scholarly journals “As Time Grows Older, the Qurʾān Grows Younger”

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 259-287
Author(s):  
Tareq Moqbel
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Ethical Teaching

This article explores the role of ambiguity in the Qurʾān. It examines the concept of ambiguity, its ethical function in literature, and its reception in the tafsīr tradition with special reference to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 606/1210) exegetical programme. Further, and by way of focusing on the narrative genre of the Qurʾān, the article analyses a Qurʾānic pericope, Q. 12:52-53, to illustrate the extent to which ambiguity impacts on the text, and what that means for the ethical teaching of Qurʾānic narratives. Without denying that ambiguity is located in the reader too, the article argues that ambiguity resides in the Qurʾānic text itself, and that this ambiguity has the function of expanding the Qurʾān’s interpretive universe and ethical potential.

Anorexia Nervosa in a Black Zimbabwean

1984 ◽  
Vol 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Buchan ◽  
L. D. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Traditional Healer ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Speculative Hypothesis ◽  
African Patients

SummaryIn spite of the comparative rarity of anorexia nervosa in African patients, the case of a young black Zimbabwean woman which fulfils Feighner's diagnostic criteria is presented. Special reference is made to several unusual features which include the social and psychological conflicts engendered by changes of culture, the clinical symptoms, and the role of a traditional healer in her recovery. A speculative hypothesis concerning aetiology is suggested.

Characterization of soluble, FSF-stabilized fibrin complexes with special reference to the role of fibrinogen

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernt Ly ◽  
Peter Kierulf ◽  
Erling Jakobsen ◽  
Karl Gravem
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Stabilized Fibrin

scholarly journals Role of Staphylococcal Phage and SaPI Integrase in Intra- and Interspecies SaPI Transfer

2007 ◽  
Vol 189 (15) ◽  
pp. 5608-5616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Maiques ◽  
Carles Úbeda ◽  
María Ángeles Tormo ◽  
María Desamparados Ferrer ◽  
Íñigo Lasa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Staphylococcus Aureus ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Attachment Site ◽  
Pathogenicity Islands ◽  
Specific Attachment ◽  
Generalized Transduction

ABSTRACT SaPIbov2 is a member of the SaPI family of staphylococcal pathogenicity islands and is very closely related to SaPIbov1. Typically, certain temperate phages can induce excision and replication of one or more of these islands and can package them into special small phage-like particles commensurate with their genome sizes (referred to as the excision-replication-packaging [ERP] cycle). We have studied the phage-SaPI interaction in some depth using SaPIbov2, with special reference to the role of its integrase. We demonstrate here that SaPIbov2 can be induced to replicate by different staphylococcal phages. After replication, SaPIbov2 is efficiently encapsidated and transferred to recipient organisms, including different non-Staphylococcus aureus staphylococci, where it integrates at a SaPI-specific attachment site, attC , by means of a self-coded integrase (Int). Phages that cannot induce the SaPIbov2 ERP cycle can transfer the island by recA-dependent classical generalized transduction and can also transfer it by a novel mechanism that requires the expression of SaPIbov2 int in the recipient but not in the donor. It is suggested that this mechanism involves the encapsidation of standard transducing fragments containing the intact island followed by int-mediated excision, circularization, and integration in the recipient.

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