In the very beginning, when you hear about “what is the political system talking about?” What do you think? To be honest I myself not really understand and get the point about the meaning of that sentences. According to me, so far and to make it simple for me to understand, I just know politics are the way you can attract the people and make them have an interest with you, how you connect with those people in your life, the way you negotiate and then get the feedback or something that will satisfy
those within the Islamic community have been victim to the negative portrayal of the media, with the media often portraying them as a community to be weary of and subsequently this has led to the contribution to the notion of ‘Islamophobia’. The majority of those who practice the faith have expressed that Islam is a religion of peace and not war or terror.
takes Islamic world as a case study to investigate the relationship between above three discussed themes, his book also help in understanding the impact of Globalization on Islam. The holistic approach of the writer through which he examines the relationship between aforementioned themes with sociological, cultural, political and religious lens makes the book more interesting and informative. As this book consists of a series of academic open essays divided into 5 different sections, I will attempt
The Iranian revolution was surrounded by the imagery and representation of the religion Shiism Islam. The religion served as the fuel filling the revolution. “Ideology is not simply a set of ideas in people's minds or in an accomplished text. Ideology can be observed in people's attempts to formulate their strategies of action and in the activities and artifacts of its producers (Wuthnow 1989, p. 16 as cited in Moaddel, 1992).” Wherefore, ideology is best theorized using concepts, principles and
the proliferation of other religions such as Islam and Hinduism in the West, opposition to the traditional Christian view and those who hold to it will continue to grow. In contemporary society, religious pluralism presents a range of complex challenges to religious groups and communities. In a plural situation, they are faced with the need to compete for social and communal support, such as members, financial contributions, legitimacy, and political influence. Religious groups have to decide on
Prophet. Both form the ethical basis for Muslims (Rice, 1999). From them, sharia emerged, which is described as the right way or “the law of the religion” (Quran, 45:18, Abdul Daryabadi) and refers to keeping the values and commandments promoted by Islam (Kamali, 2008). Ethics can be defined as moral principles or values that decide on right or wrong, good or bad (Singh Sidhu, Sharma, Shiny, & Shivani, 2015). However, ethics are not the same as law, and minor ethical offences like lying cannot be
is our purpose here? Religion is often associated with culture as it contains practices, dogmas and rituals. There are many religions which are all varied and different, they usually go align with different cultures and the main ones are Christian, Islam, Hindu, Buddhism and Judaism. Each religion is characterized by the varying opinions on different subjects, rituals and beliefs. As at now there are over 750 million distinguishable religions all over the world. A number of these religions originally
In his book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said (1935-2003) critiques modern Orientalist prejudices against the Orient(and Islam as a study case). To him, "No matter how deep the specific exception, no matter how much a single Oriental can escape the fences placed around him, he is first an Oriental, second a human being, and last again an Oriental."(102) Not only did nineteenth century Orientalists make generalizations about the Orient, but also they tried to domesticate it, represent it, and speak
figure in the administrative field while they were organizing the economy in terms of its own profits (Bakır ve Ülgen, 2009: 132). The urban bourgeoisie began to establish a new political and administrative order that would be the basis of consumption society and based on competition by breaking down socio-economic, political and administrative structures and institutions of the traditional agricultural society. The trade was the form of the city’s lifeblood and naturally as a result of that it was
ASTRI CRISTIN 016201400023/ DIPLO 4 JOURNAL: THE RADICAL MIDDLE: BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN MUSLIM AND WESTERN WORLD (Gomaa,Ali; Un Chronicle; 2012; 49; 3; Technology Collection pg.4) The emergence of Clash of Civilizations it caused the increasing the dispute between cultural region and the most obviously between the Islamic and Western. Incidents that convincingly the dispute between Muslim and Western, we can see from terrorist attack of 9/11, the war on Iraq and Afghanistan and never ending conflict