Abstract Men founded and have ruled over Sufi orders since their inception, thus the position of Khalifa or shaykh has been traditionally held by men. However, this study argues that in some Islamic mystical traditions women assumed a senior leadership role with all power such prominent entails. More research is needed to understand challenges faced legitimizing power, experiences patriarchal s...

There are few processes more central to the social and cultural transformation of the inner city in the past half century than gentrification. The social and economic changes that have engendered gentrification have transformed its character and meaning; it has become principally a strategy for redevelopment of brown field sites by the state and capital interests. Based on research in the forme...

. management Second-Wave Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. And Failure in Enterprise Resource Planning System Implementation: Read PDF. Pp.Second-Wave Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. The focus of this book is on the most important class of enterprise systems, namely. Enterprise Resource.system and turning on ERP helps create a reenergized organization, with customers. Inc, the Deloitt...

The first decade of the new millennium has passed, and we have witnessed exciting progress in medical science. The first two human genomes were sequenced, and many more followed [4,9]. Genome technology has developed at an astonishing speed and before the end of the second decade current high end sequencing capacity will probably be available as turn key desktop solutions. All of this has cause...

Feminist work on computing technology has for the most part concentrated on concepts of cyborgs and notions of (dis)embodiment in cyberspace. It is the contention of this paper that, as yet, these conceptions have, outstripped the realities of the technology and that an alternative and technically realistic model is that of the computer virus. The virus has all the positive theoretical advantag...

The main aim of this article is to draw a comparison between two female figures – Hiratsuka Raichō from Japan and Irena Krzywicka Poland. Despite the fact that these women lived in different countries came totally cultural backgrounds, they fought for better future women. Both during difficult time war were witnesses dynamic political social changes their respective countries. As historical ter...