Fundamentalism

Alex Joy CORE 2101AP 2/10/2016 Dr. E. Redwine Reconciliation of Greek Philosophy and Monotheistic Religions “On July 19, 711, an army of Arabs and Berbers unified under the Islamic Umayyad caliphate landed on the Iberian Peninsula” (M 'Bow 2). Over the next several decades, through diplomacy and warfare, they brought the entire peninsula under Islamic control. The new territories, were referred to as al-Andalus. This region of southern Europe produced a wealth of great thinkers which would…

David Videcette is a British detective mystery writer best known for writing the DI Jake Flannagan series of novels. He is a former Scotland Yard Detective with the London Metropolitan Police who specialized in organized crime and terrorism. During a career spanning more than two decades he has tracked down many dangerous criminals, interviewed numerous witnesses, and searched hundreds of properties. Today he puts that knowledge into use in writing the DI Jake Flannagan series of novels. The…

Basch-Kahre (1984) talks about feelings of aversion that arise when client and counsellor have different backgrounds. He outlines that a baby hates the father and makes him a stranger by not recognizing him, as a father's face punctures endless symbiosis with the mother. Perhaps this triggers infantile stranger-anxiety that gets triggered with people of different cultures, and might do with every such obvious difference. However some of such differences like that of race and religion, which in…

Political Cleavages Background Political cleavage and the idea of conflicts as an integral element in the creation and sustenance of political systems was first formulated by Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan in 1967. They stress on the idea of historical conflicts as the primary reason for the manner in which political parties emerge and create their voter base. This is relatively true, as seen in the political, social, economic and religious agenda which informs party organization and…

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and family are in a higher social class because they had earlier royalty in their family, and they are a wealthier family. However, throughout Persepolis, social classes change because of the new change in government (Fundamentalism). The photo at left by Getty Images portray the social classes in Iran. Like the picture shows there is a lot of people at the bottom of the classes, and with the new change in government to and Islamic regime, the people at the bottom of…

More than six hundred years after a deadly bubonic plague spread across Europe and killed sixty-percent of Europe’s population between 1346 and 1353, Christopher Smith decided to direct Black Death (2010) (Benedictow 42). This fourteenth century-based film examines the relationship between fear and faith, while sticking to the medieval atmosphere of the real-world occurrence. Throughout the film, many important aspects of the era are covered, including the role of the medieval Church, people’s…

What is the ideology of Daesh? For centuries Muslim scholars and philosopher have been debating about the morality and political philosophy in Islam and it is not very unclear. It’s based on Quran, Hadith, and Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). Many Islamic scholars have argued that political theory of Islam did not exist as independent disciplines in Islam. Islamic political philosophy is in addition to Quranic exegesis, hadith, theology, ethics, historiography and philosophical works. The theory…

Essay Question 1. What role did identity politics, culture, religion, ethnicity, and nationalism play in the Arab Spring of 2011 and its immediate aftermath? It could be said that globalism enabled the first events of unrest that led to the onset of the Arab Spring that caught most of the intelligence community unawares. It was on 17 December 2010 when a severely distraught street vendor by the name of Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself ablaze in an act of self-immolation. This was done as a result…

Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation by Paul Silverstein, provides ethnography of the Algerian existence in France as well as the transnational Berber movement. Silverstein approaches his subjects through the medium of everyday life, following the random individuals he met during his field work in the 1990s, using an ethnographical methodology with a very critical and self-reflexive alertness of the environment he shared with them. His book is a critical work where it gives a…

free-market, marking the end of an era”. (McKinight, 2009) “The current crisis is the culmination of a 30-year domination of economic policy by a free-market ideology that has been variously called neo-liberalism, economic liberalism, economic fundamentalism, Thatcherism or the Washington consensus.” (Rudd, 2009) ‘A modified form of liberalism tending to favour free-market capitalism’ (Neo-liberalism, n.d.) The term neoliberalism developed between the two world wars of the 20th century, and is…