scholarly journals Sufi Symbols In Poems Of Ibn ᶜArabi And Hamzah Fansuri

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Mazlina Parman ◽  
Nurazmallail Marni
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Malay Archipelago ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Different Cultures

As a way of communication, poetry is used by the Sufis to portray their knowledge and experiences in searching for God. However, the use of words in describing immaterial experiences spurs misconceptions among readers. Nevertheless, signs such as symbols are still being used in Sufi’s poetry. It plays a key role in expressing mystical thoughts, myriad of emotions, and even uplifting our mundane spirits.  This article explores the meaning of symbols in Ibn ᶜArabi’s and Hamzah Fansuri’s poems. Both were known as prominent and controversially Sufi’s figures in two different regions, the Arab World and the Malay Archipelago. In studying it, a semiotic approach is used whilst a comparative approach is carried out to differentiate the existence of influence between the two figures as the latter is influenced theologically with the first. The finding shows that there is a likeness in the use of symbols and meaning connotations brought about by Ibn ᶜArabi and Hamzah Fansuri which proves the existence of influence between them, but variations are exhibited in the designation of the symbols which adhering to the different milieu, culture, and geographical places. Therefore, this study significantly indicating the authentication of Sufi poets in using symbols that portray the nation's culture and background. It also emphasizes the importance of interconnection between different cultures of Islam.

scholarly journals Corporate Governance Practices in Higher Education Institutions: The UK vs Bahrain

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Marwan M. Abdeldayem ◽  
Saeed H. Aldulaimi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Education Governance ◽  
Academic Management ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Governance In Higher Education ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Higher Education Organizations ◽  
Different Cultures

This research aims to investigate the application of leadership and governance in higher education organizations in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the UK. The study also intends to gather evidences on the practices of academic management in different cultures. The methods of the study relies on reading lists of governance standards from several advanced educational institutions and uses a “comparative methodology” based on the data from the Kingdom of Bahrain and The UK. This research reviews the various models of “the higher education governance” and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each model. The study employs the three principles of UNDP (Transparency, Participation and Accountability) to assess application of leadership and governance in higher education institutions.The findings of this study reveal that Arab universities need to perceive the significance of clarifying the reason for governance. The examination likewise distinguishes the significance of relating their job and commitment to the procedure of change to the learning based economy and world informatics. Also, it features the need of broadening the cooperation of stakeholders in the key basic leadership.The importance of this study lies in examining whether the governance standards are associated with practical application in universities. Also it examines whether there is an influence of the culture and social aspects on the application and understanding of these standards. The significance of receiving administration measures in the Arab world lies in its possibility to change the HE organizations’ practices, and increment their ability for greatness and aggressiveness. Thus, ensures the autonomy of advanced education alongside its quality and viability particularly with respect to their yield and status locally and internationally. 

Honour between Different Cultures and Legal Systems: Social Status, Reputation, Struggles for Recognition

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-425
Author(s):  
Christian Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Different Cultures

This article pursues a comparative approach to honour, a choice determined not only by the fact that anthropology, with regard to other disciplines, has striven to build its specificity on comparative analysis ever since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. A further reason is to steer clear of methodological nationalism,1 i.e. to sidestep forms of Orientalism.2 The point, therefore, is to avoid the pitfall by which issues of honour and its more violent forms, such as honour killings or blood feuds, are downscaled to a ‘Turkish’ or ‘Albanian problem’ or to a phenomenon specific solely to Middle Eastern societies.

Effect of National Culture on Development of International Business in the Sultanate of Oman

2016 ◽  
pp. 397-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
International Business ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Different Levels

Today, no business can be local or national due to the effects of globalization. The world of business has become international. However, extant business literature ignores links between national culture and technology development and international business, although in reality all three are interdependent or least they are characterized by a cyclical co-dependence and co-influence. In the modern world, superior technologies enhance economic development, and technology transfer allows many emerging markets to grow significantly as seen in Asia or the Persian Gulf. Simultaneously, different cultures exhibit different levels of technological development in the Arab world commonly referred to as the Gulf. Among the Gulf, the Sultanate of Oman occupies a prime position in terms of the economic, social, and developmental strides made in the last three decades. How the Sultanate's national culture has played a significant role for development of international business is the core of this chapter.

scholarly journals Homosexuality Between Religious prohibition and Legal approval (comparative study)

2020 ◽  
pp. 530-559
Author(s):  
ملاك عبد اللطيف التميمي ◽  
سارة صباح الهنداوي ◽  
حنين محمد جواد
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Media System ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Media ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

The topic of homosexuality in addition to being one of the topics in which research studies are rare is one of the sensitive and recent important topics that must be alerted to its spread due to its seriousness that beats our standards today in our Arab world after entering technology in its broadest doors with weak media dominance over the media system and technological means of communication in addition to Sagging infrastructures concerned with educating the individual, especially the young man, and his insight into the importance of the teachings of his religion. Specialized statistics diagnosed the spread of this phenomenon in the Arab world, And their defiance of laws and laws that prohibit and criminalize this act, with the emergence of legal legislation in foreign countries that allow gay marriage and lift penalties for them and see these practices as legitimate exercise of freedom because the reasons for the deviation of their tendencies are biological, as they say, and therefore we will discuss this phenomenon through its concept by definition Historical basis, We will also discuss forensic criminalization by stating the religiously forbidden religious refusal of these relations, comparing this position with some legislation attempting to include it within the accepted legislative system, while we find other legislation that has not known the phenomenon nor criminalized by Iraqi punitive legislation, as we have tried to find this phenomenon an appropriate legal adaptation but we have not succeeded in Finding an adequate legal basis for this crime, so it would have been better if such texts were legislated, by adopting the comparative approach in the study.

A Dreamed Form of Being

2019 ◽  
Vol 2018 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-219
Author(s):  
Li Shuangzhi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Life World ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Rhetorical Function ◽  
Dream Narratives ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Different Cultures

AbstractThis paper attempts to develop a comparative approach to the dream narratives of the Daoist philosopher Zhuang Zhou and the Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The analogous rhetorical function of the dream in their texts links the two authors from different cultures and traditions. As will be argued, in using dreams to stress a challenging and even deconstructive view of the so-called reality, both Zhuang and Hofmannsthal articulate their skepticism against substantial notions of human subjectivity and offer an imaginary life-world which aims to remind us of the contingency of our being-forms. In so doing, they also shape an aesthetic way to keep oneself open to the perception and experience of the unbiased Dao or Being. Thus, their poetic texts can be read in the context of rethinking the boundary between our life and world.

scholarly journals AL-MUSYKILÂT AL-TSAQÂFIYAH ALLATÎ TUJÂBAHU MUTA’ALLIMI AL-LUGHAH AL-‘ARABIYAH BI WASHFIHÂ LUGHAH TSÂNIYAH FÎ BILÂD AL-MALÂYÛ

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Adil Elshiekh Abdalla
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Malay Archipelago ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
Different Cultures

The Arabic language that Malay learns as a second language belongs to a language group other than that of the Malay language, which is the mother tongue of the Arabic language learners in the Malay archipelago. It is well known that the Linguistic Library was filled with many studies comparing the two languages at the linguistic level, and no study compares them to the cultural level. Therefore, this pioneering study was concerned with a comparison between the two cultural languages. The study adopted a descriptive analytical approach; comparing the Malay and Arabic cultures and describing the differences between them in this field. The method of interviewing Malay students who represented the archipelago region and Arab Arabic teachers was also used to identify the most important problems arising from the different cultures that confront the two parties in Arabic teaching. The findings show that the Malay culture was greatly influenced by the Arab-Islamic culture. But there are differences between cultural manifestation in Arabic and Malay languages that, in turn, give some problems in Arabic teaching and learning in the Malay Archipelago.

Effect of National Culture on Development of International Business in the Sultanate of Oman

2015 ◽  
pp. 268-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
International Business ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Different Levels

Today, no business can be local or national due to the effects of globalization. The world of business has become international. However, extant business literature ignores links between national culture and technology development and international business, although in reality all three are interdependent or least they are characterized by a cyclical co-dependence and co-influence. In the modern world, superior technologies enhance economic development, and technology transfer allows many emerging markets to grow significantly as seen in Asia or the Persian Gulf. Simultaneously, different cultures exhibit different levels of technological development in the Arab world commonly referred to as the Gulf. Among the Gulf, the Sultanate of Oman occupies a prime position in terms of the economic, social, and developmental strides made in the last three decades. How the Sultanate's national culture has played a significant role for development of international business is the core of this chapter.

Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahia Abdel Nasser
Keyword(s):  
Public Involvement ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Assia Djebar ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Literary Autobiography ◽  
Past Half

In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Taha Hussein, Sonallah Ibrahim, Assia Djebar, Latifa al-Zayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Edward Said, Haifa Zangana, and Radwa Ashour, this book reads a range of autobiographical forms, sources, and affinities with other literatures. Taking a comparative approach, the book shows the local sources of contemporary Arab autobiography, adaptations of a global genre, and cultural exchange. It also examines different aspects of the contemporary autobiography as it has evolved in the Arab world during the past half-century, focusing on the particularity of the genre written in different languages but pertaining to one overarching Arab culture. Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, it examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.

scholarly journals Naguib Mahfouz and Bajin trilogy comparative study

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-148
Author(s):  
عماد الدين بن محمد
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Naguib Mahfouz

This research includes a descriptive and analytical study of the intellectual and artistic contents in Naguib Mahfouz and Bajin trilogy, and aims to clarify the relationship between the novel of Egypt and China, and the art of the novel between the literature in their trilogy on culture, civilization, tradition, customs, etc. The study aimed to focus on bringing the two different cultures around description to embody the value of literature and the importance of the novel. The research problem is focused on knowledge of the novel and its position in the contemporary era and description at Naguib Mahfouz and Bajin in their trilogy and issues that reflect each of them and emerge in describing the traditional family life in their trilogy with similarities and differences between them in the description under the two different environments about culture, traditions, customs and family life. The researcher has followed the descriptive and comparative approach between the Naguib Mahfouz Bagin trilogy, and this research in the field of literature contributes to knowing the similarity points and the difference in their tripartite. The age through their narration. Where it depicted a reflection of the reality of living in Egypt and China in that era, as the novels revealed the creativity of the writers in terms of accuracy of photography dealing with important topics in society and expressing aspirations and hopes among the novelists. The researcher recommends science students to pay attention to studying what Commented customs and traditions shared between the Arabs and China from various aspects of scientific institutions .oausi researcher developed a series of scientific studies that mention or different relationships of Like between the Arabs and China in various fields.

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