scholarly journals Rhetorical Similes in Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi in Explaining Al Tirmidhi by Mohmmad Abdul Rehman Al Mubarakfoury

Fahm-i-Islam ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-147
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
The World

This article deals with the rhetorical similes in Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi in Explaining Al-Tirmidhi by Mohmmad Abdul Rehman Al-Mubarakfoury. The metaphor is the broadest of the chapters of the science of statement, and the ancient scholars paid attention to it in their sermons from the time of the preIslamic era to the present and the first person to have dealt with the study. The analogy in his complete book is the file and he mentions: The simile came in many of the words of the Arabs even if someone said it is the most of their words, He was not removed, and Qudamah bin Jafar also used similes in his book “Criticism of the Poetry”. Al-Mubarakfuri referred to the rhetorical similes in “Tuhfat Al-Ahoudi” the hadiths that relate to describing the world and the conditions of the Hereafter. The Prophet may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, relies on the received similes that suggest means of clarifying the intended meaning of understanding, such as enhancing the sensory and the moral.

The problem of sex in the religions of the Abrahamic tradition

2001 ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
N. Nedzelska
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
First Person ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Systems

The paradox of the existence of the species Homo sapiens is that we do not even know: Who are we? Why are we? Where did you go from? Why? At all times - from antiquity to our time - the philosophers touched on this topic. It takes an important place in all religions of the world. These eternal questions include gender issues. In the religious systems of the religions of the Abrahamic tradition there is no single answer to the question of which sex was the first person. Recently, British scientists have even tried to prove that Eve is 84 thousand years older Adam

scholarly journals When the World Breaks Down: A 3-Stage Existential Model of Nihilism in Schizophrenia

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Philipp Klar ◽  
Georg Northoff
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
First Person ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
The World ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Pathological Development ◽  
Sense Of Reality ◽  
Intentional Structure

The existential crisis of nihilism in schizophrenia has been reported since the early days of psychiatry. Taking first-person accounts concerning nihilistic experiences of both the self and the world as vantage point, we aim to develop a dynamic existential model of the pathological development of existential nihilism. Since the phenomenology of such a crisis is intrinsically subjective, we especially take the immediate and pre-reflective first-person perspective’s (FPP) experience (instead of objectified symptoms and diagnoses) of schizophrenia into consideration. The hereby developed existential model consists of 3 conceptualized stages that are nested into each other, which defines what we mean by existential. At the same time, the model intrinsically converges with the phenomenological concept of the self-world structure notable inside our existential framework. Regarding the 3 individual stages, we suggest that the onset or first stage of nihilistic pathogenesis is reflected by phenomenological solipsism, that is, a general disruption of the FPP experience. Paradigmatically, this initial disruption contains the well-known crisis of common sense in schizophrenia. The following second stage of epistemological solipsism negatively affects all possible perspectives of experience, that is, the first-, second-, and third-person perspectives of subjectivity. Therefore, within the second stage, solipsism expands from a disruption of immediate and pre-reflective experience (first stage) to a disruption of reflective experience and principal knowledge (second stage), as mirrored in abnormal epistemological limitations of principal knowledge. Finally, the experience of the annihilation of healthy self-consciousness into the ultimate collapse of the individual’s existence defines the third stage. The schizophrenic individual consequently loses her/his vital experience since the intentional structure of consciousness including any sense of reality breaks down. Such a descriptive-interpretative existential model of nihilism in schizophrenia may ultimately serve as input for future psychopathological investigations of nihilism in general, including, for instance, its manifestation in depression.

Remembering the Footsteps of Five Distinguished Ophthalmologists from the present in the era of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Kawasaki Disease ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Takayasu’S Arteritis ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Experimental Medicine ◽  
First Person ◽  
The World ◽  
Eyes Open ◽  
Pollen Exposure ◽  
Scientific Facts

We have reported that 40 specific intractable diseases and 24 types of cancer and malignancies as well as Kawasaki disease may be triggered by pollen in our previous papers.Further, we reported in 2021 two articles regarding relation of outbreak of Influenza and COVID-19, and pollen exposure. In this paper, five distinguished ophthalmologists will be considered and described. Mikito Takayasu was the first person to report the discovery of Takayasu's arteritis, one of the vasculitis syndromes, which may be a pollen-induced disease as well as Kawasaki disease. Next, Einosuke Harada, Alfred Vogt and Yoshizo Koyanagi are considered and described as the reporters of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease. The fifth ophthalmologist is Li Wenliang who was the first person in the world to report the outbreak of SARS-COV-2 infection. Many people are still unaware of the fact that exposure to pollen can lead to many diseases. The author hopes that those who are involved in medical care will consider the scientific facts, keep their eyes open, and use this knowledge in their daily activities, although clear proof in experimental medicine is craved.

Thinking Globally: Mandeville, Memory, and Mappaemundi

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-106
Author(s):  
John Wyatt Greenlee ◽  
Anna Fore Waymack
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
First Person ◽  
Unreliable Narrator ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenging Students ◽  
Person Account

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: THE TRAVELS OF Sir John Mandeville, the fourteenth-century "first-person" account of a fictional English knight's adventurous journey to Jerusalem and across the world, is difficult to teach.1 Popular with medieval European audiences, the book troubles today's students with its confusing descriptions of global geography, its treatment of non-Christian, non-European peoples, and its constant conflation of fact and fable. But, as those who have taught it can attest, it can serve as a valuable tool for challenging students' preconceptions of an isolated European Middle Ages. It introduces them to an unreliable narrator and to tensions between the doctrines of the institutional Roman church and individual faith. The author's global perspective shows students a world of diverse religions, ethnicities, races, diets, customs, and sexualities. And the Travels does this while being relatively short and entertaining, pulling the reader through the map via its engaging narrative of landscaped vignettes.

Felons Are Contemporary Outlaws

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keesha M. Middlemass
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
First Person ◽  
Felony Conviction ◽  
Research Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
Convicted Felons ◽  
Sheer Number

This chapter introduces readers to the world of prisoner reentry and a felony conviction, and describes the research context. Drawing on first-person narratives, the chapter describes the lived experiences of convicted felons reacclimating to society in order to communicate the concept of social disability. A felony conviction and prisoner reentry straddle multiple disciplinary perspectives; therefore, an interdisciplinary framework is established to link history, politics, race, and public policies to convey the layered reality of a felony and its distinct socially disabling consequences. Weaving together racialized policies, such as the War on Drugs, with details about the sheer number of felons living in numerous communities across the country, this chapter lays the foundation for the book by describing who is locked up and who reenters society. Additionally, main concepts are introduced to emphasize the underlying argument that a felony conviction is a socially disabling construct that is based on punitive tough-on-crime policies.

Voices on the Page

I, the Poet ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Kathleen McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
First Person ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World

This introductory chapter provides an overview of first-person Latin poems. It begins by studying a poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus, which yokes together the world of the characters and the world of the reader by means of the first-person speaker, who is positioned as both a character in the storyworld and the author of the text. The chapter then seeks to describe how first-person Latin poems produce their distinctive charisma by intertwining social and literary communication. Central to the effects of such poems is the fact that one can see the poem's discourse as an artistic creation designed to communicate with readers who will have no other contact with the poet. Also central to their effects, however, is the fact that this orientation toward distant or future readers is almost never registered explicitly in the poem, which instead shows an image of face-to-face communication in an intimate social world that readers can never access.

A Witness Tree

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Virginia F. Smith
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Scientific Language ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

The years leading up to the publication of A Witness Tree in 1942 saw Frost become a widower, lose his son to suicide, and begin to rebuild his life with the help of fellow writers and friends. Yet, as the world was becoming embroiled in war, Frost produced a collection of poems that portrayed the power and beauty of nature using scientific language and concepts drawing on a lifetime of accumulated knowledge. In poems such as “The Lesson for Today,” “Our Hold on the Planet,” and “A Considerable Speck,” Frost uses his poetry to ask about man’s place in nature. The poems in this collection invoke a wide range of animal and plants, naming dozens of species and there is less emphasis on technology than in earlier volumes. Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for this collection, making him the first person ever to win four of the prestigious awards.

“I,” Singular and Universal

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Béatrice Longuenesse
Keyword(s):  
Singular Term ◽  
First Person ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

In each instance of its use, “I” refers to just one individual: the individual currently saying the sentence or thinking the proposition in which “I” (or, as the case may be, the first-person inflection of the verb) is in use. At the same time, having available the concept and word “I” is understanding that any other person using “I” thereby refers to herself, the thinker or speaker. Moreover, uses of “I” are not necessarily the expression of an egoistic obsession with our individual person. Some of the sentences in which “I” is in use display a striking combination of the singular character of the word and concept “I” and the universality of the claim we make on others, using the singular term and concept “I.” The chapter explores these contrasting features of “I” in relation to our cognitive and agential access to the world.

Being There

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Lienhard
Keyword(s):  
Soy Sauce ◽  
Government Official ◽  
First Person ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The World ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Being There ◽  
Taking Responsibility ◽  
Human Hands

We come at last to the forbidden first person, the I am. No story is right until the teller is part of it. Yet a peculiar mischief is abroad in the land of science and engineering. It is a mischief born out of the noblest of intentions. For decades it has spread like the flu, far beyond the technical journals that gave it birth. The intention is to let us stand like blindfolded Justice—pure, objective, and aloof. To do this, we write about our work without ever speaking in the first person. We try to let fact speak for itself. Instead of saying, “I solved the equation and got y = log x”, we write, “The solution of the equation is y = log x”. We turn our actions into facts that are untouched by human hands. To some extent we must do that. Our facts should be sufficiently solid that we do not need to prop them up with our desires. Third-person detachment has its place, but my own person is not so easy to erase. Suppose I think another engineer, whom I shall call Hoople, is wrong. I am not objective about Hoople, but I must appear to be. So I write, “It is believed that Hoople is incorrect.” That’s a cheap shot. I express my thoughts without taking responsibility for them. I seem to be reporting general disapproval of Hoople. In the unholy name of objectivity, I make it sound as though the whole profession thinks that Hoople is a fool. Now radio and TV journalists are doing it. I cringe every time I hear, “It is expected that Congress will pass the bill. “Who expects that? The announcer? The Democrats? A government official? Maybe the soy sauce lobby is the expectant source. So instead of objectivity we get obfuscation. If our work really occurred in objective isolation, we could write about it that way. But people are present. They think and they act. If we fail to represent human intervention accurately, we are dishonest, and objectivity becomes meaningless. The things we make tell the world what we are.

Flights of Imagination: Avicenna’s Phoenix (ʿAnqā) and Bedil’s Figuration for the Lyric Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-72
Author(s):  
Jane Mikkelson
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Philosophical System ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
The Phoenix

Abstract The phoenix (ʿanqā) appears in the philosophy of Avicenna (d.1037) as his example of a “vain intelligible,” a fictional being that exists in the soul, but not in the world. This remarkable bird is notable (along with the Earth, the moon, the sun, and God) for being a species of one. In this essay, I read the poetry Bedil of Delhi (d.1720) in conversation with the philosophical system of Avicenna, arguing that the phoenix in Bedil’s own philosophical system functions as a key figuration that allows him simultaneously to articulate rigorous impersonal systematic ideas and to document his individual first-personal experiences of those ideas. The phoenix also plays a metaliterary role, allowing Bedil to reflect on this way of doing philosophy in the first person—a method founded on the lyric enrichment of Avicennan rationalism. Paying attention to the adjacencies between poetry and philosophy in Bedil, this essay traces the phoenix’s transformations from a famous philosophical example into one of Bedil’s most striking figurations in his arguments about imagination, mind, and self.

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