{"id":1,"date":"2018-02-04T02:24:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T02:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-03-20T04:14:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T04:14:44","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/2018\/02\/04\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Title: Illuminate"},"content":{"rendered":"
il\u00b7lu\u00b7mi\u00b7nate<\/div>\n
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SGHLIA<\/span><\/div>\n
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    to light up.<\/div>\n
    “a flash of lightning illuminated the house”<\/div>\n
    decorate (a building or structure) with lights for a special occasion.<\/div>\n
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    to decorate (a page or initial letter in a manuscript) with gold, silver, or colored designs.<\/div>\n
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    to help to clarify or explain (a subject or matter).<\/div>\n
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    “a most illuminating discussion”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I felt that the title of this blog was fitting for a number of reasons — for its association with light and divinity, with decorated religious manuscripts, and with the idea of finding clarity through knowledge. I added the shahada<\/em> — the Islamic declaration that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is His messenger — in Arabic, below the title as a way to encompass the idea of this testimony as the foremost marker of being a muslim, as well as a sort of homage to the calligraphic inscription which encircles the outside of some mosques, such as the Dome of the Rock. I find that it is interesting to consider the significance of a bound digital space dedicated to a study of Islamism, such as this blog which is hosted on a finite website domain, in relation to the significance of a bound physical space used for this same study, as in the case of a traditional mosque.<\/p>\n

    Through this website I hope to explore the major themes and minor intrigues captured by the teachings of professor Ali Asani and his course team for AI54: For the Love of God and His Prophet. I hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    il\u00b7lu\u00b7mi\u00b7nate i\u02c8lo\u035eom\u0259\u02ccn\u0101t verb SGHLIA to light up. “a flash of lightning illuminated the house” decorate (a building or structure) with lights for a special occasion. to decorate (a page or initial letter in a manuscript) with gold, silver, or colored designs. to help to clarify or explain (a subject or matter). “a most illuminating discussion” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/illuminate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}