{"id":10893,"date":"2012-07-11T06:32:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T06:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10893"},"modified":"2012-07-11T06:33:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T06:33:18","slug":"a-chilling-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10893","title":{"rendered":"A chilling reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Marisa Urgo on Zawahiri ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SPEC-Marisa-Urgo-Anais-Nin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SPEC-Marisa-Urgo-Anais-Nin.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Marisa Urgo Anais Nin\" width=\"589\" height=\"618\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SPEC-Marisa-Urgo-Anais-Nin.png 589w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SPEC-Marisa-Urgo-Anais-Nin-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have long been familiar with the second quote in this pair, the one by <strong>Anais Nin<\/strong>, and regard it as one of the touchstones of my understanding of the creative process.  Anais Nin is exactly right in thinking that in terms of the arts, it is the deeply felt personal detail that profoundly touches the artist&#8217;s audience, and thus becomes universal.<\/p>\n<p>It was therefore with quite a shock of recognition that I read <strong>Marisa Urgo<\/strong>&#8216;s latest post in her series on <strong>Zawahiri<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet<\/em>.  If Zawahiri&#8217;s spiritual autobiography draws this sort of response from an analyst giving it a close reading, it&#8217;s likely something we should be paying attention to.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zawahiri-Knights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zawahiri-Knights.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Zawahiri Knights\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zawahiri-Knights.jpg 640w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zawahiri-Knights-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Marisa&#8217;s series thus far can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makingsenseofjihad.com\/study-of-knights-under-the-banner-of-the-prophet\/\">read in reverse order here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Marisa Urgo on Zawahiri ] . I have long been familiar with the second quote in this pair, the one by Anais Nin, and regard it as one of the touchstones of my understanding of the creative process. Anais Nin is exactly right in thinking that in terms of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,46,526,652,19,687,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-analytic","category-charles-cameron","category-literature","category-recommended-reading","category-specs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10893"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10909,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions\/10909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}