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Creating Space for Psilocybin in Islam

Some anthropologists are starting to question if the anthropology of modern-day Islam renders Muslim worlds as “too sober.”1 The anthropology of Islam has largely neglected studying Muslims who step outside of normative-legal Islam by, for example, drinking wine or consuming psychedelics. This approach often reduces Islam to piety, and depicts

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Ovid and Attar’s Warfare of Love

Militia amoris is a trope in Roman erotic elegy wherein love affairs are characterized through imperial language. Ovid’s Amores delineates the trope in “1.9” through extended comparison between behaviors supposedly consistent between lovers and soldiers. “1.9” consequently epitomizes how militia amoris undermined Roman mores in arguing that love affairs—associated with

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