واقعہ غرانیق اور بیسویں صدی كے مستشرقین كی تحریرات

Orientalists in general have tried to smear the authentically excellent image of the Last Prophet (s. a. w.) and the Qur'an in an effort to cast doubt about the reliability of both the Prophet (s. a. w.) as the Final Messenger of Allah and the Qur'an as the revealed words of Allah. Among other issues they have touched and dwelt on one is what they allegedly refer to as Satanic Verses (praise ofgharEnEq [deities]). Some Orientalists of20th century like Karen Armstrong, Montgomery Watt, and Maxime Rodinson have paid special attention to this issue in their respective works. The very objective of their approach to this false story is to prove that the revelation of the Qur'an was not genuinely from Allah. They dishonestly ignored the very position of this incident fabrication. Many renowned Muslim scholars like Al-Qurtabi, Al-Radi, Qadi Ayaz, andIbnal-’Arab i proved the story related to Satanic Verses as totally baseless. This article analyses Orientalists' views on these called Satanic Verses and concludes that Orientalists failed to maintain their objectivity in their description of the story.

Business Strategy and Organizational Performance: Measures and Relationships

The contemporary literature is challenging the original idea that strategic purity leads to superior performance. Similarly, there is an inconclusive debate in extant literature about the superiority of strategic consistency over strategic flexibility. To address these issues, the objectives of the research include: the refinement of scoring methodology for classification of strategic types and strategic behavior of the firms; the comparison of strategic groups’ performance across firm size and industry; strategy-performance, size-performance, industry-performance, contingent effect of strategy, size, and industry on performance; and the comparative analysis of single industry results with multi-industry results for generalization. Drawing on the contingency theory perspective, Miles and Snow typology is used for operationalization of strategic types using seven years archived financial data of 307 joint stock companies listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE). The findings reveal that the defending and analysing strategies perform better than prospecting and reacting strategies. Hybrid strategies outperformed pure strategies while both consistent and flexible strategies performed equally well and outperformed the reactors. The performance of strategic types varies with the change in firm size and industry. The results imply that for better performance, firms in Pakistan should either compete on the basis of service, price, quality, and operational excellence or should focus on a balance of innovation and core product development. Innovation, rapid growth and new product developments is non-profitable. Similarly, inconsistent strategic behaviour results in poor performance. The conceptualization of pure, hybrid, consistent, and flexible strategic types, identification of strategic transition of the firms to find out behaviour along with their empirical testing, refinements in methodology for objective measures, a comparison of single industry vs multi-industry results are the major contributions of the study. Typology-driven theorizing for hybrid, consistent, and flexible strategic types is one of the promising area for future research