al-Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya’ (d. 925)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Walker
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Medieval Period

Perhaps the most famous and widely respected Islamic authority on medicine in the medieval period, al-Razi also aspired to a comparable achievement in philosophy and the other sciences such as alchemy. His success in these other subjects, however, was seldom recognized either in his own time or later; in philosophy, for example, more writers cite him for purposes of rejection and refutation than for admiration and emulation. However, his ideas were and are important. Chief among his positive contributions is his advocacy of a doctrine of equal aptitude in all humans, which grants no special role for unique and divinely favoured prophets and which recognizes the possibility of future progress in the advancement of knowledge. Philosophically, al-Razi was by his own admission a disciple of Socrates and Plato, much of whose teaching he knew on the basis of the latter’s Timaeus. Accordingly, he was noted for upholding the eternity of five primary principles, God, soul, time, matter and space, and for a concept of pleasure that sees it as the return to a normal harmony following a serious deviation or disruption which is itself pain.

The foundations and prerequisites of imagology

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Valerii P. Trykov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Engineering ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Role ◽  
The West ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
Eu Project

The article examines the conceptual foundations and scientific, sociocultural and philosophical prerequisites of imagology, the field of interdisciplinary research in humanitaristics, the subject of which is the image of the “Other” (foreign country, people, culture, etc.). It is shown that the imagology appeared as a response to the crisis of comparatives of the mid-20th century, with a special role in the formation of its methodology played by the German comparatist scientist H. Dyserinck and his Aachen School. The article analyzes the influence on the formation of the imagology of post-structuralist and constructivist ideological-thematic complex (auto-reference of language, discursive history, construction of social reality, etc.), linguistic and cultural turn in the West in the 1960s. Shown is that, extrapolated to national issues, this set of ideas and approaches has led to a transition from the essentialist concept of the nation to the concept of a nation as an “imaginary community” or an intellectual construct. A fundamental difference in approaches to the study of an image of the “Other” in traditional comparativism and imagology, which arises from a different understanding of the nation, has been distinguished. It is concluded that the imagology studies the image of the “Other” primarily in its manipulative, socio-ideological function, i.e., as an important tool for the formation and transformation of national and cultural identity. The article identifies ideological, socio-political factors that prepared the birth of the imagology and ensured its development in western Humanities (fear of possible recurrences of extreme nationalism and fascism in post-war Europe, the EU project, which set the task of forming a pan-European identity). It is concluded that the imagology, on the one hand, has actualized an important field of scientific research — the study of the image of the “Other”, but, on the other hand, in the broader cultural and historical perspective, marked a departure not only from the traditions of comparativism and historical poetics, but also from the humanist tradition of the European culture, becoming part of a manipulative dominant strategy in the West. To the culture of “incorporation” into a “foreign word” in order to understand it, preserve it and to ensure a genuine dialogue of cultures, the imagology has contrasted the social engineering and the technology of active “designing” a new identity.

Evolution of the Spanish Relative Construction: Acquisition of National Features

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Nina Korbozerova ◽  
Olena Obruchnikova
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Structural Organization ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Old Spanish ◽  
Xvii Century ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Contact Position

Complex attributive sentences in the Spanish language of the medieval period are characterized by a vague expression of the degree of syntactic subordination. During the XII-XVI centuries there is a process of constant enrichment of meanings and forms of complex attributive sentences. The final formation of the structural organization of a complex attributive sentence ended in the XVII century, in the period of unification and formation of the national Spanish language. Starting from the Old Spanish period, the externally formal homogeneity of models of a complex attributive sentence is disturbed by deep internal complications of semantic connections between the main and subordinate parts. Thus, in the Middle Spanish period, a complex attributive sentence gradually reformatted its structural organization by strengthening the contact position of the nominal center of subordination with the conjunctions and strengthening bilateral links between predicative components, which further contributed to the normalization of the position of the subordinate part. On the other hand, there is an intensive mutual replacement of some conjunctions with others. In the Old Spanish period, the conjunctions bigan to lose their uncoordinated lexical correlation between the correlative word and the supporting noun in the main part. This trend contributed to the consolidation of the structural organization of a complex attributive sentence, which was realized in the early Spanish period.

Textual History of the Minor Prophets

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
W. Edward Glenny
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Textual Tradition ◽  
Masoretic Text ◽  
Textual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Translation ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay discusses the textual history of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew manuscripts and the Versions, excluding Qumran. The most important textual tradition for the Minor Prophets is the Hebrew Masoretic Text tradition from the medieval period (MT), which continues the earlier proto-masoretic textual tradition that is represented in the Qumran scrolls and is the basis of the translations of the Targums and Peshitta. The Septuagint (LXX) is the most important ancient Version of the Hebrew Bible, because it was the first complete translation and because its Hebrew source differed considerably from the other textual witnesses. Other important Versions of the Hebrew Bible are the Targums, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Latin Vulgate.

The Role of Customer Engagement in the COVID-19 Era

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-116
Author(s):  
Sara Santos ◽  
Pedro Espírito Santo ◽  
Luísa Augusto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Brand Attachment ◽  
Brand Engagement ◽  
Brand Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Multidimensional Concept

Costumer engagement is a multidimensional concept which develops over the time and is widely studied in the literature of marketing. Consumers attached to the brand tend to be more involved in behaviors that support the brand. On the other side, brand-self connection is an important element in consumer-brand relationship being part of brand attachment, where social media have a special role. Playfulness and informativeness of video have a significant impact on the value of social media ads, and the authors present the relationship between these two variables and customer engagement. The study will present an investigation with 235 Portuguese individuals during the months of confinement justified by the pandemic COVID-19. The results show that customer engagement depends on informativeness, playfulness, and brand-self connection. Throughout this empirical study, they show that social media brand engagement is explained by these variables. This chapter enhances knowledge on costumer engagement, brand-self connection, and video informativeness and playfulness, supporting new researches in this topic.

Barbarism Begins at Home: Islamic Art on Display in Palermo's Museo Nazionale and Sicilian Ethnography at the 1891‐92 Esposizione Nazionale

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-117
Author(s):  
Dana Katz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
North African ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
At Home

Abstract In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Palermo's Museo Nazionale (National Museum) displayed one of the earliest institutional collections of Islamic art in Western Europe. The museum's director, Antonino Salinas, exhibited objects demonstrating the island's material heritage, including its two-and-a-half centuries of rule by North African dynasties during the medieval period. The prevailing perception elsewhere in post-unification Italy ‐ that Sicily was ungovernable and barbaric in nature ‐ heightened the display's significance. Another exhibition that many Italians would have perceived as representing the 'other' was the Mostra Etnografica Siciliana (Sicilian Ethnographic Exhibition), which the folklorist Giuseppe Pitrè created for the 1891‐92 Palermo Esposizione Nazionale (National Exposition). Highlighting Sicily's volatile image, the Italian press implicitly equated Pitrè's show with the so-called Abyssinian Village, which stood in the exposition fairgrounds and marked the establishment of Italy's first colony in Eritrea at a time of unprecedented imperial expansion. At the National Museum, Salinas remained undeterred, and despite associations of the island's conditions with Africa, he expanded its Islamic holdings. Likewise, Pitrè exhibited costumes, tools, and devotional objects that further accentuated regional differences at the National Exposition. In both displays, Salinas and Pitrè presented what they conceived as Sicily's unique cultural and historical patrimony.

Spanish Diphthongization and Accentual Structure in Diachronic Perspective

Diachronica ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-242
Author(s):  
Yakov Malkiel
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Front Vowel ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Given

SUMMARY For over a century it has been axiomatic with Romance linguists that the formation of rising diphthongs in stressed syllables, at the threshold of the medieval period, was controlled by the given word's environment; by quantity (and, later, by quality) of the accented Latin vowel; and in most daughter languages (but not in Spanish) by the configuration of the syllable. On the other hand, it was believed to be irrelevant, by Hispanists, whether the stressed vowel was the ultimate, the penultimate, or the antepenultimate; and, so far as the last-mentioned situation was concerned, what vowel presided over the following post-tonic syllable. The present paper attempts to demonstrate that the prosodic position of the syllable at issue within the word is by no means irrelevant: Diphthongs thrive if followed by post-tonic a, but wither if followed by a front vowel. Certain developments previously deemed inexplicable thus begin to fall into place; for instance, Lat. pertica "pole"> O.Sp. piertega was replaced, before 1600, by (originally dialectal) pertiga. RÉSUMÉ Les romnisants ont suppose, depuis plus d'un siecle, que la di-phtongaison en syllabe accentue, a l'aube du myen age, dependait, es-sentiellemnt des facteurs suivants: des phonemes contigus; de la quantite (et, plus tard, de la qualite) de la voyelle latine d'origine; enfi de la coupe de la syllabe. D'atre part, les hispanistes n'at-tachaient aucune importance ala place qu'occupait la syllabe accentuee al'interieur du mot; et si ce mot etait proparoxyton, on ne se preoc-cupait pas trop de la voyelle post-tonique. Le present travail aspire a demntrer que les facteurs longtemps negliges ne manquent pas d'etre importants. Les interlocuteurs en ef-fet favorisent la diphtongue en syllabe antepenultieme si la voyelle suivante est a, mais pas du tout si elle est e ou i. Temoin le deve-loppement de latin pertica "perche", qui en ancien espagnol avait pro-duit piertega, tandis que le resultat posterieur (moyennant un emprunt fait aux dialectes) a ete pertiga. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Seit über einem Jahrhundert haben die Romanisten damit gerechnet, daB die Diphthongierung in betonter Silbe von folgenden Faktoren ab-hangt: der lautlichen Umgebung; der Quantitat (und spater der Quali-tat) des betonten Vokals im Lateinischen; schlieBlich von der Struktur der betreffenden Silbe. Hingegen schien die Stellung der betonten Silbe innerhalb des Wortes ziemlich unwichtig; wo es sich urn ein Proparoxy-tonon handelte, schien der Vokal der auf den Ton folgenden Silbe keine sonderliche Rolle zu spielen. Die hier vorgelegte Analyse raumt mit einigen dieser traditionel-len Auffassungen auf. Es ergibt sich namlich, daB ein a in der nach-tonigen Silbe den steigenden Diphthong eines Proparoxytonons fordert, wahrend ein e oder i in dieser Stellung ihn gefahrdet. So wird es nun-mehr zum ersten Mai verstandlich, daB lat. pertica "pfahl, Stock" zwar im Altspanischen piertega ergeben konnte, daB aber die neuere Form (den Mundarten entnommen) pértiga heißt.

scholarly journals Kodeksowe pozwolenie zintegrowane a sektorowe pozwolenie wodnoprawne - doświadczenia niemieckie

2017 ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Jerzy Rotko
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Water Law ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Federal States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In

The author takes the issue of individual administrative acts aimed at rational use of the environment. He is focused on the German experiences. The rationale for this choice is, on one hand, a considerable number of such instruments, provided especially in the water law. On the other hand it is an significant and extensive literature devoted to such instruments. Special role in the development of doctrine played the work on the code of environmental law, which was the central point of an integrated permit. Although there has been no adoption of the Code, but accumulated experiences influence the theory and practice of application of this law. Proof of this is also a history of Water Resources Act, passed in 2009. The need for the adoption of this Act was the result of the consequences of competence changes made to the constitution. These changes were made in order to allow the adoption of the Code. In the new law types of water permits known from previous regulations were repeated, but also there were added selected solutions for environmental integrated protection. That was modeled on the draft Code. It was also added one kind of permission functioning in legislation of federal states.

scholarly journals LITERARY WORK IN THE SYSTEM OF CULTURE

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
N. Astrakhan
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Dialogic Relationships

The article considers a literary work in the context of the problem of preservation and development of cultural traditions, in particular the traditions of an author's literary and artistic creativity and reader`s co-creation. These traditions are characterized as fundamental to culture as a whole in the context of Yu. Lotman's ideas about the semiosphere as a semiotic space, which is both a prerequisite and a result of the functioning of culture. The intersection of dialogical-communicative, aesthetic-receptive, and ontological-hermeneutic understanding of a literary work presupposes a productive going beyond the narrow literary perspective on this phenomenon, requires the expansion of the theoretical scope of its subject. It is about realizing the special role of literature and, in particular, literary works representing it in the process of dialogical self-disclosure of creative individuals who need artistic expression to reconstruct the position of the other, necessary in the course of artistic cognition and self-knowing. Understanding and self-understanding, achieved in the process of dialogical interaction with the other in the space of a literary work, become a prerequisite for the fullness of life meeting the spiritual needs of personal development. Moreover, a literary work, potentially open to any person, becomes a crossroads of different cultures and eras, a mechanism for the formation and manifestation of the integrity of culture, the unity of mankind, the continuity of culture genesis. The need to return to the position of the author, to restore the idea of ​​the semantic center of the work outlined by the author is stated. By analogy with the concept of "Text", developed by R. Bart, it is proposed to use the concept of "Author", meaning a set of personal dialogic relationships of the author of a literary work with other authors and readers, open into the infinity of time perspective. This understanding of the author's position is aimed to prevent the simularization of a literary work, contribute to the preservation of it as a cultural value, an important tool of culture genesis.

Religieuze literatuur tussen het Middelnederlands en het Frans

2020 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-129
Author(s):  
Anna Dlabačová ◽  
Margriet Hoogvliet
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Devotional Texts

Abstract Making use of ideas and concepts from Barbara Cassin’s philosophy of translations and of l’histoire croisée, this essay explores the shared cultures of religious reading between the Dutch and French languages in the late medieval period. While religious literature disseminated in both Dutch and German has received a fair amount of attention in recent scholarship, religious and devotional texts that were available to readers in both Dutch and French have remained understudied. By providing an overview of the most important religious literature that was translated from French into Dutch and the other way around, and of texts originally composed in Latin in the Low Countries and translated into both vernacular languages, we argue that textual mobility between the two languages was frequent and reciprocal. Casestudies of two texts – Pierre Michault’s La Danse aux aveugles and Gerrit van der Goude’s Boexken vander Missen – further indicate that changes – or the lack thereof – in texts that moved between the two languages point to shared cultures of religious reading on equal terms.

A Medieval Skin Boat

Antiquity ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 36 (141) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Henry V ◽  
Old Irish ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
Edward Iii ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Sidonius Apollinaris

Skin boats have an assured but unsatisfactory place in history. Assured, because the literary references to them are many and interesting. Unsatisfactory, S because archaeologically it is unlikely that any remains, by their nature, will ever be found to give an idea of what they were 1ike. James Hornell has summarized many of the literary references to the part they played in Northern Europe during the Classical and Dark Ages in his well-known work on British coracles and Irish curraghs. In the Roman period they are mentioned by Caesar, Lucan, Pliny, Strabo, Solinus, Sidonius Apollinaris and Avienus. Pliny specifically mentions their part in the cross-channel tin trade. The references in Caesar and Lucan are also particularly significant, as will become clear below.Later in the Dark Ages, according to the old Irish stories, Bran and Maelduin used curraghs, or hide-covered boats, for their voyages and Teigue, son of Cian, raided nearly to Spain. In the other direction, St Brendan reached the Shetlands and possibly Iceland as well. St Columba, of course, travelled from Ireland to Iona in a curragh. Niall of the Nine Hostages raided Wales in a fleet of curraghs and his grandson, Breccan, lost 50 in Breccan’s Cauldron, the Corryvreckan which fishermen still avoid today. In the medieval period, Froissart and Holinshed show that Caesar’s use of leather-covered coracles to get armies across rivers survived amongst the troops of Edward III and Henry V, though one imagines they were stouter craft than those described by Giraldus Cambrensis in his Description of Wales, which, Giraldus claimed, could be overturned by a blow from the tail of the salmon which the coracle fishermen were trying to catch.

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