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Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?

...world, from West Africa to Southeast Asia. This phenomenon came to be known as “closing the Gate of Ijtihad,” to indicate that there is no theological space for new creative juridical thinking. There was, of course, no “Gate of Ijtihad” to be closed, and nobody had the authority to close the gate even if one had existed. The metaphor, however, highlighted the...
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A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...world making of them? Writing in the New Yorker, Pankaj Mishra suggests that Donald Trump is fulfilling a prediction made by Rousseau: Rousseau’s rejoinders to cosmopolitan commercialism have constituted the basic stock-in-trade of cultural and economic nationalists worldwide. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, which is busy purging pro-E.U. “liberal élites”...
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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...world wars in the 20th century came come closer together to cooperate, this placed the Irish-British conflict – symbolised by the border and partition - into a new context. Then the peace process began with the 1994 IRA ceasefire and the signing of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement in 1998. Improved relations and increased cooperation between the British and Irish...
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Lifecycle of the Car Industry
Money & Business

Lifecycle of the Car Industry

...world but no cars, and to this day I don't understand why. Sometimes an idea that's perfectly viable doesn't happen even though people have the technology, have the means of doing it – it just doesn't happen, it just comes along too early in some respects." It was the invention of the internal combustion engine that saw what economists call the introductory phase of the...
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Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...worlds, very different to Earth. I want to explore those alien worlds, to understand what they mean for the potential for life and what they can tell us about our own origins. If we find that the icy moons, the ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus, don’t have any life and never did, that tells us something. It tells us that our understanding of how life originates is...
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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...worlds rather than reflecting on what already exists. New conversations The implication is clear: professional growth happens not primarily through formal interventions, but through the informal textures of professional practice. It is found in the conversations over coffee, the chance hallway encounters, the small kindnesses within communities where we feel, recalibrate...
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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...world's stage in Rio. But just the opportunity to compete isn't enough. We need more media coverage of athletes with disabilities. We need more education about the opportunities for children with disabilities to get involved with sports. We need more than just 66 hours of coverage of the Paralympics. Read the full article at Upworthy: Why #FillTheSeats is about more than...
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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...world are coping with the impacts of environmental change. In part 1, we join a research expedition in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, to explore how geography matters to people's 'common-sense' understandings of safety and well-being. Dr Johanna Wadsley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Geography Department of the Open University. This article is based on research...
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