During the late 19th century and the early 20th century‚ Islam in the Middle East was introduced to its greatest threat yet; modernization. Conflicts within the muslim community and the rapid development of the surrounding world‚ has left the muslim society in the dust. The technological/scientifically dominant Ottoman empire went through expiration and was left with the remnants of its broken empire. Western civilizations then modernized and quickly became more superior in its European trade‚ technological
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NYT Bestsellers taking on religion. So again‚ major segments of humanity‚ including the whole developed world‚ are on the edge of another huge and almost instantaneous paradigm shift. Like the belief in a flat Earth in 16th century China‚ fundamentalist religion is just about over. Unfortunately‚ most people don’t know it yet. Eighty percent of the world’s people still believe that the creator of the Universe dictated a book. Many believe this so strongly that they will kill other people
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THE WEST AND ITS OTHER: LITERARY RESPONSES TO 9/11 MOHAN G. RAMANAN University of Hyderabad mohan1949@rediffmail.com 125 Terror is now a part of our lives. Whether it is the bombing of defenceless villages in Afghanistan or Iraq‚ or the slaying of Daniel Pearl‚ terror is perpetrated by different people for different purposes. Terror is the employment of strategies to instill fear and insecurity in the victim. This can be achieved by the deliberate targeting of women and children as
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Religion and Women in the Middle East Religion goes hand in hand with culture‚ and in the Muslim countries this is very apparent. The cultural importance of men over women may have stemmed from religion‚ however it was further recognized when imperialist countries introduced capitalism and class divides. “Islam must combat the wrenching impact of alien forces whose influence in economic‚ political‚ and cultural permutations continues to prevail” (Stowasser 1994‚ 5). Now‚ instead of an agrarian
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creationism should be able in attainable schools is an absolute affecting and circuitous question. It can be looked at from several acclimatized angles‚ its ascendancy accepting one of them. Admitting the abbreviation of affirmation to abutment the fundamentalist absorption of creationism‚ that in it is not abounding to accreditation its exclusion from the best of attainable schools in the United States. The canon is far added circuitous and complex. One way to abide the catechism is whether or not creationism
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instincts and gave him human consciousness. The other of Gilgamesh refusing the Ishtar’s advances‚ resulting in the death of Enkidu. Inevitable death has always been a major themes of human culture and always will be. So it wasn’t surprising that such motif would be present in the Epic of Gilgamesh. After the death of Enkidu Gilgamesh realized that he too would die someday because he was still one-third human. He even searched for Utnapishtim so he may learn the secret to immortality. He manage to meet
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The term archetype comes from Greek origin. In this origin‚ it literally means original pattern (Golden) which relates to the definition given by the Oxford dictionary; and this states that an archetype is “a recurrent symbol or motif in literature‚ art‚ or mythology.” The first definition and concept of an archetype’s existence was constructed by Carl Jung‚ and Charles Cowgil states that‚ “Symbols‚ as defined by Jung‚ is the best possible expression for something essentially unknown.” Carl Jung
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The Rise of the English Novel The dominant genre in world literature‚ the novel is actually a relatively young form of imaginative writing. Only about 250 years old in England—and embattled from the start—its rise to preeminence has been striking. After sparse beginnings in seventeenth-century England‚ novels grew exponentially in production by the eighteenth century and in the nineteenth century became the primary form of popular entertainment. Elizabethan literature provides a starting point
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for a trial to be held. Clarence Darrow would later represent him in the trial against William Jennings Bryan on the prosecution. Inherit the Wind uses the Scopes Trial as a basis for the play by comparing the views of fundamentalists and evolutionists. In the play‚ the fundamentalists include the townspeople‚ Matthew Harrison Brady (William Jennings Bryan)‚ and Reverend Brown. They represent the “backwards” ways of the town of Hillsboro where the play takes place. The evolutionists in the play include
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out‚ not only is the term used as a blanket description of the militant ideology of contemporary Islamic movements‚ but subsuming the various Islamic movements (political‚ social‚ cultural‚ economic and local) under the general rubric of Islamic fundamentalist movements blinds us to the divergencies‚ internal divisions and evolutionary nature of the various groups. It also prevents us from engaging in a dispassionate analysis of the subject. This paper argues for the need to make specific distinctions
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