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    My Tehran Diary
    My Tehran Diary
    My Tehran Diary
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    My Tehran Diary

    By Mansoor Limba

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    The present book is a collection of 11 short essays on various subjects I had written when I was still a postgraduate student of International Relations at the University of Tehran. Three of these essays – “Remembering Hafiz,” “He Whose Crime is Justice” and “Who is Papanok?” – were published in Mindanews.com, an online news magazine based in Davao City, Philippines. In the tenth essay entitled “Tale of a Long Tunnel,” I gave a brief account of my experiences while pursuing my graduate and postgraduate studies. It was penned soon after my dissertation defense and I was then about to return back home (Philippines).

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    PublisherMansoor Limba
    Release dateMay 27, 2015
    ISBN9781310878060
    My Tehran Diary
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    Mansoor Limba

    Mansoor Limba is a writer, translator, university professor, blogger, and chess trainer. He is a PhD holder in International Relations and BA holder in Islamic Studies who writes and translates books (Persian into English and Filipino, English into Filipino) on such subjects as international politics, history, political philosophy, intra-faith and interfaith relations, cultural heritage, Islamic finance, jurisprudence (fiqh), scholastic theology (‘ilm al-kalam), Qur’anic sciences, hadith, ethics, and mysticism. Have an experience with his multidisciplinary taste by visiting his personal blog at http://www.mlimba.com and niche website at http://www.muslimandmoney.com.

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      My Tehran Diary - Mansoor Limba

      My Tehran Diary

      Copyright 2015 Mansoor Limba

      Published by Mansoor Limba at Smashwords

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      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Chapter 1 – Remembering Hafiz

      Chapter 2 – He Whose Crime was Justice

      Chapter 3 – Shall the Cyberpower of Quds Day Whither Away?

      Chapter 4 – Who is Papanok?

      Chapter 5 – On the ‘Verticalization’ of Eschatology

      Chapter 6 – The Politics of Hermeneutics or the Hermeneutics of Politics?

      Chapter 7 – What Autumn Means to Me

      Chapter 8 – Right to Have a Good Name

      Chapter 9 – Personally Experiencing Existentialism 1

      Chapter 10 – Personally Experiencing Existentialism 2

      Chapter 11 – Tale of a Long Tunnel

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      Preface

      I begin in the Name of God, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.

      The present book is a collection of 11 short essays on various subjects I had written when I was still a postgraduate student of International Relations at the University of Tehran. Three of these essays – Remembering Hafiz, He Whose Crime was Justice and Who is Papanok? – were published in Mindanews.com, an online news magazine based in Davao City, Philippines.

      In the eleventh essay entitled Tale of a Long Tunnel, I gave a brief account of my experiences while pursuing my graduate and postgraduate studies. It was penned soon after my dissertation defense and I was then about to return back home (Philippines).

      Any comment or feedback on any subject dealt with therein will be highly appreciated.

      And on Him all success depends.

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      Chapter 1 – Remembering Hafiz

      TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of Iran (Mindanews/October 12, 2006) – Today is the commemoration day of Hafiz.

      Who is Hafiz?

      Khwajah Shams ad-Din Muhammad Hafiz (circa 1325-1391) of Shiraz was the world-renowned fourteenth century Muslim lyric bard and panegyrist of Persia, and usually regarded as the preeminent master of the ghazal form of poetry. Bearing a name which literally signifies Sun of the Religion, the Praised One and Memorizer of the Qur’an, Hafiz is known to his compatriots under the titles of the Tongue of the Hidden and the Interpreter of Secrets.

      With striking similarity to the European sonnet, ghazal, which Hafiz perfected, is a lyric form of Persian poetry, with rhyme in the first two and in even numbered lines, and allowing various metric forms. With respect to content, it usually does not express the linear development of an idea, but rather its couplets express variations on an idea or mood.

      Hafiz’s poetry is a rich source of Islamic mysticism or the esoteric dimension of Islam which is known in the religious

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