Eboo Patel — The Bridge Builder


	Eboo Patel — The Bridge Builder

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12-14-2007 12:59 AM

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With the exception of a few littérateurs, not many of us read Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Rumi’s Masnavi and Tagore’s Gitanjali side by side. Our tendency to neatly categorize ideas and objects based upon differences leads us to place these writing in their own realms as, to us, each work stems from three appar¬ently distinct traditions. For Ebrahim “Eboo” Patel, a social entrepreneur and cultural visionary born and raised in Chicago, this is not the case. He calls it the jazz approach: The traditions from which each of these authors stem— American, Islamic and Indian—are interconnected in their values, resonating with one another. As literary masterpieces, Patel finds each of these works “playful and profound.” </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.islamicamagazine.com/issue-19/eboo-patel-the-bridge-builder.html">
Such recognition of unity through diversity is simply one instance of Patel’s remarkable vision for changing the world.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/125E0388-18FE-4499-B51C-4F51DAEB59A3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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