scholarly journals Women and Da‘wah in the 20th Century: An Analysis of Maryam Jameelah's Contributions

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zohaib
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Islamic Organizations ◽  
Literary Circles

Maryam Jameelah was a Jewish-American lady who, after embracing Islam, selected Pakistan as her adopted abode. Mostly her conversion to Islam and fierce criticism of western civilization became the topic of discussion among academics. However, her work for da‘wah, so evident since her childhood, did not find much attention in the literary circles. A study of her life and works can reveal answers to the questions such as how she engaged herself in this field, what is the methodology adopted by her, and how does her work is useful for the women interested in da‘wah. Analyzing her published books and articles along with the unpublished material found in her library, the current paper focuses on the practical aspects of her da‘wah activities. It is argued that being a convert, she was aware of the problems of people who either converted to Islam or had an interest in it. Thus, targeting an English-speaking audience, she did not only write a bulk of literature to disseminate her understanding of Islam in Euro-American communities, but also practically contributed to this field through her discussions with non-Muslims, correspondence, and economic support for Islamic organizations.

scholarly journals Women and Da‘wah in the 20th Century: An Analysis of Maryam Jameelah's Contributions

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zohaib
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Islamic Organizations ◽  
Literary Circles

Maryam Jameelah was a Jewish-American lady who, after embracing Islam, selected Pakistan as her adopted abode. Mostly her conversion to Islam and fierce criticism of western civilization became the topic of discussion among academics. However, her work for da‘wah, so evident since her childhood, did not find much attention in the literary circles. A study of her life and works can reveal answers to the questions such as how she engaged herself in this field, what is the methodology adopted by her, and how does her work is useful for the women interested in da‘wah. Analyzing her published books and articles along with the unpublished material found in her library, the current paper focuses on the practical aspects of her da‘wah activities. It is argued that being a convert, she was aware of the problems of people who either converted to Islam or had an interest in it. Thus, targeting an English-speaking audience, she did not only write a bulk of literature to disseminate her understanding of Islam in Euro-American communities, but also practically contributed to this field through her discussions with non-Muslims, correspondence, and economic support for Islamic organizations.

Muslim-Jewish Sexual Liaisons Remembered and Imagined in 20th-Century Yemen

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Mark S. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Similar Materials ◽  
Sexual Encounters ◽  
Identity Crises

AbstractDespite mutual taboos against exogamy, memoirs and similar materials written by Jews from Yemen contain a number of anecdotes describing love affairs and sexual encounters between Muslims and Jews prior to the mass migration of the vast majority of Yemen's Jews to Israel in 1949–50. These stories associate these liaisons with vulnerability, poverty, and marginalization. In them, sex and conversion to Islam are intrinsically connected, yet this interreligious intimacy leads not to resolution but to ongoing identity crises that persist beyond the community's realignment with a majority-Jewish society. The staging of the anecdotes in rural areas where shariʿa norms held only nominal sway, in watering places and hostels where strangers might interact, and at dusk, when identity is difficult to discern, heightened their ambiguity.

scholarly journals The Evolution of Beliefs and Opinions on Matters related to Marriage and Sexual Behaviour among French-speaking Catholic Quebecers and English-speaking Protestant Ontarians

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Laplante ◽  
Caia Miller ◽  
Paskall Malherbe
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
General Result ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Major Transformation ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Family Behaviour

The authors argue that the important changes in behaviour related to family and sexual life that were seen in Quebec during the second half of the 20th century are a consequence of a major transformation of the foundation of the normative system shared by the members of Quebec’s main socio-religious group, Frenchspeaking Catholics. Using data from Gallup polls, the authors compare the evolution of the opinions of French-speaking Quebec Catholics and Englishspeaking Ontario Protestants on matters related to sexual and family behaviour from the 1950s to the beginning of the 2000s. The general result is that the evolution of the differences between the two groups is compatible with the hypothesis.

Rising from the Gutter

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-92
Author(s):  
Jean Lee Cole
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Jewish American Literature ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
English Speaking

This chapter shows how the early comic strip was developed and then came to influence comic fiction in the early twentieth century. As the editor of the New York Journal‘s comic supplement, Rudolph Block regularized the use of panels, repetitive storylines, and caricature, resulting in the multi-panel format that defines the comic-strip genre. Block’s role in the development of the comic strip has gone largely unrecognized; as a writer of Jewish American literature, Block has been forgotten. Using the pseudonym Bruno Lessing, Block published nearly a hundred stories between 1905 and 1920 in popular magazines. These humorous stories, full of rich dialect and accompanied by vibrant illustrations, translated the multiethnic culture of the Lower East Side for a mainstream, English-speaking audience. Block represented dialect and caricature as opportunities for negotiation and play, providing ways to display identity in multiple and shifting forms.

scholarly journals Celebrating Culture - Literary Communities of Practice in Doha

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naqaa Abbas ◽  
Hend Taher
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Performative Space ◽  
Literary Communities ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The City ◽  
Literary Circles

Our paper focuses on the role of arts and culture in Doha. More specifically, we examine literary circles in Doha (both Arab and English speaking) and regard them as ‘communities of practice.’ According to Etienne Wenger, communities of practice are “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” Moreover, such communities are seen as promoting innovation, developing social capital, facilitating and spreading knowledge within a group, and spreading existing knowledge. Recently, there has been a surge of active literary communities presenting their creative work in both English and Arabic attracting a variety of audiences and fans. For instance, young authors such as Kumam Al Maadeed, Eissa Abdullah, Buthaina Al-Janahi and Abdullah Fakhro not only have a huge online following, but they also have a significant fan base attending their events throughout the city. Besides these communities, there are also numerous organizations with which these celebrity authors are associated such as Qalam Hebr, Qatari Forum for Authors, and Outspoken Doha – we argue that such organizations can also be regarded as communities of practice. Our contention is that these ever-growing communities provide a performative space in which poets, singers, authors and artists can experiment with the fluidity of their assigned identities, cultures and traditions.

Fredric Jameson and Cultural Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson (b. 1934) was the leading Marxist literary and cultural critic in the United States and, arguably, in the English-speaking world in the late 20th century and remains so in the early 21st. In a career that spans more than 60 years, Jameson has produced some 25 books and hundreds of essays in which he has demonstrated the versatility and power of Marxist criticism in analyzing and evaluating an enormous range of cultural phenomena, from literary texts to architecture, art history, cinema, economic formations, psychology, social theory, urban studies, and utopianism, to mention but a few. In his early work, Jameson introduced a number of important 20th-century European Marxist theorists to American audiences, beginning with his study of Jean-Paul Sartre’s style and continuing with his Marxism and Form (1971) and The Prison-House of Language (1972), which offered critical analyses of such theorists as Georg Lukacs, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse, along with the Frankfurt School, Russian formalism, and French structuralism. With The Political Unconscious (1981) and other works, Jameson deftly articulated such topics as the linguistic turn in literature and philosophy, the concepts of desire and national allegory, and the problems of interpretation and transcoding in a decade when continental theory was beginning to transform literary studies in the English-speaking world. Jameson then became the leading theorist and critic of postmodernism, and his Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) demonstrated the power of Marxist theoretical practice to make sense of the system underlying the discrete and seemingly unrelated phenomena in the arts, architecture, media, economics, and so on. Jameson’s concept of cognitive mapping has been especially influential on cultural theories of postmodernity and globalization. Jameson’s lifelong commitment to utopian thought and dialectical criticism have found more systematic expression in such books as Archaeologies of the Future (2005) and Valences of the Dialectic (2009), and he has continued to develop a major, six-volume project titled “The Poetics of Social Forms” (the final two volumes of which remain forthcoming as of 2018), whose trajectory ultimately covers myth, allegory, romance, realism, modernism, postmodernism, and beyond. Jameson’s expansive, eclectic, and ultimately holistic approach to cultural critique demonstrates the power of Marxist critical theory both to interpret, and to help change, the world.

Pendidikan Sejarah dalam Kurikulum di Republik Federal Jerman

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kurniawati Kurniawati
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Educational System ◽  
History Education ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Compulsory Subject ◽  
History Of Western Civilization

The aim of this article is to find out what philosophy behind the education curriculum in Germany,its system and structure especially on history curriculum to be compared with Indonesia”s experience.Traditionally the German educational system is strongly influenced by the tradition of naturalistichumanism - specifically those of the Humbold philosophy regarding as Bildung. History Education is acompulsory subject that is given to students from grade 6-10 as much as two hours of lessons per week,while in grade 10-12 or 13 lessons, history is no longer a compulsory subject. In grade 6-9 curriculum isbased on chronological history revolves around the history of Western Civilization, in grade 10 historylessons relating to contemporary history in the 20th century, while in grade 11-12 / 13 history lessonfocused on the history of modern Europe and non- European history.

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