The Progler Papers
An Archive of Writings
13 June 2015
Ben Ali and the Arabic Diary (Part Two)
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One of the earliest well-known encounters with the Ben Ali Diary dates from 1896, and was recorded by Joel Chandler Harris, author of the p...
09 May 2014
Ben Ali and the Arabic Diary (Part One)
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In the early nineteenth century, an African Muslim was living out the rest of his adult life in chattel slavery on a plantation in Antebell...
02 December 2013
The Sound of Azan: Muslim Reflections on the Call to Prayer
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The call to prayer, azan , pervades Islamic culture. Muslims can hear azan up to five times a day--once for each of the five daily prayers...
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23 April 2012
Musical Stupidity and the Reigning Monoculture
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Many music educators, myself included, thought Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences was useful when it first appeared. But...
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17 December 2011
Schooled to Order: Education and the Making of Modern Egypt
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"They opened fire with cannons and bombs on the houses and quarters, aiming specially at the mosque, firing at it with those bombs. T...
27 November 2011
The Disaffections of Daily Life: Pathways to Activation Within and Without the Machine
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Disaffection and activation are intertwined in a multiplicity of ways. They are not necessarily related in a linear, cause and effect type...
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22 October 2011
Norms and Allegiances in Muslim Education
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Even the most casual observers of current events will notice a tension between Western civilization and Islam. This tension is often made e...
14 September 2011
Social Studies Standards: Diversity, Conformity, Complexity
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"If the goal of human history is a uniform type of man, reproducing at a uniform rate, in a uniform environment, kept at a constant t...
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15 August 2011
Mapping the Musical Commons: Digitization, Simulation, Speculation
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This essay is a speculation on how recent digitization and simulation technologies are providing a means of mapping cultural processes that ...
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