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UNVEILING THE QURANIC WORLDVIEW: GOD AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
Full text linkThis article explores the foundational structure of the Quranic worldview, with a particular focus on the relationship between God and humans. It presents this relationship as a dynamic and complex dichotomy, where God is the ultimate andsingular reality, with no equal in creation. At the same time, humanity is His creation, endowed with both existence and purpose. The text examines how this divinehuman relationship is articulated through three primary categories: ontological, communicative, and moral. These categories highlight the hierarchical yet deeply interconnected nature of this relationship. The ontological relationship emphasizes God as the Creator and humans as His created beings, while the communicative relationship highlights God’s revelation to humanity, guiding them toward salvation. Finally, the moral relationship contrasts human virtues like gratitude and piety with their opposites, underscoring the importance of moral alignment with divine will.Niniejszy artykuł bada fundamentalną strukturę światopoglądu Koranu, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem relacji między Bogiem a ludźmi. Przedstawia tę relację jako dynamiczną i złożoną dychotomię, w której Bóg jest ostateczną i jedyną rzeczywistością, nie mającą sobie równych w stworzeniu. Jednocześnie ludzkość jest Jego stworzeniem, obdarzonym zarówno istnieniem, jak i celem. Tekst analizuje, w jaki sposób ta bosko-ludzka relacja jest wyrażana za pomocą trzech podstawowych kategorii: ontologicznej, komunikacyjnej i moralnej. Kategorie te podkreślają hierarchiczną, ale głęboko powiązaną naturę tej relacji. Relacja ontologiczna podkreśla Boga jako Stwórcę i ludzi jako istoty stworzone przez Niego, podczas gdy relacja komunikacyjna podkreśla Boże objawienie ludzkości, prowadząc ją do zbawienia. Wreszcie, relacja moralna kontrastuje ludzkie cnoty, takie jak wdzięczność i pobożność, z ich przeciwieństwami, podkreślając znaczenie moralnego dostosowania się do boskiej woli
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Surviving in between worlds of Laila “Halaby’s West of the Jordan”
Full text link“West of the Jordan” was published in 2003, a period when the Arab American movement was coming to a new era in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It was a time when scholars/writers began deconstructing the concept of Arab and Arab American identity to highlight the diversity of the community by taking into account internal differences, especially in areas such as gender, class, and sexuality. I intend to add to this body of work by setting “West of the Jordan” against Gloria Anzaldúa’s theoretical concept of nepantla (Borderlands; In-betweenness), seen here as an identity formation framework. Anzaldúa’s theorization of nepantla has stressed the instability of identity categories through movement betwixt and between identity and transformative ethics of change. Thus, the novel’s formulations and reformulations of ethnic, gender, and other categories should be understood as a way of criticizing these categories ’essentialist nature (even if some of the characters in the novel fail to formulate a constructive liberatory alternative to the essentialisms it attacks/aims to eradicate). In this context, the heroines ’actions succeed in destabilizing the categories ’ideological power and manage to show the shallowness of such delineations
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
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