scholarly journals A Thematic Commentary on the Qur’an

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Mahan Mirza
Keyword(s):  
Present Form ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Green Cover ◽  
Textual History

There has been an increasing interest in the Qur’an’s literary aspects withinthe field of Qur’anic studies over the last few years. In the past, westernscholars have devoted a great deal of energy to tracing foreign influencesin the Qur’an or reconstructing the chronology of its verses and surahs.However, the trend now is shifting toward textual studies, a developmentindicated by the proliferation of articles, anthologies, and books on theQur’an as a composed literary ornament.This shift is both refreshing and welcome, particularly for those whoare more interested in understanding the Qur’an in its present form, ratherthan learning about its textual history or compilation. Classical Islamicscholarship developed a body of exegetical material on the Qur’an’s miraculousnature (i‘jaz) from a literary perspective. This approach has taken aprimarily microscopic linguistic viewpoint (balaghah [eloquence]) ofstudying the choice of words and how the verses are constructed.Although it has always been accepted that the Qur’an’s surahs are distinctliterary pieces with their own style and content, comprehensive attemptsto present entire surahs as thematically independent entities have been rare.With increasing pressure from western scholars that the Qur’an is incoherentand haphazardly arranged, a new genre of exegetical material is developing,both in Muslim and western circles. This new genre focuses upon explainingwhy the surah should be considered as a distinctly composed piece with itsown dynamic of sound and meaning. Muhammad al-Ghazali’s work fallswithin this emerging category of Qur’anic exegesis.A Thematic Commentary on the Qur’an is a translation from al-Ghazali’s Al-Tafsir al-Mawdu‘i. The print is well typeset and easily legible,not cramped together, with a glossy green cover commanding an elegance ...

The Testimony for Marcion's Gospel in NA28: Revisiting the Apparatus to Luke in the Light of Recent Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Dieter T. Roth
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Textual History ◽  
History Of

AbstractScholarly work on Luke has often noted the significance of Marcion's Gospel for understanding the textual history of the third canonical Gospel. It is not surprising, therefore, that in the past new insights into Marcion's Gospel have led to revisions in the apparatus of the highly influential Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, now in its 28th edition. In view of the precedent for continually updating the Nestle-Aland text and apparatus, this article revisits the apparatus to Luke in the light of recent research on Marcion's Gospel in order to highlight problematic references that should be changed or removed in the apparatus of future Nestle-Aland editions.

Homer's Use of the Past

1929 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
H. L. Lorimer
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Systematic Examination ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

Of the sources of Homer in the literary sense we can know nothing. There is no antecedent, no contemporary literature extant; and no analysis of later works will yield anything that can be proved to represent a literary tradition earlier than Homer. Archaeology, however, which has made the origins of Hellenic culture in some degree intelligible, has at least furnished a solid stage and a veritable background for the action of the Iliad. How much did Homer know of the past? A systematic examination of the archaeological data which the poems offer suggests that he knew a great deal; knew it with a precision which cannot be explained away as fortuitous, and about so remote a past that we must postulate a stream of tradition traceable much further back than the siege of Troy. For the purposes of this paper Homer means the author of the Iliad in substantially its present form, whose floruit the present writer would not put earlier than the ninth century, and the term is used, without prejudice, for the author of the Odyssey also. Eratosthenes' date of 1184 for the fall of Troy is assumed less because it came to be accepted as the standard date in antiquity than because it fits so well into what we know of the history of the Mediterranean world at that time.

scholarly journals Service Learning: A Valuable Experience

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
William E. Fowler ◽  
O. Scott Stovall ◽  
John D. Neill
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Present Form ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Air Force Base ◽  
Do So

In this paper, we describe how our department recently incorporated a major service learning component into the curriculum. Specifically, we employed participation in the IRSs Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program as an effective means of experiential and service learning for the past two years for Masters of Accountancy students. We designed a course devoted entirely to serving in a VITA program operated on a local Air Force base. Our experience confirms that service learning can be a powerful tool in teaching. It has enhanced our students academic and professional development. It has given significance to our mission and it has strengthened community relationships. However, recent developments have made it difficult for us to maintain this service learning project in its present form. It appears that we, like many other programs, must consider again how to implement service learning as part of our curriculum, but we will do so now with a greater appreciation and enthusiasm for its unique contributions to learning.

A New Approach to Arabic Tense Form-Content Mismatch in Four Translations of the Qurʾan

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-82
Author(s):  
Amr M. El-Zawawy
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Arabic And English

Abstract The tense systems in English and Arabic are markedly similar, but one striking feature makes the two-part ways: Arabic boasts the capacity of expressing the past and the future in forms that are not tallied with what English does. Arabic and English can express the future and the past in the present form. Yet Arabic, especially Qurʾanic Arabic, has the singular capacity for expressing the future in past form and the past in present form. The mismatch in the Arabic tense system in the English translation of the Qurʾan is given due attention in the present paper, and a new approach is presented to address this significant problem. The four translations selected are Arberry’s, Yusuf Ali’s, Pickthall’s and Asad’s. A model is proposed to analyze significant selections of such mismatches, based on graphical representations of TOC, TOE and linking form. The study concludes that the most inconsistent translation is Pickthall’s, while Arberry’s is the most consistent of all. It also reveals that although Asad is not fully proficient in English like Arberry, he succeeds in clearing the hurdle of translating tense form-content mismatch most of the time.

“My Voice is Still for Setchell”: A Background Study of “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog”

PMLA ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 82 (7) ◽  
pp. 591-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar M. Branch
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Textual History ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
American Humor

For the past fifteen years scholars have examined many facets of Mark Twain's “Jumping Frog”: its narrative techniques and some of its textual history, its relation to folklore, American humor, and Clemens' theory of humorous gravity, and its political, regional, and cultural bearings. This article, by focussing on the personal background to the tale, tries to cast light on the imagination that created the famous yarn. It first relates some of the tale's narrative elements—episodes, characters, names—to Clemens' prior experience, especially to some activities reflected in newly discovered examples of his San Francisco journalism of 1864 and 1865. Then it relates the tale to strong emotional currents in his life during the fall of 1865. Finally the article proposes a date of composition for the “Jumping Frog” and a reading of the tale that emphasizes the level of personal meaning.

scholarly journals Trophic indicators in fisheries: a call for re-evaluation

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 20121050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Hornborg ◽  
Andrea Belgrano ◽  
Valerio Bartolino ◽  
Daniel Valentinsson ◽  
Friederike Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Primary Production ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Trophic Level ◽  
Spatial Domain ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Catch Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mean Trophic Level

Mean trophic level (MTL) of landings and primary production required (PPR) by fisheries are increasingly used in the assessment of sustainability in fisheries. However, in their present form, MTL and PPR are prone to misinterpretation. We show that it is important to account for actual catch data, define an appropriate historical and spatial domain, and carefully consider the effects of fisheries management, based on results from a case study of Swedish fisheries during the past century.

The First Church of San Marco in Venice

1990 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Warren
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Bulk ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

In the past century there have been a number of proposed reconstructions of the First Church built in Venice to house the relics of Saint Mark, the Apostle. The proposal which follows differs from its predecessors in identifying the survival of the very large bulk of the original church. It holds that the ancient structure stands encapsulated within the surviving fabric (fig. 1) and thereby rediscovers, largely extant, the greatest Byzantine church of the Middle Ages, completed some time between 832 and 836 for Doge Giovanni Participacio (fig. 2). That church was generally held to have been destroyed by fire in 976, but rebuilt on similar lines by 978 only to have been taken down and rebuilt in its present form between 1063 and 1071 under Doge Domenico Contarini, the work continuing under Doge Vitale Falier. In the following account the Participaci church is described as the First and the Contarini-Falier church the Second. The intermediate reconstruction (976–8) is herein taken to have been a repair rather than a rebuilding. Finding that this first building still exists hidden within the second this paper suggests social reasons for its supposed loss.

Alternative Publishing Models in a Changing Cultural Landscape

LOGOS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Tondi
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Final Part ◽  
The Past ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Direct Competition ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this article is to present an outlook on current publishing models and the way they relate to each other. The first part offers an overview of the traditional trade model in its present form and looks at the main alternatives, with a particular emphasis on crowdfunding. Can examples of subscription models be found from the past? Particular attention is given to the crowdfunding publisher Unbound in order to analyse how its hybrid business model fits into the field of contemporary cultural production. The final part looks at the dynamics between traditional trade publishers, Unbound, and the wider cultural ecosystem, exploring how different models can operate beyond direct competition, benefiting from each other’s presence in the market in the common quest to keep books alive.

scholarly journals KEPENARIAN TOKOH KEN DEDES DALAM KEN DEDES: THE SOLILOQUY KARYA MATHEUS WASI BANTOLO

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-121
Author(s):  
Dea Putri Komala Sari ◽  
Matheus Wasi Bantolo
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Observation Process ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Process Participant

The fullness of the work of Ken Dedes: The Soliloquy is an interpretation of a female character named Ken Dedes from the work of Arok The Godfather’s Soliloquy of Matheus Wasi Bantolo. The study discusses the process and forms of fullness from Ken Dedes: the Soliloquy. To describe this, several concepts were used: In reviewing the fullness of matter using the concept of Alma Hawkins, to describe the form of opera using the concept of Peter Sellars and Matheus Wasi Bantolo, while describing the form of In the works using the Suzane K Langer concept is reinforced by the concept of dance analysis according to Janet Adshead. Writing and reviewing using qualitative methods that are descriptive interpretative, with the observation process participant action research. Results of this study showed that the fullness process conducted based on the process of exploration, improvisation and composition as a stage of the work of the fullness of Ken Dedes: the Soliloquy. The present form of presentation is a new interpretation of the character Ken Dedes in the work of Arok The Godfather’s Soliloquy. The fullness of Ken Dedes: The Soliloquy has a form of dish with an opera concept that uses five dancers who each have dual roles as dancers and musicians. Many movements adopted the movement of Javanese traditions in Surakarta style by combining the elements of Latin dance motion in them. It is based on the thought of choreographer to elaborate on The character Ken Dedes as a woman in the past with female figures in The Godfather film and female figures at present. The fullness of the work of Ken Dedes: The Soliloquy has a perspective on how Ken Dedes as women with the various problems faced can be aligned with women today. Keywords: fullness, character Ken Dedes, Opera.

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