Middle East has world's oldest civilization due to its relevance with three great Divine Abrahamic religions i.e.,
Judaism. Christianity and Islam. The strategic importance of the region made it center-stage for the great and
regional powers to show their keen interests in the region. The region is rich in natural resources that are fulfilling
more than 80% of trade and oil needs of the world. More or less the major economies of the world are dependent
on the Middle East due to its oil reserves. This made the region more volatile and highly instable that creates threats
to the regional as well as global security.
The Arab Spring and Syrian crisis in 2011 are new developments in the region that have changed the security
environment and regional order. The imbalance in the region after Arab Spring and Syrian crisis has affected the
global security equation along with regional power balance. These two recent events in the regional politics have
divided the region into 'peace region'; Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Bahrain, Qatar and 'disturbed region'; Syria,
Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia. A purely regional issue i.e., Syrian civil war has not only affected the regional order
but also divided the world community into two major blocs having divergent objectives and policies in the region.
The Arab uprisings and Syrian crisis in 2011 provided space to regional actors such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and
Qatar to exert their influence in the region that are emerging as new regional players in the Middle East. In the
contemporary Middle East, Syria became the focal point and a playground for the great powers to achieve certain
objectives in the region. At the regional level, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Bahrain are supporting anti-Assad
forces in the region whereas, Iran along with Hezbollah and Hamas are countering the militant rebels against
downfall of Assad regime.
The recent Geneva talks of 2013 of P5+1 and Iran over Iranian nuclear controversy has increased the regional
influence of Iran. At the global level, the US, France and Great Britain are in favor of opposition in Syria; on the other
hand China and Russia are favoring the Assad regime by vetoing UN Security Council resolutions against any military
action on Syria. In the present time, Sino-Russian active presence in the regional politics of Middle East is a new
variable that has regional and global implications. Syria became a quagmire of contending interests among great
powers of the world. Russia as former super power has long history and technological military advancement along
with rising China as an economic giant to get together in the Middle East to counter the U$ and Western penetration
in the region. Beijing and Moscow have maintained a regional balance in the vulnerable security environment of the
region.
The world has witnessed that Sino-Russian nexus is important for Middle East that can bring peace and stability in
the region. The Middle East as regional security complex has been affecting super security complex at the global
front. The series of vetoes by China and Russia over Syrian conflict have marked questions on the uni-polar character
of the world order.
مولانا مختار احمد ندوی افسوس اور سخت افسوس ہے کہ راقم کے بڑے کرم فرما اور ملک کے ممتاز عالم دین مولانا مختار احمد ندوی ۹؍ ستمبر ۲۰۰۷ء کو ممبئی میں انتقال فرماگئے، ان کی تدفین دوسرے روز جوہو قبرستان میں ہوئی، اناﷲ وانا الیہ راجعون۔ مولانا مؤ شہر کے محلہ و شوناتھ پورہ میں ۱۹۳۰ء میں پیدا ہوئے تھے، ان کے والد کو جمعیۃ اہل حدیث کے سرخیل مولانا ابوالوفا ثناء اﷲ امرتسریؒ سے بڑی عقیدت تھی اور یہ عجیب اتفاق ہے کہ راقم کے والد بھی مولانا امرتسریؒ کے بڑے عقیدت مند تھے اور اکثر ان کا گن گاتے تھے، مولانا مختار احمد کے والد چاہتے تھے کہ ان کا بیٹا بھی علم دین کی تحصیل کرکے دعوت و اشاعت دین کا کام کرے، ان کی یہ آرزو پوری ہوئی اور مولانا مختار احمد برابر دعوت و تبلیغ دین کی خدمت انجام دیتے رہے۔ مؤ میں جمعیۃ اہل حدیث کے کئی بڑے مدارس ہیں، انہوں نے جامعہ عالیہ عربیہ اور فیض عام میں تعلیم حاصل کرنے کے بعد دارالحدیث رحمانیہ دہلی میں داخلہ لیا اور پھر دارالعلوم ندوۃ العلما سے کسب فیض کیا، کچھ عرصے بنارس میں مولانا ابوالقاسم بنارسی کی خدمت میں رہ کر صحیحین کا درس لیا، اس کے بعد وہ دین و دعوت کے کام انجام دینے میں مصروف ہوگئے، پہلے کلکتہ جاکر وہاں کی جامع مسجد اہل حدیث میں خطیب و امام کی ذمہ داری سنبھالی، ۱۹۶۷ء میں ممبئی آگئے اور مومن پورہ کی جامع مسجد اہل حدیث میں خطابت و امامت کے فرئض انجام دینے لگے، اس کے بعد بنگالی مسجد مدن پورہ کو اپنا مرکز بنایا، بعد میں صرف جمعہ کی امامت کرتے اور خطبہ دیتے تھے، خوش بیان تھے، ان کا خطبہ سننے کے لیے لوگ دور دراز سے آتے، راقم کو بھی یہاں ایک دوبار ان...
Inheritance is a key issue in the Islamic Knowledge base. Its importance has been clarified in Qur’an and Sunnah. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) has referred to it as half of the knowledge and has ordered of seeking inheritance and warned that this will be eliminated first from my Ummah, and also notified that this is volatile nature of knowledge which get lost after memorization if not fully cared and practiced. In the light of above mentioned Hadīths it is worth consideration to make knowledge of Inheritance practicable in everyday life. A reason could be that the arithmetic means used for the solution of Inheritance problems is complicated and time consuming. There it is important to introduce such easy and short arithmetic rules for the solution of Inheritance problem that are easily understandable by both the scholars as well as the common man. This will result in making Inheritance easy to handle and hence will become practicable. In a hadith it is stated that near the day of judgement there will be a conflict between two persons in an Inheritance issue and they will not find a scholar to resolve their problem. In this Article an Introduction and comparison of old and new easy arithmetic principles are made in scholarly manner to introduce new easy methods and draw the attention of the people to such a valuable knowledge and relieve the Phobia of the people regarding it.
A Phenomenological Study of Multilingual Memory and Lexical Access Bilingual memory has been a subject of psycholinguistic experimental studies for last 6 decades, whereas, the study of multilingual memory has so far largely been excluded. Moreover, tMhe psycholinguistic studies, though proven highly insightful, have always excessively relied on the experimental tasks used in them to the extent that subjects as language users were overshadowed. These were the two concerns that led the present study to examine two of the psycholinguistic phenomena, multilingual memory and lexical access, phenomenologically without disregarding the insight gained from psycholinguistic studies. Under the phenomenological framework, lived experiences of Punjabi-Urdu-English (P-U-E) trilinguals were explored in order to find out the processes these trilinguals employed for learning the three languages and making them work. Three of the phenomenological methods: semi-structured lifeworld interviews, focus group discussions and essay writing, were used for eliciting the experiences of 40 P-U-E trilingual participants, chosen from three different age groups (18-23 years, 30-40 years, and 50-60 years or above) to observe developmental changes in the learning and use of the three languages over a long period of time. Data explicitation was carried out using Hycner’s (1985) 15-step process, especially formulated for keeping the essence of the participants’ experiences of the phenomena intact. Major findings were: (1) the effect of the age of acquisition on the learning of new languages, L2 as well as L3, (2) Dependence on Urdu for using English and translation asymmetry at lower L3 proficiency levels, (3) Developmental aspect, (4) The need to exert conscious control for stopping interference from the other two languages in order to speak one language consistently, and (5) Proficiency as the most significant factor in lexical selection. The findings of this phenomenological study when compared with the results of psycholinguistic experimental studies, a phenomenological model emerged that attempts to capture the trilingual memory structure of a P-U-E trilingual, i.e., how the three lexicons are organized, how they interact with each other, and how lexical access is accomplished.