Letter of the Week
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Dear Engineer, The monumental expanse of Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah may be read not merely as a vast juridical reservoir, nor only as an archival triumph of early Islamic scholarship, but as a civilizational counter-argument to velocity itself. Its magnitude is not accidental; it is temporal architecture. In an age that equates speed with relevance…
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This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.
A spiritual Ishmaelite 