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Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (III): Grundnorm, a cosmological myth
2008-07-29 16:49:00 To effectively address the original Weberian objection i.e. normative pluralism is substantively irrational, it is mandatory to reformulate the problem in concise terms, starting point being that change in Islamic law takes place by means of some interpretive mechanism called Ijtihad. What exactly constitutes it: Is it the interpretation of the textual source ab initio; ...
Turkish Court Rules In Favor Of Secularism, Modernity And Feminism
2008-06-10 13:56:00 Turkey’s Constitutional Court overturned one of the ruling AK party’s central “reforms” – an amendment to the Turkish constitution that reintroduced Islamic headscarves in public universities, undermining decades of secularism in this Muslim country that wants to join the European Union. The opposition CHP party sued to block the amendment, and the court sided with ...
On Suicide Bombings
2008-04-13 19:32:00 Is there a crucial difference between someone who kills in order to die and someone who dies in order to kill? - [Talal Asad] Alasdair MacIntyre - while making a ‘disquieting suggestion’ in the beginning of his chef-d’oeuvre ‘After Virtue‘ - hypothesized that what we chiefly possess as a vocabulary of morality can best be understood ...
The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity
2008-03-08 04:45:00 S. J. Barnett “The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity Manchester University Press | 2004-03-04 | ISBN:0719067405 | PDF | 256 pages | 1,6 Mb
Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (II): Iftaa, Ijtihad and Social Customs
2008-01-09 18:26:00 The “content” of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium. [Marshall McLuhan] In 1913, Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi gave his famous juridical response to a British court in India. The seeker was a claimant who wanted to re-establish conjugal rights with his wife but his in-laws refused to let her join on the ...
Nepal: After centuries, living goddess faces modernity
2007-12-24 02:44:00 Priti Shakya is 10 years old, the daughter of a family of poor goldsmiths. At age 4, Priti was examined by a panel of judges in a series of ancient ceremonies; they checked her horoscope, searched for physical imperfections and, as a final test, determined whether she would be frightened after a night spent in a room filled with 108 freshly decapitated animal heads. She was not. So Priti became a goddess...
Modernity and tradition
2007-10-27 19:44:00 The Fabian Society has asked MPs what they think Ed Miliband should include in the next election manifesto. The range of suggestions reflect what a broad church the Labour Party is, and as such some suggestions are better than others.It would be good to see advocacy of an expert House of Lords, an audit of the Scottish Executive (and the whole Barnett system), better sex education, a review of NHS treatment priorities, a new engagement with the EU, resolution of the Westphalian question and a renewed commitment to education. These are all key areas where a moderate social democratic response is needed.Some ideas are not so good, and should be left out of any future Labour programme. A reduction of the rich-poor divide would not help the poor and would disincentivise the rich. Universal childcare and school meals would prove expensive, especially as economic slowdown will reduce Treasury income (as the Scottish Parliament will discover). A War Powers Act would limit Britain's abilit...
By: Don't trip up
A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity
2007-10-09 20:41:00 # Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 15, 2005)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0198529376# ISBN-13: 978-0198529378Review"...Hodgkin- sets his book apart by going beyond the expected...Hodgkin offers the history of mathematics from the appealing viewpoint of a questioning reader."--CHOICEBook DescriptioniA History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity/i covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes the trials and tribulations of the Greek mathematicians. The important, and often neglected, influence of both Chinese and Islamic mathematics is covered in detail, placing the description of early Western mathematics in a global context. The book concludes with modern mathematics, covering recent developments such as the advent of the computer, chaos theory, topology, mathematical physics, and the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem. Containing more than 100 illustrations and figu...
Ghamidi?s interpretation post - some afterthoughts about hermeneutics
2007-09-02 11:08:00 Don’t have much time these days to write at length. Still mulling over some really thought-provoking comments on my Ghamidi’s interpretation post. Is it a plausible conclusion that this fairly recent originalist attempt of fixing the ‘original intent’ of the revealed word can be seen as another tragedy to reduce Quran to the level of computer ...
India's quest towards modernity
2007-08-30 18:08:00 JRD Tata was always optimistic about India?s future. Jack Welsch too had been upbeat on India?s progress. He felt infrastructure in India is the only bottleneck hindering India?s progress but this can be tackled by Indian bureaucrats. Richard Gere in his recent interview said ?India is on roll and if the momentum is maintained, India could well be a world power within 200 years?. 200 years ?? I thought it is far too long. Japan had shown country can be transformed in a span of 30 years. China went even further; they changed the economic scenario within 15 years but they are still far away from uniform wealth distribution across the country. For me, India is placed in precarious position that is very unique. At 8% plus p.a. economic growth, India offers attractive market for many commodities but I feel its being pulled by two opposite forces? one by quest for modernity by educated and vibrant youth and other by deep rooted concepts of antiquated socialist ideas. Chances are that it m...
By: goggly
Modernity and Venice
2007-08-30 04:30:00 I have already mentioned in a previous post some of the challenges and problems faced by architects in Venice, Italy, in occasion of the discussion about the fourth bridge on the Grand Canal designed by architect Santiago Calatrava and being built in these days. The bridge is almost complete and it is now possible to ...
The Age of Insanity: Modernity and Mental Health
2007-08-21 05:50:00 # Publisher: Praeger Publishers (September 2001)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0275970523# ISBN-13: 978-0275970529Review?Large collections at all levels.??Choice?I found Shumaker's book to be readable, interesting throughout, at times fasinating, and a touch profound.??APA Review of Books?This thoughtful, provocative volume explores the generalized psychological effects of living in the modern world....This book provides the framework, the context, for further work to be done in this field. I expect volumes to follow in Schumaker's footsteps-volumes dedicated explicity to addressing and resolving the breakdown of mental health associated with modern living. Before such volumes can be written, someone must show that modernity is indeed the culprit behind a cluster of psychopathologies, which is what this superb book from Schumaker does so convincingly.??mentalhelp.netBo-ok DescriptionThe often misunderstood "modern person syndrome" is a disorder linked to the conditions of living in ...
The Age of Insanity: Modernity and Mental Health
2007-08-07 17:18:00 The Age of Insanity: Modernity and Mental Health Praeger Publishers | ISBN: 0275970523 | 2001-09 | 240 pages The often misunderstood “modern person syndrome” is a disorder linked to the conditions of living in our contemporary society. The author argues that the conditions of modernity have introduced new processes, forces, and cultural motivations that have major implications ...
By: Utsay Dot Net
Ancience & Modernity
2007-08-07 14:09:00 The ancient church and the modern TV tower (Fernsehturm) in the downtown. On the background there is the Park Inn hotel. Location: Berlin | Alexanderplatz. There is a rolling restaurant inside this ball.
By: live Berlin
Ghamidi?s interpretation of Islam: Is it a fad that will fizzle out with ti
2007-06-26 19:37:00 I have stopped believing strongly since long that Javed Ahmed Ghamidi’s exposition of Islam, more or less like Mutizilite Islam in medieval times and Progressive Islam in modernity, is a fad that will fizzle out automatically with time; however, I still doubt that sometimes. It is primarily a better understanding of traditional Islam, cornerstone of ...
Prophetic Experience of Revelation: Iqbal, Fazlur Rahman and Malik Bennabi
2007-05-13 12:15:00 Can we become aware of God as we are aware of other objects? As I contemplate more about the answer of this question, it occurs to me that the question is perhaps more important than the answer. Over the years, I have learnt to ask this question in innumerable ways and each time when it happens, ...
Recalling a thinker of Islam and modernity
2007-04-14 19:06:00 By Rami G. Khouri Three years ago this week, the late Egyptian thinker, economist, public servant and activist Said al-Naggar passed away after a long and productive life. I remember Naggar from a time I visited with him in Cairo, and through my recollection of discussions I held with Egyptian colleagues on the challenges and problems facing the Arab world, for which few solutions seem to emanate from Egypt anymore. Naggar's ideas about modernization in Arab and Islamic societies, however, still represent an enduring beacon of enlightened Arab thought. Many of our colleagues around the world who ask in bewilderment about how the Arab world will ever get modern should consider for a moment this man's ideas, which are widely if quietly shared by so many in the region, though not always articulated in public. Naggar, a professor emeritus of economics at Cairo University, spent the last years of his life running the New Civic Forum, a movement dedicated to promoting democracy, human r...
By: Munaeem's Blog
Faith, hope and Charity: the three evils of modernity.
2007-02-25 00:59:02 Now I`m not giving here an lengthy philosophical analysis of Christian virtue but let me say right out that I find that the three Christian virtues “hope, faith and charity” to be vices masquerading as virtues. Christianity has introduced a theory of morality that sides with the weak; it makes a prediction that favours the good-natured and the mild-mannered: ?the meek shall inherit the earth? and it maintains a submissive attitude called ?humility? that decks itself out as a virtue that is felt to be appeasing to God. For me Christianity embodies a morality that exercises those values most associated with those who are full of meekness, timidity, docility and unassertiveness; in short: weak. A Christian will no doubt oppose such a thing as this and will say that this and that is not true and will no doubt find reasons for believing that Christian morality is somehow strong. How can timidity be a strength? It cannot. It can be a poison, for sure. It can be sly. It can b...
From modernity to reflexive modernization
2007-02-16 13:20:00 Footnote: Reflexivity is a concept that has been central to social scientific thought since the 1990s, after the writings of authors such as Beck, Giddens and Lash on modernity, risk and the cultural dimensions of contemporary environmental issues (Beck, 1992; Giddens, 1991; Beck et al., 1994; Lash et al., 1996). Beck introduced the term "reflexive modernization" to designate a new stage of
Half Past Modernity
2006-11-22 04:21:00 There are a number of people that I know who think that modernity is over. They have already welcomed in post-modernity and bid a fond farewell to its unfortunate forerunner. I have not joined the ranks of the post-moderns, partly because I've grown somewhat attached to the ideas of modernity, but mostly because I still see the philosophies of modernity almost everywhere I look. I concede that if you walk into nearly any university the discussions often have more than a tinge of post-modern thought. But outside of academia modernity is still doing quite well. How do I know this you ask? Well, I see the main misconception that modern thinking brought into everyday thought everywhere. So you ask, (wishing that I would be more straightforward) "What misconception are you talking about?" "Oversimplification," I respond (wondering why you didn't know that already). That's right; oversimplification is the great mark of modernity. Think about those philosophies that came about during m... |
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