My pleasure, es la hora de dormir.

excellent video. Can highly recommend it. Quite educational whoever wants to get an insight about the life of Mohammed

http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/film.html

Narrated by
Ben Kingsley

The Koran, as God's literal word, can only be comprehended in the majestic and glorious Arabic language in which it was revealed. The necessity of reading the Koran in Arabic has meant that all believers should learn the language in order to understand the scriptures. This requirement has created a linguistic bond among believers, particularly as Islam spread beyond the boundaries of Arabia to regions inhabited by speakers of other languages. Having learned to use Arabic as the language of religion, the new converts also used it as a language of literature, science, commerce and social intercourse.

Wow!Günaydınım - Harika - Powerful and delicate!! Thanks for sharing, Adonis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK3cWTG-3k8

Lutfen, who of you has seen this Turkish movie??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYfWihB_hEY

Ben Hopkins is responsible for one of the most delirious takes on London in recent years; his second feature, ‘The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz’ (1999) added a dose of surreal humour and German expressionism to the city experience, turning a mere ride on the Tube into a paranoiac’s nightmare. His latest film is a documentary about a tribe, the Pamir Kirghiz , who over the past century have made various, forced journeys from their original home in north-east Afghanistan and are now settled, all 2,000 of them, in a small village in rural eastern Turkey. The film may initially strike some fans of ‘Tomas Katz’ as conservative in execution, but ‘37 Uses’ betrays Hopkins’ more esoteric influences, not least Herzog, and offers an unusual and successful mix of reconstruction, history and a touch of gonzo to tell the story of a true scapegoat of Central Asia’s geopolitical shifts.

The film’s title emerges from a chat between the director and an elder member of the tribe: sitting on a bench, the pair run through the many applications of an extinct sheep. It’s one of several moments in which Hopkins and his crew are present but never overbearing. His welcome trick is to collaborate and not dictate, consider and not assume: he co-directs the film with a local, Ekber Kutlu, and the spine of the chronological narrative is a series of recreations, performed by the Pamir in period garb. It’s a method that allows for the more emotional inquiry that Hopkins seeks. One woman discusses how it’s shameful to remember her father’s fall under the influence of opium. Others talk of their dreams, whether of their distant homeland or, more prosaically, of one day opening an internet café in Istanbul.
Author: Dave Calhoun

Time Out London Issue 1891: November 15-22 2007
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Yunus Emre:
Knowledge is to understand
To understand who you are.
If you know not who you are
What's the use of learning?

The aim in learning is
To understand God's Truth.
Because without knowledge
It is wasted hard labour.

Do not say: I know it all,
I am obedient to my God.
If you know not who God is
That is sheer idle talk.

Twenty-eight syllables
You read from end to end.
You name the first `alpha''
What can it possibly mean?

Yunus Emre says also
Let me receive what I need.
The best possible thing
Is to find perfect peace.

enjoy the Rachmaninoff background music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSd3Pj0JnI&feature=related

Here are some very sexy Turkish men:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSd3Pj0JnI&feature=related

I spend a whole day there! Upon alighting from the bus we were greeted by a swarm of school boys who just got out of class. We had lots of fun as some knew some English. Cumalikizik is located in 10 kilometers west of the Bursa , at the foot of the Mt. Uludağ . its history goes back to the Ottoman Empire's foundation period . The village is within the border of the Yıldırım county .

Cumalıkızık was founded by a waqf village. The historical textures have been well protected and the civilian countryside architectural structures of the early Ottoman period have been successful at remaining undamaged until today . Because of this characteristic , the Cumalıkızık has been the center of the population that is the most attractive to the people and a frequently visited place.

There are also a lot of movies that have often been recorded in the village about historical themes . The villages are placed close together between the foot of Mt.Uludağ and the valleys have been called kızık - In Turkish ; The name stands for one of the twenty-four clan of the Oghuz Turks . and the people from other villages also called kızık such like Değirmenlikızık, Derekızık , Hamamlıkızık called the village Cumalıkızık , because they had been gathering for ritual of worship on Fridays in this village . In Turkish Friday means cuma .In the village's square , there is a museum called Cumalıkızık ethnography museum where the historical objects belongs to the village has been exhibited . In the village , raspberry festival is held on Junes . and The famous Cumalıkızık houses has been made out of wood , adobes , rubblestones . most of them are triplex houses . and the windows upstairs are generally latticed and with a bay window . The handles and knockers on the main entry doors are made out of wrought iron . and also there are very narrow streets having cobblestone and without having sidewalk . The mosque , the fountain of 'zekiye hatun' next to the mosque and the bath with one dome is an inheritance to the village from the Ottoman Empire . and also there is a ruin of a church built by Byzantines .

In Cumalıkızık, there are totally 270 historical houses in the village. Some of these houses are in process of restoration and maintenance. 180 of them are still being used as dwellings.

In 1969, the remains of a Byzantine church were unearthed in the southeast of the village at the foothills of Mt. Uludağ. Some architectural works are on display in the Archeological Museum of Bursa

When the intrepid Lady Mary Wortley Montagu travelled with her husband's embassy to Turkey in 1716, she recorded the minutiae of life on the road and in her 'new world'. . Witty, insatiably curious and remarkably open-minded, her innocent observations inspired Ingres, a century later, to paint some of the greatest erotic masterpieces of the Romantic movement.
http://www.swan.ac.uk/visualanthropology/projects/004_Montagu/cornucopia.htm


She is no typical Turkish lady, but the granddaughter of a
Frenchman, who, to use Mr. Pickthall's coinage, "islamed," and her
upbringing and the political unrest encouraged her inherited
disposition to revolt. She is apparently one of those women who
belong by temperament to the rebels. She detests the suffragists;
yet, but for her high breeding and traditional fastidiousness, she
has the making of one. For, however much she differs from and excels
the average woman of her race, she possesses to the full that
characteristic of clear vision and independent thought which Mr.
Pickthall sets first among the virtues of the harem.
The confusion caused by Zeyneb Hanim's scandalous escape from Istanbul, her critical letters about Europe, and her unsettling return to harem life cannot be resolved, as the reviewer bypasses critical information about the reasons for Zeyneb Harem's return to Istanbul, namely her forced return upon the declaration of war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire. The review empties the letters of their historically specific context and maintains the Orientalist image of the harem.

Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (black muslim) of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. (white atheist ).

When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro -- a Muslim -- moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six years old. Within six months he had learned to speak the Indonesian language. Obama spent "two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school" in Jakarta. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim while admitting that he was once a Muslim, mitigating that damning information by saying that, for two years, he also attended a Catholic school.

Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a radical Muslim who migrated from Kenya to Jakarta, Indonesia. He met Obama's mother, Ann Dunham-a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas-at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama, Sr. and Dunham divorced when Barack, Jr. was two.

Obama's spinmeisters are now attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came from his father and that influence was temporary at best.

In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son's education.

Dunham married another Muslim, Lolo Soetoro who educated his stepson as a good Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta's Wahabbi schools. Wahabbism is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad on the industrialized world.

Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office in the United States, Obama joined the United Church of Christ to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim.