During this holiday of Sukkot, aka the Feast of Tabernacles, or Booths, the verse proclaiming this holiday as one of inclusion for all nations, and that inclusion which happened 1000 years ago in Islamic Spain, seems especially important to remember, today.
Remember, if we did it before, we can do it again! We go farthest fastest by working together, right?
“Of course, right!”
Libraries are one of the greatest legacies of the Convivencia (remember that cooperation, in Muslim Spain, of Jewish, Christian and Islamic scholars, that gave Europe books again?), and one of the key parts of Phase I of the Four Freedoms movement.
Action Items:
1.) Search your local public library’s online catalogue for books on La Convivencia.
(here’s a good one to start with: Read more in M. Rosa Menocal’s book, available at most public libraries!)
2.) Share them with us in the comments, here, please.
3.) Share your thoughts on what La Convivencia was, and what it might have been like to live in Al Andalus at that time,
4.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Support our key #PublicDomainInfrastructure & #StopSmoking for CCOVID-19:
1. #PublicLibraries,
2. #ProBono legal aid and Education,
3. #UniversalHealthCare, and
4. good #publictransport
Read, Write, Vote, Teach and Learn (Lesson Plans offline)
Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa.
my Babylon 5 review posts, if you like Science Fiction, and
a proposed Vision for a kinder world on Wondering Wednesdays…
Shira Destinie A. Jones, BsC, MAT, MPhil
our year 2021 CE = 12021 HE
(GED lesson plans: Day 1)
Stayed on Freedom’s Call
(free copies at: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…)
includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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Sorry I missed this! Thank you so much, Ned!!
Shira
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Thanks for reminding us of that valuable lesson
We often forget that the Moslems had more learning in an enlightened period than the more backward medieval Europeans
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Indeed, we do.
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