scholarly journals Islam and Contemporary Western Thought

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-260
Author(s):  
M. Hazim Shah ibn Abdul Murad
Keyword(s):  
Western Thought ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Islamic Values

The two books recently authored by Ernest Gellner and Akbar Ahmedon the subject of Islam and postrnodernism have attracted interest amongMuslims and non-Muslims. To me, it is a landmark in the continuing dialoguebetween Islam and the West. Has the rise of postmodernism in westernphilosophical thought meant an easier accommodation of Islam into contemporarywestern society, or is Islam intellectually at odds with the epistemologicalfoundations of postmodernism? These are some of the importantquestions addressed by Gellner and Ahmed. In view of the increasing culturaland intellectual globalization, not to mention the economic side, takingplace today, the place of Islam in contemporary thought and society can nolonger be safely isolated from "western" thought and culture.Unlike previous encounters, where victory was decided through militaryconfrontations, or in times of peace, where coexistence is maintainedthrough the separation of borders limiting influence and interaction, ours isa time when cultures and civilizations are interlocked. Hence, it is of theutmost importance that Muslims define their thought and philosophical positiondearly in relation to the West, if they insist on maintaining their identityand way of life in a world that is increasingly westernized. Part of theMuslim ummah's legitimacy derives from the sovereignty of its individualnations existing in the world community and from the intellectual strengthof its religious and philosophical position. Muslims cannot compromise onthat if they are to maintain their viability as an ummah in the contemporaryworld. Recent intellectual dialogues on Islam and the West, therefore,should acquire an important place in the Musim minds and agenda if theyare not to witness the further erosion of Islamic values and beliefs.In view of the importance of the discussions on Islam by Gellner andAhmed in their recent works, I now tum to an analysis of their books.Gellner on Islam, Rationalism, and PostmodernismAs opposed to previous binary polarities in history, Gellner believes thatour time is characterized by a competition between three irreducible ...

scholarly journals The sportification of judo: global convergence and evolution

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shohei Sato
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Global Convergence ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Olympic Sport

AbstractThis article re-examines our understanding of modern sport. Today, various physical cultures across the world are practised under the name of sport. Almost all of these sports originated in the West and expanded to the rest of the world. However, the history of judo confounds the diffusionist model. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a Japanese educationalist amalgamated different martial arts and established judo not as a sport but as ‘a way of life’. Today it is practised globally as an Olympic sport. Focusing on the changes in its rules during this period, this article demonstrates that the globalization of judo was accompanied by a constant evolution of its character. The overall ‘sportification’ of judo took place not as a diffusion but as a convergence – a point that is pertinent to the understanding of the global sportification of physical cultures, and also the standardization of cultures in modern times.

scholarly journals Tattoo ink nanoparticles in skin tissue and fibroblasts

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1183-1191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin A Grant ◽  
Peter C Twigg ◽  
Richard Baker ◽  
Desmond J Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Force Microscopy ◽  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Collagen Fibril ◽  
Chemical Activity ◽  
The West ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
Atomic Force ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Tattoo Inks

Tattooing has long been practised in various societies all around the world and is becoming increasingly common and widespread in the West. Tattoo ink suspensions unquestionably contain pigments composed of nanoparticles, i.e., particles of sub-100 nm dimensions. It is widely acknowledged that nanoparticles have higher levels of chemical activity than their larger particle equivalents. However, assessment of the toxicity of tattoo inks has been the subject of little research and ink manufacturers are not obliged to disclose the exact composition of their products. This study examines tattoo ink particles in two fundamental skin components at the nanometre level. We use atomic force microscopy and light microscopy to examine cryosections of tattooed skin, exploring the collagen fibril networks in the dermis that contain ink nanoparticles. Further, we culture fibroblasts in diluted tattoo ink to explore both the immediate impact of ink pigment on cell viability and also to observe the interaction between particles and the cells.

scholarly journals Human as a phenomenon of unity of corporeal and spiritual in various-system languages (based on the material of euphemisms in the English and Buryat languages)

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Oyuna Tsydendambaeva ◽  
Olga Dorzheeva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Body ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

This article is dedicated to the examination of euphemisms in the various-system languages – English and Buryat that contain view of the world by a human, and the ways of their conceptualization. Euphemisms remain insufficiently studied. Whereupon, examination of linguistic expression of the key concepts of culture is among the paramount programs of modern linguistics, need for the linguoculturological approach towards analysis of euphemisms in the languages, viewing it in light of the current sociocultural transformations, which are refer to euphemisms and values reflected by them. The subject of this research is the euphemisms in the English and Buryat languages, representing the semiosphere “corporeal and spiritual”. The scientific novelty consists in introduction of the previously unexamined euphemism in Buryat language that comprise semiosphere “corporeal and spiritual” into the scientific discourse. The analysis of language material testifies to the fact that in various cultures the topic of intimacy and sex is euphemized differently. The lexis indicating the intimate parts of the body is vividly presented in the West, while in Buryat language – rather reserved. The author also determines the common, universal, and nationally marked components elucidating the linguistic worldview of different ethnoses and cultures.

scholarly journals Changing features of the concept of pilgrimage: the example of the Mevlana's museum in Konya

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 196-210
Author(s):  
Nilay Hosta ◽  
Birsen Limon
Keyword(s):  
Business Sector ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time Of Year ◽  
Religious Aspects

Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi was a philosopher who influenced our era with his ‘humanist’ thoughts, his invitation towards everybody to friendship and brotherhood and his ideas about love and humanism. The museum, opened in his name in 1926 in Konya, Turkey, has been converted into a special place, describing Mevlevi’s way of life, telling the history of the Mevlana Dervish lodge and exhibiting related works with religious historical values. This important Museum, attracting many visitors from all over the world, including Turkey, represents unique examples both in architecture and genuine works of arts from Seljuk and the Ottoman period.Today faith tourism, emerging as a business sector, due to the increasing number of travelling people everyday, fulfils the space of the religious obligations related to travelling and also shows itself in religious aspects, not only pertaining to the major dimensions of a religion, but also by affecting all other religion-related rituals. The Mevlana Museum has become one of the places affected by the faith tourism. It has turned into an economic resource and become an important place for advertising Turkey, having visitors any time of year.

“To See the World in a Grain of Sand”: Wolfgang Laib and the Aesthetics of Interpenetrability

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celina Jeffery
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Intense Process

Abstract For the artist Wolfgang Laib, pollen is an extraordinary substance that signifies renewal, boundless energy, the temporal, the eternal, and the memory of the seasons. Laib’s pollen works are the result of an intense process of gathering, a pursuit of art as a way of life even that gives rise to works of art that are remarkable in their visual luminosity and textual delicacy. This essay considers Indra’s net as a metaphor for interpenetrability to conceptualize the folding of the subject and object that Laib’s pollen works allude to, and offers a deliberation on the spiritual within art.

The Old Rhetoric

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-68
Author(s):  
Anthony Ossa-Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Persuasive Communication ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Persuasive Speech

This chapter discusses the Old Rhetoric, sketching the long persistence in the West—from Aristotle to the early twentieth century—of a ‘single meaning model’ of language, one that takes ambiguity for granted as an obstacle to persuasive speech and clear philosophical analysis. In Aristotle's works are the seeds of three closely related traditions of Western thought on ambiguity: the logicosemantic, the rhetorical, and the hermeneutic. The first seeks to eliminate ambiguity from philosophy because it hinders a clear analysis of the world. The second seeks to eliminate ambiguity from speech because it hinders the clear and persuasive communication of argument. The third, an extension of the second, seeks to resolve textual ambiguity because it hinders the reader's ability to grasp the writer's intention. The chapter then considers Aristotle's two types of verbal ambiguity: homonym and amphiboly. The solution to both—whether their presence in a discussion is accidental or deliberate—is what Aristotle calls diairesis or distinction, that is, the explicit clarification of the different meanings involved.

Ethics of security: A genealogical introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-71
Author(s):  
Andrea Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pierre Hadot

This article analyses the set of ethical questions underlying the emergence of the modern politics of security, as articulated, in particular, in the work of Thomas Hobbes. An ethic is here understood – in line with its ancient philosophical use and the interpretation advanced by authors such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot – as a domain of reflections and practices related to the cultivation and conversion of the self ( askēsis, metanoia). The article aims to demonstrate that, besides attending to the physical safety of the state and its citizens, modern apparatuses of security are also crucially implicated in the formation of their subjects as ethical and autonomous individuals. To substantiate this thesis, the article first illustrates how, since the first appearance of the term in the vocabulary of Western thought – and in Seneca’s work in particular – theories of security have been intimately tied to the cultivation of the self. It thus interprets Hobbes’s reflections on the subject as the upshot of a substantive, if implicit, re-articulation of Seneca’s ethic of security, by focusing on the two authors’ respective understandings of (a) autonomy, (b) the world, (c) ascesis, and (d) politics. Overall, it is suggested that the differences between the two authors testify to a wider political-historical shift: in modern regimes of governmentality, the ethical dimension of security no longer defines the rightful exercise of political power, but rather appears as an object of social and economic governance.

Nathan Söderblom and the Study of Religion

1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Religion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

To the student of the recent history of theological ideas in the West, it sometimes seems as though, of all the ‘new’ subjects that have been intro duced into theological discussion during the last hundred or so years, only two have proved to be of permanent significance. One is, of course, biblical criticism, and the other, the subject which in my University is still called ‘comparative religion’—the (as far as possible) dispassionate study of the religions of the world as phenomena in their own right.

scholarly journals Evolution, Conceptualization and Legal Implications of Social Rights

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
José Luis Corona Lisboa ◽  
Marizé Damaris Mijares Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

This document constitutes a review article where the antecedents, concepts, classification and importance of fundamental social rights in the world of Law and for a contemporary society in search of the vindication of human dignity as a way of life and sustainability are exposed. The methodology used was exhaustive documentary research, where a review and classification of the most interesting articles on the subject was made, where the opinion of the cited researchers and the author's own ideas are exposed. It is concluded that fundamental social rights are essential to establish legal-social mechanisms in favor of social coexistence and the promotion of life as the backbone of society.

scholarly journals Islamic Resurgence and the Twenty-First Century

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Hussin Mutalib
Keyword(s):  
Secretary General ◽  
First Century ◽  
Islamic Fundamentalism ◽  
The West ◽  
World Community ◽  
World Today ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Resurgence ◽  
Twenty First Century

The Image and Impact of Islamic Resurgence The global phenomenon of Islamic resurgence (or Islamic revival­ism). which has caught the attention of Muslims and non-Muslims, has impacted the world community in many different ways. Much of this reassertiveness of the Islamic ethos has been discussed and published.' Feeling somewhat threatened by the "rise of Islam" as it were, the gen­eral non-Muslim and western attitude has been one of suspicion and awe: such Muslim "fundamentalist" behavior and trends, it was argued, had to be checked or even thwarted, or else Muslims would make life difficult for others. There were some exceptions to such a negative atti­tude and response. but by and large such a wariness had permeated the thinking of many non-Muslims, including western powers and the non­Muslim world generally. This mindset lingers until today as the world approaches the arrival of the twenty-first century-manifest, for instance. in the "clash of civi­lization" thesis postulated by the well-known Harvard professor, Samuel Hun-tington recently. Even more recent was the declaration by both the French Defense Minister and the NATO secretary-general that the world today is facing a new threat after the fall of communism, that of Islamic fundamentalism, and their call for the West to bolster support only to what he called moderate Muslim regimes.2 The behavior and actions of fanatics and extremists, both Muslim and non-Muslim, the world over, have exacerbated the problem and, consequently, worsened the poor image that people have of Muslims and Islam ...

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