this is the funniest image on the internet.

Has anyone here read it? Is it worth reading?

Like all self-respecting Muslims, he has read the entire canon of classic western literature.

>>20033881
It's more that they read more in general, their culture values literature more somehow.

>>19949279
Correct, understanding a culture requires experiencing its most influential works.

>>18601513
Iran would have been a more liberal,techical and inauthentic country today if not for the revolution
The people there would think as the western (americanized) people do and have similar standards and use similar criterions for different things.
Iran would also most likely be an American ally without the revolution.

I'm not saying the revolution and current Iran is perfect,but without the revolution it would be much worse.

https://youtu.be/zaeApwY_4Hc
/stack/ posters and physical book readers BTFO

What’s the best ebook for a newbie? I want to be able to use multi language dictionaries when I’m reading in foreign languages

Someone post the tweet by a black woman about how expecting ‘Marxists’ to actually read Marx is ableism

Is learning grammar really more important than vocabulary? Also act any tips for learning French grammar

What are some political theorists to name drop if I wanna sound cool in front of poli-sci students?

Most americans dont even read or know who Tocqueville is

>>17372509
>"I mean, looking at the Sistine Chapel, seeing this old man with a beard, and they're telling me that's the God they worship? I'm like, 'The Ten Commandments says you shouldn't make images of God.' I realised when we'd pray back in primary school, we'd say, 'Holy Mary, mother of God', and I was sort of like, 'Hold on a moment. Mother of God? God doesn't have a mother.' And I was like, 'Damn ... this is pretty weird.' I realised that the Catholic Church were absolute nut-jobs." At the age of 17, he converted to Islam.
Had this guy come into contact with a non-pozzed evangelical Protestant denomination in Australia (such as the Presbyterian Church, Forward in Faith aligned Anglican or many Baptist Churches) he could've had this tension resolved for him. Westerners who reach for Islam seem to either be very bookish mystics or homicidal underachievers.
>Musa seems to know everyone in Footscray. He moseys down the street with his hand in his pocket, shooting "Salaam alaikums" and small talk to the perfume salesman in the mall and the old men in a Sudanese restaurant. He's like the Fonz. We chew on Sudanese meat dishes in the restaurant.
He also gets to play Lawrence of Arabia every day now too. Had he become a real Christian he'd just be some guy. But Muslim groups in Australia fall over themselves for white and especially Anglo converts with fair features. Propaganda coup. I know there are Muslims ITT so I'll just make clear I'm not challenging the validity of Islam here, merely the depth of feeling and the origin of that feeling from bored bourgeois converts in the West. You guys scalp (not literally) some very intelligent old dudes every now and then so stick to that. You don't need the baggage of guys who would've become neetsocs just as easily

What are your thoughts on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America? Is it worth it to read the whole thing or is the abridged version fine?