On the identity of the Syrianabdāl

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-43
Author(s):  
Rana Mikati
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Gradual Loss ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
Battle Of Siffin

AbstractScholarly discussion of theabdāl(substitutes) has been limited to their appearance as the members of a saintly hierarchy first alluded to by al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī (d. 295/905–300/910) and systematized by Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240). However, unlike the other members of this hierarchy, theabdālare also known through the hadith, one of which is attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. This article explores this hitherto unstudied hadith material arguing that the concept originated in hadith circles with a specific purported context, the showdown between the Syrians and Iraqis at the Battle of Ṣiffīn (37/657). A gradual loss of this context went hand-in-hand with the emergence of the mystical saintlyabdāl. As monistic Sufism penetrated all elements of Mamluk society, the boundary between theabdālof the traditionists and of the mystics became porous. This paper concludes with an examination of the ensuing debate on the authenticity of the concept.

Jewish Burial Traditions and the Resurrection of Jesus

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Evans
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Jewish Writers

AbstractThe burial of Jesus, in light of Jewish tradition, is almost certain for at least two reasons: (1) strong Jewish concerns that the dead—righteous or unrighteous—be properly buried; and (2) desire to avoid defilement of the land. Jewish writers from late antiquity, such as Philo and Josephus, indicate that Roman officials permitted executed Jews to be buried before nightfall. Only in times of rebellion—when Roman authorities did not honour Jewish sensitivities—were bodies not taken down from crosses or gibbets and given proper burial. It is highly improbable, therefore, that the bodies of Jesus and the other two men crucified with him would have been left unburied overnight, on the eve of a major Jewish holiday, just outside the walls of Jerusalem. Scholarly discussion of the resurrection of Jesus should reckon with the likelihood that Jesus was buried in an identifiable tomb, a tomb that may well have been known to have been found empty.

Transformative city branding and the evolution of the entrepreneurial city: The case of ‘Brand New Helsinki’

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2031-2046
Author(s):  
Salla Jokela
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Differentiation Strategy ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Entrepreneurial City ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

There have been two types of scholarly discussion on city branding. On the one hand, city branding has been conceptualised as a differentiation strategy of entrepreneurial cities involved in interspatial competition. On the other hand, researchers have recently emphasised the need to pay attention to increasingly pervasive and transformative forms of city branding, including branding as an urban policy and a form of planning. Drawing on a case study carried out in Helsinki, Finland, this article connects these two approaches by analysing Helsinki’s recent city branding endeavour in the context of the qualitative transformation of the entrepreneurial city. The article shows how city branding highlights and constitutes the city as an entrepreneurial platform and enabler bound up by the extended entrepreneurialisation of society.

The Sabbatian Who Devoured His Son: Jacob Emden's Anti-Sabbatian Polemics of Cannibalism

AJS Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
Shai A. Alleson-Gerberg
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The Other ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Human Flesh ◽  
Political Weapon ◽  
Modern Era

In an era when cannibalism occupied the European imagination and became a political weapon that could be effectively aimed against the Other within or elsewhere, as well as a test case for the concept of humanity, it is hardly surprising to find similar rhetoric in internal Jewish discourse of the early modern era. This article shows Rabbi Jacob Emden's contribution to this discourse in the eighteenth century, and extends the boundaries of the scholarly discussion beyond establishing Jewish-Christian proximity. Emden's halakhic position on the question “Is it permissible to benefit from the cadaver of a dead gentile?” (She'elat Ya‘aveẓ) connects cannibalism and theological heresy springing from an overly literal reading of the rabbinical canon, as well as ties it to the concept of the seven Noahide laws. For Emden, the consumption of human flesh, literally and particularly metaphorically, distinguishes between the sons of Noah and heretics, as well as between humanity and savages. Emden advanced this concept in his polemical writings against the Sabbatian heresy in the 1750s, when he became embroiled in controversy with Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz and the Frankists.

Postcolonial disjuncture: Kashmir as the other in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night

2021 ◽  
pp. 002198942198908
Author(s):  
Payel Pal
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Gradual Loss

Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night (2008) is a perspicacious commentary on the violence, exile and dispossession that have wrecked the lives of ordinary Kashmiris since 1947. Peer compellingly ruminates on the gradual loss of the Kashmiris’ belongingness in the last few decades that eventually curtailed their sense of individual and collective selfhood. The present article aims to analyse how Peer’s memoir emerges as a crucial intervention in focusing on the othering of Kashmiris in postcolonial India. This article will examine how Peer’s personal story shapes his creative expression of homeland and uncovers the gradual stymieing of Kashmiri Muslim citizenship and identity under Indian statehood, perhaps most alarmingly manifested in the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. This article will look at how Peer’s narrative interrogates the predominating imaginations of Kashmir as the other in the pan-Indian psyche and engages with the inherent "ambivalence" of the nationalist discourse of India. Accordingly, the article will also study how Peer positions Kashmir as a "heterotopic space" that transcends any form of monolithic comprehension. In so doing, Peer’s memoir emerges as an alternative and autoethnographic chronicling of the Kashmir story undercutting the dominant assumptions, reinforced by the Indian nationalist project. Pertinently, the concepts of "ambivalence" and "heterotopia" are drawn from the theoretical perspectives of Homi Bhabha and Michael Foucault, respectively.

scholarly journals Psychoanalytic Reading of Love and Desire in Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Amin Ettehadi ◽  
Roohollah Reesi Sistani
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Human Love ◽  
Gradual Loss ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

<p><em>The present study was a comprehensive psychoanalysis of the idea of love and desire in Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage. The study explored the relationship Philip Carey, the main character, develops with Other people throughout the novel. To further enrich the analysis, Lacan’s theory of human love and desire was employed to provide a psychoanalytic examination of Philip Carey’s bond of love for Mildred, on the one hand, and his gradual loss of identity in his desire towards her, on the other. The study inspected the nature of Philip’s desire for Mildred and shows how he turnd to a desiring subject in his bond to her and finally reached a state of selflessness and depended heavily on Mildred as the object of his desire which drove him towards self-contempt and a masochistic denial of real facts in his life.</em></p>

scholarly journals The Standardization of killed Agglutinable Cultures of B. dysenteriae

1918 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Cold Storage ◽  
Early Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Storage Process ◽  
Gradual Loss

(1) Killed agglutinable broth cultures of the various dysentery bacilli may be prepared by the formalin and cold storage process and may be standardized by the method elaborated by Prof. Dreyer for the typhoid and paratyphoid bacilli.(2) Since formalin (0·1 %) usually causes a gradual loss of sensitiveness to agglutination during the early life of the emulsion, a certain period (two months) must be allowed to elapse before the emulsion can be used as standard.(3) After such a period the sensitiveness of the emulsions remains unaltered for at least ten months, and probably much longer.(4) By none of the other methods of preparation investigated could satisfactory standard agglutinable cultures be made.

Beckett's Bodies in the Trilogy, or Life as a Pensum

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Nadia Louar
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Gradual Loss ◽  
The One

Beckett's literary bilingualism challenges in unique ways notions of national literature, literary traditions and histories. The cosmopolitan literary movements with which the Irish author has been associated, on the one hand, and his systematic literary bilingualism, on the other, make it difficult to assign him definite precursors and place his work in a well-defined national literary history. Similarly, the biographies of Beckett's characters become arduous to establish as his œuvre unfolds. When the author switches to French and first-person narrators in 1946, his anti-narrative strategies and corollary enterprise of desubjectification disinherit his characters and ‘nip’ their life stories ‘in the bud.’ Beckett's ensuing practice of self-translation complicates matters further as his works come under the sway of a double genealogy. This essay reconsiders the questions of filiations, affiliations and genealogies in Beckett's works by focusing on the pivotal role of the body in the trilogy. It identifies the trajectory of the body in the novels and traces the gradual loss of its physical integrity as it is borne across languages. Drawing on three terms that resonate throughout the novels and appear in a key passage in Beckett's monograph on Proust: ‘body’, ‘pensum’ and ‘defunctus,’ it analyzes their interconnections in the novels to foreground a decomposing body that becomes liable for the narrators' linguistic failure. The essay ultimately suggests that the bilingual œuvre taken as a whole intimates the end of genealogies and substitutes for the principle of generation that of an organic corporeal life lived as a pensum.

scholarly journals Impalpable Scars: Dual Traumas in Hemingway’s “Now I Lay Me” and “A Way You’ll Never Be”

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-207
Author(s):  
Richard Kovarovic
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Memory And Trauma ◽  
Scholarly Discussion

AbstractThis article aims to contribute to the body of scholarly discussion surrounding Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams Stories as interconnected works of subtle yet complex depictions of trauma and memory. It primarily focuses on two stories, “Now I Lay Me” and “A Way You’ll Never Be,” and attempts to unearth hidden parallels between the two, ultimately positing that each story informs the other in vital ways. The article does so through an examination of memory types, the narrative nature of episodic personal memory, and incorporation of an analysis on the disruptive nature of traumatic memory. Using that framework, it examines the function of screen memory and trauma in “Now I Lay Me,” a story of nocturnal haunting, and unearths the existence of dual traumas within the text, those suffered in combat and those in childhood. Connections are made to the events and experiences of “A Way You’ll Never Be,” with the episodes Nick suffers interpreted as dreams. Thus, the image of the unplaceable yellow house is viewed as a manifestation of the domestic trauma of Adams’s childhood, with the home itself representative of the terror of obliteration, a second trauma revealed and existing beyond the boundaries of the text.

scholarly journals AUTHORSHIP OF THE JAWI ‘ULAMA’ IN EGYPT

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 221-264
Author(s):  
Jajang A Rohmana
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Young Student ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Global Contribution

Nawawī of Banten (1813–1897) and Haji Hasan Mustapa (1852–1930) are two important figures of Malay-Indonesian Muslim scholars (‘ulamā’) who have been widely studied. However, personal proximity of these two ‘ulamā’ seems to escape from scholarly discussion. Seen from the light of scholarly commenting (sharh) tradition, this study on the other hand attempts to show their personal proximity between the senior teacher and young student when they lived in Mecca in the late nineteenth century. The sharh tradition of these two ‘ulamā’ particularly through appear in Nawawī’s al-’Iqd al-Thamīn that aims to comment on Mustapa’s work, Al-Fath al-Mubīn, and Mustapa’s al-Lum’a al-Nūrāniyya, a response to Nawawī’s al-Shadra al-Jummāniyya. These two Arabic books (s. kitab; p. kutub) were published in Cairo, Egypt. This article further argues that the sharh tradition situates authority and reputation as the epicenter of scholarly discussion between the two ‘ulamā’ who were influential among the Jawah community. It also argues that these two Sundanese scholars contributed significantly in the transmission of Islamic learning in the early twentieth century Middle East. Their works show a scholarly reputation which delivers insights on exceptionality of Islamic and Malay archipelagic issues and serve as a global contribution of Malay-Indonesian ‘ulamā’ to the triumph of Islamic learning traditions.

Being Where? Navigating the Involvement Paradox in Qualitative Research Accounts

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Langley ◽  
Malvina Klag
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Other ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Being There

Researcher presence in the field (“being there”) has long been a topic of scholarly discussion in qualitative inquiry. However, the representation of field presence in research accounts merits increased methodological attention as it impacts readers’ understanding of study phenomena and theoretical contributions. We maintain that the current ambiguity around representing field involvement is rooted in our scholarly community’s “involvement paradox.” On one hand, we laud field proximity as a tenet of qualitative inquiry. On the other hand, we insist on professional distance to avoid “contamination” of findings. This leaves authors in a difficult position as they attempt to weave field involvement into written accounts. We draw on existing conceptual articles and illustrative exemplars to introduce four interrelated dimensions of representation: visibility, voice, stance, and reflexivity. These are intended to structure thinking about how authors do, and can, cast field involvement in research accounts as they navigate the involvement paradox. We encourage researcher-authors to think carefully about how they attend to their field presence as they craft research accounts, in order to enhance their legitimacy, trustworthiness, and richness.

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