18 Given both ideological and knowledge gaps in the existing literature, empirical research is needed to guide these debates with greater evidence.
IF THE internet is jihad's open university, used for spreading ideological and military knowledge, then one of its most formidable professors is Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir Setmariam Nasar, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Musab al-Suri.
It distinguishes three domains of knowledge: ideological, the domain of educational norms, values and objectives; empirical, the domain of connections between phenomena in educational reality; and technological, the domain of educational methods, techniques and strategies.
Within the mature modern age, explains (Kiossev, n.d., 2013), it is precisely the colonial processes that form the collective imagination: the asymmetry between the European métropoles and the colonized rest of the world underlines the common oeuvre of shared knowledge, ideological representations and popular myths.
His art is an argument for pluralism in the deepest sense of the word, not a lazy relativism but a belief in the multiplicity of worlds born of an all-too-intimate knowledge of ideological fundamentalism.
In other words, 'naturalization' is a 'rationalization' process whereby ideological beliefs become presupposed knowledge and 'common-sense' social representations.
Judging by the works alone, without knowledge of any ideological or philosophical programs underlying them, the discourse is more evident than the dialogue.
Regarding the portraits, the viewer cannot shake a knowledge of the ideological schisms that form around issues like Iran-Contra, AIDS, and the many other crises that followed.
Political campaigns, on this theory, are essentially struggles among the élite, the fraction of a fraction of voters who have the knowledge and the ideological chops to understand the substantive differences between the candidates and to argue their policy implications.
His synthesizing ability, analytic power, stylish writing, controlled passion, and deep knowledge of the ideological, historical, and political background make his satisfying, often exhilarating pieces the very opposite of the sordid ephemera that serve as his points of departure.
