Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast:
Episode: AMERICAN DISSIDENT VOICES 1.30.23: The Gift: Serpent’s Walk
Description: TODAY I AM GOING to tell you of a White man named Phillip Barker, an American born in 1929 and who died in 2012 at the age of 82. Early in his life, he was drawn by the romance of the Arabian Nights, The Thief of Baghdad, and the Islamic mystics and poets, and when studying abroad as a young man, experiencing many different cultures, and becoming expert in Urdu and South Asian studies, he converted to Islam, married a light-skinned South Asian woman who he never abandoned, and took on the name Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker, or simply M.A.R. Barker, the na...