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Aijaz Ahmad. Aijaz Ahmad ( Hindi: ऐजाज़ अहमद, Urdu: اعجاز احمد; 1941 – 9 March 2022) was an Indian-born American Marxist philosopher, literary theorist, and political commentator. He was the Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Humanities’ Department of Comparative Literature. [1]
Addressing the nation Sunday, Biden pointed to past examples of political upheaval, including Jan. 6 and more recently harassment of election workers, and said, “There’s no place in America ...
v. t. e. De la démocratie en Amérique ( French pronunciation: [dəla demɔkʁasi ɑ̃n‿ameˈʁik]; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 [1] and the second in 1840) [2] is a classic French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title can be translated literally as Of Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic ...
Cover of the Penguin edition. " Politics and the English Language " (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examined the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focused on political language, which, according to Orwell, "is designed ...
He wrote many books on a variety of fields, the most prominent of which are his 15-volume Interpretation and Criticism of Rumi's Masnavi, and his unfinished, 27-volume Translation and Interpretation of the Nahj al-Balagha. These works show his ideas in anthropology, sociology, moral ethics, philosophy and mysticism. Mohammed Arkoun: Algeria
As of May 2022, the Lebanese Forces is the biggest Christian political party in Lebanon. [24] Under the terms of an agreement known as the National Pact between the various political and religious leaders of Lebanon, the president of the country must be a Maronite, the Prime Minister must be a Sunnite, and the Speaker of Parliament must be a ...
Khosrow I (also spelled Khosrau, Khusro or Chosroes; Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩; New Persian: خسرو [ xosˈroʊ̯ ]), traditionally known by his epithet of Anushirvan ( انوشيروان [ ænuːʃi:rˈvɔːn] "the Immortal Soul"), was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 531 to 579. He was the son and successor of ...
Traditional political concepts in Islam include leadership by elected or selected successors to Muhammad, known as Caliphs in Sunnī Islam and Imams in Shīʿa Islam; the importance of following the Islamic law ( sharīʿa ); the duty of rulers to seek consultation ( shūrā) from their subjects; and the importance of rebuking unjust rulers.