"Trained as a lawyer, he was well versed in Muslim Shari'a law and spoke several languages, including Greek, Turkish, and Arabic. He worked briefly as a government tax assessor but later turned to private business as a silk farmer and cafe proprietor. He was also a skilled icon maker and amateur musician..."
-Tamari
What an interesting man!
I could relate to Wasif Jawhariyyeh years as a vagabond. Not in a personal sense, but I have a few friends who I would definitely consider vagabonds. Just a side note!
"Wasif's recollection of daily life in the alleys of the Old City shows the weakness of this concept in two respects. First, it suggests that there was no clear delineation between neighborhood and religion; instead, a substantial intermixing of religious groups existed in each quarter."
Is this statement true to this day? Or was this just an examination at the time of Wasif's memoir? All in all, this article was very insightful. It was interesting how Tamari incorporated clips of Wasif's diary to show modernism creeping into Jerusalem.
By the way, this is the Oud, it's very beautiful!
The second article was very cool! I loved the section about jinn... "a condition that is often brought about by the 'transgression of universal moral laws.'" This idea that love combined with any intense emotion as the recipe to make someone crazy...totally makes sense to me. Whether it be love and anger, love and sadness...we see examples of this in everyday examples. Anyone remember Lisa Nowak, the astronaut lady? Definition of crazy.
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