The primary focus of this dissertation is to establish the extent to which ta§awwuf, commonly referred to as Islamic Spirituality, impacted on Cape Muslim culture. The study spans the time period between the arrival of ...

Since gaining academic status in South African schools, the Arabic language has always been under the spotlight. In Gauteng schools, the focus of discussion is the validity of the Nāšiٓēn as a prescribed text book and the ...

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This study postulates the existence of a notion of transcendence in immanence in the thought of Jacques Derrida. The deconstruction of, amongst others, Husserlian phenomenology and Saussurean structuralism, affords Derrida ...

While it is an undeniable historical fact that Buddhism has spread far beyond India, adapting to local circumstances and spawning new variations in the process, the process by means of which it did so is obscure. Recent ...

The study investigated Zimbabwean Christian and Muslim women who had experienced domestic violence with a view to finding out the extent to which these women used provisions of the Domestic Violence Act of 2006. The study ...

This study investigates the use of violence by Salafi-Oriented Movement Organisations. Drawing mostly from Social Movement Theory’s “political opportunity” and “resource mobilisation” thesis, it uses the Northern ...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht Konflikte zwischen leiblichen Geschwistern innerhalb der Großfamilien Abrahams und Davids. Ausgehend von ausführlichen narratologischen und kontextuellen Untersuchungen werden die Konflikte ...

Inaugural lecture of Professor Michel Clasquin-Johnson, 15 October 2014. As academics, we are all heirs to the great Socrates' assertion that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what of the professor? There ...

It is a venerable academic tradition that Mahāvīra, the founder of Jainism known in the Pāli literature as Nigantha Nātaputta , was a somewhat older contemporary of the Buddha. This article describes the role of Nigantha ...