Islamism

Kellen Vu Ms. Kolich History - Period 5 15 October 2015 Sudan In recent years, Sudan has been tearing up the headlines with "Sudan Refugee Crisis" or "Sudan Famine" or "Sudan Struggle for Independence," but where do these issues stem from? Whom do they affect? This paper will provide an overview on the country as a whole, allowing further understanding of Sudan's history and people. Its dry, desert environment causes significant complications regarding daily life. Sudan carries centuries of…

Sayyid Qutb is one of Islam's most notarised personalities. He was a prolific writer whose radical teachings and challenges to Islamic tradition have played a major role in shaping the face of fundamentalist Islam in the 20th and 21st centuries. His attitudes towards the West, Jahilliyah and Jihad and his Ideal Islamic Society have been a major influence, and still hold a significant factor in the development and expression of Islam. Sayyid Qutb was born in Musha, Upper Egypt in 1906. Although…

One of the central themes in Tamer’s Breaking Knees is oppression of religion in Syria. Religion in Syria in the modern era is a complicated topic. Some groups, such as terrorist groups al-Qaeda and ISIL portray strict, violent Islamism whereas for many other people in Syria religion is a matter of familial tradition and faith rather than violence. One example of violence associated with religion in Breaking Knees is when, in story 15, it is implied that the sheikh has a man killed due to the…

2.0 INTRODUCTION In chapter one, we introduce the theme and the major concepts this inquiry deals with. This chapter takes a critical look of these concepts—inequality, poverty, and violent extremism. It begins by providing a concise and comprehensive meaning more so as they apply to, and/or are used in this study. Furthermore, we engage available and relevant literature with the aim to discover various positions of scholars regarding these concepts in the past. This will guide as we navigate…

For the last one hundred years, the Armenian people have existed as a diaspora spread around the world. This is due to the fact that in 1915 the Ottoman Empire began a campaign with the intention of ethnically cleansing the nation of all Other. The Armenians have long held a position of “Otherness” in the world. Being a Christian people in a Muslim empire, sharing a religion but not a cultural history with a northern neighbor, and appearing white but having traits of the “Oriental” has made…

There is no contesting that there is major debate surrounding warfare of any kind, whether in terms of man-to-man combat warfare on battle grounds, modern warfare with the use of more advanced technology such as UAVs and drones or the more contemporary cyber warfare. Debates concerning the legality, morality and cost-benefit analysis of these kinds of warfare has filled the rhetoric of policy analysts, scholarly academics and national leaders on international frontiers. With the Middle-East and…

In contrary, modernists articulated the concept of poetic modernity primarily in terms of an oppositional political stance. They talked about the necessity of a literary change, or even revolution, in order to bring harmony between Persian poetry and contemporary social and political issues. They argued that they could not use the old vehicles for carrying the new concepts. In this regard, according to Karimi-Hakkak, “[T]he new poetry is said to differ from the old in that it no longer follows…

Ever since Sudan gained independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956, its political landscape has experienced seemingly endless sociopolitical and economic turmoil due to ethnic conflicts amongst the 570 different tribes with diverse sets of faiths, social backgrounds and cultures, and more so due to religious tensions and power politics between the dominant Arab-Islamic North and the repressed Christian South. The 1989 coup d’etat resulted in the successful overthrow of democratically elected…

When we hear the word “genocide” we at once remember the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. About 6 million of people became victims of the Holocaust, 1.5 million of Armenians were killed in the Armenian Genocide, these huge numbers will always remain in our minds. A lot of people lost their families, homes and the ability to live in peace. These actions, by no means, left imprint on our ancestors whose peaceful life was disrupted. The problem of genocide is currently central problem of our…

9/11, the date that every American knows. The day upon which the United States of America was attacked by a group of terrorists. Specifically al Qaeda. The attack made Americans feel vulnerable to more attacks; but, the event sparked nationalism that led to war in a foreign country that did not have much to with the attacks on 9/11. The country of Iraq was invaded by the United States of America in 2003 under notions that did not connect entirely. The Iraq War of 2003, a war that could have been…