The kora sword in the Lviv Historical Museum collection is a unique and rare artefact Ukraine. However, almost did not attract attention of researchers. Thus, article analyzes historical context use koras times Gurkha wars unification Nepal under leadership Shah dynasty 1750s–1760s. cultural religious significance itself also investigated. In particular, paid to symbolism Buddhism, this place p...

This essay critiques Orientalist constructions of Chinese-Filipinos in British and American fiction, travel writing reportage over four centuries. The Chinese as skinflint entrepreneur is perhaps the oldest stereotype this repertoire, reaching back to Daniel Defoe 1725, bearing common attributes with anti-Semitic modelling Jews Europe. A century later, writers Charles Wilkes William Henry Thome...

One of the important ways of studying of the personality and character of ethnics, nations and cultures is mainly accomplished via the opinions others formed about them. Since the onset of modernity, the West has been always a major other that explored every corner of the world. Along with colonial domination, the West has always tried to study and fathom other cultures in order to establish it...

Since the late 1970s, term Orientalism has been closely associated with Edward Said (d. 2003) and his influential monograph of same name. First published in 1978, advanced a number critiques about discipline “Oriental Studies”, its frequently condescending portrayal depiction Eastern world, complex relationship between knowledge power context Middle East. As revolutionary as Said’s theses have ...

a meaningful nitary notion of Hinduism from the Indian phenomena, unless it is done by exclusion..." (Frits Staal [1989], Ritual Without Meaning, p. 397). Orientalism and the Modem Myth of "Hinduism" 165 The work of integrating a vast collection of myths, beliefs, rituals, and laws into a coherent religion, and of shaping an amorphous heritage into a rational faith known now as "Hinduism" were ...

r. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877 – 1938) was a poet-philosopher of the Indian Subcontinent, born at Sialkot in Punjab (now in Pakistan). He studied and practiced law at Lahore after completing his education at the Trinity College, Cambridge and got a doctorate in Philosophy from Munich in 1907. An intellectual of international standing, a well-known philosopher, advocate of Muslim intellectual renai...

some western scholars of shiite studies believe thatthe chief principle of justice in twelver shia islam or imamiyyah is rooted in mo’tazalediscourse while this principle has its roots in imam ali’s (as) theoretical and practical instructions. justice in imam ali’s view has an epistemological status which initiates from allah’s justice attribute; then it streams in cosmology; and after all it i...

asadabadi and motahari contened that believing in ghada and ghadar affects destiny of societies. the problem in this article is inspired by thoughts of jamal-aldin asad abadi and morteza motahari. social theories of both thinkers about ghada and ghadar are studied by comparative method. asad abadi’s theory about ghada and ghadar is more historical-experimental, during the history of before and ...

the encounter of the qur’an and the prophet (a.s) with women’s presence in social-religious and political arenas is one of the important subjects considered by the orientalists. in her article, “women and the state in early islam”, nabia abbott has investigated this subject. her extensive knowledge about the qur’an and the prophetic tradition requires us to pay a special attention to her viewpo...