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This article discusses the Ancient Indian system of concepts about purification of the property defiled by the qualities of its previous owner. It analyzes the contexts of Ancient Indian didactic literature. The main conclusion is that Brahman can act as a purifier for the defiled property.

In the article, based on a series of computations and models, it is shown that despite the progress achieved in the world during the last three to four decades in technologies, innovations, and international economic links, paradoxically, there occurred a substantial slowdown in global economic growth and total factor productivity and human development index dynamics – primarily in DCs, but in EMs as well. Although some part of this phenomenon is due to underestimation of quality in growth dynamics, “new normal” of retardation in growth is real. It stems from massive distortions in the global economy and its main constituents brought about by its excessive financialization, substantial increase in indebtedness, huge rise in levels of inequality of incomes and assets. Although it is clear that some reallocation of incomes from super-rich to less well-to-do, especially in EMs, that could be undertaken by means of heavier taxation of the former, can boost development of human capital, promote acceleration in world economic growth and convergence in the global economy, the political mechanism of this Keynesian world-wide reform is very hard to enact.

The article gives a synopsis of the main features of Arabic grammar, including morphology, inflection and syntax. Its viewpoint is that of the general linguistics which can help to bring together theoretical positions of general linguists and scholars of Arabic and to work out a common approach to the structure of Semitic languages.

The article raises questions connected to the appropriation of the Sharia by Christian political system; the ability of the Latin political and legal system to include the norms of Islamic law into its judicial practice of local courts and of the Royal Curia. The Crown of Aragon was selected for this study because the Muslim population there was numerous, and the informative sources were preserved. The author argues that Islamic law was not rejected by the legal system of Christians. The Sharia was present within the hierarchical legal space of Kingdom as its natural part.

This paper provides basic analysis of Palestine economic development in the stated above period. It gives an overall impression of the general patterns of Jewish and Arab communities’ development. Special attention is drawn to the Israeli innovation economy background formation. Main idea of the paper is that without understanding of what was going on in the economy of the region within this period it is impossible to provide a qualitative analysis of the economic development of Israel and Palestine at least in the 20th century.

This paper focuses on China’s policy on peacekeeping from 2000 to 2013. To improve its peacekeeping capabilities, China implemented several reforms and structural changes. China’s involvement in UN peacekeeping operations (UNPKO) provides China an opportunity to solidify its reputation in the world as a responsible power and strengthen its position in countries that are at risk. The international community is also interested in China deepening its role and sending more troops to UN peacekeeping operations because China offers both quality and quantity.

South-Indian city of Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad, being a historical example of Hindu-Muslim cultural synthesis, is at the same time notorious for its intercommunal clashes. This article deals with the role of ethnic and confessional factors in the activities of political parties in Hyderabad.

In Modern Hebrew, there are rules that define which particle and which verbal form are to be used in a conditional construction. However, in less formal speech situations two new tendencies may be found. One represents the use of the particle im ‘if’ (originally real-only conditions) with a broader set of verbal forms, including those restricted to unreal conditional sentences in the literary language. The other concerns the use of some marginalizing unreal conditional particles with future tense forms, that allows to express real conditions with an emphasized modal epistemic component, showing the reality status of the situation.

The purpose of this article is to give a short survey of Orthodoxy history in East Africa. Using certain information from private interviews with the orthodox priests in Tanzania and Kenya the article is focused on the activity of Orthodox Churches. Besides the church services all the orthodox priests fulfill their principal missionary functions through the providing more and better education among the native peoples, translations of religious materials in local African languages, first-aid treatment, and the building of schools, hospitals and Orthodox cathedrals.

The article deals with the history of anthological genre in Iran of XIII–XIX c. and shows its evolution from entertaining literature to literary criticism. Development of the genre demonstrates transformation both in the character of narrative and the principles of classification.