Abstract This article studies the work of Moscow-based Syrian academic scholar Taufik Ibragim. Originally a Marxist historian Islamic philosophy and kalām , after end ussr Ibragim became one Russia’s most authoritative scholars also Qurʾān tradition more broadly. Since mid-2000s, has publicly propagated concept “Qurʾānic humanism”, which is meant to demonstrate tolerance humanist character Isla...

in this article, the author deals with the critical study of rorty and gadamer's doctrines on truth through analyzing its undesirable epistemological and political consequences. rorty denies truth and believes that it is merely the indicator of sentences specification. but gadamer does not deny truth and believes it is as event of appearance which flourishes from within the dialogue and ma...

The accession of the House Bourbon to Spanish throne after death last Habsburg king, Carlos II, in 1700 brought important changes for court high nobility. Historians have seen Philip V’s reign as beginning titled nobility’s withdrawal from front line politics. process, encouraged by Bourbon’s reformism during War Succession, was carried out nobility several ways. This article will analyze caree...

Rorty wrote his Achieving Our Country as a philosopher, intellectual, academic and citizen, and each of these perspectives leads to a different emphasis in reading his book, and to a different story (and ‘storytelling’ is one of the themes of the book). The emergent pictures vary: the philosopher tells a story of the growing isolation and cultural sterility of analytic philosophy in the United ...

Through four thematic sections, this article explains why, from its inception in 1981, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) espoused ‘unconditional support’ for ‘Irish freedom’, and why position changed 1990s. Illuminating a particularly functional mode of radical solidarity, it argues that British leftists engaged with Northern Ireland conflict to articulate their revolutionary praxis. Advo...

Two debates currently mark West German discussions of social history. The first centers around the contention of an "end of the labor movement." The second focuses on the "New History Movement" with its related efforts to describe the everyday life of the past (Alltagsgeschichte) and to rewrite history "from the bottom up ." Certainly the Social Democrative party (SPD), the trade union movement...

Objective/Context: Created in 1908 Buenos Aires, the National Association of Libraries (Asociación Nacional de Bibliotecas, anb) gathered part local intellectuality concerned with reformism to form a federation Argentine libraries that would act as mediator between these institutions and public authorities. This article examines rise first years existence this entity demonstrate role specific c...