scholarly journals Speculative vertices, Ogun mythopoesis, and (the) fourth/further stage(s)

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chike Okoye
Keyword(s):  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Fourth Stage ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Practical Model

Wole Soyinka’s seminal essay, “The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy” which appears as appendix in his collection of critical essays, Myth, Literature and the African World (1976), has been read and critiqued as an important work of myth, mythopoesis, tragedy and the Yoruba pantheon. To date, no meta-critical study has yet treated the essay as essentially speculative fiction, or as an invented model or construct for variegated possible future applications, or even as an authentic African futuristic artistic invention. This is important in present times as a resurgence of earlier genres and trends populate the literary world, thereby raising the need for underpinnings, connections, projections, and conflations such as this article presents. With the application of archetypal author-, text-, and context-oriented theoretical modes alongside historicity, this essay navigates and re-interrogates “The Fourth Stage” and its numerous critiques in the contexts of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, finding it a practical model for African futuristic mytho-cultural and literary productions. I also through this essay expose the multiple areas of possible applications of such inventiveness in the reappraisal and re-interrogation of the problematics and maladies of the postcolony.

scholarly journals Indonesian Traditional Ulama Notions Against Wahhabism: A Study of Abi al-Faḍal al-Senoriy’s Thought

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 365
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asif
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
Intense Debate ◽  
Muslim Scholars

<p>Studies of the early 19th century on the classical literatures of traditional Indonesian Muslim scholars in response to Wahhabi developments have forgotten the important work of <em>Kawākib al-Lammā‘ah</em> written by Abi al-Faḍal al-Senoriy. This book emerged in the midst of a situation of massive expansion of Wahhabi teachings and of intense debate among modernist and traditional Muslim groups in Indonesia. This book also represents Nahdlatul Ulama’s response towards Wahhabi teachings because the 23rd Nahdlatul Ulama Conference in Solo in 1964 was recommended to be a referred book in pesantrens and other educational institutions of the Nahdlatul Ulama. Through descriptive-qualitative analysis, this article examines the thought of Abi al-Faḍal al-Senoriy in the particular book. This article finds that Abi al-Faḍal has carried out a critical study on Wahhabi teachings, which according to him opposes Sunni teachings for the Wahhabi teachings contradict some important foundation in the <em>Ahl al-Sunnah</em> Islamic tradition in terms of theology, fiqh, and Sufism.</p>

scholarly journals An Introduction to the Theory of Generation in Poetry A Critical Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 220 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Ghassan Ismail AAbdulkhaliq
Keyword(s):  
Critical Study ◽  
Practical Model

This study is an empirical criticism aimed to test the objectivity of the generation’s theory in literature at large and in poetry in specific. The researcher used (Ajras) poetic group as a practical model through which he attempted to highlight the rationale behind their appearance. In addition, the researcher investigated the communal aesthetic and ideological concepts that the members share and those which are held by each member individually

Systems of Oppression in Geriatric Clinical Service Delivery

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Diane L. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Clinical Service ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Medical Institutions

Purpose The purpose of this article was to extend the concepts of systems of oppression in higher education to the clinical setting where communication and swallowing services are delivered to geriatric persons, and to begin a conversation as to how clinicians can disrupt oppression in their workplace. Conclusions As clinical service providers to geriatric persons, it is imperative to understand systems of oppression to affect meaningful change. As trained speech-language pathologists and audiologists, we hold power and privilege in the medical institutions in which we work and are therefore obligated to do the hard work. Suggestions offered in this article are only the start of this important work.

An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hartwell Horne ◽  
Samuel Davidson ◽  
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
Keyword(s):  
Critical Study

A Critical Study on Dworkin’s Luck Egalitarianism

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-173
Author(s):  
Joo-Hyun KIM ◽  
Hyeon-cheol Kim 
Keyword(s):  
Critical Study ◽  
Luck Egalitarianism

The European Charter of Local Self-Government

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Himsworth
Keyword(s):  
Critical Study ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
Additional Protocol ◽  
Domestic Courts ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional Authorities

The first critical study of the 1985 international treaty that guarantees the status of local self-government (local autonomy). Chris Himsworth analyses the text of the 1985 European Charter of Local Self-Government and its Additional Protocol; traces the Charter’s historical emergence; and explains how it has been applied and interpreted, especially in a process of monitoring/treaty enforcement by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities but also in domestic courts, throughout Europe. Locating the Charter’s own history within the broader recent history of the Council of Europe and the European Union, the book closes with an assessment of the Charter’s future prospects.

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