citations   ...Studies in Islam and the Middle East, vol. 4, no. 2, (2007)

In this issue:

1. Physicians’ Contractual Responsibility According to Sharī`ah and Law

مسؤوليّة الطبيب التعاقدية بين الشريعة والقانون

د.عدنان أحمد الصمادي

This research paper aims to explain the nature of the physician responsibility for the patients weather it is a mistreatment Assam employee or a personal treatment, and to explain the difference between the two treatments the guarantee due to wrong treatment for both in the ignorant and the qualified physicians the research reached to the fact that it is a personal relation and he must warrant what he spoiled in the patient due to medical ignorance. Such a physician has to bay money and to be punished for cheating by claiming him self as a doctor. Real physician also guarantee his work if he did wrong due to his carelessness. In this case his close relatives or insurance in these days endure the money payment .In this research it was found that in the instant Moslem countries there is to deal with medical errors and there is a real need for the case. (in Arabic  بالعربية)

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2. Degrees of Implicitness in the Expression of Ideology:  Freedom of Expression vs. Racism in the Prophet Cartoon Controversy

by Dr. Akila Sellami Baklouti, Professor of Humanities

This paper argues that a piece of discourse may be multi-ideological (i.e. convey more than one ideology) and that different ideologies may be expressed with different degrees of implicitness. Focusing on anti-Muslimism as a form of racist ideology, the hypothesis posed in the first part of this work is that this ideology tends to be implicitly conveyed in public discourse. This hypothesis is empirically tested in the second part of the paper where a quantitative discourse analytic approach to a sampled corpus of opinion texts published online during the controversy over the Muslim Prophet Cartoons (September 2005-February 2006) shows that the writers of the texts apparently defend the freedom of speech while they implicitly pass on a racist anti-Muslim ideology.
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3. Victor and Victim in Philip Roth’s “Counterlife”

by Dr. S. Gohar, Professor of Literature

The paper argues that in Philip Roth’s novel, The Counterlife (1988), which engages the question of Palestine, the author’s attempt to introduce a balanced view of the Arab-Israeli conflict is undermined by a narrative strategy that favors the victor and deprives the victim from entering the text except as a non-person or a decadent oriental. An application of what Edward Said calls “contrapuntal reading” to Roth’s text reveals that the author’s tendency to offer a neutral presentation of the Middle East issue is thwarted by a hegemonic master narrative - originated in Orientalism and Western imperialism - that either removes the Palestinian subaltern out of the fictional text or conflates him with a status of cultural inferiority and barbarism by assigning him a role which conforms to his image in the colonial taxonomy of inferior races.

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