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Miskawaih’s Thoughts on Human Personality
Get PDFThis paper aims at highlighting the views of Miskawaih on human personality. According to Miskawaih, personality is not the product of free interaction between ones' heredity and physical and social environment; it is born of the conflict between the rational and irrational parts of the self leading to the emergence of a strong moral conscience which serves as the intrinsic core of khulq, a term that Miskwaih uses for personality. Man possesses personality because he is capable of reason as well as being subject to desires
Islam and the veil: Theoretical and regional contexts. Edited by Theodore Gabriel and Rabiha Hannan
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The Serbian Question and Muslim-Christian Frontiers in the Middle Ages
No full textThe Serbian ethno-religious war against the Muslim Bosniaks in the 1990’s has re-focused world attention on a part of Europe which, in the second half of the twentieth century, had become a geopolitical backwater. The purpose of this study is to present the clash of religions in the region from a historical perspective and to show that this area has always been one of the most turbulent areas of European- an area in which religious passions and a spirit of historical mission drive these nations and tribes towards aggressive expansionism
International Politics in the Last Decade of the 20th Century: Kennedy and Huntington Revisited
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Get PDFThis paper examines the views of Mohd. Iqbal concerning Muslims and analyzes his ideas to attain Muslim unity. Iqbal, known as the poet philosopher of Pakistan, was not a narrow nationalist and his vision was not limited to Pakistan. Iqbal's vision was ummatic and hence he should be referred to as "the poet philosopher of Muslim unity." He had a distinct conception of Muslim unity and suggested clear cut guidelines to attain that cherished goal. These ideas were as much relevant to his times as they are relevant to the contemporary Muslim world which is characterized by disunity