THE LOSS OF THE WORLD GREATEST, (MOHAMMAD ALI

This brief write up delves into the diverse aspects of Ali. His multi-faceted personality made him as the icon around the globe.

U. Magazine, 2007

Welcome to the third edition of ʻLegends In Our Timeʼ, a series dedicated to celebrating extraordinary individuals during their lifetimes and ours, who have excelled in their fields and left a unique, exceptional and distinctive mark that forever changed their discipline and our lives. Muhammad Ali is certainly such a Legend. He is the only man to win the Heavyweight World Title three times and is considered the greatest boxer of all time. With his charisma, with his principles, and with his actions he transcended the sport to become not only “Sportsman of the Century,” but one of the greatest humans of all time.

Some say he is indeed the “greatest”, the best-known person on earth, ahead of Pélé or Michael Jackson1. From the sidewalks of big cities where peddlers sell posters of his knock-out punches to the genteel halls of universities and museums where his memory is celebrated, “Mohammed Ali” is a worldwide phenomenon that cuts across racial, ethnic, and class lines. Ali’s life has been recounted so many times and in so many formats that the prospect of learning anything truly new about “the Greatest” – a nickname Ali gave himself – is always slim2. Claude Boli’s biography, published in 2016 a few weeks after the boxer’s death, achieves this feat. Although it does not break any new ground in terms of biographical details or historical interpretation, it is an important book for francophone readers interested in putting Ali’s life into context as it raises issues related to sports and politics, the media, and race relations.

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In this research, we will try to understand the change of an Afro-American boxer Cassius Clay to the "global icon" Muhammad Ali. He not only changes his fate of himself by rejecting Christianity and joining the army service against Vietnam, he also became an icon for the Third World countries and especially in the Middle East and Africa where his ancestors came from. His change also gave him popularity in Turkey as a developing country. By converting and embracing Islam, he also rejected the White-Anglosaxon's American lifestyle and his boxing matches became meaningful for the other Muslim and African countries and the rings became "political pulpits". Our aim is to tell the change of Cassius to Ali and his effect on the Turkish audience. Along with the literature review method, this research aims a descriptive study. In order to understand the structure, we used the Turkish newspapers, testimonies, and folk songs dedicated to Muhammad Ali in Turkey.

Muhammad Ali will always be known and remembered for all of the glorious victories and triumphs inside the ring and outside of the ring. However, he has yet to be given proper dues for his influence on the Vietnam boycott and overall role in creating public resentment of the war in Vietnam. Not only did Ali brake records and racial boundaries, he established a public voice in the opposition of the American government, in a time of war at that. Muhammad Ali is without a doubt one of several significant leaders of the 20th century.

The article focuses on two issues: 1) boxing as a sport questioning the bodymind dichotomy, 2) boxing narratives and the problem of Holocaust representation. The text considers boxing a practice which includes its own epistemological limits, i.e. the self unable do differentiate itself from its action. It then applies such a perspective to the reading of a short story The Boxer and Death by a Polish-Jewish author Józef Hen, arguing that "reading boxing" in literature may help understanding the topos of unspeakability firmly inscribed in the Holocaust studies as a literary discipline.

is the wali of Allah and wasi of the Prophet Muhammad(S.A.W) and Imam. There are many aayaat in the Holy Quran in his praise and the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) has let behind many hadits in his praise. Every Muslim has faith in Hazrat Ali. Hazrat Ali was born on 13th Rajab in the Khaana-e-Kaaba. Through out his life he helped the