A postcard commemorating a young “martyr” of Mexico’s Cristero War named Antonio Verástegu engages the spectator in an act witnessing that entails both religious and political consequences. By creating audience for Veràstegui’s suffering, image looks to consolidate legitimize this unofficial martyr cult but also foster community bonds perhaps even inspire imitation his exemplary sacrifice.

The human is a creature whose being is filled with instinctive and innate qualities. One of these qualities is the “Halū‘iyyat” which is noted in the Qur’ān 70:19 and discusses the sensitivity of the human to the good and the evil. There is a disagreement among the exegetes with regard to the interpretation of this verse. This article has adopted a descriptive-analytical method to examine the o...

A CRANK has been defined, probably by Bernard Shaw, champion of all cranks, as a person who holds and acts upon an opinion that is contrary to orthodox teaching, but it is claimed directly he has converted a sufficiently large number of his fellows to his point of view he ceases to be a crank. This is seldom true, as all worthy cranks have more than one arrow in their quiver. They have made the...