This article is focused on some conditions in today’s world of globalized media, which are producing either an uncritical acquiescence or fright in Muslim societies as a result of the interaction between these societies and the contemporary Western powers that represent modernity and postmodernity on the global stage. The rise of fundamentalism, a tendency toward returning to the roots and stri...

It is widely if not universally believed that ethical philosophy began in the seventeenth century to assume a distinctively “modern” form, opposing itself to “ancient” Greek ideas and to more recent scholastic approaches that derived in part, at least, from Aristotle. Hugo Grotius was central in shaping this modern form. Grotius’s Rights of War and Peace, published in 1625, is best known as the...

The Melkites, Jacobites, and Nestorians were the main Christian communities under Muslim rule. Several pre-Islamic Arab Christian authors wrote treatises concerning their beliefs in Arabic, some of which date back to the early Islamic centuries. The multiplicity of such polemical works suggests an intellectually open society and a degree of tolerance shown by Muslim leaders. Abu Raʾita...

The research presented focuses on genetic variation in the Gainj- and Kalam-speaking peoples of highland Papua New Guinea. The primary data are typings at 51 genetic loci observed on 600 individuals who reside in 21 census units, called parishes. These data are augmented by cultural and demographic information that has also been collected. Parish sizes are small, ranging from 20 to about 200 in...

the present article has adopted a critical discourse perspective to study ahmad-e jām’s ons al-tāʾebīn. ahmad-e jām (b. 1049 ad in nāmaq, near toršīz, khorasan; d. 1141ad) was one of the mystics of khorasan, iran. traces of cultural transition can be found in his works and ons al-tāʾebīn is his masterpiece. the book mainly criticizes the official mysticism of the writer’s time. the cult which h...

This article examines the many ways in which example of double moon is deployed Dignāga's Investigation Percept (Ālambanaparīkṣā) and its Indian Tibetan commentaries. By exploring these different interpretations this rather simple analogy we see diverse hermeneutic strategies by commentators way that philosophy progresses a scholastic tradition.

When Islam had offered a new perspective both politically and intellectually to the humanity at beginning of 7th century, Muslims have conquered important, antique, cultural centers like Damascus (15 / 636), Aleppo (h.16) Antioch (h.17) in short period time. While was quickly spreading wide geographic area, works which contains knowledge ancient cultures civilizations were translated into Arabi...

The strength of this book by Dr. Kalam is that it has been written in an easy to understand language, where he presents some of the most difficult issues our country is facing today in a very simple way. The book has been divided into nine short chapters, each one of them dealing with various themes. Each chapter begins with a quote and ends with a summary giving the reader something to think a...

The argument from contingency for the existence of God is best understood as a request for an explanation of the total sequence of causes and effects in the universe (‘History’ for short). Many puzzles about how there could be such an explanation arise from the assumption that God is being introduced as one more cause prepended to the sequence of causes that (allegedly) needed explaining. In re...