scholarly journals The Compability of Islam with Pluralism: Two Historical Precedents

ICR Journal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-628
Author(s):  
Maher Y. Abu-Munshar
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
The People ◽  
The City

For Muslims, Islam is a religion of peace and harmony. For many non-Muslims today, it appears as a religion that promotes hatred and violence. Sadly, terrorist attacks, often carried out by Muslims, have exacerbated prejudices against Islam and Muslims in general, leading many non-Muslims to believe that Muslims are inherently militant and irrational people who neither tolerate nor accept living and cooperating with the followers of other religions and that Islam does not believe in pluralism and diversity. In this article, two important historical precedents will be elaborated and critically analysed. The first is the ‘Constitution of Medina’ (Sahifat al-Madinah), while the other is ‘Umar b. al-Khattab’s ‘Assurance of Safety’ to the people of Aelia - Byzantine Jerusalem - which he granted to them upon his conquest of the city in 637, guaranteeing their security and religious freedom. By studying these two historical precedents, the author attempts to demonstrate that Islam - as outlined in the Qur’an and exemplified by the life of Muhammad and his Companions - actually accepts, celebrates and even encourages diversity and pluralism. Although documents and historical events can certainly also be interpreted differently, the author’s views are somewhat representative for the standard Muslim perspective on intercultural relations.  

scholarly journals Rat Cities and Beehive Worlds: Density and Design in the Modern City

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-756
Author(s):  
Jon Adams ◽  
Edmund Ramsden
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social System ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Nestled among E. M. Forster's careful studies of Edwardian social mores is a short story called “The Machine Stops.” Set many years in the future, it is a work of science fiction that imagines all humanity housed in giant high-density cities buried deep below a lifeless surface. With each citizen cocooned in an identical private chamber, all interaction is mediated through the workings of “the Machine,” a totalizing social system that controls every aspect of human life. Cultural variety has ceded to rigorous organization: everywhere is the same, everyone lives the same life. So hopelessly reliant is humanity upon the efficient operation of the Machine, that when the system begins to fail there is little the people can do, and so tightly ordered is the system that the failure spreads. At the story's conclusion, the collapse is total, and Forster's closing image offers a condemnation of the world they had built, and a hopeful glimpse of the world that might, in their absence, return: “The whole city was broken like a honeycomb. […] For a moment they saw the nations of the dead, and, before they joined them, scraps of the untainted sky” (2001: 123). In physically breaking apart the city, there is an extent to which Forster is literalizing the device of the broken society, but it is also the case that the infrastructure of the Machine is so inseparable from its social structure that the failure of one causes the failure of the other. The city has—in the vocabulary of present-day engineers—“failed badly.”

scholarly journals A history of the city written in a map – cartography as the mirror of socio-political events in Gdańsk in the years of 1918–1939

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Bień
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Political Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> A cartographic map of Gdańsk in the years of 1918&amp;ndash;1939 was very different from the other maps of Polish cities. The reasons for some differences were, among others, the proximity of the sea, the multicultural mindset of the inhabitants of Gdańsk from that period, and some historical events in the interwar period (the founding of the Free City of Gdańsk and the events preceding World War II). Its uniqueness came from the fact that the city of Gdańsk combined the styles of Prussian and Polish housing, as well as form the fact that its inhabitants felt the need for autonomy from the Second Polish Republic. The city aspired to be politically, socially and economically independent.</p><p>The aim of my presentation is to analyze the cartographic maps of Gdańsk, including the changes that had been made in the years of 1918&amp;ndash;1939. I will also comment on the reasons of those changes, on their socio-historical effects on the city, the whole country and Europe.</p>

scholarly journals Visitas reales y lugares de la memoria: el mariscal Suchet, José I y Fernando VII en Valencia = Royal visits and places of memory: The marshal Suchet, José I and Fernando VII in Valencia

2020 ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
María Pilar Hernando Serra
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
The People ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Peninsular War ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The City ◽  
Social Act ◽  
Sobre Todo

Resumen: Desde siempre las visitas reales fueron uno de los acontecimientos festivos más significativos que se podía vivir en una ciudad. La presencia del rey en la misma significaba la alianza del pueblo con su soberano. Era un acto social, pero sobre todo político. Durante la Guerra de la Independencia estas ceremonias estuvieron cargados de una simbología que se fijó sobre todo en la propia guerra: sus héroes, sus victorias, la fe amenazada o su rey cautivo. Los valencianos también tuvieron ocasión de festejar la presencia de la autoridad real en la ciudad. José I y Fernando VII estarían en Valencia en dos momentos bien distintos. Además, la ciudad también tuvo que recibir, con honores de rey, al que sería su máxima autoridad con el título de gobernador de la misma, el mariscal Suchet. Para la mayoría de la población, dos de ellos eran intrusos; el otro, era el deseado.Palabras clave: Fernando VII, Guerra de la Independencia, José I, Suchet, Vistas reales, Valencia.Abstract: Royal visits have always been one of the most significant festive events that could be experienced in a city. The presence of the king in it meant the alliance of the people with their sovereign. It was a social act, but above all a political one. During the Peninsular War, these ceremonies were charged with a symbolism that focused above all on the war itself: its heroes, its victories, its threatened faith or its captive king. The Valencians also had the opportunity to celebrate the presence of the royal authority in the city. José I and Fernando VII would be in Valencia at two very different times. In addition, the city also had to receive, with the honors of a king, its highest authority with the title of governor of the same, Marshal Suchet. For the majority of the population, two of them were intruders; the other was the desired one. Keywords: Fernando VII, Peninsular War, José I, Suchet, Royal Visits. Valencia.

In the Streets and Bazaars of Harbin: Marketers, Small Traders, and Peddlers in a Changing Multicultural City

Itinerario ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-72
Author(s):  
Frank Grüner
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The People ◽  
Small House ◽  
Small Shop ◽  
The City ◽  
Small Traders

The Zelenyi [Green] Bazaar is like a self-contained village, where each house is a small shop. The Chinese traded and lived here. They represented ninety percent [of the bazaar population]; the rest of the territory was inhabited by the poorer Russian emigrants, who were only able to buy small, cheap houses and only lived in these, without trading in them. At the other ends of the city these people were referred to as the Zelenobazarskie [the people from Zelenyi Bazaar], which was not exactly a compliment. The small house-shops were closely packed together—God forbid a fire was to break out—when this happened, the flames were carried from house to house with unbelievable speed and destroyed the wooden constructions. And when it had rained, the ground was thick with mud. The bazaar itself was abundant with all possible products, with meat and fish as well as many kinds of textiles. There were two or three photographic studios and even several small tailors. The bazaar was generally seen as the place where it was practical to have a look at all possible goods.

scholarly journals Bayt Al Qur'an Al Akbar Home of the World Qur'an Learning Center;Palembang, a Religious City, Builds Religious Moderation People

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumarto Sumarto ◽  
Emmi Kholilah Harahap
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Sumatra Island ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
The City ◽  
Banda Aceh ◽  
Dutch Colonialism

Palembang City is one of the big cities in Sumatra, there are also Medan City, Banda Aceh City and Lampung City which are growing rapidly in terms of education, social economy and culture. In this paper, the author wants to convey to readers that in the area of Sumatra Island, there is one area that is the center of learning the Qur'an, namely the city of Palembang. Palembang City is not only famous as a City of History where at that time there was a war with Dutch Colonialism, the AMPERA event or the Mandate for the Suffering of the People and other historical events. The author wants to look at the aspects of learning the Qur'an in Palembang City, one of which is the center of learning is Bayt Al Qur'an Al Akbar which is located in the Musi II Gandus area of Palembang City.

Nature as myth, symbol and action: notes towards a historical understanding of development and conservation in Kenyan Maasailand

Africa ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan N. Knowles ◽  
D. P. Collet
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Structural Form ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
The People ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Causal Sequence ◽  
Historical Accounts

Opening ParagraphHistory is often presented as a unilineal process whereby events follow on from each other in a causal sequence: A gives rise to B which in turn leads to C. While this structural form is extremely compelling as explanation, it has limitations when applied to the colonial encounter. The differences between the beliefs and practices of the people involved in this encounter, and the consequent variety in perceived significances of individual events, make it almost impossible to construct a unified history. The diversity of perceptions in historical events has been recognised and is most clearly seen in those historical accounts of the colonial encounter written from the perspective of the ‘other’ (Sahlins, 1981; 1985). However, these analyses, by focusing on events, still maintain the structural framework of conventional history.

Time and Affect After 9/11

2019 ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Anna McFarlane
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Alternate History ◽  
The Status ◽  
Main Protagonist

Lavie Tidhar’s Osama (2011) cannot be categorised unproblematically as an alternate history novel, it does however use alternate history as a discourse to explore the status of history and alternate history in the aftermath of 9/11 and the other terrorist attacks referenced throughout the novel. Osama shows that historiography itself has changed in the aftermath of 9/11 and now demands that the emotional impact of historical events be taken into account by historians, a demand that I argue is recognised by the rise of affect theory in academia. Through the trauma of the main protagonist alternate history and history itself become narrative practices undermined by Tidhar’s refusal to anchor the action of his plots to specific dates and names. The time of trauma is non-linear and affective, and this chapter asks how political action or narrative sense can be made possible in such a milieu.

scholarly journals Figura del otro en la novela "El cartero de Neruda"de Antonio Skármeta. Un estudio analístico

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (126) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Hanan Younus Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Antonio Skarmeta ◽  
The People

The aim of this study is to research in figure of the “other” and his relationship to the “ego” and sometimes the “other” with “we” for the purpose of continuing living in life in the novel “The Postman of Neruda” the novel presents a lot of topics like friendship and the struggle of the people of Chile but the topic of love is the main one, all these are presented by the author through the events and dialogues which were simple in language and display in the work. In addition to that there are a lot of elements that moved the events in the work, although the characters were few but they have got a huge effect in their structure, with that we can say that these elements: love, poetry, women, struggle, nature and real historical events. “The Postman of Neruda”  it is a research on sensations and human feelings through his relation with all these elements.

scholarly journals Quantitative analysis of intrafamily religious violence in the Bogotá city

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (49) ◽  
pp. 46-67
Author(s):  
Alba L. RENDON ◽  
◽  
Juan P. RODRIGUEZ ◽  
Juan M. SANCHEZ ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Religious Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
The City

This paper aims to analyze the existence of acts of domestic violence in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, during the period between 2014 to 2018, when one or more members profess a different religion to which the other members of his family, belief, custom or manifest not believing in anything; how this type of violence due to religion is related to other types of violence and the consequent need to identify, prevent, protect and punish victims, by the competent authorities, to ensure the fundamental right to religious freedom, in harmony with human rights treaties and conventions ratified by Colombia, the Public Policy of religious freedom and Jurisprudence pronouncements. It was applied a survey to 350 people whose results were subject to multiple correspondence analysis, descriptive analysis and some hypothesis testing were performed. It was found that both men and women who have suffered religious violence within their family nucleus, in their majority do not denounce because the lack of identity that the fundamental right to religious freedom has in the country is still incipient and lacks statistics that allow the development of public policies according to reality, that permit guaranteeing this fundamental right in Colombia.

Semi-Automated Roller Painting Machine

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VIII) ◽  
pp. 325-326
Author(s):  
Akash N
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Fast Moving ◽  
Education Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Risk Situation ◽  
The City

Building and construction is one of the major industries around the world. In this fast moving life construction industry is also growing rapidly. But the labours in the construction industry are not sufficient. This insufficient labour in the construction industry is because of the difficulty in the work. In construction industry, during the work in the sites where there is more risk situation like interior area in the city. There are some other reasons for the insufficient labour which may be because of the improvement the education level which cause the people to think that these types of work, is not as prestigious as the other jobs.

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