OBJECTIVE The message of the importance of a caring doctor-patient relationship is now like an old sermon which does not impact anyone's mind or action. Observing the healing practice of the old time physicians, who valued their attitudes and relationship with their patients more than the actual interventions, this paper reviews the literature on their main therapeutic device--the placebo effec...

This paper briefly investigates the Afghan Jihad;it’s after effects and main affecters, actors events in a political geographical context. The war Afghanistan started was initially Jihad but later it not because an armed concept of (Holy war) highly misunderstood West its allies. against Soviet conflict termed as “Holy Jihad” by better-organized planned resistance Union interference. Pakistan a...

Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qa‘idat al-Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever-growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, o...

In (South) Africa, preaching should in addition to textual studies of recorded and transcribed sermon texts, also be studied as an enacted performance thus beyond the text. This article develops argument regarding need for field Homiletics Africa firstly broaden object empirical homiletical research study or performed liturgical ritual secondly, augment its existing methodologies accordingly. S...

Thomas Hegghammer, The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad (Cambridge, UK: University Printing House, 2020), 718 pp. ₹3,602, ISBN 10-0521765951 (Hardback).