Ajami, Fouad
Fouad A. Ajami (Arabic: فؤاد عجمي; September 18, 1945 – June 22, 2014), was a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Ajami was an outspoken supporter of the Iraq War, the nobility of which he believed there "can be no doubt".
‘ajemi oghlan
‘ajemi oghlan. Turkish term which literally means “foreign children.” The ‘ajemi oghlan were the children and adolescents drafted in the Christian provinces of the Ottoman Empire by the devshirme system who became Janissaries -- the Sultan’s personal bodyguards and servants.
oghlan, 'ajemi see ‘ajemi oghlan.
“foreign children” see ‘ajemi oghlan.
‘ajemi oghlan. Turkish term which literally means “foreign children.” The ‘ajemi oghlan were the children and adolescents drafted in the Christian provinces of the Ottoman Empire by the devshirme system who became Janissaries -- the Sultan’s personal bodyguards and servants.
oghlan, 'ajemi see ‘ajemi oghlan.
“foreign children” see ‘ajemi oghlan.
Akan
Akan. Refers to the Akan speaking peoples of West Africa who inhabit the tropical rain forest and the transitional savannah in the southern half of Ghana and the western part of the Volta region, Togo and the Ivory Coast.
Despite a high degree of cultural homogeneity, the Akan may be divided into four major linguistic subgroups of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family: the Twi, the Fante, the Nzema and the Anyi-Bawle. Each of these is subdivided into dialect groups or individual ethnic groups (called tribes in Ghana), the largest of which is the Twi-Asante, the best known and most influenced by Islam.
Historians disagree on the precise ethnogenesis of the Akan. Evidence indicates that no one particular locality can be described categorically as the cradle of the Akan. Multi-lineal development seems to have occurred in the northern Brong savanna, in the Adanse forests and along the Etsi coastline. Akan civilization apparently evolved in stages, beginning about the year 1000 of the Christian calendar among agricultural communities based on iron technology and moving through the development of urban settlements and small principalities between 1400 and 1600. It crystallized in the rise of large kingdoms between 1600 and 1850, the most illustrious being the Asante Empire, stemming from profitable long range international trade, the spread of firearms, Islamic influences and European imperialism.
Despite the militant expansion of Islam in West Africa, especially in the early nineteenth century, its success does not seem to have affected the majority of ethnic groups in Ghana. Nevertheless, Islam in one form or another and some degree of Arabic scholarship have managed to penetrate far into the savanna country and even to the tropical forest to such places as Salaga and Kumasi in the northern and Ashanti regions, respectively.
Today, about five percent of the Akan are Muslim. A large majority of orthodox Muslims in Ghana are Sunni of the Maliki school: others follow Shafi rites.
The Akan people are an ethnic linguistic group of West Africa.
From the 15th century to 19th century, the Akan people dominated gold mining and gold trade in the region. Akan art is wide-ranging and renowned, especially for the tradition of crafting bronze gold weights, which were made using the lost wax casting method. Branches of the Akan include the Abron and the Afutu. The Akan culture is the most dominant and apparent in present-day Ghana. Some of their most important mythological stories are called anansesem. Anansesem literally means 'the spider story', but can in a figurative sense also mean "traveler's tales". These "spider stories" are sometimes also referred to as nyankomsem; 'words of a sky god'. The stories generally, but not always, revolve around Kwaku Ananse, a trickster spirit, often depicted as a spider, human, or a combination thereof.
Akan. Refers to the Akan speaking peoples of West Africa who inhabit the tropical rain forest and the transitional savannah in the southern half of Ghana and the western part of the Volta region, Togo and the Ivory Coast.
Despite a high degree of cultural homogeneity, the Akan may be divided into four major linguistic subgroups of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family: the Twi, the Fante, the Nzema and the Anyi-Bawle. Each of these is subdivided into dialect groups or individual ethnic groups (called tribes in Ghana), the largest of which is the Twi-Asante, the best known and most influenced by Islam.
Historians disagree on the precise ethnogenesis of the Akan. Evidence indicates that no one particular locality can be described categorically as the cradle of the Akan. Multi-lineal development seems to have occurred in the northern Brong savanna, in the Adanse forests and along the Etsi coastline. Akan civilization apparently evolved in stages, beginning about the year 1000 of the Christian calendar among agricultural communities based on iron technology and moving through the development of urban settlements and small principalities between 1400 and 1600. It crystallized in the rise of large kingdoms between 1600 and 1850, the most illustrious being the Asante Empire, stemming from profitable long range international trade, the spread of firearms, Islamic influences and European imperialism.
Despite the militant expansion of Islam in West Africa, especially in the early nineteenth century, its success does not seem to have affected the majority of ethnic groups in Ghana. Nevertheless, Islam in one form or another and some degree of Arabic scholarship have managed to penetrate far into the savanna country and even to the tropical forest to such places as Salaga and Kumasi in the northern and Ashanti regions, respectively.
Today, about five percent of the Akan are Muslim. A large majority of orthodox Muslims in Ghana are Sunni of the Maliki school: others follow Shafi rites.
The Akan people are an ethnic linguistic group of West Africa.
From the 15th century to 19th century, the Akan people dominated gold mining and gold trade in the region. Akan art is wide-ranging and renowned, especially for the tradition of crafting bronze gold weights, which were made using the lost wax casting method. Branches of the Akan include the Abron and the Afutu. The Akan culture is the most dominant and apparent in present-day Ghana. Some of their most important mythological stories are called anansesem. Anansesem literally means 'the spider story', but can in a figurative sense also mean "traveler's tales". These "spider stories" are sometimes also referred to as nyankomsem; 'words of a sky god'. The stories generally, but not always, revolve around Kwaku Ananse, a trickster spirit, often depicted as a spider, human, or a combination thereof.
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