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The Dome of Rock

  Monuments are also a subject of manipulation and the Dome of Rock seems to be one of its finest examples. Located in the holy city of Jerusalem, this one monument is presently associated with all the three monotheistic faith of the city. The amount of interpolation and extrapolation done with the associated sources, in the mid of ongoing fight between the three religion or in greater sense the politics which has set its back of it has almost made it impossible for forming some concrete notions. However, the amount of study done in this area has revealed many facts but still it has led to scholarly debate. All the three faiths have weaved on their own stories which may have some element of truth but are mostly fabricated and is widely perceived among the present-day public. For Muslims, the Rock came to represent the foundation stone of the world, the Rock to which the Black Stone of the Ka'ba in Mecca would itself pay a visit on the Last Day, with the Well of Souls in the cave ...

Crisis, continuity and transformation in the making of early Medieval Western Europe (up to the 8th C.)

  INTRODUCTION The fall of antiquity and the making of early medieval Europe is mainly seen and analysed on the basis of structural differences between the East and West in Europe. The Arab conquest finally marked the end of Antiquity. The 8 th century western Europe though with its diversity were cemented together by profound resemblances giving birth to feudalism and subsequently to Modern Europe. Indeed, there were a lot of elements of crisis after the fall of antiquity, however Europe was never separated from economic prosperity and some kind of it always existed, inherited from Ancient Rome. The period of middle ages in the beginning is seen to be in a phase of crisis with slowly accommodating fusion of both elements from that of outsiders, the so called barbarians and the insiders, the Romans. The intermixture of both is seen to produce some distinct transformation finally changing even the basic mode of production, i.e, from the slave owned to the feudalistic one. ...

Hinduism expansion in India: Annihilation or assimilation?

  Hinduism considered among one of the largest Religion in world has been rethought for decades now and scholars has begun questioning its origin and nature. Due to its broad and panoptic nature it subsumes among it a lot many practices, custom and tradition. Moreover, when many scholars argue that Hinduism is just a name given to myriad of accumulated cultures is begun to be seen as a religion only from 19 th century. Hence, it has become very important today to know about its true character. Appropriation and Assimilation runs simultaneously in the process of making any entity. In case, of Hinduism this must have been the case however, it becomes important what was on greater side also, the tribal nature of Hinduism we see today has it been incorporated into it? Or is it the opposite?   While tackling with any question pertaining to Hinduism, N.K. Bose’s work “The structure of Hindu Society” becomes very important. As Bose turns out to be 1 st anthropologist who attemp...