tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262442148452124079.post6801040557029141940..comments2024-03-16T06:23:45.453-06:00Comments on The Odyssey: One World Under Laughter: Yours, Mine or Ours? Part 3TheHoopoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00043702245159146130noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262442148452124079.post-46421271633636239552019-10-25T05:21:44.956-06:002019-10-25T05:21:44.956-06:00Epson Tech Support Team here to the printer not en...Epson Tech Support Team here to the printer not enacted blunder code 30 Contact us by Dialing Epson Customer Support Number 1-888-633-7151 Our master gives you best online help. You can profit 24*7 Support at your doorstep By our Experts. <br /><a href="https://www.epsonprintersupport247.com/how-to-fix-epson-pinter-not-activated-error-code-30/" rel="nofollow">printer not activated error code 30</a>alonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12863481876848918398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262442148452124079.post-92075796336003651502008-12-14T21:34:00.000-07:002008-12-14T21:34:00.000-07:00As with all communities/nations, it's totally self...As with all communities/nations, it's totally self-imagined! I think it was Homi Bhaba or Anderson who said that.<BR/><BR/>The Ummah exists as long as we want it to exist, in both its form and subtance. Therein lies the big problem lah - every Muslim has his or her own idea of the ideal Ummah, and what's good for it.<BR/><BR/>But the Holy Propohet s.a.w. had conceptualised the Ummah in his own way, as a grouping of all those who professed Islam and followed his way. But today we have contesting meanings and a general tension in the definition, which goes back to your question of whether it exists (in the notion imagined by the Holy Prophet)?<BR/><BR/>Wallahu a'lam!Nunbunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10049291486616058424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262442148452124079.post-25828302628622708532008-12-13T10:01:00.000-07:002008-12-13T10:01:00.000-07:00Nunbun,Using similar modes of thinking - try to an...Nunbun,<BR/><BR/>Using similar modes of thinking - try to answer this question: What is an "Ummah"?<BR/><BR/>Does it exist?TheHoopoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00043702245159146130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262442148452124079.post-46003771863886766322008-12-13T09:42:00.000-07:002008-12-13T09:42:00.000-07:00I am glad you like this article - I do too :)And h...I am glad you like this article - I do too :)<BR/>And how particularly from a grandiose notion of liberal politics and religion, it is being explained theoretically through such an atomic mundane deed of laughter.<BR/>It is also a fresh look at how we look at ourselves as "pedestal" Muslims and then how others look and constitute us.<BR/>Weber and Durkheim in play here too.TheHoopoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00043702245159146130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262442148452124079.post-35209809762350344432008-12-13T04:12:00.000-07:002008-12-13T04:12:00.000-07:00This is a very interesting three-part series, my b...This is a very interesting three-part series, my brother. Good stuff.<BR/><BR/>I've read about Foucault's work on the disempowering Gaze - how those in power use it against those without it (the Other) to establish a certain kind of surveillance or gaze to disempower them. So it's interesting to read about how laughter can be used as a similar mechanism and that people have analysed it to such an extent!<BR/><BR/>You mentioned "hoe does one define a positive community..." - a lot of writers like to write from the pedestal and "look down at the world", and end up using terms like "postive community". Obviously they had a particular community in mind - theirs! Ha.Nunbunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10049291486616058424noreply@blogger.com