“The World has Grown Old”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse A. Hoover
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
North African ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World

Chapter 2 is a survey of North African apocalyptic theology prior to the rise of the Donatist church. Particular attention will be given to four North African sources from the third and early fourth centuries: first, the writings of Tertullian and his appropriation of apocalyptic traditions originating out of Asia Minor. Apocalyptic allusions in the Passio Perpetuae and other pre-Constantinian North African martyr texts and their influence on Donatist martyrologies will be analyzed next, along with the eschatological expectations of the deeply influential Cyprian of Carthage. The final author under consideration, Lactantius, is a valuable witness to new apocalyptic currents within North Africa at the dawn of the Constantinian era.

The Decolonization of North African History

1968 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wansbrough
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
General Problem ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
African History ◽  
North African ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Since independence the countries of North Africa have been occupied almost exclusively with the establishment of a new society. An important part of this activity has been directed towards a solution to the problem of symbols and values: the construction of an image of themselves for their own contemplation and for export to the world outside. One aspect of this general problem of acculturation is concerned with interpretations of history and the evaluation of one's own place in historical evolution. Starting from the premiss that North African history has largely been a monopoly of French scholarship since 1830, contemporary historical writers in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco have found it essential, before entering upon problems of historical interpretation, to rewrite their own history. Discovery of this first requisite has generated a spirit shared by all those writers preoccupied with this problem, however much they might disagree on solutions to it, which is best expressed by the phrase ‘décoloniser l'histoire’. The subject is vast, and I should like here only to indicate several of the problems, with their proposed solutions, so far treated by writers dealing with the history of Algeria.

scholarly journals North Africa in Russian Travelers Perception: Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt in Russian Travelogues

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-513
Author(s):  
Samiha Mulahi
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
North African Countries

The article is devoted to the analysis of Russian travelers ideas about North African countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt) in the period from the end of the XIX century to the beginning of the XX century. The paper considers the perception of this geographical area by Russian travelers in literary travelogues. North Africa in the designated period of time was considered not only as the cradle of ancient and great civilization, but also as a Europeanized, modernized territory of the Arab area. The travelogues analyzed in the article make it possible to distinguish in them two different cultural pictures of the world - North Africa and the picture of the world of Western Europe reflected in it.

North Africa will struggle to rein in wheat imports

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Water Availability ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
The Political ◽  
North African ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Price Differences

Subject Outlook for North African wheat purchases. Significance Algeria has announced plans to reduce its wheat imports this year, which have traditionally been among the highest in the world. However, constraints on water and arable land suggest that filling the gap through increased domestic production will be a formidable challenge. Egypt, meanwhile, is also seeking to control its consumption levels through reforming bread subsidies, while Morocco’s cereals sector remains vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather. Impacts The political imperative of ensuring citizens can rely on supplies of bread, couscous and pasta means funding imports remains a priority. The need to procure huge volumes of wheat exposes countries to risks arising from constraints in water availability and price fluctuations. The importance of wheat procurement has created vested interests, skilled at manipulating price differences to their advantage.

The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Aleister Crowley and the Magical Exploration of Edwardian Subjectivity

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Owen
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
North African ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Aleister Crowley ◽  
Stated Purpose

In late 1909, two Englishmen, scions of the comfortable middle classes, undertook a journey to Algiers. Aleister Crowley, later to be dubbed “the wickedest man in the world,” was in his early thirties; his companion, Victor Neuburg, had only recently graduated from Cambridge. The stated purpose of the trip was pleasure. Crowley, widely traveled and an experienced mountaineer and big-game hunter, loved North Africa and had personal reasons for wanting to be out of England. Neuburg probably had little say in the matter. Junior in years, dreamy and mystical by nature, and in awe of a man whom he both loved and admired, Neuburg was inclined to acquiesce without demur in Crowley's various projects. There was, however, another highly significant factor in Neuburg's quiescence. He was Crowley's chela, a novice initiate of the magical Order of the Silver Star which Crowley had founded two years earlier. As such, Neuburg had taken a vow of obedience to Crowley as his Master and affectionately dubbed “holy guru” and had already learned that in much that related to his life Crowley's word was now law. It was at Crowley's instigation that the two men began to make their way, first by tram and then by foot, into the North African desert to the southwest of Algiers; and it was Crowley's decision to perform there a series of magical ceremonies which prefigured his elaboration of the techniques of sex magic. In this case, the ceremonies combined the performance of advanced ritual magic with homosexual acts.

The Disappearance of Christianity from North Africa in the Wake of the Rise of Islam

1960 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Speel
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Second Century ◽  
North African ◽  
The Third ◽  
Christian Religion

In most areas where Christianity was confronted during the four centuries after the Hegira by Islam the Christian religion suffered setbacks or was eclipsed in some measure, but it did not disappear. In North Africa, however, Christianity was not merely eclipsed, it was supplanted. Tertullian, the “Father of Latin Christianity,” had labored in North Africa during the latter years of the second century and the early years of the third. Victor I (189–99), the first bishop of Rome to write in Latin, and, according to Prof. G. LaPiana the first “Pope,” had been North African in origin.

Nazi Germany and Islam in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-269
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Herf
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Highest Good ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third Reich

In his global bestseller, Inside the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler's former architect and armaments minister, Albert Speer, cited the German dictator's view that if the Arabs had won the Battle of Tours in the eighth century, “the world would be Mohammedan today.” That was the case, he continued, because “theirs was a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and subjugating all nations to their faith. The Germanic people would have become heirs to that religion. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament.” Yet, because of what Hitler called Arabs' “racial inferiority” and inability to handle the harsher climate, “they could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire.” Hitler concluded, “It's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”

Impact of Peace and Economic Freedom on the Prosperity of Middle East and North African Countries

2018 ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Yilmaz Bayar
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
North African Countries

Significant improvements have been experienced in global prosperity in the recent years, but there have been considerable differences at prosperity levels of different regions. Western Europe and North Africa were the most prosperous regions of the world in 2017, while Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa were the least prosperous regions of the world in 2017. However, Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa are also the least peaceful regions of the world. In this regard, this chapter analyzes the effect of peace and economic freedom on prosperity in Middle East and North African countries with panel data analysis. The results of empirical analysis revealed that both peace and economic freedom are significant determinants of prosperity.

Optimum Structure of the Banking Market: How Many Banks Are Necessary for Russia?

2006 ◽  
pp. 75-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Moiseev
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Optimum Structure ◽  
Population Number ◽  
The Third ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Equilibrium Number

The number of classical banks in the world has reduced. In the majority of countries the number of banks does not exceed 200. The uniqueness of the Russian banking sector is that in this respect it takes the third place in the world after the USA and Germany. The paper reviews the conclusions of the economic theory about the optimum structure of the banking market. The empirical analysis shows that the number of banks in a country is influenced by the size of its territory, population number and GDP per capita. Our econometric estimate is that the equilibrium number of banks in Russia should be in a range of 180-220 units.

Overcoming “The Third Way” Concept

2006 ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
L. Evstigneeva ◽  
R. Evstigneev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Research ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
Linear Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Non Linear

“The Third Way” concept is still widespread all over the world. Growing socio-economic uncertainty makes the authors revise the concept. In the course of discussion with other authors they introduce a synergetic vision of the problem. That means in the first place changing a linear approach to the economic research for a non-linear one.

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