ali altaf mian
alialtafmian.bsky.social
ali altaf mian
@alialtafmian.bsky.social
“Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice." --Simone Weil

https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268210908/islamic-ethics-and-spiritual-sovereignty/
new arrivals from @dukepress.bsky.social (thank you for your seasonal half off deals)
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
excellent scholarship emerging on this book already
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
so damn impressive to be so careful with sources that you fundamentally disagree with
October 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
paired prince with jacques derrida on “the question of the animal” and the students saw a different dimension of striking animals
October 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
this entire album is 🔥
October 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
preparing them for the next two weeks, the part of each semester most exciting for me
October 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
present the absent crepuscular colors
October 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
spring 2026 — already?!
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
on this week’s teaching agenda is this wonderful article by @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“we ourselves were the the unknown law that we obeyed”

clarice lispector
October 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
a scene i witnessed on saturday outside my office and it got stuck in my soul
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“in the interstices of primordial matter is the line of mystery and fire that is the breathing of the world, and the continual breathing of the world is what we hear and call silence”

Clarice Lispector, _The Passion According to G.H._
October 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
أمور تكوينية
October 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
resisting (the) fall
October 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
October 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
October 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
teaching today in "ethics in the public sphere"

the ethics and politics of the annual cull in scotland
October 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
morning moon
October 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
October 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
مِن سبيل عابر سبيل
September 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
today’s teaching agenda:
September 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Gainesville right now
September 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
cannot stop staring upstairs
September 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
hats off to blanchot here
September 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
yes
September 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM