scholarly journals Technical Analyses of Necib El-Kilani’s Novel “Ramadan Habîbî”

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-418
Author(s):  
Abdurrahman İslamoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Yom Kippur War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Problems ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Islamic Society

Najib el-Kîlânî, who lived in Egypt from 1931 to 1995, is one of the important figures in Islamic literature. He dabbled in literature when he was young and wrote about a hundred works. The period he lived and the countries he visited gave him the opportunity to get to know the problems faced by the Islamic society. The author depicted these problems that he witnessed in his works. Najib el-Kîlânî, who focuses on the social, political, economic and religious problems of the Muslim community in his literary works, deals with 1973 Egypt-Israel war in his novel “Ramazan Habîbî” that is the focal point of our research. The novel is about the expansionist policy of the Jews, the unjust oppression they faced and the struggle of the Egyptian people against America's hypocrisy. In the novel, the struggle of the Egyptian people against Israel for the liberation of the Sinai Desert and the Suez Canal, the occupied lands, is told. It is about the war between the Arabs and Israel in 1973, known as the Ramazan War (Yom Kippur War). It relates the overnight seizure of the “Bar-Lev Line”, which Israel says is impassable. In this study, Najib el-Kîlânî’s novel “Ramazan Habîbî” will be examined technically and thematically within the framework of issues such as the cultural corruption experienced by the Arab society, their approach to Zionism and the problem of the sense of belonging for their homeland.

Toward a Theory of State Intervention

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-205
Author(s):  
Ira J. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

State intervention into the ownership, financing, and regulation of various industries and sectors of the capitalist economy is a phenomenon as old as capitalism itself. In the last 15 years this topic has become a focal point of vigorous interest among social scientists. Given the manifest problems to be found within current political-economic relationships, it is not surprising that a great deal of this attention has been focused on the contemporary scene. Nevertheless, a small number of works have undertaken the explanation of the historical development of state intervention. Unfortunately, the historian in search of explanatory guidance is confronted here with a series of less than comprehensive analyses which move at descriptive and explanatory cross-purposes. The first tasks of the social scientist or historian who wishes to address the development of state intervention therefore must be to classify and clarify the accounts which have been proposed.

scholarly journals Nationalism and Maulid Tradition: Internalizing Nationalism Values to Madurese Muslim Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-43
Author(s):  
Siswanto Siswanto
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Helping Others

The diversity of cultures, races, ethnic groups, and religions has great potential to cause conflict. This condition indicates that the nationalism values of in the community decreased. This research examines the internalization of nationalism values through the maulid tradition for jamaah Majlis Maulid wa al-Ta’lim Riyadlul Jannah Madura. By using a qualitative approach with a phenomenological type, this study found that nationalism has an important meaning for the jamaah in building a peaceful life, strengthening brotherhood among the community and maintaining the integrity of NKRI. Internalization of the value of nationalism in the maulid tradition is done by reading the shalawat simth aldurar and chanting nasyid contained these values. The spirit of nationalism is seen in maintaining akhlak in following the shalawat readings, mutual respect, and a sense of belonging to the majlis and the caring attitude of the jamaah in helping others in the social activities

scholarly journals Cultural Spectrum in Arvind Adiga’s Selection Days

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Ankur Yadav
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
Individual Entity ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Class Construction

Cultural Studies have played a pivotal role in understanding and evaluating the power dynamics of the social, political, economic and ethical world order by empirically engaging and focusing on the present-day culture, tracing its historical roots and explicating its attributes with reference to a particular literary text and its reception in a society. Arvind Adiga, the Man-Booker Prize winning Indo-Australian author, in Selection Day, has adroitly detailed how cricket as an individual entity impacts the cultural phenomena of a society by confronting its inherent myriad issues. The narrative delves deep into the lives of two siblings – Radha and Manju, witnesses the dramatic turnaround of events and tries to capture the themes of unfulfilled desires and preordained destinies. The novel also explores how the sport holds different meanings and significance for different characters, each of whom view the game in the light of their own ideology. The author foresees and sensitizes the theme of homosexuality, which is still a taboo and been unheard of, within the sports fraternity. Adiga’s critique of the parental felony, embodied in Mohan Kumar, and its repercussions is the most compelling theme at the heart of this work of fiction. Selection Day powerfully binds together the societal phenomena of class construction, unquenchable thirst for money, sexual orientations and ideologies with a single thread and studies how culture, in itself, is an ever-evolving phenomenon.

In Praise of the Word of God: Reflections of Early Religious and Social Concerns in the Fadā'il al-Qur'ān Genre

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48
Author(s):  
Asma Afsaruddin
Keyword(s):  
Word Of God ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
The One ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Islamic Society

Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān is the usual title given to chapters in various ḥadīth compilations or to individual works that deal with the ‘excellences’ or ‘merits’ of the Qur'an. The faḍā'il al-Qur'ān traditions found in common in the standard and non-standard ḥadīth compilations are concerned largely with the memorisation of the Qur'an, its compilation and being written down, its best reciters, and the excellences of certain surahs and āyāt. In the early part of the 3rd/9th century, separate works on faḍā'il al-Qur'ān began to emerge, which covered a wider range of topics. This article establishes that both the religious and the social historian may profitably mine the faḍā'il al-Qur'ān literature for valuable insights into, for example, the position of Qur'an reciters in early Islamic society; early attitudes towards writing conventions in the maṣāhif; modes of recitation; the probity of accepting wages for teaching the Qur'an; and the authoritativeness of oral versus written transmission of the Qur'anic text. A closer examination of the contents of the faḍā'il al-Qur'ān literature also yields valuable insights into the central role of the Qur'an, both as an oral and written text, and of its ‘people’ or its ‘advocates’, the so-called ahi al-Qurān, in the early Muslim community. Our preliminary survey allows us to state that, for some people, the Qur'an as the central sacred text of Islam came to stand in for the pristine, idealised Muslim polity. How certain groups of people chose to define their relation to the Qur'an (as its reciters, bearers, advocates, teachers and explicators of its grammar and language) and what aspect of the Qur'an they chose to emphasise (oral versus written) could then be regarded as a hallmark of their piety and fidelity to the memory of the earliest community under the Prophet and his rightly-guided caliphs. Such an endeavour assumed particular relevance in the merit-conscious society first established by cUmar (d. 24/644), in which people were ranked in terms of their moral excellences according to the principle of sābiqa (‘priority in Islam’), and from which they consequently derived their social standing. Our study, on the one hand, corroborates some of the information already available about the organisation of early Islamic society from other sources; on the other, it nuances and broadens this information. Our line of inquiry also allows us to refine a body of scholarship regarding the origins of the faḍā'il al-Qur'ān traditions, and their nature and the conclusions to be derived from this corpus concerning the attitudes of early Muslims towards the study of the Qur'an.

The Literary Depiction of the “Public Space”: Chen Zhongshi’s White Deer Plain Revisited

Rural China ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-171
Author(s):  
Zhi Gao
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

Chen Zhongshi’s novel, White Deer Plain, is a complex text revealing the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of a community in transformation in which multiple public spaces coexist and struggle to survive. As a reinterpretation of the novel, this article examines three types of public spaces: the popular, the political, and the cultural-educational, respectively. Focusing on the forms of depiction, the inner workings of the public spaces, the overlapping between different spaces and their expansion, this article aims to delineate the trajectories of the rise and fall of such public spaces and explore their entangling and association with modernity.

scholarly journals Media Sosial dan Prospek Muslim Kosmopolitan: Konstruksi & Peran Masyarakat Siber pada Aksi Bela Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Iswandi Syahputra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

This article discusses Indonesian cyber society active­ties and its configuration on social media which considered being able to encourage social movements, for instance Defen­ding Islam Action, subsequently well known as ‘Defending Islam Action 212’. This article argues that netizens' activities on social media turned out to involve various class variants and social status and are able to encourage the ' Defending Islam Action’. Moreover, the social formation and activities of netizens on the social media constitute the prospects for the social construction of the cosmopolitan Muslim community in Indonesia. The portrait of Indonesian cosmopolitan Muslim is seen as a cong­re­gation of citizens compelled by their religious awareness, regardless of social, political, economic boundaries and even inter-religiosity which reveres universal principles of humanity.

scholarly journals Media Sosial dan Prospek Muslim Kosmopolitan: Konstruksi & Peran Masyarakat Siber pada Aksi Bela Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Iswandi Syahputra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

This article discusses Indonesian cyber society active­ties and its configuration on social media which considered being able to encourage social movements, for instance Defen­ding Islam Action, subsequently well known as ‘Defending Islam Action 212’. This article argues that netizens' activities on social media turned out to involve various class variants and social status and are able to encourage the ' Defending Islam Action’. Moreover, the social formation and activities of netizens on the social media constitute the prospects for the social construction of the cosmopolitan Muslim community in Indonesia. The portrait of Indonesian cosmopolitan Muslim is seen as a cong­re­gation of citizens compelled by their religious awareness, regardless of social, political, economic boundaries and even inter-religiosity which reveres universal principles of humanity.

scholarly journals Dinamika Kerukunan Antar Umat Beragama Eksistensi Masyarakat Islam di Bali Pasca Bom Bali Tahun 2002-2012

HUMANIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Wildaniyati . ◽  
I Putu Gede Suwitha ◽  
Fransiska Dewi Setiowati Sunaryo
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Collective Behavior ◽  
Early Event ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Islamic Society

On Saturday 12 October 2002, at Banjar Lagian Kelod, Kuta, the Bali Bombing explosion occurred. This is an early event that becomes a long struggle between crisis and harmony. The crisis that occurred as a threat to economy and social harmony that has been built in the Balinese society. Series of bombing incidents is not only of course, but also the cracking of Muslim relations with Hindus in Bali. The several concepts used in this study are collective behavior, norms and corporate actors. The methodology used is the oral history method. Research methods and sources include heuristics, criticism, interpretation and historiography. The results reveal there are some disquiets experienced by Muslim community post bomb, including on the social, security, and economic aspects. Similarly, there are some recovery activities conducted by the Ulama in Bali post Bali Bombing, among others by conducting musyawarah, socialization, pengajian, and other social activities, in this case done to restore confidence and re-recognize the existence of Islamic society post Bali Bombing. Collective behavior, corporate norms and actors are the reasons behind the Balinese attitude towards the Islamic community in the face of Bali Bombing.

The value, costs, and meaning of transnational migration in rural Oaxaca, Mexico

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Cohen ◽  
Bernardo Rios ◽  
Lise Byars
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The Social

Rural Oaxacan migrants are defined as quintessential transnational movers, people who access rich social networks as they move between rural hometowns in southern Mexico and the urban centers of southern California.  The social and cultural ties that characterize Oaxacan movers are critical to successful migrations, lead to jobs and create a sense of belonging and shared identity.  Nevertheless, migration has socio-cultural, economic and psychological costs.  To move the discussion away from a framework that emphasizes the positive transnational qualities of movement we focus on the costs of migration for Oaxacans from the state’s central valleys and Sierra regions.   

Analytical Study of Violence Theme in Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Aggressive Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Right

This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.

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