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 Ishmael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Arabic &1573;&1587;&1605;&1575;&1593;&1610;&1604;, In the Qur'an, Ishmael is known as the first-born son of Abraham from Hagar and an appointed Prophet of God (also mentioned in the Bible).
Ishmael is stated to have been buried near the Kaaba on the grounds of the Masjid al Haram.
Ishmael is the protagonist in Moby Dick by Herman Melville
ishmael.iqnaut.net   (837 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Totalitarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While the concept of totalitarian agriculture has existed as long as recorded history, the term totalitarian agriculture was finally coined by author and "cultural critic" Daniel Quinn, in his novel Ishmael.
A concept dating back over ten thousand years, marked by what is known to western cultures as the agricultural revolution, an extremely successful, but theoretically unsustainable method of agriculture by which humans destroy any competition to the bounty of harvest.
In Ishmael, Quinn refers to the Law of Limited Competition, also known as the "Law of Life".
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Totalitarian   (717 words)

  
 The Ishmael Companion: About Daniel Quinn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Quinn is best known as the author of Ishmael, the novel that in 1991 won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, established to encourage authors to seek "creative and positive solutions to global problems." Ishmael has been in print continuously since its publication in 1992 and is currently available in twenty languages.
Thoroughout the U.S. and Canada and in other countries as well, Ishmael is used as a text in a broad range of classes that include anthropology, ecology, history, literature, philosophy, ethics, biology, and psychology, at age levels from middle school through graduate level.
He instituted the Stateville Penitentiary Writers' Workshop (1969-71) and served on the Board of Listeners of the World Uranium Hearing, Salzburg, Austria, convened in 1992 to hear testimony of victims of uranium mining, nuclear waste disposal, and nuclear power disasters around the world.
www.ishmael.com /origins/DQ   (421 words)

  
 Philosophy, philosophers and literature texts and links online - BradColbourne.com
Ishmael's paradigm of history is startlingly different from the one wired into our cultural consciousness.
For Ishmael, our agricultural revolution was not a technological event but a moral one, a rebellion against an ethical structure inherent in the community of life since its foundation four billion years ago.
Ishmael has garnered rave reviews and has been adopted for classroom use in schools coast-to-coast, including Dartmouth, the Naval Academy and Stanford University.
www.bradcolbourne.com /philosophy.html   (2432 words)

  
 Fascinating Places on the Web
Crystalline Sphere Editing Service => get your novel or short story edited for a reasonable price
Project Pulp => buy small press magazines all in one place, as well as novels, collections, anthologies & artwork
The Ishmael Community => for readers of Daniel Quinn's life-changing novel Ishmael
www.davidmswitzer.com /fascinating.html   (4120 words)

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