1993.02.26USANew York, NY61040Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers. 1993.01.25USALangley, VA23A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the head...
mosques were built to face Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, and are dome shaped, with a line marked on the interior wall connecting the center of the dome to the side of the building facing Mecca. Another important feature of mosques is a minaret, or tower, from which ...
Islamic "Case Law" and the Logic of Consequence not necessarily any less culturally characteristic of the broader societies than the modes of thought or forms of interaction found in a monastery, a market center, or a men's club-all of which anthropologists readily enter without further specializ...
My point is not that the Communists were “good,” but that one would expect institutional religion to benefit the masses both spiritually and materially, yet the Catholic Church et al. in Czechoslovakia apparently did neither, or at least fell short in each of these areas, whereas the Communi...
vHMML is an initiative of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. The project began as a partnership between HMML staff and developers from the Center for Digital Humanities at Saint Louis University (James Ginther, PI) and the Carolingian Canon Law Project at the University of Kentucky (Abigail...
Shopping center Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Souq Waqif is a marketplace in Doha, in the state of Qatar. Souq Waqif is situated 1 km southwest of Museum of Islamic Art.Qatar National Library Library Photo: Abdulmutallib1111, CC BY-SA 4.0. Qatar National Library is a non-profit...
(from Turkey) representing two puff adders. Above each of these is a small framed excerpt, in Arabic, from the Koran. Above these, in the center of the wall is a beautiful prayer rug depicting the mosque of Little St. Sofia. Scattered about the other walls are pictures of Mohammedans ...
As has been argued above, at the center of the anatheistic university, there is a greater question of existential consequence, namely that of meaning. The problem of imagination, and how we create meaning in the world of knowledge, infers a greater discussion of the implicated view of ...