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The mission of the St. Johns County Library Advisory Board is to advise the Board of County Commissioners in the establishment, operation, and maintenance of a free public library system,which will provide organized access to meet educational, informational, recreational, and cultural needs of the general public.
All are welcome to attend monthly Library Advisory Board meetings on the second Wednesday of each month at 9:30 am.
Upcoming LAB Meetings
December 11: Anastasia Island Library
January 8: Ponte Vedra Library
February 12: Proctor Library, Flagler College
March 12: Bartram Trail Library
April 9: Hastings Library
Library Advisory Board Members:
Dr. Christina Will |
Appt date: 05/15/12 |
Young McQueen |
Appt date: 2/19/13 |
Katherine Dvornick |
Appt date: 02/06/07 |
Marilyn Wiles |
Appt date: 10/20/09 |
CJ McCartney |
Appt date: 10/16/12 |
Dr. Pat Laurencelle |
Appt date: 12/15/09 Exp. date: 10/18/14 |
William Napper |
Appt date: 09/14/03 |
Carolee Bertisch |
Appt date: 9/20/05 |
The complete LAB packets are available online and at all library branches.
Find the LAB Bylaws here.
2013 Meeting LAB Packets
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September: Packet
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July: Minutes Packet
June: Agenda Packet
May: Minutes Packet
April: Minutes Packet
March: Minutes Packet
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Republican platform to balance budget: (you can't make this shit up)
1. Dramatically increase military spending and hire 100,000 additional troops for the war Republicans will start shortly after taking office.
2. Give the richest Americans massive tax cuts by eliminating all forms of taxation that don't actually involve work. (dividends, interest, capital gains)
3. Eliminate all estate taxes so billionaires never need to relinquish their possessions. (that farm you have your eye on will be locked into a single family for 1000 years)
4. Eliminate most Medicare benefits (opposed 2 to 1 by Ammericans)
5. "Reform" social security. (average 25% cuts across the board)
6. Cut waste (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......right)
Quiz: What do most Republican voters say the number one issue is?
Answer: BALANCING THE FEDERAL BUDGET!!!!!
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After beating Richmond by 11 points Friday night, the Spoofhound boys basketball lost a heartbreaker to Kirksville in overtime 51-50 Saturday and finished 1-1 at the NCMC Tournament in Trenton.
With the score knotted at 50, Kirksville's Nate Farnsworth made the second of two free throws with 1.8 seconds left in overtime and Maryville missed a desperation heave at the buzzer.
Maryville fell to 8-3 on the year, losing for the second time in the last three games following six straight wins. All three losses on the season have been against Class 4 or 5 teams.
Trailing most of regulation, Maryville battled back from a a six-point deficit at the start of the fourth quarter and tied it on a three-pointer by Jonathan Baker. The Hounds got the ball back with 12 seconds left, but didn't get off a shot on their final possession.
The Tigers finished the opening quarter up 11-6 and went to the half ahead 25-19. Both teams scored seven third quarter points, keeping the margin at six.
Baker and Tyler Kenkel finished as Maryville's top scorers with 15 points. Treyton Burch and Ty Hilsabeck each had seven points. Jacob Cacek scored four and Kyle Leslie chipped in two,
Kirksville's Tyson Grgurich was the game's high scorer with 18 points. Kevin Hennke joined him in double-figures with 11.
A night earlier, Maryville played a strong second half to pull away for a 53-42 win over Richmond.
Up two at the half, the Hounds gave up just 16 second half points while scoring 25.
Richmond hit nine three-pointers in the game, accounting for 27 of its 42 points. The Hounds counter-acted Richmond's long-range shooting exploits with an extremely balanced effort offensively.
All six of Maryville's scorers in the game produced at least six points.
Kenkel was the team leader with 13. Baker worked his way into double-figures as well with 10. Cacek scored nine points. Burch had eight followed by Leslie with seven and Hilsabeck with six.
Richmond's Reid Summers hit six three's and led all scorers with 19 points. Lendarrius Pritchett made the other three, 3-pointers and finished with 11 points.
The NCMC Tournament concluded a busy stretch for the Hounds of 11 games within the season's first month.
Maryville has the next two weeks off before resuming its season against Chillicothe Jan. 8.


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Bronson Fire Department, Levy County Department of Public Safety Battalion 1, Medic 6 and Chiefland Fire Department were dispatched to a Bronson pole barn on fire just before 8 p.m., Nov. 6.
The first unit on scene found a fully involved structure full of hay located in Bronson. The owner of the barn had filled it with hay earlier in the day. The building was a total loss. No animals were inside the barn or injured in the fire. Bronson Fire Department remained on scene to secure the area and exposures.
Manatee Springs State Park and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection are hosting the annual Clay Landing Days event Nov. 29 and 30, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Chiefland commissioners stalled a proposal by city staff Monday night to sell the timber growing on about 30 acres of a city well site.
A Chiefland woman has been arrested and charged with one count of arson after an investigation into a structure and vehicle fire on Monday at Northeast 351 Highway, just north of Cross City, according to a Dixie County Sheriff's Office press release.
Chiefland commissioners have given city staff permission to look into a new program aimed at controlling roaming dogs within city limits.
A 30-year-old man died in a one-vehicle at Northwest 50th Avenue and Northwest 165th Street on Tuesday at about 12:50 p.m., according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
Michael Paul Sache of Trenton was driving northbound on Northwest 50th Avenue in a 2001 Honda Accord when for an unknown reason the vehicle left the road and went onto the grass shoulder. It continued on for another 100 feet until the front end collided with a tree. Sache was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident.
Now is the time to sign up for the Chiefland Chamber of Commerce Christmas Festival, Parade and the 2nd annual Rudolf 5k Run all happening on Saturday, Dec. 7.
The vendor application for artists, crafters and informational vendors and the parade application can be found on the Chiefland Citizen website, www.chieflandcitizen.com. The Chamber no longer has any food vendor spaces available.
If you are interested in being one of our vendors just print the form and mail with your check or money order as soon as possible.
The Chiefland Middle High School Student Government Association's annual cake and pie auction is Thursday, Nov. 21. The doors open at 6 p.m. for previewing and bidding starts at 6:30.
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A legendary name in outdoor living now appears on a full line of family-friendly towable RVs available now at Camping World RV Sales locations. Coleman travel trailers and 5 wheels offer top quality construction, innovative design, easy towability and full amenities in 11 floorplans, including four ultra-lite models, one ultra-lite hybrid expandable, four conventional travel trailers and two 5 wheel options. Coleman travel trailers and 5 wheels are manufactured by Dutchmen Mfg., Inc., another respected and trusted name in the RV industry.
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The conventional travel trailer lineup includes four models ranging in length from 23'19" to 28'7" with most of the same interior features as the ultra-lite models. These trailers offer 16" center wood stud construction with a truss-style walk-on roof and fiberglass insulation throughout. The exterior sports metal-covered sidewalls, EPDM rubber roof and diamond plate rock guard. Dry weight ranges from 4262 lbs. to 6202 lbs. Conventional models also offer more net cargo capacity than ultra-lites, from 2696 lbs. to 3478 lbs.
The two 5th wheel floorplans offer the amenities most favored by active families, including air mattress sofa bed, master suite queen bed, walk-in shower with skylight, entertainment center, rear twin armchairs, exterior patio kitchen, linen closet, pantry food storage and more. Both offer plenty of living space thanks to a single side slide-out on the CT259 and dual side triple slide-outs on the CT320.
These 5th wheels are constructed with welded aluminum sidewall framing, truss-style walk-on roof with fiberglass insulation, fully insulated laminated fiberglass sidewalls and EPDM rubber roof. The easy hitch front cap and an extended hitch pin offer an expanded turning radius for short bed trucks. A back-up mirror is pre-mounted in the front cap for easy hitch ups. LED docking lights make parking and set-up easier after dark.
Dry weight for the 30'11" CT259 is 7056 lbs. with 3505 lbs. net cargo capacity. The 35'8" CT320 weighs in at 9210 lbs. unloaded with 2982 lbs. net cargo capacity.
Like Coleman, Dutchmen knows a thing or two about outdoor living, and has made it easy to fully option all the Coleman-branded trailers and 5th wheels with the extras that active families want in two smart option packages.
The Coleman RV Camping package offers a 13,500 BTU roof air conditioner, electric power awning, LCD HD TV, AM, FM/CD/DVD player with interior and exterior speakers, aluminum wheels, kitchen and bath skylights, heated enclosed underbelly on ultra-lites and 5th wheels, heated enclosed water tank on conventional travel trailers, heavy-duty fabrics and industrial grade vinyl flooring.


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Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: 973-204-3548 Hometown: The Ironbound, Newark Birthday: October 18, 1969 Bio Paul Milo, co-editor of Newark Patch, studied philosophy at Montclair State University immediately prior to starting in journalism in 1998. Milo, a Lodi native, has spent his entire career covering Essex County communities. He has won nearly a dozen state press awards, including an award for a story debunking rumors that coffee shop workers were seen celebrating immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks and another award for an editorial critical of questionable campaign tactics used during a local election. His freelance work has appeared in several publications, including Editor and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Gizmodo.com. His first book, Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations and Other Dead Wrong Predictions of the 20th Century, was published in November 2009 by HarperCollins. He has been interviewed about his book on WNYC radio's Brian Lehrer show, by The New York Times and on Canadian television, among other outlets. In his spare time Milo likes to hike and fish in the wilds of western Jersey. He also obsessively jots down story ideas for Patch on any scrap of paper available. Your Beliefs At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible because human beings have beliefs. So in the spirit of simple honesty, our policy is to encourage our editors to reveal their beliefs to the extent they feel comfortable. This disclosure is not a license for them to inject their beliefs into stories or to dictate coverage according to them. In fact, the intent is the opposite: we hope that the knowledge that their beliefs are on the record will cause them to be ever mindful to write, report and edit in a fair, balanced way. And if you ever see evidence that we failed in this mission, please let us know. Politics How would you describe your political beliefs? Like a lot of people of my generation and younger, I'm not wedded to either of the major political parties - I'm a classic swing voter. I tend to support candidates who talk to me like I'm an adult, who are fiscally responsible and who respect every American's right to conduct their private lives however they see fit. Are you registered with a certain party? No, but I vote. Religion How religious would you consider yourself? (casual, observant, devout, non religious) A thorough answer would be very long, so for the sake of brevity I'll just say this: I try to live my life by the precept "Do unto others as you would have done unto you." Local Hot-Button Issues What do you think are the most important issues facing the community? So, so many here in Newark, but for the sake of selecting one I'd say managing development in such a way that working families are not eventually priced out of the city. Where do you stand on each of these issues? Newark has to do things differently than other cities that simply allowed gentriication and correspondingly high rents that squeezed out the working class. Many might look at Newark today and scoff, but a lof of areas in the region - Hoboken, parts of Brooklyn - were once where Newark is today in terms of development. Newark should remain a place that's not only culturally diverse but socioeconomically as well.
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First Maintenance Update for Firefox 3
Mozilla has just released version 3.0.1 of the Firefox browser; the first maintenance update removes a couple of vulnerabilities and fixes a some minor bugs.
The Mozilla developers closed down three security holes, one of which only affected Mac OS X systems. All three are classified as critical by the Mozilla Security Advisories. Mozilla did not disclose whether the vulnerabilities were the ones revealed shortly after the final release of thenext generation browser.
The second vulnerability allowed attackers to open web pages in tabs via the command line despite the fact that Firefox was not running. In combination with other vulnerabilities this would give attackers the ability to sniff data and run arbitrary code.
The third vulnerability (MFSA 2008-36) alone affects Apple computers. The browser would crash if a user opened manipulated gif type image files in Firefox 3; this in turn might allow attackers to run arbitrary code.
The bugfixes included an page printing error, and an error that caused the phishing and malware database to fail to update on first launch. There was also an error that affected the SSL certificate exception list and that has now been fixed. For more information on bugfixes check out the Release Notes. Just a few days ago, the Mozilla Foundation released updates for Firefox 2 and Seamonkey, which were affected by the some of same bugs.
Updates for various versions of Firefox and for Seamonkey are available from the Mozila Websites. Binary packages will be released for various distributions in the next few days. Red Hat has already published updates.
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Number of individuals Family Services touched through outreach efforts, brief contacts or classes provided through various agency programs. |
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The number of children who went through our BeeKind anti-bullying program in 2012. |
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The number of individuals who participated in the Money Smart® training series. Money Smart®, developed by the FDIC, is a comprehensive financial education curriculum designed to help low- and moderate-income individuals enhance their financial skills. 63.7% of the participants had a household income of less than $20,000 per year. |
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The number of home safety inspections provided to senior citizens in Allegheny County through the Open Your Heart to a Senior In Home Services program. Volunteers logged more than 5,000 hours and had in home contact with 400 senior citizens in an effort to assist them in overcoming the isolation of advancing age and to remain safely in their homes. |
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The percentage increase in participation by youth at our Giving Tree Drop-In Center in Greensburg. The Drop-In Center collaborated with the agency's Community Outreach through Resources and Education (CORE) program to sponsor activities such as Battle of the Bands, educational seminars on date rape, preparing for driver's permits and GED attainment and other programming relevant to the lives of young people. |
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Title: Sonic The Hedgehog #132 Type: Regular Series Date: March 2004 Published By: Archie Comics Scanned By: Raphaela http://www.kaifuu.com Editor: J. Freddy Gabrie Contents: Page 1 Cover Pencils: Patrick Spaziante Ink: Nelson Ribeiro Color: Jason Jensen Page 2 Frontis Pencils: J. Axer Page 3-19 Home: Part 3 "A.D.A.M. & Evil" Writer: Karl Bollers Pencils: Dave Manak Ink: Michael Higgins Color: Jason Jensen Page 20-25 Mobius: 25 Years Later "The Unveiling" Writer: Ken Penders Pencils: Steven Butler Ink: Ken Penders Color: Jason Jensen Page 26-27 Sonic-Grams Page 28 Sonic Fan Art |
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The Scala Rider G9 Powerset is a full featured riding communication device. Once I got it setup I enjoyed it. It took some adjustment with packing foam and Velcro to get the ear pieces located in my helmet where I could hear properly. (Helmet = Bell Revolver) I updated the unit firmware through Scala and used the Windows software to program FM station channels. I had Bluetooth hook up through my iPhone 5 and the BMW Navigator IV. Nice pair of communicators.
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Higgs humor has humbled me.
I thought I'd nailed it, when I wrote what could be the first original Higgs Boson joke ever here.
But since this week's announcement that the Higgs particle has been found, there's been a wave of Higgs humor on Twitter, a lot of it curated by Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin, whose battle with breast cancer led her to tweet: "Gonna start calling my post-mastectomy, science-rebuilt cyberboob the "Higgs Bosom."
To be funny about something you usually have to understand it well.
But sometimes it's the difficulty of understanding something that makes it funny.
From @pourmecoffee: "Higgs Boson Explainer: It's like, a particle, man."
Science writer @edyong209 tweets: "A Higgs boson walks into a bar. The barman doesn't understand." And "Re: CERN, some ppl say it's silly to put so much money in something few people understand. Presumably those ppl also avoid banks."
@scullymike tweets: "There's an easy-to-understand video online that explains Higgs boson & creation of the universe, but it's like four minutes long. Pass." Turns out Mike Scully's a ringer -- he used to write for The Simpsons and much more.
The humor can get a little deeper once we understand that the Higgs particle is responsible for all things having mass.
From the astrophysicist with the mass following @neiltyson: "The Higgs discovery makes me feel heavier already." He adds: "What we need instead is the anti-Higgs. A particle that takes mass away." Two punchlines in one tweet. DeGrasse Tyson!
This one from @Kallee is making the meme rounds big time: "The Higgs Boson walks into a Catholic Church. Priest says "What are you doing here?" HB says "You can't have mass without me"
For a little more context, read The New York Times' @doverbye who, best I can tell, has never tweeted so I had to read the whole article where he writes that without Higgs "all elementary forms of matter would zoom around at the speed of light, flowing through our hands like moonlight."
In other words, without Higgs, all life would be like a tough day of parenting.
My favorite Higgs Humor on Twitter comes from a guy who dared challenge the rule of never telling more than 3 jokes on a single subject. @afrakt tapped into the public exhuberance over the Higgs discovery: "Wow! People going crazy for Higgs. Huge parade down Main St. Fireworks tonight!"
And then: "Oh come on! McDonald's to offer 1800 caolorie Higgs McBoson. Blames physics for obestity epidemic."
And "Republicans rail against the Higgs boson as the largest taxing of Americans' brains in history."
I figured anyone who can do a Higgs Hat Trick could be worth talking to. So I tracked down @frakt, aka Austin Frakt, Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University with a specialty in Health Care policy.
Frakt got his undergrad degree in physics from Cornell and his Ph.D. from MIT in statistical signal and image processing which, he explains, means "how to make sense of streams of data using statistics and applied mathematics."
But "public policy was always in my blood," he tells me. So Frakt has been applying the scientific method to health care.
I sense an opportunity. We Americans don't have a single-payer health care system. We have so many health plans to choose from. It's overwhelming.
Have you, Professor Frakt, been able to game the health insurance system and, if so, can you tell our CNN audience how?
"I used to choose my health plan based on word of mouth from colleagues," he confesses to me.
"Last year, I decided I really should put my money where my mouth is and pick a plan more rationally."
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1. Rudi Paul Lindner, Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia (Bloomington: Indiana University, 1983), 24. See also Gerald Clauson, Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth Century Turkish (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), 128. [BACK]
2. Z. A. Desai, "An Early Thirteenth-Century Inscription from West Bengal," Epigraphia Indica, Arabic and Persian Supplement (1975): 6–12. The inscription was found in the village of Siwan, in Bolpur Thana of Birbhum District. [BACK]
3. D. C. Sircar, "New Light on the Reign of Nayapala," Bangladesh Itihas Parishad: Third History Congress, Proceedings (Dacca: Bangladesh Itihas Parishad , 1973): 36–43. [BACK]
4. Lindner, Nomads and Ottomans, 1–38; R. C. Jennings, "Some Thoughts on the Gazi Thesis," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 76 (1986): 151–61. [BACK]
5. Lindner, Nomads and Ottomans, 7. See also Rudi Paul Lindner, "Stimulus and Justification in Early Ottoman History," in Greek Orthodox Theological Review 27, nos. 2–3 (Summer-Fall 1982): 207–24. [BACK]
6. Maulana Jamali, Siyar al-'ārifīn (Delhi: Matba' Rizvi, 1893), 164–69. [BACK]
7. Ibid., 171. [BACK]
8. The account of Shaikh 'Ali was later reproduced in the well-known hagiography Gulzār-i abrār, compiled ca. 1613, the relevant extracts of which were published by S. M. Ikram, "An Unnoticed Account of Shaikh Jalal of Sylhet," Journal of the Asiatic Society of Pakistan 2 (1957): 63–68. Since Ahmad Yasawi died in 1166, Shah Jalal's own spiritual master must have been an unidentified intermediary between Yasawi and Shah Jalal. [BACK]
9. Ibid., 66. Ikram's translation. [BACK]
10. The oldest Persian treatise on Sufism, the Kashf al-maḥjūb by 'Ali Hujwiri (d. ca. 1072), composed in Lahore, had already elaborated Sufi ideas on the two kinds of jihād. See The Kashf al-mahjub, trans. Reynold A. Nicholson, 2d ed. (reprint, London: Luzac, 1970), 201. [BACK]
11. Ikram, "Unnoticed Account," 66. [BACK]
12. The Persian original, compiled in 1613 by Muhammad Ghauthi b. Hasan b. Musa Shattari, reads: "Shaikh Mujarrad hama-rā hiṣṣa sākhtawa har yak-rā dastūrī-yi kadkhudā shudan nīz bar dād ." Gulzār-i abrār (Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, Persian MS. 259), fol. 41a. The Persian version published by Ikram mistakenly reads: "…wa har yak-rā dastūrī ki khudā shudan nīz bar dād, " which would mean, "…and he gave an order that each of them also become God"(!) Ikram, "Unnoticed Account," 65. [BACK]
13. Lindner argues that "the pastoral Ottomans followed their own economic self-interest, that is, they settled because they made a much better and more secure living as landlords or cultivators in Bithynia." Moreover, "a given area used for cultivation, if it is as fertile as Bithynia, can support a much larger population than it can if used as pasture alone. The yield, in calories, of a plot of good land used for crops is much higher than the ultimate yield if that land is merely grazed." Lindner, Nomads and Ottomans, 30. The same arguments would apply to the Bengal delta, where the economic value of a plot of land in rice paddy is considerably greater than if it were used for pasture. [BACK]
14. Shamsud-Din Ahmed, ed. and trans., Inscriptions, 4: 25. Shah Jalal's fame at the time of this inscription is evident from its opening lines, which honor "the exalted Shaikh of Shaikhs, the revered Shaikh Jalal, the ascetic, son of Muhammad." It is not clear to what building in Sylhet the inscription, currently preserved in the Dhaka Museum, was originally affixed. [BACK]
15. Ibn Battuta, The Rehla of Ibn Battuta, trans. Mahdi Husain (Baroda: Oriental Institute, 1953), 238–39. [BACK]
16. Ibid., 237–38. [BACK]
17. "The inhabitants of Habanq [near Habiganj] are infidels under protection (dhimma) from whom half of the crops which they produce is taken." Ibid., 241. [BACK]
18. Ibid., 237–38. [BACK]
19. Abu'l-fazl 'Allami, ā'īn-i Akbarī (Lucknow: Nawal Kishor, 1869), 2: 74. Vol. 1 trans. H. Blochmann, ed. D. C. Phillott; vols. 2 and 3 trans. H. S. Jarrett, ed. Jadunath Sarkar, 3d ed. (New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corp., 1978), 2: 130. [BACK]
20. Mirza Nathan, Bahāristān-i ghaibī, Persian MS., Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, Sup. Pers. 252, fol. 146b; trans. M. I. Borah as Bahāristān-i-ghaybī: A History of the Mughal Wars in Assam, Cooch Behar, Bengal, Bihar and Orissa during the reigns of Jahāngīr and Shāhjahān, by Mīrza Nathan (Gauhati: Government of Assam, 1936), 1: 273. [BACK]
21. Shihab al-Din Talish, Fatḥiyah-i 'ibriyah, in H. Blochmann, "Koch Bihar, Koch Hajo, and Assam in the 16th and 17th Centuries, According to the Akbarnamah, the Padshahnamah, and the Fathiyah i 'Ibriyah," Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 41, no. 1 (1872): 79. [BACK]
22. For notices on Rukn al-Din Samarqandi, see Encyclopaedia of Islam, new ed. (Leiden: Brill, 1960), 1: 434–35. For a discussion of the problems of identifying the translators of the Amṛtakuṇḍa, see Yusuf Husain, "Haud al-hayat : La Versionarabe de l'Amratkund," Journal asiatique 113 (October-December 1928): 292–95. [BACK]
23. Although there are no known copies of the original Sanskrit work, there are many translations in Islamic languages, indicating the enormous influence this work had in and beyond Bengal. Islamic Culture 21 (1947): 191–92 refers to a Persian manuscript version of the text, entitled Baḥr al-ḥayāṭ, preserved in the library of Pir Muhammad Shah in Ahmedabad, Gujarat (No. 223). Another Persian copy of this work is in the India Office Library, London (Persian MS. No. 2002). A third manuscript copy is in the Ganj Bakhsh Library, Rawalpindi (MS. No. 6298). A fourth, dating to the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, and containing twenty-one illustrations of yogic postures, is in the library of A. Chester Beatty in Dublin; see Thomas A. Arnold, The Library of A. Chester Beatty: A Catalogue of the Indian Miniatures, revised and ed. J. V.S. Wilkinson (London: Oxford University Press, 1936), 1: 80–81, 3: 98. According to the Islamic Culture article cited above (p. 192), an edition of the Persian Baḥr al-ḥayāṭ was published in Madras in 1892–93. Arabic translations of the Amṛtakuṇḍa are entitled ḥauẓ al-ḥayāṭ, and five of those preserved in European libraries were compared and analyzed by Yusuf Husain in his article "Haud al-hayat : La Version arabe," to which the author appended an Arabic version of the text. Carl Ernst, who is now preparing for publication a critical edition of the Arabic text, together with an annotated translation and monographic introduction, has identified forty manuscript copies of Arabic translations, seventeen of which are in Istanbul. Turkish translations began appearing in the mid eighteenth century, and one was published in 1910–11. A nineteenth-century Urdu translation survives in a manuscript in Hyderabad, India. See Carl W. Ernst, trans., The Arabic Version of "The Pool of the Water of Life" (Amṛtakuṇḍa), forthcoming. [BACK]
24. S. A.A. Rizvi, A History of Sufism in India (Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1978), 1: 335. [BACK]
25. Muhsin Fani, Dabistān-i maẓāhib, ed. Nazir Ashraf and W. B. Bayley (Calcutta, 1809), 224. [BACK]
26. Husain, "Haud al-hayat : La Version arabe," 294. [BACK]
27. The Gulzār al-abrār, compiled around 1613, or just fifty years after the death of Shaikh Muhammad Ghauth, mentions a translation (from the Arabic to Persian) of the Baḥr al-ḥayāṭ as among the written works of the great saint of Gwalior. See Muhammad Ghauthi Shattari Mandawi, Gulzār-i abrār, Urdu trans. by Fazl Ahmad Jiwari (Lahore: Islamic Book Foundation, 1975), 300. [BACK]
28. Islamic Culture 21 (1947), 191–92. The Persian extract published in Islamic Culture was taken from a manuscript copy of the Baḥr al-ḥayāṭ in the library of Pir Muhammad Shah of Ahmadabad (No. 223). See also the copy in the India Office Library, Persian MS. 2002, fols. 2a-3a, in which the yogi's name is given as Kanama. [BACK]
29. Baḥr al-ḥayāṭ (India Office Library, London, Persian MS. 2002), fols. 3a-6b. [BACK]
30. In particular, they recall the classic statement of the Sufi path, The Conference of the Birds, or Manṭiq al-ṭayr, composed by Farid al-Din 'Attar (d. 1220). In fact, since both 'Attar and Shaikh Rukn al-Din Samarqandi, perhaps the first translator of the Amṛtakuṇḍa, were contemporaries in Khurasan toward the end of the twelfth century, it is possible that the latter was familiar with 'Attar's mystical philosophy. Certainly, both were steeped in the same Perso-Islamic literary and religious culture. On the other hand, it is possible that this second prologue was written not by Samarqandi but by Muhammad Ghauth three centuries later, since we know that the latter retranslated the work into Persian. Carl Ernst, following the views of Henry Corbin, has argued that the frame story was ultimately derived from the "Hymn of the Pearl," found in the gnostic Acts of Thomas. See Ernst, Arabic Version (forthcoming), and Henry Corbin, "Pour une morphologie de la spiritualité Shī'ite," Eranos-Jahrbuch 1960 (Zurich: Rhein-Verlag, 1961), 29: 102–7. [BACK]
31. Yusuf Husain, among others, has argued for the work's syncretic nature. See Husain, "Haud al-hayat : La Version arabe," 292. [BACK]
32. For example, in a passage in which proper breathing technique is compared with the way a foetus breathes in its mother's womb, the foetus is identified with al-Khiẓr, a popular saint in Islamic lore, associated with water and eternal life. Again, where such techniques are compared with the way a fish breathes in water without swallowing it, the fish is identified with the one that swallowed the Prophet Jonah. And the seven Sanskrit mantras associated with the seven spinal nerve centers are all identified with Arabic names of God, so that, for example, hūm is translated as Yā rabb ("O Lord"), and aum is translated Yā qadīm ("O Ancient One"). These were not so much "translations" as they were attempts at finding functional equivalents between yogic words of spiritual power and the names of God as used by the Sufis. See Yusuf Husain, "Haud al-hayat : La Version arabe," 300, and Ernst, Arabic Version (forthcoming). [BACK]
33. While in Bengal, Shah 'Abd Allah made a spiritual disciple of Shaikh Muhammad 'Ala, who enthusiastically propagated the Shattari order in the delta, and whose own spiritual successor, Shaikh Zuhur Baba Haji Hamid (d. 1524), was the spiritual master of Shaikh Muhammad Ghauth. Rizvi, History of Sufism in India, 2: 153–55. Muhammad Ghauth's elder brother, Shaikh Bahlul, also resided in Bengal after having arrived with the first Mughal invasion in 1538. Jahangir, Tūzuk-i Jahāngīrī 2: 63. [BACK]
34. Around 1414 the Chishti shaikh Ashraf Jahangir Simnani stated that seventy disciples of Shaikh Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi (d. 1144) had been buried in Devgaon (site not identified), and that other Sufis of the Suhrawardi order, together with followers of Shaikh Jalal al-Din Tabrizi (see above), were buried in Mahisantosh and Deotala, both near Pandua. "In short," he noted, "in the country of Bengal, not to speak of the cities, there is no town and no village where holy saints did not come and settle down." Shaikh Ashraf Jahangir Simnani, Maktūbāt-i ashrafī, Aligarh Muslim University History Department, Aligarh, Persian MS. no. 27, letter 45, fols. 139b–140a. See also S. H. Askari, "New Light on Rajah Ganesh and Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi of Jaunpur from Contemporary Correspondence of Two Muslim Saints," Bengal Past and Present 57 (1948): 35. [BACK]
35. Shams-i Siraj 'Afif, Tārīkh-i Fīrūz Shāhī, ed. Maulavi Vilayat Husain. (Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1891), 27–28. [BACK]
36. Since Sultan Ghiyath al-Din 'Iwaz had died only seventeen years before Minhaj's visit, it is probable that this story had been in circulation in the Bengali capital soon after, and perhaps during, the king's reign. [BACK]
37. Minhaj-ud-Din 'Usman, ṭabakāt-i-Nāṣirī, 1: 581. [BACK]
38. Simon Digby, "The Sufi Shaikh as a Source of Authority in Mediaeval India," in Puruṣārtha, vol. 9: Islam et société en Asie du sud, ed. Marc Gaborieau (Paris: Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales, 1986), 68–69. Even when Bengal was independent of Delhi, prominent shaikhs of this order maintained close institutional links with North India—a circumstance that led A. B.M. Habibullah to describe the Chishtis of Bengal as a sort of "fifth column" for the Delhi sultanate. A. B.M. Habibullah, review of Abdul Karim, Social History of the Muslims in Bengal, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Pakistan 5 (1960): 216–17. [BACK]
39. 'Abd al-Rahman Chishti, Mirāt al-asrār, fol. 514a. [BACK]
40. Indeed, Akhi Siraj endeavored to break his more highborn disciples of their aristocratic ways. In the case of 'Ala al-Haq, whose father was a prominent migrant from Lahore and the treasurer of Bengal's provincial government, Siraj taught his disciple to humble himself by walking with a hot cauldron on his head through the quarter of Lakhnauti where his family lived. Akhbār al-akhyār, comp. 'Abd al-Haq Muhaddis Dihlavi (Deoband, U. P.: Kitab Khana-yi Rahimia, 1915–16), 149. In 1357 Akhi Siraj died and was buried in a suburb of Lakhnauti. Alexander Cunningham identified his tomb and shrine with a high mound in "Sadullahpur," near the northeast corner of the Sagar Dighi tank. Cunningham, "Report of a Tour in Bihar and Bengal in 1879–80 from Patna to Sunargaon," in Archaeological Survey of India, Report 15 (Calcutta, 1882): 70. [BACK]
41. Shamsud-Din Ahmed, ed. and trans., Inscriptions, 4: 31–33. The editor himself found the stone with this inscription "while strolling through the eastern suburb of Calcutta, early in 1939." He was told that around 1900 the stone had been picked up from a ruined mosque in the neighborhood. [BACK]
42. Ibid., 32. [BACK]
43. Karim, Corpus, 47. [BACK]
44. S. H. Askari, Maktub and Malfuz Literature as a Source of Socio-PoliticalHistory (Patna: Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, 1981), 22. [BACK]
45. Muzaffar Shams Balkhi, Maktūbāt-i Muz̄affar Shams Balkhī (Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna, Persian MS., Acc. no. 1859), letter 148, p. 448. Partially translated by S. H. Askari in Maktub and Malfuz Literature, 16. Askari's translation. [BACK]
46. The Sufi then advised the sultan that whenever he was confronted with an important concern, he should notify the Sufi of it by sending either a letter or a messenger to Mecca. Balkhi, Maktūbāt, letter 163, p. 493. See also Askari, Maktub and Malfuz Literature, 19. Askari's translation. [BACK]
47. Balkhi, Maktūbāt, letter 163, p. 503. See also Askari, Maktub and Malfuz Literature, 21. Askari's translation. [BACK]
48. Also at work here was a keen rivalry between two major Sufi orders for royal patronage—the Chishtis, who were dominant in Delhi, and the Firdausis, who under Shaikh Sharaf al-Din Maneri's leadership were dominant in Bihar. In this correspondence, the Firdausis were clearly making a bid for patronage from the kings of Bengal. For the Firdausi-Chishti rivalry, see Digby, "Sufi Shaikh as a Source," 65–67. [BACK]
49. Balkhi, Maktūbāt, letter 165, p. 495. See also Askari, Maktub and Malfuz Literature, 20. [BACK]
50. Balkhi, Maktūbāt, letter 165, pp. 508–9. See also Askari, Maktub and Malfuz Literature, 22. Askari's translation. [BACK]
51. Balkhi, Maktūbāt, letter 165, p. 502. See also Askari, Maktub and Malfuz Literature, 21. Askari's translation. [BACK]
52. The traditional date of Shaikh Nur Qutb-i 'Alam's death is 818 A.H. (1415–16 A.D.), as recorded in the Mirāt al-asrār (fol. 603b). But this date conflicts with the same work's statement that the shaikh was the spiritual teacher of Sultan Ahmad, who ruled in 1432–33 (ibid., fol. 517b). Moreover, an inscription at the kitchen of Nur Qutb-i 'Alam's shrine in Pandua honors "Our revered master, the Teacher of Imams, the Proof of the congregation, the Sun of the Faith, the Testimony of Islam and of the Muslims, who bestowed advantages upon the poor and the indigent, the Guide of saints and of such as wish to be guided." The inscription gives the death of this unnamed saint, who is evidently Nur Qutb-i 'Alam, as 28 Zi'l-Hajj, 863, or 1459 A.D. (see Dani, "House of Raja Ganesh," 139–40). The shaikh's surviving writings attest to the vitality of Chishti thought and traditions in the capital city at this time. A surviving mystical work of his is the Mu'nis al-fuqarā' (Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, Persian MS. No. 466). We also have his letters, the Maktūbāt-i Shaikh Nūr Qutb-i 'ālam (Indian National Archives, New Delhi, Persian MS., Or. MS. No. 332, and Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Subhan Allah No. 297671/18). [BACK]
53. 'Abd al-Rahman Chishti, Mirāt-i asrār, fol. 517a. See also Askari, "New Light," 37; Abdul Karim, "Nur Qutb Alam's Letter on the Ascendancy of Ganesa," in Abdul Karim Sahitya-Visarad Commemoration Volume, ed. Muhammad Enamul Haq (Dacca: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1972), 336–37. [BACK]
54. Quoted by Shaikh Ashraf Jahangir Simnani in his Maktūbāt-i ashrafī, letter no. 45, fol. 139a. [BACK]
55. Shaikh Nur Qutb-i 'Alam, Maktūbāt-i Shaikh Nūr Quṭb-i 'ālam (Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Persian MS., Subhan Allah No. 297671/18), letter no. 9, p. 60. See also Abdul Karim, "Nur Qutb Alam's Letter," 342–43. Karim's translation. These sentiments, like those found in the correspondence of Muzaffar Shams Balkhi, suggest that the words and actions of Pandua's shaikhs were motivated by a genuine concern with advancing the cause of Islamic piety in Bengal, and not, as Jadunath Sarkar has suggested, by a narrow desire to safeguard their own economic and political interests. In referring to a "vast horde of unruly and ambitious disciples of the Shaikhs and Muslim monks, whose wealth and power had lately begun to overshadow the civil power," Sarkar depicts these men as little more than parasites who preyed upon ageing or weak rulers, and compares their position "to that of the Buddhist monks to whom the Emperor Asoka gave away all his State treasure in his dotage." Sarkar, ed., History of Bengal, 2: 126, 127. [BACK]
56. 'Abd al-Rahman Chishti, Mirāt al-asrār, fols. 517a-b. [BACK]
57. Nizamuddin Ahmad, Tabaqāt-i Akbarī, text, 3: 270; trans. B. De, 3, pt. 1, 443. [BACK]
58. For a discussion of these issues, see Digby, "Sufi Shaikh as a Source of Authority," esp. 63–69. [BACK]
59. The shrine is in the ancient Muslim garrison city of Devikot, located in modern West Dinajpur District some 33 miles northeast of Sikandar's capital at Pandua. From the language of the inscription, it would appear that Sikandar was patronizing the construction only of the dome and not of the shrine itself, which in turn suggests the existence of a cult focused on a long-deceased saint. Three other inscriptions were fixed to the wall of this shrine, one of which, dated 1297, referred to the construction in that year of a mosque by Sultan Rukn al-Din Kaikaus. Another, dated 1493, stated that "the construction of this mosque was made during the time of the renowned saint, the chief of the holy men, Makhdum Maulana 'Ata, may Allah make his ashes fragrant and may He make Paradise his resting place." If the latter inscription refers to the same mosque referred to in the 1297 inscription—and this is not absolutely certain—then Maulana 'Ata would have been alive about sixty years before Sultan Sikandar ascended the throne. Shamsud-Din Ahmed, ed. and trans., Inscriptions, 4: 15–18, 143–44. [BACK]
60. Ibid., 34–35. Italicized words are from the Qur'an. [BACK]
61. Moreover, disciples from throughout the region and beyond came to study at the lodge of Shaikh 'Ala al-Haq, the most prominent being Ashraf Jahangir Simnani, an immigrant from Central Asia whose letters form a major hagiographical source for this period. Although his Maktūbāt-i ashrāfī has never been published, manuscript copies are available in the Aligarh Muslim University History Department (MS. No. 27) and the British Library (Or. MS. No. 267). [BACK]
62. 'Abd al-Rahman Chishti, Mirāt al-asrār, fols. 515b-516a. 'Ala al-Haq's exile lasted for only several years, after which he was allowed to return to the capital, where he outlived the sultan by nine years. His experience compares with that of Maulana Ashraf al-Din Tawwama, a scholar and Sufi who had migrated from Bukhara to Delhi in the early fourteenth century, and who was exiled to Sonargaon by the Delhi court after having acquired an immense following among the city's masses. See Shaikh Shu'aib Firdausi, comp., Manāqib al-asfiyā (Calcutta: Nur al-Afaq, 1895), 131. [BACK]