Twelver Shīʿī Exegesis

2020 ◽  
pp. 705-720
Author(s):  
Sajjad Rizvi
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
Oral Teaching ◽  
Normative Perspective

In this chapter normative approaches to exegesis from a Twelver Shīʿī perspective are combined with a diachronic historical approach. From the normative perspective, the function of exegesis is to reveal the walāya of the imams and the close complementarity of the Qur’an and the imam is the central concern for the exegete. That process begins with the classical tradition in which the Qur’an is glossed on the basis of the sayings of the imams alone, both through explicit citation and through claims articulated that draw on oral teaching. From a diachronic perspective, one finds that the development of exegesis in the Twelver Shīʿī context follows the wider scholarly engagement in different milieux over roughly three or four stages of development. Hence one finds comprehensive exegeses that examine all aspects of understanding from the language to the law, others that focus on philosophy and theology, and others still that engage in mystical speculation. The traditions of exegesis remain very much alive and flourishing in the present in manners of social engagement as well as a shift towards a more thematic approach to making sense of the Qurʾan in the contemporary world from a Shīʿī perspective.

scholarly journals مواقع خدمة السنة النبوية على شبكة الإنترنيت نشأتها وتطورها

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Ismail
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
High Concern ◽  
Very High

Throughout the centuries, Muslims have shown a very high concern on preserving the Prophetic traditions and spreading its teachings and thoughts. In doing so, they have taken all possible means available to them. In this contemporary world, the spread of knowledge is made more accessible through the internet which, since its invention, has become a powerful tool to disseminate knowledge. This study discusses the roles of the internet and its importance towards the dissemination of Prophetic traditions through the emergence of specialized websites on the matter. It also describes the stages of development and some of the best available examples of these websites that focus on the Prophetic traditions and its studies.  

scholarly journals The Qur'an and Inter-Religious Relation Models in Contemporary World

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
Kurdi Fadal
Keyword(s):  
Religious Communities ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Period Model ◽  
Research Show

This article examines interreligious relations during the Qur’anic revelation and its contextualization in the contemporary world. This library research, focusing on ‘Ali Jum’ah’s thought, utilizes a qualitative with a historical approach. The results of this research show that the Qur'an was revealed in four models of Muslim and non-Muslim relations: the Meccan period model; the Habasyah phase, the first migration of some Muslims and as a minority under non-Muslims authority; and two Medina periods (the Early and the Latter) when Muslims become a majority who lived together peacefully with other religious communities under Muslim authority. Ali Jum'ah uses nasā’ as a theory to contextualize the four models of interfaith relations. According to him, each of these models can be applied and developed in contemporary Muslims, especially in the Indonesian context, based on the principles of the Qur'an.

Adam Smith and the Contemporary World

2011 ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
A. Sen
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Moral Sentiments ◽  
250Th Anniversary ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Ethical Evaluation ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Just Society

In this paper that is a transcript of a lecture held to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" the author who is a Nobel Prize winner in economics reflects on the relevance of this classic. He shows that Smith proposed a historical approach to institutional transformations as opposed to the authors who tried to advance a system of ideal institutions. The importance of Smith's views on impartiality in ethical evaluation of social conditions and in building a just society is also emphasized.

Authoritarianism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Frantz
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Concise Overview

Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War’s end, all signs indicate that we are currently seeing a resurgence of authoritarianism. Around forty percent of the world’s people live under some form of authoritarian rule, and authoritarian regimes govern about a third of the world’s countries. In Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG, Erica Frantz guides us through today’s authoritarian wave, explaining how it came to be and what its features are. She also looks at authoritarians themselves, focusing in particular on the techniques they use to take power, the strategies they use to survive, and how they fall. As she demonstrates, understanding how politics works in authoritarian regimes and recognizing the factors that either give rise to them or trigger their downfall, remains as important as ever. This book paves the ways for such an understanding. Authoritarianism is a clear and concise overview that provides readers with a context for making sense of one of the most important-and most worrying-developments in contemporary world politics.

scholarly journals LEGAL RECONSTRUCTION OF IMPLEMENTATION LEGALLY BINDING VERDICT IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Sri Gilang Muhammad Sultan Rahma Putra
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
Normative Perspective

The existence of industrial relations courts until now still can not provide adequate legal protection to justice seekers. This article begins with the existing legal problems in the form of not implemented legally binding of industrial relations court verdicts. The unapplied verdicts have resulted in the exclusion of the rights of justice seekers. This paper identifies the problem related to normative perspective and provide solutions through legal reconstruction from the normative view. Then, the problems are examined using normative legal research methods based on statute approach and historical approach as well as case approach. By examining several research results it is known that the legal vacuum which regulates sanctions against those who do not intend to enforce industrial relations court rulings that have legal force still need to be addressed immediately to guarantee the rights of the seekers of justice in the industrial relations court. This paper recommends to establish a Supreme Court Regulation on the implementation of institutional force on industrial relations disputes cases and the need for amendment of Law Number 2 Year 2004 on Industrial Relations Dispute Settlement.

scholarly journals Imagination and Creativity: Cultural–Historical Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.G. Kravtsov ◽  
E.E. Kravtsova
Keyword(s):  
Present Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
External Reality ◽  
Experimental Proof ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Inner Work ◽  
External Objects ◽  
The One

Consideration of the concept of imagination in the context of cultural-historical psychology led to the conclusion that there are two differently directed processes. One process involves making sense of things in the outside world and the present situation, that is, it means understanding and rethinking external objects and situations. Another process involves the construction of a new image that allows you to see and understand the surrounding reality in a new way. This allows the authors to say that, on the one hand, imagination is aimed at acting with external reality, and, on the other hand, the inner work of creating a new subject of imagination. Based on the analysis of empirical materials studying the development of imagination and creativity, the authors obtained experimental proof of the idea of L.S. Vygotsky that images of imagination are realized in creativity and come to the conclusion about the possibility of purposeful development of creativity in ontogenesis. Authors connect the purposeful development of creativity with theatrical pedagogy, in which training and education are realized with the help of theatrical methods. Theatrical methods, according to the authors, are methods by which you can set an imaginary situation and, at the same time, these are methods that allow the viewer to be included in theatrical action.

Meaning and Autonomy

2020 ◽  
pp. 761-783
Author(s):  
Max Paddison
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Western Art ◽  
The Third ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Critical Hermeneutic ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach

This chapter examines the problem of meaning in Western art music, its entwinement with the idea of “autonomy,” and the confusions surrounding the concept of meaning itself. The argument is in three parts. The first takes a philosophical-historical approach to the relation between autonomy and the problem of musical meaning, considering Kant’s reservations regarding instrumental music’s non-conceptuality. The second analyses the concept of musical meaning in the context of the philosophy of language and argues for the priority of meaning as “sense” over meaning as “reference” in the understanding of autonomous music as a mediated “complex of meaning.” The third takes a critical hermeneutic approach to the problem of interpretation in view of each work’s idiosyncratic rationality, its temporality, and its non-conceptuality. In conclusion it argues that hermeneutic interpretation also requires engaged “mimetic understanding” in the process of making sense of the ambiguity and polyvalence of the autonomous musical work.

State Crises and Nationalities Conflict in Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUMANTRA BOSE
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dynamic View

State disintegration and nationalities conflict has emerged as perhaps the central concern of intellectuals and policymakers throughout the contemporary world. This article undertakes, within a theoretical and conceptual framework, a comparative analysis of the causation of state crises and nationalities conflict in two particularly stark, but apparently disparate, cases: Sri Lanka and the former Yugoslavia. The author emphatically denies that the eruption of protracted civil war in these countries is due to preexisting ethnic animosities between peoples. Instead, he takes a dynamic view of the concept of the nation and explains the formation (and transformation) of nationalist constituencies and sentiments in Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia in terms of a process of dialectical interaction between the modern state and diverse civil societies. The state crises in Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia, he argues, can be best understood through a critical focus on how centralist, unitarist strategic elites at the helm of state apparatuses in these countries have, over the past several decades, engendered growing political opposition.

A blending of Buddhism, social engagement, and alternative agriculture from Thailand: the Maap Euang Meditation Center for Sufficiency Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitri Schertenleib
Keyword(s):  
Social Engagement ◽  
Alternative Agriculture ◽  
Theravada Buddhism ◽  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Engaged Buddhism ◽  
Canonical Texts ◽  
The Way

Abstract Today, across all the places where the various Buddhist schools have established themselves, there is a broad phenomenon with heterogeneous characteristics and manifestations called engaged Buddhism or socially engaged Buddhism. What unites the advocates of this movement is the way the Buddhist notion of dukkha (i.e., ‘suffering’) is interpreted to include the economic, political, social, and even ecological dimensions of suffering in the contemporary world. Engaged Buddhists have reformulated the normative teachings of dukkha to make them relevant to current issues. In this paper, I present an example of ecologically and socially engaged Theravāda Buddhism of the Maap Euang Meditation Center for Sufficiency Economy, in Thailand near Bangkok. Members of this community have developed a form of engaged Buddhism that treats ideas of “sufficiency” economy and peasant agroecology. To understand this movement, I will argue that the discipline of Buddhist Studies needs to combine the study of ancient canonical texts with the study of their contemporary interpretations.

How does education function?

2020 ◽  
pp. 147490412094897
Author(s):  
Raf Vanderstraeten
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
World Society ◽  
Function System ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Contemporary World

Niklas Luhmann speaks of the function of education in relation to modern society. Only within modern society, he argues, is it possible to speak of the differentiation of a specific function system of education. It is, more particularly, the differentiation of other function systems that leads to the question about the function of education. I look closely at Luhmann’s analyses of the function of education and make a plea for a socio-historical approach, which looks at the ways in which education “functions” within society. Depending on the situation, beliefs in the functionality of education have given form to specific characteristics of the contemporary world society.

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