PEMIKIRAN POLITIK ISLAM TUAN GURU KYAI HAJI MUHAMMAD ZAINUDDIN ABDUL MAJID

Erratum for Abdul Majid et al., Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of Urease-Producing Sporosarcina koreensis

‘‘Returning Home to Our Rightful Place’’: The Nation of Islam and Muhammad Farms

This paper demonstrates how the Nation of Islam (NOI), a well known black nationalist organization, is utilizing notions of community to promote the activities and goals of its farm to other black people. The NOI ownsMuhammad Farms in rural southern Georgia, USA. Its stated purpose is to feed all black people in the United States. Historically, theNOI has occupied a radical space in the black c...

Analytical Study of Quranic Intertextuality in Poetry of Maroof Abdul Majid

One of the subjects of contemporary literary criticism is the intertextuality (Altanas) phenomenonthat generally means taking advantage of an earlier or contemporary text in speech. The poems of Maroof Abdul Majid, the contemporary Shiite Egyptianpoet,are distinguished for this feature. Among existing intertextualities in his poetry, Quranic intertextuality has allocated a considerable proporti...

GURU vs

After centuries of little change, the role of the Guru or a teacher as it has been traditionally defined and practiced in Thailand and the rest of South East Asia is on the verge of becoming an anachronism. Now it is Google, not the Guru who has all answers to the big questions of life and learning. New and emerging pedagogies are harnessing the power of Internet and Communication Technologies ...

The Guru Effect

Obscurity of expression is considered a flaw. Not so, however, in the speech or writing of intellectual gurus. All too often, what readers do is judge profound what they have failed to grasp. Here I try to explain this “guru effect” by looking at the psychology of trust and interpretation, at the role of authority and argumentation, and at the effects of these dispositions and processes when th...