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The effect of abstraction of the script in the emergence of Quranic recitations according to Orientalists
Full text linkيناقش هذا البحث ما ذهب إليه عدد من المستشرقين من أن أصل القراءات القرآنية يرجع إلى تجرد الخط الذي كُتِبَتْ به المصاحف الأولى من نقاط الإعجام وعلامات الحركات. وجاء في أربعة مباحث: ناقشت في الأول ظاهرة تجرد خط المصاحف الأولى من العلامات، وثَمَّ تعليلان لذلك، الأول: ليحتمل الخط القراءات، والثاني: أن الخط لم تكن فيه تلك العلامات. وعرضت في الثاني نظرية المستشرقين في نشأة القراءات، والتي تتلخص في أن القراءات ناشئة عن تجرد خط المصاحف، وتوقفت عند أبرز القائلين بها، لا سيما المستشرق المجري جولد تسيهر، الذي عزا نشأة القراءات لتجرد الخط، والمستشرق الألماني برجشتراسر الذي قام بتحليل ظواهر القراءات، وانتهى إلى أنه لم يحدث في القراءات السبع إلا استفادة محدودة من الحرية الكبيرة التي أتاحها تجرد الخط من نقاط الإعجام وعلامات الحركات. وعرضت في الثالث وجهة نظر المصادر الإسلامية في أصل القراءات، والتي تتلخص في أنها نتجت عن رخصة الأحرف السبعة، وأن القراء المشهورين الذين تنسب إليهم القراءات أخذوها عن التابعين عن الصحابة، ولم تكن اجتهادًا منهم. وفي الرابع وازنت بين وجهتي النظر في أصل القراءات، وانتهيت إلى أن الاختلاف بين القراءات ليس كالاختلاف في قراءة النقوش القديمة، فليس ثم علاقة بين كاتب النقوش وقارئها، ومن هنا جاء الاختلاف في قراءة كلماتها، أما المصحف فهو محفوظ في الصدور قبل أن يُدَوَّنَ في السطور، وكانت القراءات معروفة قبل كتابة المصاحف، فكيف تنشأ عن خطها؟!The Impact of Un-dotted Arabic Calligraphy in the Emergence of the Variant Readings of the Qur’an: The Orientalists’ Views. This paper responds to suggestions by orientalists that the origin of variant Qur’anic readings is due to the lack of dots and signs in the first copies of the Qur’anic script. The paper is divided into four sections. In the first section, I discuss the stripping of the initial copy of the Qur’anic script of marks and other signs. I also discuss the two commonly proffered explanations. Secondly, I discuss the theories of the orientalists regarding to the origin of the readings (i.e., that they stem from the un-dotted Qur’anic script), whereby I concur with the most prominent view, particularly as represented by the Hungarian orientalist Goldziher, who attributed the emergence of the readings to un-dotted Arabic calligraphy. I also respond to Berjtsrar, the German orientalist who analyzed the variant readings and concluded that the seven readings are little affected except for a limited benefit gained from the extended freedom afforded by the absence of the dots and vowel signs. In the third section, I present my view based on Islamic sources regarding the origin of the variant Qur’anic readings, which could be summarized as follows: the variant readings are the result of the notion of the “seven letters”. The famous reciters of the Qur’an to whom the readings are attributed had learned from the followers of the Companions, and thus they were not relying on their own initiative. In the fourth section, I try to balance the various views and conclude that the differences between the recitations are not the same as those in the readings of the ancient manuscripts for there is no relationship between the author of a manuscript and the one who reads it. As for the Qur’anic scripture, it was memorized before being written down, and the readings were known before the writing. Therefore, how could the variation arise from the script
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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