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The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Established in 1995, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership aims to create a free trade area including 30 countries and 800 million people by early in the 21st century. This book offers an assessment of the Partnership and its aims.
Megacities
As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will have up to 60 ‘megacities’ – urban areas with more than five million inhabitants. With the irresistible economic attractions of urban centers, particularly in developing countries, making the influx of citizens unstoppable, many of humankind’s coming social, economic and political dramas will be played out in megacities. This book shows how geographers and Earth scientists are contributing to a better understanding of megacities. The contributors analyze the impact of socio-economic and political activities on environmental change and vice versa, and identify solutions to the worst proble...
Islam in Southeast Asia
Examines the role, relevance and challenges, as well as the political and strategic dimensions of Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.
Ifta' and Fatwa in the Muslim World and the West
During the formative classical period of Islamic jurisprudence, wellknown scholars possessed not only the intellectual skills required for analytic reasoning, but also a broad general knowledge of the fi elds relevant to the cultural contexts in which they issued their edicts. A viable fatwa requires knowledge of the Shari‘ah as well as local customs, cultural realities, individual and communal implications, and related matters. The original juristic tradition was formulated and fi xed during the fi rst three Islamic centuries, a time of widespread sociopolitical turmoil. Of course, the jurists’ legal outlooks and thinking processes could not have escaped this reality. While Muslims of t...
Where the Life Dries Out
The three primeval qualities of nature are Sattva (mode of goodness), Rajah (mode of passion) and Tamah (mode of ignorance). All these three modes of qualities, produced by material nature, confine the immortal soul to the mortal body. Now, the mode of goodness being purest than others confines in the happiness. The mode of passion confines in the material fugitive activities and the mode of ignorance enveloping the wisdom is enamoured in misfortune. From the material nature is created six enemies of life at every moment: sex-passions (kaam), rage (krodh), greed (lobh), infatuation (moho), vanity (mada) and envy (matsarya). Superabundance and the influence of these six passions sometimes outpoured the emotion of human life and were sometimes devastated. Human life, as influenced by these six passions, was cast off to the earth like dried leaves. The reason for this short explanation is that the collection of six stories described how the human life is cast off like dried leaves, due to the influence of the six passions. The readers will get concrete indication about the six enemies of human life, which may help them to adjust their lives in a righteous way.
