The Western academy’s growing interest in the contemporary arts in the Arab world illustrates the desire to map “Islam”—problematic as this term is—within the global history of cultures and to integrate it into “Western” models of the writing and documenting of the past. As positive and corrective as these academic approaches may seem,1 the notion of recording time—that is, writing history—is s...

Major revolts have recently erupted in parts of the Middle East with substantial international repercussions. Predicting, coping with and winning those revolts have become a grave problem for many regimes and for world powers. We propose a new model of such revolts that describes their evolution by building on the classic Lanchester theory of combat. The model accounts for the split in the popu...

This study was an assessment of the evaluation standards “Practical Education” module Elementary Education Undergraduate Program in Arab Open University/Jordan. Its main focus to investigate problems and views raised by students order develop more accurate evaluate their performance. The curriculum characteristics as well students’ portfolios field reports had been reviewed. A questionnaire a d...

Bahasa Arab Fushah dan ‘Ammiyah merupakan bahasa yang bersumber dari Smit, penggunaan di dapatkan pada kitab suci al-Qur’an, al-Hadis buku-buku ilmiah lainnya, sedangkan bisa didapatkan ungkapan dipergunakan sehari-hari sebagai alat komunikasi bangsa Arab. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian kepustakaan (library research), berfokus pengumpulan data berkaitan dengan melalui bacaan catatan untu...

Introduction This chapter considers social patterns that contribute to shaping the position of women in Arab societies today. It focuses on the impact of two central sources of influence: cultural and especially religious heritage and Arab intellectual production. Culture plays a pervasive role in composing the social context of women's position in the Arab world, and religious interpretations ...

The notion of " Islamic finance " was born during the tumultuous identity-politics years of the mid-twentieth century. Indian, Pakistani, and Arab thinkers contemplated independence from Britain, and independence of Pakistan from India, within a context of " Islamic society. " Islam was assumed to inspire political, economic, and financial systems that are distinctive and independent of the Wes...

The Middle East and North Africa have experienced mass protests political changes since the end of 2010. Indeed, uprisings were a decisive turning point in history Arab world. Although leading causes revolts appear to be similar, as they result from repression socioeconomic grievances, their outcomes highly different, thus each state has developed distinct state-building process. This article a...

Spirituality has been proven in recent studies to be a key contributor posttraumatic growth. One of the most well-known mystical thinkers Islam, Mu?y? al-D?n ibn ’Arab? (d. 634/1240), nevertheless, believes that trauma does not facilitate spiritual growth, but rather capacity reveal potentiality was latent within person. This paper begins by exploring concept Qur’an and how it may actualise hum...

This article attempts to understand the outcomes of crackdown on Arab revolts and lessons learned thereof. There is no doubt that were corrupted shortly after their start used serve interests counterrevolutionaries. The economic, social, political problems, which triggered riots in 2011, have not been mitigated a decade later. In this respect, Turkey’s respect for popular demands, attractivenes...