scholarly journals Muslim Inventions and The Global Fight Against COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Safiyyah Sabreen Syeed
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medical Response ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Economic Slowdown ◽  
Islamic Golden Age

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc all across the globe, whether it be through the  rising number of cases, deaths, lockdowns, economic slowdown or just the media induced panic. In this sense we are all affected by the 'virus'. As the world grapples with this pandemic, there is a notable resonance with the past, especially between the global defense against the pandemic and the great medical  innovations of the Islamic golden age. During the Islamic scientific revolution, Muslims became pioneers in the field of medical science. Inspired by the Quran and the various Hadith that consider the science of healing a sacred endeavor, Muslims made ground breaking discoveries in different areas of medicine like anatomy, pharmacology, physiology, surgery, epidemiology and so on. These contributions led to the significant growth in the field of medical science and its various branches and went on to influence the modern medical revolution. In the present survey an effort is made to discuss the historical roots of the global medical response and measures made to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and the various significant contributions of Medieval Muslim scientists in this field.

A measure of humanity in internal disturbances and tensions: proposal for a Code of Conduct

1988 ◽  
Vol 28 (262) ◽  
pp. 38-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Peter Gasser
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
The Past ◽  
States Of Emergency ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

From time to time, States are affected by outbreaks of internal violence. Such upheavals are usually referred to as internal disturbances or tensions, disorders, states of emergency, revolutions or insurrections. These expressions all refer to situations that appear contrary to justice, order, stability and internal peace. There have been many examples of the kind in the past, and we know from the media that they continue to occur. Almost every nation in the world has a history marked by periods of insecurity and protest accompanied by outbreaks of violence.

scholarly journals Young People: Between Literature and Advanced Technologies

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Ahmad Idris Asmaradhani
Keyword(s):  
Life Choices ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Human Essence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Ideal

In the eyes of literature, existentialist thinkers focus on the question of concrete human existence and the conditions of this existence rather than hypothesizing a human essence, stressing that the human essence is determined through life choices. The ideal, however, is that humans exist in a state of distance from the world that they nonetheless remain in the midst of. This distance is what enables humans to project meaning into the disinterested world of in-itselfs. This projected meaning remains fragile, constantly facing breakdown for any reason— from a tragedy to a particularly insightful moment. In such a breakdown, humans are put face to face with the naked meaninglessness of the world, and the results can be devastating. It is porposed that literature and the media combined have a powerful impact on those who wish to truly realize and understand their message. By studying, reading, learning, experiencing, and knowing the culture of the present and those cultures of the past then one can understand the ideas of life and how the two work together to help us better understand each other and ourselves. In what ways our present culture, our technological advances, and the media shape who we are as individuals is not a simple question. The answer seems to elusively hide in a world filled with cultural complexities. But, it is no secret to find that literature is a source of power. It does influence, guide, and shape the human become as they continue their journey through life. Hence, since human are never without the influence of literature, they will always have factors working to modify the human being. However, it is their choice as to how they internalize what they are exposed to, and in turn, it is up to them to determine the individual that ultimately prevails.

Ends of French

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasser Elhariry
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
French Society ◽  
Progressive Decline ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Cultures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Charlie Hebdo

Pacifist Invasions begins with a short preface that engages the polemics surrounding Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel on Islam and France, Soumission (2015), which hit bookstands nationwide across France on the same day as the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. Ever since his first novels, Houellebecq has been lyrically singing the progressive decline and suicide of French society and Western civilization. With Soumission, he—and not the attackers—kills them off altogether. This recent episode in literature exposes the difficulty of coping with the afterlives of literatures and languages after colonialism: tellingly, what remains entirely absent from the media circus around Houellebecq in the on-going aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack is how France, for the past fifty years, has continued to lurk in the shadows of the postcolony. Pacifist Invasions takes as its beginning and its end the metaphorical conceit of Houellebecq’s ‘end of French,’ particularly through its textual and poetic manifestations in Francophone literary cultures that are in dialogue with the world of Arabic letters, to argue that French is undergoing a necrophilological colonization by Arabic literature and Islamic scripture under the pens of the five writers studied in Pacifist Invasions.

scholarly journals Discours du président : Splendeurs et misères de Clio

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Pierre Savard
Keyword(s):  
Soap Operas ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Strong Force ◽  
The Past ◽  
Canadian Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Department Of National Defence ◽  
Parks Canada ◽  
Sixtieth Anniversary

Abstract Clio in Canada today has notable strengths and weaknesses. Historiography itself has been greatly enriched as younger historians using better methods have opened up many new frontiers in labour, urban, Northern, and women's history, among others. As well, historians have had an important part in the flowering in many disciplines over the past decade of ethnic, regional, and Canadian studies-all leading to a fuller understanding of our heritage and nation. The last twenty years have seen a great expansion, too, in the numbers of historians, not only in the colleges and universities, but also among archivists (normally first trained in history) and government researchers (especially at the Department of National Defence and Parks Canada). As it approaches its sixtieth anniversary with well over two thousand members, the Canadian Historical Association itself is very healthy, a leader among learned societies in Canada and a strong force uniting far-flung historians through its annual meeting, its publications, and its defence of historians' interests, as in our recent representations in Ottawa regarding Bill C-43. But all is not well among Clio's Canadian disciples. Historians of countries other than Canada and especially francophone Quebeckers are still very much underrepresented in the CHA, despite laudable attempts to make the association more appealing to them. Our profession is more deeply threatened by attempts by the media through television soap operas and historical novels to equate history with a romantic popularization of the past, at the possible expense of reflective contemplation based on careful research and analysis. And if nineteenth-century historians too often came to history after a full career in public life, which led to obvious biases in their writings, do we now not risk the opposite extreme? Too many historians today are cold analysts removed from the world on isolated campuses, writing only for each other in specialized journals quite divorced from contemporary society. The natural critical capacity of historians — their training to take no evidence or information at face value — is too often lost in the affairs of the world. Despite our differences of temperament, ideology, subject fields, ages, and languages, we as historians in Canada are united in the belief that the past has more to teach us than the present. The lessons so gleaned we must make a source of wisdom for our contemporaries.

From Tent Meetings and Store-front Healing Rooms to Walmarts and the Internet: Healing Spaces in the United States, the Americas, and the World, 1906–2006

2006 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candy Gunther Brown
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The World

The centennial of the Azusa Street revivals of 1906 provides us with convenient poles for charting shifts in the landscape of Christian spiritual healing practices during the past century. Alongside unprecedented achievements in medical science, nearly 80 percent of Americans report believing that God supernaturally heals people in answer to prayer. Individuals who need healing, even after trying the best medical cures, readily transgress ecclesiastical, physical, and social boundaries in their quest for health and wholeness. The promise of a tangible experience of divine power, moreover, presents an attractive alternative to seekers disillusioned with what they perceive as the callous materialism of medical science and the religious legalism of traditional Christian churches. This essay calls for new narratives of sacred space that map the ways that pentecostal and charismatic healing practices have proliferated, diversified, and sacralized a growing number and variety of physical, social, and linguistic spaces in the past hundred years. At the turn of the twentieth century, modernist epistemological assumptions that privileged reason over experience encouraged fine intellectual distinctions between the sacred and the secular. In esteeming bodily experience as more trustworthy than disembodied doctrine and in resisting linguistic binaries as culturally constructed, postmodern epistemologies have multiplied the number and range of places available to be endowed with sacred meanings. I argue that boundaries between the sacred and the secular are dissolving at the same time that new boundaries are being established, privileging particular places and defining a new relationship among the United States, the Americas, and the world.

Mimitabu at Atalante, Gothenburg

Tempo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (281) ◽  
pp. 91-92
Author(s):  
Magnus Haglund
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
Romantic Aesthetics

Why Swedish contemporary music over the past few decades has been such a provincial affair is a mystery. Most of the pieces receiving critical attention from the media are using neo-Romantic aesthetics – bombastic orchestral sounds more connected to the world of Richard Strauss than Helmut Lachenmann. Hearing this type of music, often characterised by its excesses of art nouveau ornamentations, one may wonder what century one is living in. Where is the contemporary world?

scholarly journals We Need New Cancer Biomarkers

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Cristiano Luigi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Resources ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Virus Species ◽  
The Past ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Multiple Variants ◽  
Do So

Since the end of 2019, the global health emergency related to the spread of Sars-Cov-2 has attracted the interest of researchers, clinicians, pharmaceutical companies, and the media from all over the world. To date, interest has not diminished due to the spread of multiple variants, typical of RNA viruses. Probably this virus will accompany us from now on and it will not be possible to eradicate it as it was done in the past with smallpox and as we have not been able to do so far with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). We will have to live with it as it already happens with many other virus species widely spread around the world. Without diminishing the importance of this highly current issue, it must be said that it has distracted not a few economic resources, human resources, time, and energy in the search and early diagnosis of other diseases, much more insidious and lethal as they are chronic-degenerative especially cancer. As is well-known, cancer is a complex, insidious, multifactorial, chronic-degenerative disease and today some cancers, such as lung cancer, are still among the top ten causes of death: in sixth place in the global ranking and at third place in Europe.....

Art Deco News

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurora Wallace
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Art Deco ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Form ◽  
Corporate Architecture

This chapter investigates the turn toward modernism embodied by the bold Art Deco structure erected by the Daily News in 1930, a new form to house the new form of the tabloid. As New York grew to be the largest city in the world in 1925, the emergence of tabloids and radio changed the media landscape once again. Taking their cues from the enhanced corporate image that the Singer, Woolworth, and Chrysler Buildings had brought to their companies, newspapers advertised with yet taller corporate architecture. The buildings looked not to the past but toward the future, as was befitting a new cosmopolitanism. These forward-looking designs branded the media according to the emerging principles of public relations, iconography, and advertising.

scholarly journals Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017): Beyond the dingy ditch

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 250-252
Author(s):  
Chioma Opara
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Buchi Emecheta ◽  
The Past ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

The media have in the past weeks been awash with the sudden demise of a great female writer, activist and publisher—Buchi Emecheta—on 25 January 2017 in London. Nigerians and, indeed, scholars all over the world have not yet recovered from their shock at the loss of two Nigerian literary giants, Elechi Amadi and Isidore Okpewho, only recently in 2016. And now another fatal blow has been dealt on the literary sphere at the dawn of a brand new year. It may be necessary to note that Buchi Emecheta passed on the heels of Isidore Okpewho’s death (an interval of just four months). Both were, incidentally, from Delta State. In fact, the three deceased writers—Amadi, Okpewho and Emecheta came originally from the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

scholarly journals POSTMODERN VISION OF THE WORLD IN MODERN LITERATURE

Keruen ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S.V. Ananyeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Temporal Relationships ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
The Media ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
And Gender

The leading trends in the world literary process are summarized in the article based on the analysis of modern Kazakh, Belarusian and Finnish literature, which are characterized by new approaches to the interpretation of reality, reflecting the postmodern world view. Prose writers and poets build complex spatio-temporal relationships in literary texts, when pictures of the past replace the present, complementing and concretizing what has already happened. The transformation of the structure of the work of art, the chain of incredible coincidences and repetitions, the lyrical-autobiographical nature of the narrative, the metaphorical style, mythological imagery make it possible to fancifully interweave pictures of reality and fiction. The authors continue the experiment with the language and text, graphic design in different fonts, the inclusion of SMS messages, visuals, editing and clip series of images. A characteristic feature of the works is autobiography. The theme of family, childhood and gender policy is becoming a leading topic in modern Finnish and Belarusian literature. The literary text comes closer to the media text. Belarusian, Kazakh and Finnish literature are active participants in the world literary process. A postmodern vision of the world opens up new possibilities for creating characters of heroes and entering into dialogue thanks to new literary translations.

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