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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing the Status of People in Shi'a Theology Based on the Principle of Rational Good and Bad (Husn wa Qubh Aqli) [PDF]

Comparative Theology
This research aims to analyze the position of people within the Shi'a theological system by examining the principle of intellectual good and evil (ḥusn wa qubḥ ‘aqli) and its impact on the human-God relationship.
Mahdi Ameri Shahrabi, Abbas Abbaszadeh, Qorbanali Karimzade Gharamaleki   +2 more
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

The Comparison of the Theory of "the Difference between Existential Truths" in Peripatetic Philosophy with the Theory of "the Unity of the Truth of Existence and the Differences of its Levels" in the Transcendental Wisdom [PDF]

حکمت صدرایی, 2019
Mulla Sadra has claimed in some of his writings that there is no difference between the unity of the existence and the difference of it in the transcendentalist wisdom, with the theory of difference of existential truths in the peripatetic philosophy ...
Alireza Farsinezhad, Omid Arjomand
doaj   +1 more source

ISLAM AND FEMINISM THEOLOGY

JICSA (Journal of Islamic Civilization in Southeast Asia), 2018
This article examines the relationship between Islam and feminism theology. Both Islam and feminism are strongly important to be discussed in the field of Islamic discipline, especially the issue of women liberation. As can be seen in the classical theology, the issue of feminism is not the main concern among the Muslim Intelectuals.
openaire   +2 more sources

Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the Encounters of Seminaries with Cyberspace based on Imam Reza's Manners in the Imposed Debates of Ma'mun Abbasi [PDF]

International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life, 2018
Achieving a clear pattern in the face of emerging phenomena - always - has been one of the concerns of seminaries, one of which is cyberspace today; In the meantime, one of the best ways to achieve the right way to deal with cyberspace is to follow the ...
Syed Abolfazl Hoseinipoor (Iran)
doaj   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
wiley   +1 more source

The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source