KONTEKSTUALISASI MAKNA JIHAD DI ERA MILENIAL

Hizbullah’s Jihad Concept

This paper argues that Hizbullah’s jihad concept essentially derives from the underprivileged status of the Lebanese Shiite community at the time of the appearance of the party in the early 1980s. Although the ideology of Hizbullah and the articulation of its jihad concept borrowed heavily from ayatollah Khomeini’s doctrinal contributions to Shiism, Hizbullah has readily adapted itself to the n...

Jihad vs . McWorld

Just beyond the horizon of current events lie two possible political figures—both bleak, neither democratic. The first is a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened Lebanonization of national states in which culture is pitted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe—a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against every...

Cyclic di‐nucleotides: new era for small molecules as adjuvants

The implementation of vaccination as an empiric strategy to protect against infectious diseases was introduced even before the advent of hygiene and antimicrobials in the medical practice. Nevertheless, it was not until a few decades ago that we really started understanding the underlying mechanisms of protection triggered by vaccination. Vaccines were initially based on attenuated or inactivat...

Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad

Extending the Makna Semantic Wiki to Support Workflows

Semantic wikis combine the advantages introduced by the wiki principle with the potential of Semantic Web technologies. However, there is still a very limited support for coordination, collaboration and integration in current semantic wikis. In this paper, we present a solution for this through the integration of our Makna semantic wiki with a workflow system. The resulting implementation is pr...