scholarly journals Christian Sources in al-Maqrīzī’s Kitāb al-Ḫiṭaṭ and al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 233-270
Author(s):  
Mayte Penelas
Keyword(s):  
Major Work ◽  
Comprehensive Survey

Abstract It is widely known that al-Maqrīzī relied extensively on the work by the Coptic author Ibn al-ʿAmīd for the chapter on the Copts included in his Kitāb al-Ḫiṭaṭ. Some scholars have assessed that the text known as Kitāb Hurūšiyūš, which was compiled by a Christian from al-Andalus, was also a major source for large fragments of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫiṭaṭ. More recently, it has been argued that al-Maqrīzī also relied on those two Christian sources for his last major work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar. In this article, I intend to offer a more comprehensive survey of the use of both sources by al-Maqrīzī. By providing a good many examples, I aim to demonstrate that al-Maqrīzī built on them entire sections or long passages of his books, but also turned to them frequently to add in short reports, variant versions, a date, a nasab, or any information he considered relevant to his work.

Doxastic Naturalism and Hume's Voice in theDialogues

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Lorkowski
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Naturalistic Interpretation ◽  
New Evidence

I argue that acknowledging Hume as a doxastic naturalist about belief in a deity allows an elegant, holistic reading of his Dialogues. It supports a reading in which Hume's spokesperson is Philo throughout, and enlightens many of the interpretive difficulties of the work. In arguing this, I perform a comprehensive survey of evidence for and against Philo as Hume's voice, bringing new evidence to bear against the interpretation of Hume as Cleanthes and against the amalgamation view while correcting several standard mistakes. I ultimately isolate the interpretation of Philo's Reversal at the end of the Dialogues as of paramount importance, and show how my naturalistic interpretation makes this, and other notoriously difficult passages, unproblematic.

Thomas More et l’ouverture humaniste

Moreana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (Number 195- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 186-209
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Phélippeau
Keyword(s):  
General Introduction ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Fiction Writer

This article is to be understood as a general introduction to Thomas More, the humanist. Confronted with the new ideas coming from the rest of Europe, More is influenced by the rediscovery of Greek texts. With his humanist friends, William Lily and Erasmus, he becomes a translator, a poet, a polemicist and a fiction writer. The article starts by defining the terms Renaissance and Humanism, laying the stress of the secularization of thought, and continues by recalling Thomas More’s action against the rigidity of Oxford University in the battle about Greek. The humanist’s portrait then continues with the evocation of More’s qualities as a pedagogue, a poet and a dialogue writer to finish with More’s role as a reformer and an Epicurean in his major work Utopia. The conclusion insists on the re-affirmation of man in the Renaissance world.

Roshdi Rashed

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 279-295
Author(s):  
Mohammed Aref
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Great Book ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Elementary Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

This review essay introduces the work of the Egyptian scientific historian and philosopher Roshdi Rashed, a pioneer in the field of the history of Arab sciences. The article is based on the five volumes he originally wrote in French and later translated into Arabic, which were published by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies and which are now widely acclaimed as a unique effort to unveil the achievements of Arab scientists. The essay reviews this major work, which seems, like Plato’s Republic to have “No Entry for Those Who Have No Knowledge of Mathematics” written on its gate. If you force your way in, even with elementary knowledge of computation, a philosophy will unfold before your eyes, described by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei as “written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe—but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.” The essay is a journey through this labyrinth where the history of world mathematics got lost and was chronicled by Rashed in five volumes translated from the French into Arabic. It took him fifteen years to complete.

Approaching Mull? ?adr? as Scriptural Exegete: A Survey of Scholarship on His Quranic Works

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Mohammed Rustom
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Methodological Problems

This article offers the first comprehensive survey of scholarly literature devoted to the Qur??nic works of the famous Muslim philosopher, Mull? ?adr? (d. 1050/1640). While taking account of the merits and shortcomings of studies on ?adr?’s Qur??nic writings, we will also be concerned with highlighting some of the methodological problems raised by the diverse range of approaches adopted in these studies. Chief amongst them is the tendency to pit ?adr? the philosopher against ?adr? the scriptural exegete. Such a dichotomy is not entirely helpful, both with respect to painting a clearer picture of ?adr?’s religious worldview, and to addressing broader questions pertaining to the intimate relationship shared between the “act” of philosophy and the “act” of reading scripture.

The Solar Lunar Orientations of the Orkney-Cromarty and Clava Cairns

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Scott
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Survey

This paper outlines the background to earlier studies of the orientation of the OrkneyCromarty (OC) passage cairns and the Clava passage and ring cairns, and details the outcome of a new and comprehensive survey carried out by the author over recent years. The paper sets out evidence of orientations in both sets of cairns to the eight divisions of the year and tests whether the alignments were observable. The results were compared to see if the Clava cairns had been influenced by the older OC cairns. Other solar and/or lunar aligned monuments are also briefly examined, as is relevant folklore.

Ultrafast laser processing of ceramics: Comprehensive survey of laser parameters

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 012009
Author(s):  
Aiko Narazaki ◽  
Hideyuki Takada ◽  
Dai Yoshitomi ◽  
Kenji Torizuka ◽  
Yohei Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Laser Processing ◽  
Ultrafast Laser ◽  
Laser Parameters ◽  
Comprehensive Survey

Security in Smart Healthcare System: A Comprehensive Survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
P. Jeyadurga ◽  
S. Ebenezer Juliet ◽  
I. Joshua Selwyn ◽  
P. Sivanisha
Keyword(s):  
Secure Communication ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Internet Security ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
System A ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Healthcare Monitoring ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of things (IoT) is one of the emerging technologies that brought revolution in many application domains such as smart cities, smart retails, healthcare monitoring and so on. As the physical objects are connected via internet, security risk may arise. This paper analyses the existing technologies and protocols that are designed by different authors to ensure the secure communication over internet. It additionally focuses on the advancement in healthcare systems while deploying IoT services.

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