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📚 Research as Leisure
When did reading stop involving awe? A gently sprawling meditation on schole — the ancient notion of leisure as serious, soul-forming inquiry. Mariam Mahmoud traces the tradition from its classical roots through the Islamic world and into the private libraries of curious amateurs, reclaimi
When did reading stop involving awe? A gently sprawling meditation on schole — the ancient notion of leisure as serious, soul-forming inquiry. Mariam Mahmoud traces the tradition from its classical roots through the Islamic world and into the private libraries of curious amateurs, reclaiming research as something joyful, embodied and fundamentally human. For her, research without awe or deep presence is just 'hollow reading.' If you've ever Googled in twelve tabs for the sheer pleasure of figuring something out, this is for you.
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