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  • Book Review on Khaled Abou El Fadl’s The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam From The Extremists

    This book represents a chronological account of opposing ideologies between the Moderates and Puritans of the Islamic faith. The author posited a claim that Puritans dominates Moderates in a politico-power dynamics game. He is also distraught with the illogical misconceptions of some non-Muslims, albeit to misunderstanding the Islamic theology. It is divided into two parts:…

  • United States of America’s Foreign Policy in the Security of Asia-Pacific Region

    This paper will examine the determining factors through the questions posited in the course outline regarding a gradual change of focus of U.S. foreign policy from terrorism to citing fomenting predictions and future tenses that China would be a ‘threat’ in the Asia-Pacific region as well to the world. Utilizing ‘Hedging,’ one of foreign policy’s…

  • The Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

    The same peculiarity as the first paper was entailed subject to delimitations provided by the syllabus, this study will entirely focus on oil security, its political and economic adversaries concomitant with the foreign policy of Iran towards OPEC. It will explain the dynamics and mechanisms on how policies in Iran are extensively constructed especially in…

  • MIS Comprehensive Examinations (Part III, 4 of 4)

    Master in International Studies’ Comprehensive Examinations University of the Philippines-Diliman   August 24, 2009 B. Islamic Studies 221 (Arab Historiography)   Question number THREE: Ibn Khaldun’s idea and method of historiography are rare elements in both classical and modern historical and sociological writings. Why? Discuss fully.   Ibn Khaldun’s thesis on the “Science of Sociology”…

  • MIS Comprehensive Examinations (Part III, 3 of 4)

    Master in International Studies’ Comprehensive Examinations University of the Philippines-Diliman   August 24, 2009 B. Islamic Studies 221 (Arab Historiography) Question number ONE: Define and explain Arab historiography and discuss at least three (3) of its major features.   Arab historiography is a combined branch of learning of Philosophy of History and History that examines…

  • MIS Comprehensive Examinations (Part III, 2 of 4)

    Master in International Studies’ Comprehensive Examinations University of the Philippines-Diliman   August 24, 2009 A. Islamic Studies 231 (Islamic Political Thought)   Question number TWO: Discuss Al-Afghani’s “Pan-Islamism” and its various manifestations today Al-Afghani was one of the revolutionary philosophers and political scientists who expounded on the idea of Pan-Islamism. He explained the necessity of…

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