11/17/2018

Headline November 17, 2018/ '' ' WORLD HISTORY WONDER ' '' : STUDENTS


'' ' WORLD HISTORY WONDER ' '' : 

STUDENTS




BE IT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, King Salman, President Sissi, President Erdogan, President Putin, President Xi, Prime Minister Mahathir, Chancellor Angel Merkel............

ALL THE WORLD LEADERS - to the very first and last leader, has an ever growing respect for the The World Students Society and -
And its master global publication : Sam Daily Times : ''The Voice Of The Voiceless''.

Prime Minister Imran Khan, Proud Pakistan's formidable son - [to the initiated] - has the highest respect and love for the Great Heroes, the Founders of The World Students Student Society :

Merium, Rabo, Hussain, Shahzaib Khan/US, Jordan/US, Haleema, Dee, Saima, Zilli, Sarah, Ali,  Malala/Oxford, Zainab/Europe, Vishnu/India,  Seher Khan/Kings College, Salar Khan/US, Bilal Malik/US, Toby/China, Haider Sultan, Reza/Canada- Zaeem Khan, Danyial/ Rahym/UK..........

Juniper/Japan, Aqsa Sultan, Dantini/Malaysia, Armeen/LUMS, Faraz Majeed. Ali Hassan, Wajahat,  Mustafa/LUMS,  Emaan/LUMS, Lakshmi/India, Ibrahim/LUMS, Jennifer/Australia, Awais Khattak, Omer, Nina, Ghazi, Tooba and Sherbano.

Little Founder Angels : Maynah, Maria, Harem, Ibrahim, Hannyia and Merium/Europe. 

The World Students Society stops to pay respects with a standing ovation for all the Leaders of Mankind.

THE PRIMARY areas of academic interest of both luminaries Toynbee and Gibbon were also identical. More importantly, both held on to the cyclical theory of history.

Both had obsession of sorts with Greco-Roman civilization/empire. Pathos and lamentation over the decline are quiet evident from the volumes of scholarship that both so assiduously produced.

Undoubtedly, crucial was that time when Greco / Roman civilization/empire had already passed its prime, which was a tragedy, but another layer of tragedy was added which compounded the collective pathos and sense of guilt.

That tragedy was that of Jesus Christ's crucifixion.

The significance of these events in fostering Western sensibility can hardly be under-emphasised.  Many years ago, in Forman Christian [FC] College, Professor Ashfaque Sarwar while in conversation with young lecturers sensitised them with the pivotal importance that ''Tragedy'' holds in spawning any collective sensibility.

He mentioned that Jesus Christ's crucifixion as a  tragic event of singular importance that has shaped the European episteme and usually finds articulation in literature and arts.

Behind every big thought or idea, 'there is 'Tragedy'. Thus some pace be devoted to explain its connotation as well as importance.

Richard L. Rubens considers tragedy as a mode of experience, a subjective shaping and way of organising the data of existence. What is tragic does not inhere in the external events, but rather in the internal meaning with which events are imbued and interpreted.

The central characteristic of the tragic sense of life is its insistence on the balance between the striving for rationality on the one hand, and the recognition of the underlying irrationality of existence on the other.

It is in tragedy that the most fundamental questions of existence are repeatedly raised. The tragic vision is ceaselessly and heroically insists on answers to these questions.

The stretch figure stretches the limits of his  knowledge and understanding often to a frightening    -and sometimes to a dangerous extent.

The question that is worth asking about the relationship of tragedy with the historical event.

Can we categorise the War of Independence 1857 as a tragedy? Or when we say the tragedy of  Karbala, do we refer to the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain or the whole event is is designated as tragedy.

If the whole event of of Karbala is referred as a tragedy then its conceptual confines encroach upon the territory of history.

By the same analogy we can safely conclude that the decline of the Roman Empire was depicted as a tragedy.

Until quite recently, many a European ruler tried to emulate Roman Emperors. Such has been the  European nostalgia of the Roman past.

All I want here to assert is that the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire is yet another tragedy that underpins the Western epistemic sensibility.

That is also factor making Gibbon and Toynbee as exponents of Roman history and the decline of the  Roman Empire relevant to current historical scholarship

For-us they are relevant as the upholders of Western imperial interests.
With many thanks and best wishes for Professor Tahir Kamran, The Professor of History at GCU, Lahore/Pakistan.

With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world and Mankind. See Ya all  prepare for Global Elections  and ''register'' on : wssciw.blogspot.com   -The World Students Society   -for every subject in the world and................Twitter- !E-WOW! - the Ecosystem 2011::

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