Forty of us at the Foundation are taking forty days out of our routine over the next few months to participate in the 'Foundation in Education' course that is being facilitated by Rohit Dhankar of Digantar and a team of education thinkers. Recently we completed the first module of ten days at Jaipur and followed it up with the second module in Bangalore. The third module is slated to begin in M...

Every person I have spoken to in the context of the controversy on “reservations” has agreed that as a nation, we must do everything that is required to achieve equality in our society. Not a single sensible person would deny the fact that for too long in our country, grossly unequal, inhuman and unjust treatment has been meted out to people based on socio-economic class and caste. It is a comp...

the purpose of this article is to identify the various mystical interpretations of horuf-e-moqatta’e (separated letters) in qur’an. ten mystical interpreters-the qur’an-al-azim, haghayegh-al-tafsir, lata’ef- al-esharat, kashf-al-asrar, ara’es-al-bayan, ta’vilat, rouh-al-bayan, manzum e safi, bayan-al-sa’adah- have been selected from several centuries and their explanations, after entries about ...

divine control reduce earthly punishment Kristin Laurin1,*,†, Azim F. Shariff 2,†, Joseph Henrich3 and Aaron C. Kay4 Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, BC, Canada N2L 3G1 Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403 USA Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience,...

 Hoor al-Azim wetland, are a large and permanent wetland area located between Iran and Iraq.  By entering the flow to the wetland area, the geometry of the wetland, acts in the form of an inverted imperfect pyramid. So that by entering the water flow, the water level of wetland is simultaneous by increasing the surface. In this study by using the geometric relationships of pyramids, was acted t...

Salah satu penyebab rendahnya mutu pendidikan di Indonesia disebabkan guru yang tidak kompeten. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui Kompetensi Kepribadian dalam Pendidikan Islam Perspektif Tafsir Al-Qur’an. Penelitian adalah kepustakaan (library research), dengan metode deskriptis analisis kualitatif. Peneliti mendeskripsikan Guru Islam, kemudian menganalisisnya secara rinci dan mendalam Al-...