Books
Alim’s Combat Linguistics: The Struggle for Equanimity
Dr H Samy Alim is a linguist or combat linguist, to use the apt phrase employed by Geneva Smitherman, Dr. G University Distinguished Professor of English and Director who wrote the foreword to the Roc Mic Right, Alim’s third book on the Hip-Hop. Combat linguists always search for the ruptures in the official pedagogy or […]
Rhymes forge Nationhood
Martin Stokes’ ‘Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy In Turkish Popular Music’ delves deep into the public life in Turkey mediated by the pop culture and pop music in particular with special reference to Zeki Muren, Orhan Grancebay and Sezan Aksu, ‘who are closely associated with the political transformations of the 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s respectively.’ […]
In search of the Undivided Knowledge
The two quarters that appear to be seriously pondering the philosophy of education are what we can loosely call ‘religious intelligentsia’ on the one hand and the proponents of alternative education on the other. The secular, liberal tradition of knowledge, because of the fact that it is shorn of spiritual or ontological content of education […]
Jesus: A Reading on Islam
Water There is Jesus walking on water. ‘And he was asked: ‘How can you walk on water?’ He replied: ‘Through certainty of faith.’ He was told: ‘We too have certain faith.’ Jesus asked: ‘Do you believe that stones, mud and gold are all equal in your sight?’ ‘No,’ they replied. He said (or I think […]
Reading Begovic and the milestones of an intellectual
Alija Izetbogovic is widely known as the first president of Bosnia Herzegovina, who bravely led the Balkan Muslims at a time when they were threatened by racial extermination in Eastern Europe which was fast set as a stage for communal and religious conflicts after the disintegration of the Marxian political system. He was widely acknowledged […]
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