Orientalism: the most serious challenge to Islam

The most serious challenge facing academic medicine's institutions.

Islam in the West: From Immigration to Global Islam

Television and Orientalism

Orientalism, proposed by Edward Said (1995), refers to the network of interlocking discourses about the “orient” constructed in western civilization. The orients, in western conceptions, are stereotypically inflated others drastically different from the collective imagination of the civilized West. Said’s argument was initially focused more on Europe and Islamic Culture, but has been applied to...

Authority , Identity and the Establishment ! of the People of God : Understanding the Political Challenge of Islam

~us writes Sayyid Qutb, the founding father • ~f the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, in a polemic essay! which levels at Christians the common Islamic accusation that they suffer from a 'hideous schizophrenia' encapsulated in the exhortation to 'render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.' Since its inception, Islam has presented unprecedented challenges to...

Suggesting Approaches of Tobacco Control for Policymakers: A Serious Challenge of Iranian Future Health