Atlantis of the Sands - The Lost City of Arabia

Was the legendary “Atlantis of the Sands” real? In this video, we explore the mystery of Iram of the Pillars, the lost city often linked to the ancient people of ʿĀd mentioned in the Qurʾān. We explore whether it was originally a city or the name of a people, and all the legends surrouding it until this very day.

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Sources/Recommended Reading:

Al-Jallad, A.الجلادأ. (2025). The Epigraphy of the Tribe of ʿĀd [النقوش القديمة التي تذكر عاد]. Athīrat: Journal of Ancient Arabia, 1(1-2), 281-289. https://doi.org/10.1163/30504880-12340015

Clapp, Nicholas (1999). “The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands”. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Elmaz, Orhan (2018). “A Paradise in the Desert: Iram at the Intersection of One Thousand and One Nights, Quranic Exegesis, and Arabian History”. In “To the Madbar and Back Again: Studies in the Languages, Archaeology, and Cultures of Arabia, Dedicated to Michael C.A. Macdonald”. Edited by Laïla Nehmé &
Ahmad Al-Jallad. Brill.

Thomas, Bertram (1932). “Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia”. Jonathan Cape.

Thomas, Bertram (1933). “Ubar—the Atlantis of the sands of Rub’ Al Khali”. Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, 20(2), 259–265. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068379308725252

Webb, P. A. (2019). Iram. In K. Fleet, G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas, & E.
Rowson (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam 3 (pp. 117-121). Brill.


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The Whispered Prayers 9

Peace, one and all…

In this prayer, Imam Zayn al-Abidin (as) offers a heartfelt expression of love for and from Allah.

May the hearts of the lovers be opened.

“My Allah, who can have tested the sweetness of Your love, then wanted another in place of You? Who can have become intimate with You nearness, then sought removal from You? My Allah, place us with him whom You have chosen for Your nearness and Your friendship, purified through Your affection and Your love, given yearning for the meeting with You, made pleased with Your decree, granted gazing upon Your face, shown the favor of Your good pleasure, given refuge from separation from You and Your loathing, settled in a sure sitting place in Your neighborhood, singled out for true knowledge of You, made worthy for worship of You, whose heart You have captivated with Your will, whom You have picked for contemplating You, whose look You have made empty for You, whose breast You have freed for Your love, whom You have made desirous of what is with You, inspired with Your remembrance, allotted thanksgiving to You, occupied with obeying You, turned into one of Your righteous creatures, chosen for whispered prayer to You, and from whom You have cut off all things which cut him off from You!

O Allah, place us among those whose habit is rejoicing in You and yearning for You, whose time is spent in sighing and moaning! Their foreheads are bowed down before Your mightiness, their eyes wakeful in Your service, their tears flowing in dread of You, their hearts fixed upon Your love, their cores shaken with awe of You. O He the lights of those holiness induce wonder in the eyes of His lovers, the glories of whose face arouse the longing of the hearts of His knowers! O Furthest Wish of the hearts of the yearners! O Utmost Limit of the hopes of the lovers! I ask from You love for You, love for those who love You, love for every work which will join me to Your nearness, and that You make Yourself more beloved to me than anything other than You and make my love for You lead to Your good pleasure, and my yearning for You protect against disobeying You! Oblige me by allowing me to gaze upon You, gaze upon You with the eye of affection and tenderness, turn not Your face away from me, and make me one of the people of happiness with You and favored position! O Responder, O Most Merciful of the merciful!”

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L’ALBA D’OCCIDENTE 2026

Domani al Vittoriale degli Italiani avrò il piacere di intervenire alla nuova edizione del convegno L’Alba d’Occidente, organizzata dagli amici della Società dello Zolfo, con un intervento sul cinema occulto di Pupi Avati e Roman Polanski.

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Conseils de lecture –

Conseils de lecture :

 « LE SENS INTÉRIEUR DU RÉCIT DE MOÏSE ET AL-KHADIR  » 

Avec Eric Geoffroy

Le 1er mars 2026, lors du cycle Ramadan dédié au Coran, Eric Geoffroy a évoqué le personnage d’al-Khadir et son rôle initiatique dans la sourate 18, « La Caverne». Il nous donne ses conseils de lecture : 

Eric GEOFFROY, article « Khadir » dans Dictionnaire du Coran, Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (dir.), Robert Laffond, 2007, p. 467-471.

lien hypertexte: https://www.cahiersdelunite.com/dictionnaire-du-coran

Max GIRAUD, Khidr et la science infuse de la Part de Dieu, Albouraq, 2020.

Nayla TABBARA, L’itinéraire spirituel d’après les commentaires soufis du Coran, Vrin, 2018.

lien hypertexte: https://ift.tt/UKaAtY2

 

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La intimidad con lo que es - vivir sin resistencia

La no-dualidad no es una filosofía para comprender intelectualmente; es una invitación a entrar en intimidad con la experiencia tal como aparece. Sin embargo, la mayoría de nosotros vivimos en constante fricción con la vida. No resistimos solo los grandes acontecimientos, sino también los pequeños detalles: el tráfico, el cansancio, una emoción incómoda, una palabra mal dicha. La resistencia es sutil. A veces no se manifiesta como lucha abierta, sino como tensión silenciosa: querer que lo que ocurre sea distinto de lo que es. En ese movimiento casi imperceptible se construye gran parte del...

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A Munajat of Jami The Sufi | The Lost Sufi Prayer of the Veiled Heart | RARE

Before the thirty flashes of his Lawaih begin — before the metaphysics of divine Unity and the descent of the names into manifestation — Sufi Master Jami pauses. He addresses God directly. Not as a theologian. Not as a poet. As a heart that knows it cannot see clearly, asking to be shown.

This is a munajat: from najwa, secret speech. The intimate address conducted between the servant and God in the register of whisper rather than proclamation. Not dua in the sense of open petition — something quieter. An address that assumes nearness, that speaks as if the one being spoken to is already listening.

The subject is the veil. Not the great metaphysical distance between creature and Creator. The veil that is far more intimate and difficult: the quality of our own perception. The world can be a mirror — catching the light of the Real, returning it. Or it can be a wall — a surface at which attention stops. Jami's prayer does not ask God to change the world. It asks God to change the eye.

Drawn from the opening supplications of the Lawaih (Flashes of Light), Herat, 1476. Expanded across five movements: The Veil, The Mirror, Deliverance from Self, Love and the Turning, and The Stripping — the final movement in the register of Rabia al-Adawiyya, the prayer that asks not merely for union but for the stripping of every motive for seeking it except God alone.

Source: Jami, Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman. Lawaih (Flashes of Light). Trans. E.H. Whinfield and Mirza Muhammad Qazwini. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1906.

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Desmitificando la Edad Media

Alejandro García Sanjuán presenta en este vídeo su nuevo libro Desmitificando la Edad Media peninsular (Catarata, 2026)

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