Life Of Prophet Research Articles

Yazıcıoğlu Mehmed’in Muhammediye’sinde Yer Alan Cennet ve Cehennem Tasvirleri

Muhammediye, which has been drafted by Mehmed Yazicioglu in 15th century draws attention in terms of both content and continous production in the Ottoman religious works. This work which may help to understand how some topics such as life in the hereafter, doomsday and the life of prophets in the Ottoman world were perceived, has gained a different feature with the religious pictures that it includes especially with the use of the printing press in the late Ottoman Empire. Descriptions of heaven and hell in the Muhammediye printscome to the forefront due to quantity, showing the perception of heaven-hell in late period and a with a variety of different description mentality.In this study the author of Muhammediye and general information about the content, especially descriptions of heaven and hell, have been examined

7P's: A Literature Review of Islamic Marketing and Contemporary Marketing Mix

Islam viewed commerce as a vital factor in human life as long as the process is parallel with Islamic teachings pertaining to business conduct. Particularly, Allah SWT destined Prophet Muhammad SAW to be a successful businessman before his prophetic life. Since Islam is a way of life, the code of conduct of marketing should be guided by Quran and Hadith, the two main references that Muslims adhere to in order to be successful in life and the hereafter. To date, the term Islamic marketing and its existence and acceptance remains an issue that are widely debated amongst academics, students, practitioners and consumers especially in the non-Islamic countries. Since there are arguments from scholars that Islamic marketing is significant in contemporary commercial activities, the concept of 7P's in marketing should be incorporated with Islamic principles. The concept of 7P's are selected due to its’ wide acceptance as the core pillars of marketing. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to develop the understanding of 7P's based on both Islamic and contemporary perspectives of marketing. Thorough discussion pertaining to the mentioned issues will provide an in-depth understanding on each elements of the 7Ps. Furthermore, the integration of Islamic marketing and contemporary marketing can be seen as a new perspective to address the upsurge of interest towards Islamic marketing.

HAPPINESS: A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE

AbstractHappiness has both universal and culturally specific forms. This article describes three sensibilities of happiness in Judaism: the prophetic life of struggle; the happiness of ashrei, with its life of simplicity in accordance with the will of God; and simchah, the life-lived-in-relationship given supreme expression in Moses's covenantal vision in the book of Deuteronomy. Focusing, in particular, on the social vision of Moses, the article explores how Jewish notions of happiness challenge contemporary conceptions of happiness grounded in materialism and acquisition, and it discusses how a focus on material happiness threatens to undermine relationships and the social fiber that is the thread from which true and lasting happiness is woven.

The Difficult Life of Prophets and Seers

In 1995, Higher Education Policy published an issue dedicated to predicting what universities would look like in the 21st century. In this paper, we present a summary of those predictions made by leaders of higher education institutions and analyse how accurate they were in providing a vision of the future. The authors seemed to have guessed correctly, offering a ‘grand’ view of the future of the university, concentrating on its role in society and economic development, which was consistent with their mandate. However, they did not analyse the consequences of change over the working conditions of academics and the private life of institutions.

Romero’s Legacy: The Call to Peace and Justice (review)

Reviewed by: Romero’s Legacy: The Call to Peace and Justice Ernesto Valiente (bio) Romero’s Legacy: The Call to Peace and Justice. Edited by Pilar Hogan Closkey and John P. Hogan. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. 112 pp. $17.95 As his former collaborator Jon Sobrino has often noted, beyond being a prophet, true pastor, and witness of God, Archbishop Oscar Romero was good news to the poor. This collection of essays captures this spirit of Romero and keeps his [End Page 111] legacy alive by addressing various contemporary pastoral and theological concerns from the same perspective that led and infused the archbishop’s life—an unflinching commitment to the poor. The different chapters originated as lectures given between 2001 and 2007 at the Romero Center in Camden, New Jersey, to commemorate the anniversary of the archbishop’s martyrdom. In the first chapter, Father Robert McDermott, a founding member of the Romero Center, draws from his experiences on a retreat-pilgrimage to Guatemala and El Salvador to explore the lessons bequeathed by the man who inspires this book. He begins by recounting his visits to the places—some now popular shrines—where a number of recent martyrs lived and worked. The sheer quantity and temporal proximity of these deaths compel the reader to consider the intensity of the violent period endured by these two nations throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s. Having set the stage, the author then sketches Romero’s biography and highlights how it was in the apparent ordinariness of his pastoral life that Romero concretized the church’s commitment to the poor and the good news proclaimed by Christ. McDermott wisely skirts the debate over Romero’s “conversion” and focuses instead on the archbishop’s faithfulness to his prophetic life even as the country’s atmosphere became increasingly marked by chaos, intimidation, and violence. McDermott’s pilgrimage and his reflections on Romero’s past convince the author that “theological reflection and church life should start with human experience. . . especially, the poor and the marginalized in our society” (22). In the second essay, the book’s co-editor John P. Hogan examines the essential relationship between “The Eucharist and Social Justice.” Hogan observes how worship and social action were seamlessly interwoven in Romero’s pastoral life and offers this as a role model to correct the separation between these two dimensions in Christian life today. The author laments what he deems the overly individualist and therapeutic understanding of the Eucharist that has come to dominate the imagination of many contemporary Catholics and notes how this has undervalued the real presence of Christ within the body of believers. Relying on the exegetical work of John Haughey, Hogan argues that St. Paul offers a corrective view of the Eucharist when he intimates that this should be understood as the unifying presence of Christ in all the church’s members who, in turn, both mediate Christ to one another and constitute a single body. This sacramental and deeply relational way of understanding Christ’s Eucharistic presence, Hogan further suggests, should inform how the church assesses its role as a global and local actor for justice, as well as how it relates to different social, political, and economic structures and works toward God’s Kingdom. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton’s contribution, “If You Want Peace Work for Justice,” draws connections between the conditions that gave rise to Romero’s martyrdom and the most common cause for martyrdom today—the violence that emerges from social injustice. The retired auxiliary bishop of Detroit and founding president of Pax Christi USA combines the numbing power of the sheer number of contemporary martyrs with haunting anecdotes to depict the situation endured by those who most bear the consequences of an unequal world. The vast disparities in the world’s wealth and resources are no accident, the bishop argues. Rather this inequality is largely the product of human decisions and what has come to be defined by the Catholic Church as structural social injustice—namely social arrangements that work to the detriment of individuals or groups within that society. The article [End Page 112] recalls the prophetic stances of Paul VI and John Paul II in...

On the typology and the worship status of sacred trees with a special reference to the Middle East

This article contains the reasons for the establishment of sacred trees in Israel based on a field study. It includes 97 interviews with Muslim and Druze informants. While Muslims (Arabs and Bedouins) consider sacred trees especially as an abode of righteous figures' (Wellis') souls or as having a connection to their graves, the Druze relate sacred trees especially to the events or deeds in the lives of prophets and religious leaders. A literary review shows the existence of 24 known reasons for the establishment of sacred trees worldwide, 11 of which are known in Israel one of these is reported here for the first time. We found different trends in monotheistic and polytheistic religions concerning their current worship of sacred trees.