Abstract The following article seeks to establish caste groups in India as Weberian status groups. Dumont and Weber’s understanding of caste, while partially correct this area, sought uniquely Indian, through their orientalist leanings. Brahmin was seen by most orientalists being an exclusive group ascetic priests who headed Hindu society. By attempting demonstrate the political economic factor...

The growing number and diversity of Muslims in the United States and Western Europe challenge clinicians and researchers to understand this population's perspectives and experiences regarding health and biomedicine. For information about Muslim patient populations, clinicians and researchers routinely consult medical literature. To examine how this literature portrays Muslims, we conducted an e...

Ismologists Nabia Abbott and Mustafa Azami specialize in the study of hadith. Many their works refute orientalist claims that Prophet's hadith was compiled by Companions generations second third centuries. The purpose this research is to glance at Azami's Abbott's opinions on Explosive Isnad Family, as well how they compare views classical scholars. This employs a literature review method. find...

Using as its background the celebration of 450 years since publication The Lusiads by Luís Vaz de Camões and several discourses which have originated in media around those same celebrations, this paper aims at analysing contribution work for shaping development Orientalist discourse Portugal. I begin listing terms that used to refer Africans, Middle Easterners Indians then compare them with mod...

the post-9/11 fiction is regarded as one of the indispensable parts of contemporary american literature. prominent novelists such as martin amis, john updike, and don delillo have directly addressed the 9/11 terrorist events in their fiction. delillo’s novels, however, have been of especial interest to the literary circles due to their decades-long preoccupation with the issue of terrorism in i...