I am trying to become aware of ideas surrounding Islamic cosmology (from Greek kosmos 'order or world' + -logia 'discourse') and Muslim ontology (from Greek ōn, ont- 'being' + -logia 'discourse'). I am well aware that there are explicit (stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for...
I was wondering if anyone on the forums is a regular cyclist??? I've recently taken the past time up again having been basically given a pretty hot bike. I now hare around London on my bike, pretending, for at least the journey in and out of work, that I'm a courier. Thought I'd ask if any one...
As Salaam Alaykum ya Ukwaty wa Akawaty,
I am currently carrying out research for my MSc dissertation. It is in Medical Anthropology, and my Professor has suggested I look at Islam and psychiatry, both historically and contemporarily.
Most of my research for this dissertation is likely to be...
Israel can no longer rely on the support of Europe's Jews.
The feeling is growing that Jewish honour and heritage have been more convincingly preserved in the diaspora.
Max Hastings
Tuesday June 20, 2006
Whatever the outcome of the current Palestinian chaos, meaningful negotiations with...
Mohammed Abdulkahar tells the story of terror raid that backfired.
'I just thought: one by one they're going to kill us'
Published: 14 June 2006
At about four o'clock in the morning, I was woken by screams that I had never heard before. My younger brother was screaming and, from...
In light of a few threads on the go, and I suppose in respect of Islam and its growth in the context of Europe I thought that a brief look at Islam in China might be interesting, especially given current political dynamics and Huntingdon's 'Clash of Civilisations' which really means a clash...
Found a very interesting article about the Caucasus and Russia.
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=81&SMSESSION=NO
Obviously there has been problems between Moscow and the region, and one might even date it back to the Tsarist invasion of the region. Then of course there...
Finance ministers from the G8 group of industrialised nations say the global economy has remained strong.
But the ministers, who were meeting in the Russian city of St Petersburg, said they were concerned about the risk from high and volatile energy prices...
...Energy security
The...
Three detainees at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have died in what appears to have been a joint suicide pact, officials said.
The inmates - two Saudis and a Yemeni - hanged themselves in their cells, according to the camp's commander.
Rear Adm Harry Harris said the suicides had been...
Former Mossad chief: Muslim majority in Europe in 40 years.
"By the mid century many cities in Germany and parts of the former Soviet Union countries will have a Muslim majority," warned on Sunday the former head of the Mossad Efraim Halevi, in a speech in Haifa University...
Islam and the West: Al Andalus in the context of and as exemplifying the Islamic Nation as Established by the Constitution of Medina.
This article intends to deal with the historic presence of Islam in Europe, specifically in Al Andalus in what today is known as Spain and thus what is termed...
Ok, I was not baptised when I was born. At my religious schools I was brought up in a Christian environment, I felt a definite affinity to Jesus as a teacher and an example, and decided to become confirmed, and thus baptised on the same day when I was thirteen. In my confirmation classes I had...
Hi there guys and gals, I was just reading the 'Racism and Mormonism' thread, and saw the name Brigham Young mentioned. I was actually going to post in this part of the Forum today as I have a book that is published by the 'Brigham Young University Press'. I was reading it today and suddenly...
Bush and Blair admit Iraq errors.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush have made a stark public acknowledgement that they made mistakes in Iraq.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/bb_wm_fs.stm?nbram=1&news=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nol_storyid=5018568
This is not the first time that I have posted on the Lorraine family, but I want open discussion on the famous poem by Charles Péguy...
Croix De Lorraine
Les Armes de Jesus c'est la croix de Lorraine
Et le sang dans le artere et le sang dans la veine
Et la source de grace et la claire...