“hashemiat (odes), a jihad of pen-like kind”

Hizbullah’s Jihad Concept

This paper argues that Hizbullah’s jihad concept essentially derives from the underprivileged status of the Lebanese Shiite community at the time of the appearance of the party in the early 1980s. Although the ideology of Hizbullah and the articulation of its jihad concept borrowed heavily from ayatollah Khomeini’s doctrinal contributions to Shiism, Hizbullah has readily adapted itself to the n...

Jihad vs . McWorld

Just beyond the horizon of current events lie two possible political figures—both bleak, neither democratic. The first is a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened Lebanonization of national states in which culture is pitted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe—a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against every...

A New Kind of Fibonacci-Like Sequence of Composite Numbers

An integer sequence (xn)n≥0 is said to be Fibonacci-like if it satisfies the binary recurrence relation xn = xn−1 + xn−2, n ≥ 2. We construct a new type of Fibonacci-like sequence of composite numbers. 1 The problem and previous results In this paper we consider Fibonacci-like sequences, that is, sequences (xn) ∞ n=0 satisfying the binary recurrence relation xn = xn−1 + xn−2, n ≥ 2. (1)

INTEGRATION OF SYSTEMS OF ODEs VIA NONLOCAL SYMMETRY-LIKE OPERATORS

We apply nonlocal symmetry-like operators to systems of two first and two second-order ordinary differential equations to seek reduction to quadratures. The reduction of order of such systems is carried out with the help of analytic continuation of scalar equations in the complex plane. Examples are taken from the literature. Precisely it is shown how the reduction to quadratures of a system of...

First Integrals of a Special System of Odes (TECHNICAL NOTE)

In this paper we suggest a method to calculate the first integrals of a special system of the first order of differential equations. Then we use the method for finding the solutions of some differential equations such as, the differential equation of RLC circuit.

Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad