العلوم الاجتماعية في العالم العربي : أشكال الحضور : قراءة أولية في التقرير الأول للمجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعية = Social Sciences in the Arab World : Forms of Presence : A Primary Reading in the First Arab Social Sciences Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 209-216
Author(s):  
محمد سعدي
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Primary Reading

Arab intellectual concepts for cultural sociology

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Strong Programme

This paper presents new cultural concepts drawn from the Arab world. The terms ‘other underdevelopment’ and ‘cultural symbols’ are new as terms as well as cultural concepts in today's social sciences. As such, they are in favour of the development of cultural sociology with a ‘strong programme’. This paper argues that the building of a cultural theory based on a different epistemology and on new cultural concepts is a legitimate possibility. This potential contribution to the growing cultural sociology has been done independently before the official meaning of cultural sociology was generally adopted.

scholarly journals Education In The Arab Gulf States and the Arab World

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-175
Author(s):  
Zeinab Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Arab Gulf ◽  
Arab Gulf States

Education In The Arab Gulf States And The Arab World: An AnnotatedBibliography is divided into six parts. Each part contains between one toten chapters according to the topic. In the preface, the author mentions thatshe includes all references found in US libraries and the Libraryof Congress and does not include references from Arab countries. Shealso mentions that she was "selective" in her choices of what to includeand what not. For example, literature from the social sciences thatcontained a lot of stereotyping and biased information about Islam, Arabsand Arab society in general was excluded. Unpublished works alsowere not included. The author then describes her method of listing thebibliography: when there was literature available on the Arab world ingeneral, she included that, and then she would list the seven Gulf States inalphabetical order. If there were no references for a country, then thecountry is not mentioned and she jumps to the next country in that order.Part One contains only one chapter, which is the introduction. ElSannbarypresents an historical overview of the Gulf States, which is herfocus: Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UnitedArab Emirates. A map of the region is presented on page four. She surveysthe history and the present conditions of the seven states economically,politically and educationally. The rest of the chapter includes a one-pagesummary on all the topics, which are mainly the chapters that follow.Part Two comes under the heading "General Background andResources", and consists of three chapters. Chapter Two, "Context ofEducation", contains 165 entries. It starts with the Arab World (entry 1-52)followed by Bahrain (52-60), Iraq (61-76), Kuwait (77-95), Oman (96-102), Qatar (103-108), Saudi Arabia (109-154), and the United ArabEmirates, (155-165). This is the system followed throughout the wholebook. When there is no literature available on a country, it is notmentioned. Chapter Three, "Bibliographies and References", starts withgeneral references (166- 215), and then is followed by Iraq (216), Kuwait(217), Oman (218-2190, Qatar (220-223), United Arab Emirates (224)and finally educational references (225-259). Chapter Four, "Religion andEducation," lists 120 entries (260-380) ...

A Cognitive Arab Uprising?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Arab Uprisings

This chapter is a synthetical one, drawing on previous work on knowledge production in the Arab world in the last decade. It will contribute to the debate about how scholarship in the Arab region has struggled with some dichotomies before being able to partially transgress them. The author presents different research trends that have evolved from mainstream critical “glocal” (global/local) trends to the more polarized ones of postcolonial and Islamic perspectives. When analyzing the latter, the author also highlights differences between the trends that existed or evolved previous to and immediately following the 2011 Arab uprisings—cognitively inspired movements that were induced by paradigm shifts in the Arab social sciences.

scholarly journals The Modernization of the Hawza?

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Kassem
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Educational Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
Decolonial Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Course Material

A hawza is the establishment responsible for the training of Shia Islam’s imams, preachers, professors, and researchers. For hundreds of years, its educational model has involved the teaching of Fikh,Usul, philosophy, Quranic studies and Arabic language. Over the past few decades, the social sciences—the systematic study of man and society which had emerged in the West—have been slowly making their way into these institutions, alongside a number of other changes. This article investigates, qualitatively, the religious training of Shia men of religion in Lebanon in order to explore the changes taking place within this institution. Based on a triangulation of participant observation, interviews with professors, students, and stakeholders, as well as content analysis of certain course material, it claims a hawza in metamorphosis. While structural and material alterations have straightforwardly made their way into the institution, content and curricular ones have faced more difficulty. These changes reveal plenty about both Islamic education and Shia Islam in Lebanon’s public sphere. Additionally, the article raises questions and insights regarding decolonial theory, Lebanon’s future, and the geopolitics of the Arab world.

Introduction to the Forum on Liminality

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVER B. NEUMANN
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Victor Turner ◽  
The Social ◽  
Process Oriented

In 1909, Arnold van Gennep wrote a book on the rites of passage where he discussed what he called the liminal phase (from Lat. limes, border, pl. limites) through which boys in a number of cultures had to pass in order to become men. With his Dutch name, his German birth, his move to France with his divorced mother at the ripe age of six, and his interest in the Arab world, he was nothing if not a man in transition between different life worlds. His scholarly life, too, was a life of transit; from haute école to haute école, from France to Switzerland. To top it all, when the institutionalisation of the social sciences in France was finally hitting its stride with the emergence of Durkheim's année-school, van Gennep was marginalised. There was no closure to his scholarly travels. Van Gennep remained liminal, remained in becoming. In his own terms, his rite de passage never ended. He went from pre-liminality to liminality – a condition that his greatest follower, the symbolic interactionalist anthropologist Victor Turner characterised as existing betwixt and between socially recognised positions – without entering the post-liminal phase of having been fully incorporated into one of those already existing positions. Van Gennep made it his life to deal with the uncertainties and the danger that any social order ascribes to those who are between categories. With this Forum, liminality arrives within the discipline of International Relations (IR) in earnest. The rest of this Introduction will give some historical background that situates the Forum's three post-structural protagonists, note how their undertaking is part of a wider thrust towards process-oriented and relation-oriented work within the social sciences and introduce the pieces.

Staatsdenken

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
State Collapse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Ancient Times

This compilation presents both a comprehensive explanation of the current theory of the State and a highly detailed examination of the contributions of the most eminent political thinkers and the most important trends in state philosophy to today’s understanding of what the idea of ‘State’ refers to. In this work, renowned philosophers, historians, and experts in social sciences, cultural studies and law from universities and research institutes throughout Europe present a multifaceted examination of state philosophies from ancient times to post democracy in fifteen equally weighted chapters. Each chapter is based on a specific focus, beginning with classical and conservative state philosophies, and stretching from liberal and feminist thinking to anarchist and religious ideologies. This book places a great deal of emphasis on the underlying principles of states in other cultures, including China, India, the Arab world and post-colonial Africa. The book’s concluding observations on the idea of the State of the future outline the problems of loss of sovereignty, state collapse and post democracy against a backdrop of globalization, economization and individualization. Contributions by: Helga Albrecht, Andreas Anter, Olaf Asbach, Friedrich Balke, Ernst Baltrusch, Michael Becker, Hannah Bethke, Karl-Heinz Breier, Michael Brie, Norbert Campagna, Lars Distelhorst, Sabine Doyé, Dominik Finkelde, Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Alexander Gantschow, Eva Geulen, Gerhard Göhler, Dieter Grimm, Martin Gronau, Gregor Hain, Hendrik Hansen, Leonhard Harding, Oliver Hidalgo, Wilhelm Hofmann, Frauke Höntzsch, Dana Ionescu, Matthias Jestaedt, Dirk Jörke, John Kannankulam, Stefan Koslowski, Oliver W. Lembcke, Rochus Leonhardt, Roland Lhotta, Mathias Lindenau, Marion Löffler, Gundula Ludwig, Günter Maschke, Jean-Christophe Merle, Dominique Fabian Miething, Andreas Niederberger, Claudia Opitz-Belakhal, Henning Ottmann, Gregor Paul, Thore Prien, Walter Reese-Schäfer, Claudia Ritzi, Samuel Salzborn, Stefano Saracino, Birgit Sauer, Peter Seyferth, Thomas Schölderle, Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann, Ulrich Seeber, Veith Selk, Harald Sippel, Tine Stein, Kazuhiro Takii, Ulrich Thiele, Andreas Vasilache, Rüdiger Voigt, Christian Wendt, Stefanie Wöhl, Joachim Wurst, Holger Zapf and Barbara Zehnpfennig.

scholarly journals One-year review of COVID-19 in the Arab world

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasar Alwahaibi ◽  
Muna Al Maskari ◽  
Buthaina Al Dhahli ◽  
Halima Al Issaei ◽  
Samiya Al-Jaaidi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spss Software ◽  
One Year ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Death Cases

Abstract Aim: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected almost every country worldwide, including all 22 Arab countries. We have been following the COVID-19 pandemic in all Arab countries since it started. In this review, we aimed to assess the prevalence of COVID-19 in the Arab world for twelve months and to compare these findings with other most affected countries. Methods: World Health Organization, Worldometer and Ministries of Health websites were used to search for COVID-19 data in all Arab countries. The period was from February 2020 to February 2021. The data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 23. Results: The median age in all Arab countries was 26.25. As of March 01, 2021, the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in all Arab countries were 4,259,756. Iraq, Morocco, Jordan, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia (SA) have the highest reported cases with, 695,489, 483,766, 391,090, 390,453 and 377,383, respectively. The total number of deaths were 72,950 cases and were dominant in Iraq, followed by Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and SA with 13,406, 10736, 8637, 8022 and 6494, respectively. In comparison with the topmost affected countries, the data obtained from COVID-19 confirmed cases showed that Arab countries are ranked fourth after USA, India, and Brazil. In terms of total deaths per million, Arab countries come in the second last, before India, with only 165 cases. Conclusion: The number of confirmed and death cases among all Arab countries trigger vital worries about morbidity and mortality of COVID-19, respectively. However, younger population in the Arab world may contribute to the less death cases of COVID-19 in comparison with the topmost affected countries.

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