Sparks Amidst the Ashes: The Spiritual Legacy of Polish Jewry

The article considers the project “Tugan Zher” (“Homeland”) of the Kazakhstani national program “Course towards the future: modernization of Kazakhstan’s identity” and the possibility to resort to the works and ideas of the well-known Italian philosopher and semiotician, recognized expert in Middle ages Umberto Eco while implementing the program, as in his numerous works the Italian scientist reflects much on the meaning of such notions like signification, reconstruction and memory. His philosophy of culture is the study of signs and languages and belief that understanding of the world requests understanding how we interpret it through the language and signs we use, constant mediation that stands in the way between us and the world. The poetics of openness, advocated much by Eco, is especially actual under the current realities. The present research proves the semiotic concept of U. Eco to be effective in exploring cultural landscapes, which being regarded as signs, carriers of some valuable information, add much to the spiritual legacy of the nation.

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EDUCATION CONCERNING HISTORICAL CITIES AS AN EXAMPLE OF AN ORIGINAL CURRICULUM TAUGHT TO STUDENTS OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND SPATIAL MANAGEMENT COURSES

CBU International Conference Proceedings ◽

10.12955/cbup.v7.1404 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

Author(s):

Dominika Kuśnierz-Krupa

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Urban Design ◽

Cultural Landscape ◽

Development Projects ◽

Essential Factor ◽

Potential Threat ◽

University Of Technology ◽

Spatial Management ◽

New Development ◽

Spiritual Legacy

This article discusses the need for social education—in this case, concerning students of the architecture and spatial management courses—on the matter of the protection of historical cities. In response to this need, the author of the article has formulated two original curricula covering this scope. They are taught at the Cracow University of Technology. The first, as a seminar, is addressed to students of the architecture course and has been named “Protection of historical cities”. The second is taught as a spatial management course in the form of design classes and has been named “Legal and social conditions in the protection of the cultural landscape”. The need to educate students of architecture and spatial management on the matter of the protection of the cultural landscape of historical cities is necessary due to the potential threat to cultural heritage that is posed by new development projects. Future architects and planners must understand the need to protect historical assets and the value of historical urban layouts and precious works of architecture. Only then will they be able to properly, correctly and responsibly practice their future profession which will include, among other things, the verification of and participation (to a varying degree) in the process of carrying out architectural and urban design projects, often in a historical environment. It should be noted that the protection of cultural heritage, including historical cities, is an important aspect of the functioning of every society, as cultural heritage is an essential factor of the life and conduct of every person. It constitutes the material and spiritual legacy of past generations, as well as the legacy of our time.

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HUMANITY AND HAPPINESS - A VITAL FACTOR IN THE INDEPENDENT LIFE OF THE YOUNG GENERATION

EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) ◽

10.36713/epra2170 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 252-255

Author(s):

Yuldashev Farrux Abdurakhmanovich

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Key Words ◽

Young Generation ◽

Scientific Heritage ◽

National Values ◽

Independent Life ◽

Spiritual Legacy ◽

Independent Thinking ◽

Vital Factor

The role of humanism and national values are important in the contemporary policy of Uzbekistan. This study discusses the role and place of the ideas of humanism and tolerance in the development of ethics, culture, humanistic qualities of young people who are the leading forces of our society. The ideas on the wide use of the scientific heritage of the scientists and thinkers in the life of youth and nation have been considered. In the result of the study the factors of nurturing the young generation in promoting harmony and humanism have been drawn. KEY WORDS: stability, independent thinking, personality, society, humanism, worldview, tolerance, progress, spiritual and moral maturity, interethnic harmony, compromise, dedication, diligence, thinker, spiritual legacy.

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St. Nicholas Hospital at Kues as a Spiritual Legacy of Nicholas of Cusa

10.1163/9789004473652_016 ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 217-235

Keyword(s):

Nicholas Of Cusa ◽

Spiritual Legacy

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The Iraq Connection: Abu’l-Wafaʾ Taj al-ʿArifin and the Wafaʾi Tradition

The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474432689.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 44-88

Author(s):

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump

Keyword(s):

Eleventh Century ◽

Islamic Mysticism ◽

Conventional Literature ◽

Spiritual Legacy

In the oldest cluster of the recently surfaced Kizilbash/Alevi documents(mainly Sufi diplomas (ijāzas) and genealogies (shajaras), or fragments thereof(Abu’l-Wafaʾ Taj al-ʿArifin, the eponym of the Wafaʾi order, is frequently named as a familial and/or spiritual progenitor. The story of the Wafaʾiyya, which one rarely encounters in histories of Islamic mysticism, began in eleventh-century Iraq, but its Iraqi branch seems to have faded away over a few generations, leaving behind no permanent imprints. Chapters 1 and 2 address the implications of the historical affinity of some of the most prominent Alevi saintly lineages with the Wafaʾi Sufi tradition. Chapter 1 presents a selective overview of the life and spiritual legacy of Abu’l-Wafaʾ, based on the hagiography of the saint and other near-contemporary Sufi narratives. It underlines the difficulty of categorizing the saint and his spiritual legacy along the lines of conventional binaries of Sunni versus Shiʿi and “heterodox” versus “orthodox.” This chapter makes the point that the metadoxic outlook of the Babaʾi milieu in medieval Anatolia, as well as many components of Kizilbashism-Alevism, explained on the basis of pre-Islamic survivals in the conventional literature, in fact had their parallels and antecedents in the early Wafaʾi milieu.

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Sparks Amidst the Ashes: the Spiritual Legacy of Polish Jewry (review)

Jewish Quarterly Review ◽

10.1353/jqr.2002.0028 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 93 (1-2) ◽

pp. 320-323

Author(s):

Joshua D. Zimmerman

Keyword(s):

Spiritual Legacy

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History and Myth: Mahāmudrā Lineage Accounts in the 12th-Century Xixia Buddhist Literature

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel10030187 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 187

Author(s):

Linghui Zhang

Keyword(s):

Transmission Lines ◽

Religious Authority ◽

Tibetan Buddhist ◽

Direct Experience ◽

Buddhist Literature ◽

The Third ◽

15Th Century ◽

12Th Century ◽

Spiritual Legacy ◽

History And Myth

Mahāmudrā—an Indo-Tibetan phenomenon of Buddhist spirituality—constitutes in its systematic presentation a path that maps out the mystical quest for direct experience of ultimate reality. Despite the post-15th century bKa’-brgyud attempts at a codified Mahāmudrā genealogy, the early Tibetan sources speak little with regards to how the different Indian Mahāmudrā threads made their way over the Himalayas. To fill this gap, the article investigates, via philological and historical approaches, the lineage accounts in the 12th-century Xixia Mahāmudrā materials against the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist landscape. Three transmission lines are detected. Among them, two lines are attested by later Tibetan historiographical accounts about Mahāmudrā, and thus belong to an Indo-Tibetan continuum of the constructed Buddhist yogic past based upon historical realities—at least as understood by Tibetans of the time. The third one is more of a collage patching together different claims to spiritual legacy and religious authority—be they historically based or introspectively projected. Not only does the Mahāmudrā topography, jointly fueled by these three transmissions, reveal the Xixia recognition and imagination of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist legacies, it also captures the complexities of the multi-faceted picture of Mahāmudrā on its way over the Himalayas during the 11th/12th century.

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