Comments on: Around the Web http://savageminds.org/2008/06/08/around-the-web-16/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:31:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: comet jo http://savageminds.org/2008/06/08/around-the-web-16/comment-page-1/#comment-383821 comet jo Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:37:29 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/06/08/around-the-web-16/#comment-383821 OK, I'll bite: can you explain why this is "disturbing"? (I don't know enough about the Middle East or Islam to judge its plausibility, but it is not clear to me that this is necessarily wrong on the face of it.) Abstract for the article follows (I've ordered it on ILL): The Inspirational Night Dream in the Motivation and Justification of Jihad Iain R. Edgar ‌ This article uses a wide variety of examples to argue that the experience of the true dream (ruya) is a fundamental, inspirational, and even strategic, part of the contemporary militant jihadist movement in the Middle East and elsewhere. Dream narratives are contextualized through a consideration of the historical role of the perceived revelatory power of the night dream in Islam. This article further explores some key aspects of Islamic dream theory and interpretation, and offers examples and analysis of the inspirational guidance claimed by many of the best known al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders and jihadists. OK, I’ll bite: can you explain why this is “disturbing”?

(I don’t know enough about the Middle East or Islam to judge its plausibility, but it is not clear to me that this is necessarily wrong on the face of it.) Abstract for the article follows (I’ve ordered it on ILL):

The Inspirational Night Dream in the Motivation and Justification of Jihad

Iain R. Edgar ‌

This article uses a wide variety of examples to argue that the experience of the true dream (ruya) is a fundamental, inspirational, and even strategic, part of the contemporary militant jihadist movement in the Middle East and elsewhere. Dream narratives are contextualized through a consideration of the historical role of the perceived revelatory power of the night dream in Islam. This article further explores some key aspects of Islamic dream theory and interpretation, and offers examples and analysis of the inspirational guidance claimed by many of the best known al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders and jihadists.

]]> By: Luis http://savageminds.org/2008/06/08/around-the-web-16/comment-page-1/#comment-379876 Luis Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:15:26 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/06/08/around-the-web-16/#comment-379876 Hmmm. No wonder free-market economist dislike Polanyi but they also dislike Marx and both probably are much sharper economists than all the free-market icons. Just that economics, as taught in University, is not a science but a an ideology - at most a technology of free-market. True economic science has been relegated to the field of history mostly (and the search for alternative technologies to that of ecology, I guess). Hmmm. No wonder free-market economist dislike Polanyi but they also dislike Marx and both probably are much sharper economists than all the free-market icons. Just that economics, as taught in University, is not a science but a an ideology – at most a technology of free-market. True economic science has been relegated to the field of history mostly (and the search for alternative technologies to that of ecology, I guess).

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