scholarly journals An Earlier Copy of al-Suhrawardī’s ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif and Its Scribe, Abū Ṭāhir al-Ḥanafī

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 613
Author(s):  
Aydogan Kars
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Knowledge ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
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This paper introduces an accomplished Ḥanafī traditionist [muḥaddith] named Abū Ṭāhir ʿAbd al-Salām Ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ al-Shīrāzī (b.bef.590/1194, d.661/1263), and two newly-discovered manuscripts that shed light on his life, works, and networks. The first manuscript is an earlier copy of ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī’s (539-632/1145-1234) influential Sufi treatise, Benefits of Intimate Knowledge [ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif] that Abū Ṭāhir copied in 603/1206. In addition to updating the terminus ad quem of al-Suhrawardī’s masterpiece, the manuscript also preserves a significant audition [samāʿ] record. While Abū Ṭāhir transcribed this early copy, he seems to have neither participated in the later transmission of the work nor formed a Sufi identity. A well-connected traditionist who has not yet received scholarly attention, he wrote many works, none of which have been studied so far. This paper introduces his life and works, traces his immediate teachers and pupils in transmitting prophetic sayings, and analyzes a hitherto unstudied manuscript of his Forty Sayings on the Virtue of Praying for the Messenger of God [Al-Arbaʿūn fī Faḍīlat al-Ṣalāt ʿalā Rasūl Allāh]. The paper demonstrates that the study of al-Suhrawardī’s ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif by non-Sufi traditionists can be traced back to its earliest extant copy available to us.

Les doubles hoqués et les motés: Guillaume de Machaut's Hoquetus David

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-173
Author(s):  
JARED C. HARTT
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Vocal Performance ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Ars Nova ◽  
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ABSTRACTGuillaume de Machaut's Hoquetus David represents the only extant hocket of the Ars Nova. Although the Hoquetus is among Machaut's most commercially recorded compositions, it has received relatively little scholarly attention: while Daniel Leech-Wilkinson has focused on its rhythmic characteristics and Anne Walters Robertson on its possible raison d'être, many of the Hoquetus's unusual musical features remain unexplored. In Part I of this article, I compare the Hoquetus with Machaut's motets, as well as with thirteenth-century double hockets, in order to shed light on several of the work's anomalies. In Part II, I turn to matters of syntax, concentrating on Machaut's use of the dissonant seventh. I discuss and illustrate Machaut's surprisingly frequent use of the seventh to fifth progression in several passages from the Hoquetus, his motets and the Messe de nostre dame, and in turn demonstrate that the progression indeed constitutes a salient element of his compositional praxis. In Part III, I briefly address the question of method of performance. By inspecting the vocal ranges and melodic activity of the Hoquetus itself, I demonstrate that the Hoquetus David is indeed conducive for vocal performance, and in turn speculate how it might be performed despite its lack of text.

The New Immaterialism? On Spirituality in Modern Thought

Poetics Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-346
Author(s):  
Matthew Wickman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practices ◽  
Cultural Currency ◽  
Religious Feeling ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
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Postsecular thought and criticism involves heightened attention to religious feeling as well as to religious practices. Such feeling, often described as spirituality, enjoys broad cultural currency, though it is far less frequently an object of scholarly attention in the humanities. For this reason, spirituality remains an undertheorized and widely misunderstood category in the humanities, even as it implicitly informs several sites of humanistic inquiry. The aim of this essay, therefore, is to shed light on the presence of evocatively (and sometimes overtly) spiritual thinking in humanities contexts, suggesting different ways that spirituality inflects such areas of thought as the humanities in a posthuman age, tensions between ideological and aesthetic theories, and postcritique.

scholarly journals New Spaces for Old Motifs? The Virtual Worlds of Japanese Cyberpunk

Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Taillandier
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
North American ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Japanese Science ◽  
The Future ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
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Default Setting

North-American cyberpunk’s recurrent use of high-tech Japan as “the default setting for the future,” has generated a Japonism reframed in technological terms. While the renewed representations of techno-Orientalism have received scholarly attention, little has been said about literary Japanese science fiction. This paper attempts to discuss the transnational construction of Japanese cyberpunk through Masaki Gorō’s Venus City (Vīnasu Shiti, 1992) and Tobi Hirotaka’s Angels of the Forsaken Garden series (Haien no tenshi, 2002–). Elaborating on Tatsumi’s concept of synchronicity, it focuses on the intertextual dynamics that underlie the shaping of those texts to shed light on Japanese cyberpunk’s (dis)connections to techno-Orientalism as well as on the relationships between literary works, virtual worlds and reality.

scholarly journals Competitive Pressure and Firm-Level Innovation: The Perspective of a Developing Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zeeshan Younas ◽  
Faiz Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Multivariate Probit ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Firm Level Data ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
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The connection between firm-level innovation and competition has received scholarly attention for a long time before now. This paper attempts to shed light on this complex relationship from a novel perspective where a detailed firm-level dataset of private manufacturing Pakistani firms spanning from 2002 to 2015 is used. We test whether the non-linearity estimate of Aghion et al. (2005) is sustained by our firm-level data. A multivariate probit estimation technique indicates that higher competition leads to a more probability of innovation, but at a declining rate as competitor numbers increase. Moderate confirmation of an inverted-U relationship between competition and innovation is found, especially in process and organizational innovation. The findings have practical implications for policymakers in the area of market structure and firm-level innovation.

A corpus-based study of composite predicates in Early Modern English dialogues

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-50
Author(s):  
Ying Wang
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Complex Predicate ◽  
Light Verb ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Trace Language ◽  
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Abstract Composite predicates (CPs), that is, complex predicate structures comprising a light verb and an eventive noun (e.g., make a move or give a speech) are common in Present-day English and are particularly characteristic of spoken language. The aim of the paper is to trace language changes involving CPs from 1560 to 1760, a period in which the use of CPs has not yet received adequate scholarly attention. Specifically, the study examines the frequencies, lexical productivity and syntactic patterns of CPs in two types of Early Modern English (EModE) dialogues, drawn from Trial Proceedings and Drama Comedy sampled in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 – a 1.2-million word computerized corpus of EModE speech-related texts. The results reveal significant differences between the two types of dialogue and shed light on the development of CPs in association with grammaticalization and lexicalization.

Material Diplomacy: A Continental Manuscript Produced for James III, Edinburgh University Library, MS 195

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-213
Author(s):  
Bryony Coombs
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Medieval Manuscript ◽  
Northern France ◽  
University Library ◽  
French Court ◽  
Diplomatic Relationship ◽  
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This paper examines a late medieval manuscript produced in northern France and Flanders for a member of the Scottish royal house: Edinburgh University Library, MS 195. The manuscript contains an ornate representation of the royal arms of Scotland, supported by two unicorns. It was commissioned for James III c. 1464–7. Despite its royal provenance, the manuscript has received limited scholarly attention. The text and illuminations are analysed in order to shed light on their origins and on the circumstances of their production. The manuscript is an important example of a continental work produced for Scottish royalty. By studying the text, heraldry, iconography and historical context of the manuscript, this paper provides new insights into the diplomatic relationship between James III, the French court and the continental manuscript trade. It also provides new solutions to old problems, such as the enigmatic letters ‘P’ and ‘L’ found in the border decoration.

Reproducing Dominion: Emotional Apprenticeship in the 4-H Youth Livestock Program

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Irvine ◽  
Colter Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Livestock Program ◽  
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AbstractThis paper examines young people’s socialization into the doctrine known as “dominionism,” which justifies the use of animals in the service of human beings. Using qualitative research, it focuses on the 4-H youth livestock program, in which boys and girls raise cattle, pigs, goats, and sheep for slaughter. The analysis portrays 4-H as an apprenticeship in which children learn to do cognitive emotion work, use distancing mechanisms, and create a “redemption” narrative to cope with contradictory ethical and emotional experiences. Although this paper focuses on young people’s relationships with animals, and particularly with types of animals that have received little scholarly attention, the conclusions have implications for understanding the reproduction of inequalities, more generally. An understanding of the means through which people learn to justify the treatment of the animals known as “livestock” can shed light on the mechanisms involved in generic processes of inequality.

scholarly journals Linguistic Diversity and Comparability in Educational Assessment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Reierstam ◽  
Meeri Hellstén
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Diverse Learning ◽  
Multilingual Learning ◽  
Quality Aspect ◽  
Main Component ◽  
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This chapter reports on recent mixed method research investigating the comparability between assessment in relation to linguistic and cultural diversity. It takes as its premise that assessment is an integral part of instruction that becomes a main component for attaining of equal opportunities. Therefore, assessment plays a key role in terms of the wider consequences at both individual and societal levels. One of the central functions of assessment is its measure of quality assurance and comparability for grading to such an extent that it is readily employed to indicate evidence of student achievement of standards and quality. This may sometimes present issues in terms of learner diversity. We focus on the challenges facing teaching in linguistically diverse learning settings in which a foreign language may be used as an alternative to instruction. Here we draw on a recent study from two separate multilingual learning contexts in Sweden. We shed light on the generic questions arising from such disjuncture in these linguistically diverse educational sites as evidence on a call for much needed scholarly attention on the quality aspect in assessment.

scholarly journals Reconceptualising the interpreter’s role

FORUM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Press Conference ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
Optimal Distinctiveness ◽  
And Performance ◽  
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Abstract The interpreter’s role and performance in interpreting-facilitated interactions have attracted considerable scholarly attention since the 1970s. Seminal field research on interpreting in courtrooms, in hospitals, and in war zones describe interpreters as active participants. Nevertheless, Hale (2006) and Pöchhacker (2006) critique that much data-driven research in the area suffers from a lack of theoretical conceptualisations, and is short of diversified sociocultural and linguistic contexts for investigation. To strengthen the theoretical background to research on the interpreters’ role, this study draws on social psychology theories of social identity and optimal distinctiveness, and the sociolinguistic notion of face, to develop an interdisciplinary framework for conceptualising how identity claims may influence interpreters’ choice of linguistic strategies in delivery. The English-Mandarin political press conference interpreting context is examined to illustrate how the proposed framework may shed light on our understanding of interpreters’ behaviour in action.

Elucidating cyclic AMP signaling in subcellular domains with optogenetic tools and fluorescent biosensors

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1733-1747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Klausen ◽  
Fabian Kaiser ◽  
Birthe Stüven ◽  
Jan N. Hansen ◽  
Dagmar Wachten
Keyword(s):  
Cyclic Amp ◽  
Adenosine Monophosphate ◽  
Adenylyl Cyclases ◽  
Temporal Precision ◽  
Fluorescent Biosensors ◽  
Subcellular Domains ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Cyclic Amp Signaling

The second messenger 3′,5′-cyclic nucleoside adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) plays a key role in signal transduction across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Cyclic AMP signaling is compartmentalized into microdomains to fulfil specific functions. To define the function of cAMP within these microdomains, signaling needs to be analyzed with spatio-temporal precision. To this end, optogenetic approaches and genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors are particularly well suited. Synthesis and hydrolysis of cAMP can be directly manipulated by photoactivated adenylyl cyclases (PACs) and light-regulated phosphodiesterases (PDEs), respectively. In addition, many biosensors have been designed to spatially and temporarily resolve cAMP dynamics in the cell. This review provides an overview about optogenetic tools and biosensors to shed light on the subcellular organization of cAMP signaling.

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