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Empire, Islam and the postcolonial
No full textOne of the most persistent criticisms of postcolonialism is that it promotes an antipathy to imperialism that tends to focus on the experience of European colonial empires and neglects other, non-western instances of imperial hubris. The articulation of Islam and empire has not been subject to sustained postcolonial investigation; rather, the relationship between Muslims and imperialism has tended to be represented in terms of Muslim subjugation to European colonial rule. Postcolonial critics have largely avoided the discussion of Islamicate imperialism.
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Prof S Sayyid was the Director of the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia.
A version of this chapter was published in Graham Huggan (ed), Oxford handbook of postcolonial studies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013
Hop and artichoke extracts inhibit expression of extracellular matrix components in uterine leiomyoma cells
No full textObjective: To screen 14 different plant extracts for their antifibrotic effect on human primary leiomyoma and healthy myometrial cells. Design: Preclinical study. Setting: University research laboratory. Patient(s): Human uterine leiomyoma and matched myometrial tissues were obtained from Caucasian premenopausal women with symptomatic uterine fibroids at the time of hysterectomy. Intervention(s): Primary human leiomyoma and myometrial cells were cultured in the absence or presence of the plant extracts. Main Outcome Measure(s): Quantification of the expression of extracellular matrix components, such as fibronectin 1 (FN1), collagen type I alpha 1 (COL1A1), and versican (VCAN), and the profibrotic growth factor activin A or inhibin beta A subunit (INHBA). Result(s): The cells were treated with the 14 extracts for 48 hours, and we measured FN1 messenger RNA (mRNA) expression. Of the 14 extracts, about (ABO) ABO-2 (hop) and ABO-9 (artichoke) significantly reduced FN1 expression in both the cell types. Next, we evaluated the effect of fractions of these 2 extracts on the mRNA expression of FN1 and other extracellular matrix components, such as COL1A1, VCAN, and INHBA, in leiomyoma and myometrial cells. We found that ABO-2 (hop) and ABO-9 (artichoke) as well as their fractions, ABO-AR-2016-015 (fraction of ABO-2) and ABO-AR-2014-168 (fraction of ABO-9), reduced the mRNA expression of FN1, COL1A1, VCAN, and INHBA in primary leiomyoma cells. In primary myometrial cells, the mRNA expression of FN1, COL1A1, VCAN, and INHBA was not greatly affected. Conclusion(s): These results suggest that the hop and artichoke extracts possess antifibrotic properties and support additional evaluation using in vivo models
Introduction to section 1. Classical approaches : understanding Islam
No full textMy approach to the sociology of religion and to the study of Islam has been
continuously influenced by classical sociology. I saw Islam as a civilisation that raised important issues for sociological theory, and in contemporary social sciences it invoked issues about inter-civilisational analysis, Orientalism, universalism and cosmopolitanism which continue to have relevance to modern problems of analysis and interpretation. In short my sociological work, and hence this Reader, has been preoccupied by questions relating to historical and comparative research. It was inevitable that the sociology of Max Weber has occupied much of my career. Weber's comparative study of religion, society and politics across a range of cultures was for me an exciting and challenging approach. As a young student on a long journey
through Eastern Europe and Russia in 1962, I became attracted intellectually to the comparative study of capitalism and communism. However, in much contemporary
anthropology and sociology, the emphasis has increasingly been on the local, specific and the particular. My own work has largely departed from these trends and hence I often find myself writing against rather than with the grain
High fertility regions in Bangladesh: A marriage cohort analysis
No full textBangladesh represents one of the few countries in south Asia where the pace of fertility decline has been unprecedented over the last three decades. Although there has been significant reduction in fertility levels at the national level, regional variations continue to persist, especially in Sylhet and Chittagong where the total fertility rates are well above the country average. Using data from three consecutive Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys (BDHSs) this paper assesses how fertility patterns in Sylhet and Chittagong differ from the rest of Bangladesh through a marriage cohort analysis of the parity progression ratios, and examines the factors determining the transition rates to higher parity in these two regions. Three cohorts of women are identified: those married during 1965–1974, 1975–84 and 1985–94. The results show that the probability that a woman from the recent cohort in Sylhet or Chittagong who had a third birth will have a fourth birth is nearly twice that of her counterpart in other regions. Social characteristics such as education, occupation, religion and residence have no effect on fertility in Sylhet and Chittagong. Additional period-specific analyses using the 2007 BDHS data show that women in Sylhet are considerably more likely to have a third or fourth birth sooner than those in other divisions, especially Khulna. The findings call for specific family planning policy interventions in Sylhet and Chittagong ensuring gender equity, promoting female education and delaying entry into marriage and childbearing
Menimbang Gagasan Bryan S. Turner tentang Islam
No full textThis article explores the study of Islam by an orientalist, Bryan S. Turner. This study aimed to: first, to uncover the things that underlie the history of thought and movement of Orientalism. Second, to determine the thought Bryan S. Turner about Islam, which is specifically intended as a corrective to the thesis produced by Max Weber about his interpretation of Islam. The results of the study reveal that historically Orientalism, or the oriental studies movement emerged in the 18th century. This movement is often associated as a movement that pretend to control and weaken the East, especially Islam. It is not without basis, since the emergence of Orientalism has led to intellectual arrogance by claiming the West as a measure of civilization, because the East presented only in accordance with the construction used by the West. Keywords: Orientalism, Orient, West, civilization.</p
Calm water resistance prediction of a bulk carrier using Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes based solver
No full textManeuverability and resistance prediction with suitable accuracy is essential for optimum ship design and propulsion power prediction. This paper aims at providing some of the maneuverability characteristics of a Japanese bulk carrier model, JBC in calm water using a computational fluid dynamics solver named SHIP_Motion and OpenFOAM. The solvers are based on the Reynolds average Navier-Stokes method (RaNS) and solves structured grid using the Finite Volume Method (FVM). This paper comprises the numerical results of calm water test for the JBC model with available experimental results. The calm water test results include the total drag co-efficient, average sinkage, and trim data. Visualization data for pressure distribution on the hull surface and free water surface have also been included. The paper concludes that the presented solvers predict the resistance and maneuverability characteristics of the bulk carrier with reasonable accuracy utilizing minimum computational resources
Islam and European Legal System. S. Ferrari, A. Bradney a cura di, Aldershot 2000
No full textrecensione a S. Ferrari, A. Bradneym (a cura di), Islam and European Legal System, Aldershot 200
Collection Islam Afrique de l’Ouest
No full textThe Islam West Africa Collection is a collaborative, open-access digital database that contains over 5,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, and photographs on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire. The database also indexes over 750 references to relevant books, book chapters, book reviews, journal articles, dissertations, theses, reports and blog posts
Conversion of African Americans to Islam : a sociological analysis of the Nation of Islam and associated groups
No full text'Conversion of African Americans to Islam: A Sociological Analysis of the Nation of
Islam Associated groups' is an empirical study of the religious experience of people
who had/have distinctive features in terms of race, ethnicity and historical experience.
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how African Americans' (AAs) conversion
experience in general, and the Nation of Islam associated groups' conversion in
particular, differ from the studies of recruitment and conversion in the sociology of
religion and New Religion Movements (NRMs). More specifically, their recruitment
and conversion experiences to Islam diverge from those who converted to mainstream
Islam. The study investigates how AAs' historical experience, soci-economic
difficulties and the racism they encountered shaped and influenced their religious
understanding.
Research methods involved participant observations, a survey questionnaire, interviews,
conversations, personal communications and correspondence. To collect ethnographic
data eleven months field research was conducted mainly in the Chicago area and on two
short visits to Detroit, and three years continued communications with Muslim officials
and academics in the area. During the field research and afterwards through personal
communication 181 survey questionnaire responses were received, and 23 Muslim
officials, academics and ordinary Muslims were interviewed through semi-structured,
unstructured interviews, conversation and correspondence.
The thesis begins with a brief history of Islam and Muslims in general and the African
American Muslims (AAMs) in particular. More emphasis is given on the historical
development of the Nation of Islam (NOl). Then in Chapter III, discussions of schisms
in the history of the NOT are examined from sociological perspectives of social and
religious movements. In Chapter IV I aimed to formulate my own perspective to
analyse and study the conversion experiences of AAMs to Islam. I used a multivariate
approach, considering selectively widely held conversion and recruitment theories in the
sociology of the religion. I consider in Chapter V the predisposing conditions for AAMs
that influence their decision-making to join in the NOT, for example, political and
nationalistic sentiments and socio-economic deprivations. In Chapter VI I have applied
different terms to describe their religious experiences, such as conversion, alteration and
reversion. I have analysed further their encounters with the NOT, the methods of
recruitment they used and their major motives for joining the NOT and converting to
Tslam. In the concluding chapters (Chapter VII VTTT) I describe the different responses
of AAMS to Islam following the death of Elijah Muhammad. It is found out that the
Islamic appeal has polarised. While Farakhan's NOT appeared to continue the tradition
and style of the old NOI with the emphasis on nationalistic and socio-economic factors,
Tmam W. D. Mohammed's community turned more to the religious and spiritual aspects
of Tslam. These different approaches led to a polarisation of the appeal of Tslam to
AAMS.
This thesis contributes to knowledge in four key areas; the sociology of religion and
religious movements, the sociology of social and nationalistic movements, religious and
Islamic studies
Bis[benzyl 3-(3-phenylprop-2-enylidene)dithiocarbazato-&#954;2N3,S]cadmium
No full textIn the title complex, [Cd(C17H15N2S2)2], the CdII ion is located on a twofold rotation axis and exhibits a coordination number of four within a very distorted coordination environment that is best described as bisphenoidal. The two deprotonated Schiff base ligands chelate the CdII ion through the azomethine N and the thiolate S atom. The dihedral angle between the two chelating ligands is 84.01&#8197;(9)&#176;. Weak intermolecular C&#8212;H...S interactions lead to the formation of chains along the c axis
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