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Featured Article: Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher, historian and sociologist. He is best known for his critical studies of various social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. Foucault's work on power, and the relationships among power, knowledge, and discourse, has been widely discussed and applied.
Popular Article: Qur'an
The Qur’Än, literally "the recitation" (also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Koran, or Al-Qur'an) is the central religious text or Scripture of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for humankind and consider the text in its original Arabic to be verbatim the word of Allah, revealed to Muhammad by Gabriel over a period of 23 years between 610 and 632 C.E. Many events from Jewish and Christian scriptures are retold, sometimes in distinctive ways, while other events are referred to obliquely.
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Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' is considered one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the English language (source: A Modest Proposal)
