Some Reflections on the First Muslim Visitor to Japan

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Harry Morris
Keyword(s):  
High Probability ◽  
Research Note ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Hypothesis

This research note explores the biography and visit of the first Muslim visitor to Japan. This figure known as Sādōulǔdīng 撒都魯丁 visited Japan as part of a Mongol envoy in 1275CE, which ultimately ended in his execution in the country. Very little research has been conducted on Sādōulǔdīng, and therefore this note begins by evaluating relevant primary sources in order to assess what information can be garnered about this figure and his visit. Hitherto most scholars have suggested that Sādōulǔdīng was either a Uyghur or an Arab. This note, on the other hand, offers a new hypothesis; namely that there is a high probability that Sādōulǔdīng was of Persian ancestry. In the final part of the note, some thoughts on the significance of his visit to Japan both historically and contemporarily are presented.

scholarly journals Some Reflections on the First Muslim Visitor to Japan

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Harry Morris
Keyword(s):  
High Probability ◽  
Research Note ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Hypothesis

This research note explores the biography and visit of the first Muslim visitor to Japan. This figure known as Sādōulǔdīng 撒都魯丁 visited Japan as part of a Mongol envoy in 1275CE, which ultimately ended in his execution in the country. Very little research has been conducted on Sādōulǔdīng, and therefore this note begins by evaluating relevant primary sources in order to assess what information can be garnered about this figure and his visit. Hitherto most scholars have suggested that Sādōulǔdīng was either a Uyghur or an Arab. This note, on the other hand, offers a new hypothesis; namely that there is a high probability that Sādōulǔdīng was of Persian ancestry. In the final part of the note, some thoughts on the significance of his visit to Japan both historically and contemporarily are presented.

scholarly journals From reflex to reflection: Moving from the space of causes to the space of reasons and back

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 681-693
Author(s):  
Ariel Furstenberg
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Space Of Reasons ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Simple Picture

AbstractThis article proposes to narrow the gap between the space of reasons and the space of causes. By articulating the standard phenomenology of reasons and causes, we investigate the cases in which the clear-cut divide between reasons and causes starts to break down. Thus, substituting the simple picture of the relationship between the space of reasons and the space of causes with an inverted and complex one, in which reasons can have a causal-like phenomenology and causes can have a reason-like phenomenology. This is attained by focusing on “swift reasoned actions” on the one hand, and on “causal noisy brain mechanisms” on the other hand. In the final part of the article, I show how an analogous move, that of narrowing the gap between one’s normative framework and the space of reasons, can be seen as an extension of narrowing the gap between the space of causes and the space of reasons.

scholarly journals Handling i narratologien, litteraturen og livet

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (101) ◽  
pp. 122-139
Author(s):  
Thor Grünbaum
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Communicative Function ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Action in Narratology, Literature, and LifeIn this article I argue that the representation of simple, bodily action has the function of endowing the narrative sequence with a visualizing power: It makes the narrated scenes or situations ready for visualization by the reader or listener. By virtue of this visualizing power or disposition, these narrated actions disrupt the theoretical divisions, on the one hand, between the narrated story and the narrating discourse, and on the other hand, between plot-narratology and discourse-narratology. As narrated actions they seem to belong to the domain of plot-narratology, but in so far as they serve an important visualizing function, these narrated actions have a communicative function and as such they can be said to belong to the domain of discourse-narratology. In a first part of the article, I argue that a certain type of plot-narratology, due to its retrospective epistemology and abstract definition of action, is unable to conceive of this visualizing function. In a second part, I argue that discourse-narratology fares no better since the visualizing function is independent of voice and focalization. In a final part, I sketch a possible account of the visualizing function of simple actions in narratives.

Ritualdiskurs, Ritualkritik und Meditationspraxis: Das Beispiel von Vipassanā nach S. N. Goenka im "Westen"

Numen ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Neubert
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Vipassana Meditation

AbstractBy analysing primary sources, I show in this paper how the Vipassanā meditation movement publicly objects to being categorized as a religious movement that teaches a certain form of ritual. I argue that the application of the meta-language terms "ritual" or "religion" to the practices taught by this movement, even though it is doubtlessly possible, does not help us solve the problems in explaining this fact; nor does it help in analysing the movement and its history. I argue that it is more appropriate to understand the polemic differentiation by Vipassanā as a strategy in a "modern" public discourse on religion and ritual. It seems that the reason for applying this strategy lies in the wish to avoid being identified with negative connotations of the terms "ritual" and "religion," such as inefficacy, irrationality and exaggerated rigidity. Instead, the protagonists stress rationality, efficacy and adaptation to the necessities of modern Western society. On the other hand, the movement also draws a line between itself and a so-called modern "esotericism" in which "rituals" are regarded as highly positive in their effects on humans.

scholarly journals When Do Envy-Free Allocations Exist?

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 2109-2116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasin Manurangsi ◽  
Warut Suksompong
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Fair Division ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Additive Utilities ◽  
The One

We consider a fair division setting in which m indivisible items are to be allocated among n agents, where the agents have additive utilities and the agents’ utilities for individual items are independently sampled from a distribution. Previous work has shown that an envy-free allocation is likely to exist when m = Ω (n log n) but not when m = n + o (n), and left open the question of determining where the phase transition from non-existence to existence occurs. We show that, surprisingly, there is in fact no universal point of transition— instead, the transition is governed by the divisibility relation between m and n. On the one hand, if m is divisible by n, an envy-free allocation exists with high probability as long as m ≥ 2n. On the other hand, if m is not “almost” divisible by , an envy-free allocation is unlikely to exist even when m = Θ(n log n)/log log n).

scholarly journals A Note on Sparse Random Graphs and Cover Graphs

10.37236/1497 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Bohman ◽  
Alan Frieze ◽  
Miklós Ruszinkó ◽  
Lubos Thoma
Keyword(s):  
Random Graph ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
High Probability ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cover Graph

It is shown in this note that with high probability it is enough to destroy all triangles in order to get a cover graph from a random graph $G_{n,p}$ with $p\le \kappa \log n/n$ for any constant $\kappa < 2/3$. On the other hand, this is not true for somewhat higher densities: If $p\ge \lambda (\log n)^3 / (n\log\log n)$ with $\lambda > 1/8$ then with high probability we need to delete more edges than one from every triangle. Our result has a natural algorithmic interpretation.

Hungarian Contradictions

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
Attila Pók
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

It is always a risky venture to comment on an article that focuses on issues that lie outside one's own immediate research—risky because one is not familiar with most of the primary sources and with many of the controversies among the specialists in the field. On the other hand, as the gynecologist is just as much a doctor as an ophthalmologist or a surgeon, and they all aim at curing their patients of disease, historians specializing in various fields also belong to the same guild. A perspective from a certain distance can be especially useful if two historians ask closely related questions about the social, intellectual, and political history of a region they both belong to, but make attempts at the answers using differing materials from different epochs.

UN'INFANZIA DIFFICILE: LA TEORIA DELLA DISSOCIAZIONE ELETTROLITICA NEL XIX SECOLO

Nuncius ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-167
Author(s):  
ROBERTO MAIOCCHI
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Electrolytic Dissociation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Modern Chemistry ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract<title> SUMMARY </title>The theory of electrolytic dissociation represented the main chapter of modern chemistry-physics born in the last decades of 19th century. It was vigorously supported, in particular by Ostwald, Arrhenius and Nerst, but it was also harshly criticised. This paper reconstructs the theorical and empirical arguments, which were proposed for and against this theory. Namely, it shows on the one hand the great difficulties, that the supporters of the theory were faced with, and on the other hand the strategies that they adopted in order to overcome these problems. The final part discusses how certain models for a philosophical reconstruction of science shed light on this historical case.

scholarly journals Limits of Autonomy Principle in Documentary Letters of Credit; Perspective of English Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (33) ◽  
pp. 18-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed Alavi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Final Part ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fourth Part ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
English Law ◽  
And Performance

AbstractIn this article, the author reviews the approach of English courts to limits of autonomy principle and tries to answer the following research questions: What obligations should the applicant fulfil while opening a credit in accordance with the underlying contract? What are the seller’s remedies when the buyer fails to perform his duties regarding opining and performance of the credit? On the other hand, what are the seller’s duties in the process of opening the credit and what will be the buyer’s remedy in case of his failure? What is the legal position regarding variation of the credit? What is the position of court regarding absolute or conditional nature of the credit? In order to answer the above research questions, paper is divided into seven parts: after the introductory comments, the second part will review the nature of the buyer’s obligation in opening the credit. The third part is focused on effect of non-compliance by the buyer and the fourth part studies the variation of the credit and its effect on party’s rights within the underlying contract. Part five deals with the buyer’s rights after opening the credit while part six will discuss the absolute or conditional nature of the payment obligation to pay under the LC. Last but not the least, the final part will provide some concluding remarks.

scholarly journals WOMEN EQUAL SHAREHOLDERS IN HINDU JOINT FAMILY, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CASE OF - VINEETA SHARMA VS RAKESH SHARMA & ORS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 167-170
Author(s):  
Abhinit Verma ◽  
◽  
Krishna Kant Choudhary ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Note ◽  
The Other ◽  
Joint Family ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Depth Analysis

This Research Paper will coverthe concept of–whether women have equal shares over the coparcenary property or not & on the other hand it will also discuss the landmark judgment of Vineeta Sharma V/S Rakesh Sharma which has opened up a space for the women to have equal shares in the ancestral property of Hindu Undivided Family.Since the inception of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 the provision for the division of property of Hindu Undivided Family was only limited to the sons but the amendment of 2005 made some of the special changes to the act, adding daughters as the equal shareholders to the coparcenary property and even this amendment providedthat,the daughter can be the Karta of the Hindu Undivided Family.With special reference to the case of Vineeta Sharma vs Rakesh Sharma this research note will provide in-depth analysis with conflicting case laws where it will be put forth whether the coparcenary property are the property of the sons or even the daughter can claim for equal shares over the Hindu Undivided Family property.

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