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Part I. Study: 1. The Life of Būluṣ Ibn Rajā' -- 2. The Context for Ibn Rajā''s The Truthful Exposer -- 3. The Arguments and Sources of The Truthful Exposer -- 4. The Reception of The Truthful Exposer -- Part II. The Truthful Exposer (Kitāb al-Wāḍiḥ bi-al-Ḥaqq) -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical and Qur'anic Citations -- Index of People, Places, and Subjects.

The breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991 had significant repercussions on Chinese politics, foreign policy, and other aspects. In this book, Jie Li examines the evolution of Chinese intellectual perceptions of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 1990s, before and after the collapse. Relying on a larger body of updated Chinese sources, Li re-evaluates many key issues in post-Mao Chinese Sovietology, arguing that the Chinese views on the Soviet Union had been influenced and shaped by the ups-and-downs of Sino-Soviet (and later Sino-Russian) relations, China's domestic political climate, and the political developments in Moscow. By researching the country of the Soviet Union, Chinese Soviet-watchers did not focus on the USSR alone, but mostly attempted to confirm and legitimize the Chinese state policies of reform and open door in both decades. By examining the Soviet past, Chinese scholars not only demonstrated concern for the survival of the CCP regime, but also attempted to envision the future direction and position of China in the post-communist world

In recent years, the Swedish Armed Forces have produced and distributed highly edited video clips on YouTube that show moving images of military activity. Along- side this development, mobile phone apps have emerged as an important channel through which the user can experience and take an interactive part in the staging of contemporary armed conflict. This article examines the way in which the aes- thetic and affective experience of Swedish defence and security policy is socially and (media-)culturally (co-)constructed and how the official representation of Swedish military intervention (re)produces political and economic effects when these activi- ties are distributed through traditional and social media such as YouTube and digital apps. Based on Isabela and Norman Fairclough's thoughts on political discourse, Michel Foucault's dialectic idea of power/knowledge, and Sara Ahmed's concept of the affective, I discuss how the Swedish digital military aesthetic is part of a broader political and economic practice that has consequences beyond the digital, the semi- otic, and what might at first glance appear to be pure entertainment. ; In recent years, the Swedish Armed Forces have produced and distributed highly edited video clips on YouTube that show moving images of military activity. Alongside this development, mobile phone apps have emerged as an important channel through which the user can experience and take an interactive part in the staging of contemporary armed conflict. This article examines the way in which the aesthetic and affective experience of Swedish defence and security policy is socially and (media-)culturally (co-)constructed and how the official representation of Swedish military intervention (re)produces political and economic effects when these activities are distributed through traditional and social media such as YouTube and digital apps. Based on Isabela and Norman Fairclough's thoughts on political discourse, Michel Foucault's dialectic idea of power/knowledge, and Sara Ahmed's concept of the affective, I discuss how the Swedish digital military aesthetic is part of a broader political and economic practice which has consequences beyond the digital, the semiotic and what might at first glance appear to be pure entertainment.

Behandelt werden u.a. folgende Themen: Rechtliche Konfrontation von Terrorismus in ägyptischer und italienischer Rechtsprechung; Dimensionen des Terrorismus; islamische politische Bewegungen; Iran und radikale politische Gruppen im Nahen Osten; Sudan und die islamische Bewegung; Islamisten und bewaffnete Gewalt in Algerien; die Krise zwischen Libyen und dem Westen; religiöse Gewalt in Marokko; Afghanen und Araber - grenzüberschreitende Gewalt. (DÜI-Sdt)

Zehn Beiträge zu den Menschenrechten in der internationalen und arabischen Politik, die sich sowohl mit Fragen der Ideologie, der Ethik, des internationalen Systems, der internationalen Bewegungen, den Ost-West-Beziehungen, der politischen Umwälzungen als auch der Natur der arabischen Staaten, des palästinensischen Befreiungskampfes, der Bemühungen um Menschenrechte und um gemeinsame Abkommen beschäftigen. Zum Abschluß ein Bericht über das erste Symposium über Menschenrechte in Ägypten. (DÜI-Sdt)

Būluṣ ibn Rajāʾ (ca. 955–ca. 1020) was a celebrated writer of Coptic Christianity from Fatimid Egypt. Born to an influential Muslim family in Cairo, Ibn Rajāʾ later converted to Christianity and composed The Truthful Exposer ( Kitāb al-Wāḍiḥ bi-l-Ḥaqq ) outlining his skepticism regarding Islam. His ideas circulated across the Middle East and the Mediterranean in the medieval period, shaping the Christian understanding of the Qurʾan's origins, Muḥammad's life, the practice of Islamic law, and Muslim political history. This book includes a study of Ibn Rajāʾ's life, along with an Arabic edition and English translation of The Truthful Exposer