A Pact of Brotherhood from Sufyân (Northern Yemen)

American Brotherhood

Today, the United States is confronted by a seemingly similar scenario, in which the anxieties of millions of Americans have been aroused by adversaries who threaten them at home as well as overseas [3]. And once again, a U.S. senator is pandering to those anxieties. On January 10, 2017, Ted Cruz (R.-Tex.) introduced legislation, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, that would requ...

Brotherhood of Self-Criticism

army with a gratuity in 1947, paid for inside information about horse racing and 'lived like a king for six months'. Then he got greedy and didn't pay enough for the tips, lost all his money and had to take a job at an auctioneers. He stole clothes and shoes from the sale room so that he could bet his wages with the street bookmaker. He married in 1950 and vividly remembers the staff collection...

A brotherhood of foxes: generalists sticking together.

Christmas with the Brotherhood

Over the weekend following Christmas 2015, as many as 10,000 Muslims convened at Chicago’s McCormick Place for the 14th annual Muslim American Society-Islamic Circle of North America (MAS-ICNA) Convention. Neatly bearded men, typically in casual western clothes were much in evidence, along with a few in business suits and some in traditional, billowing cotton tunics and pants. As for the women,...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...