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Conservation in an Islamic context a case study of Makkah
No full textThe Holy Qu’ rān contains many injunctions for Muslims to respect and conserve the natural environment but few address the built environment. Habitat at the time of the Prophet (PBOH) was in the vernacular and relatively impermanent. The first habitat was the cave, the second the tent and then simple flat roofed buildings of post and lintel construction made of mud and rubble. Later buildings were not indigenous but reflected the architectural styles and techniques of Muslim pilgrims from beyond the Arabian Peninsula. Permanent exotic buildings were later erected as reminders of holy places and events. This work advances a case to restore and preserve historic and religious sites in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Makkah is the destination for millions of Muslim pilgrims who annually pay homage to Allah during the occasions of Hajj, Ramadan and Umra. The tranquillity and peaceful ambience that one associates with the holiest of Islamic experiences have, over the years, given way to jostling crowds of people who must be expediently housed, fed, transported, and protected. Due to the lack of planning and the insensitive but profitable development of the city, Makkah is in grave danger of becoming a bustling metropolis instead of a sanctuary where pilgrims gather to perform their religious rites and reaffirm their dedication to Allah. The author calls for professional planning and international cooperation to guide future development for this expanding and sensitive area. The author's ideas are grounded in practical and aesthetic study, therefore, the political, environmental and economic issues are examined in relationship to religious, historic and artistic values. The author makes proposals for a future Makkah that would provide pilgrims with the physical comforts, security, and serene environment they deserve—without destroying the city they came to visit. The author discusses preservation and conservation in the western world and the need for their acceptance in Muslim countries, the former being an aesthetic and intellectual concept sustained by law and the latter being the prescribed free expression of the individual unhindered by material considerations. Both worlds are rapidly being overwhelmed by materialism, but body, mind and spirit combine in making us aware of our surroundings and the way in what we see around us has come into being
Supplemental Material - Crosstalk between miR-146a and pro-inflammatory cytokines in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
No full textSupplemental Material for Crosstalk between miR-146a and pro-inflammatory cytokines in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus by Basima A El-Akhras, Roba M Talaat, Samir A El-Masry, Iman H Bassyouni, Ibrahim H El-Sayed and Yasser BM Ali in International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology</p
Advanced dilatometric technique 'SID' for studying the kinetics of the intermediate stage of sintering. Example: Sintering of UO<sub>2</sub> and CeO<sub>2</sub>
No full textDataset for One-pot assembly of a biocompatible triazole-linked gene by click-DNA ligation.
No full textData supporting Kukwikila, Nsimba M., Gale, N., El-Sagheer, A.H., Brown, Tom and Tavassoli, Ali (2017) Assembly of a biocompatible triazole-linked gene by one-pot click-DNA ligation Nature Chemistry</span
Measuring and accounting for community capabilities in Kordofan, Sudan:
No full text"Parallel to the growing attention being devoted to the relationship between empowerment and development, an increasing number of tools are being developed to measure empowerment and determine the link between these two phenomena. This paper details the methodological processes used to construct, test and possibly refine one such instrument, the Community Capability Index, an innovative tool to measure community capabilities in the domain of natural resource governance. Empirical reference is made to research conducted in 85 villages in North and South Kordofan, Sudan. Following this, the paper presents findings from analyses of the determinants of community capabilities, including geographic, economic, and institutional variables. The results suggest that in Kordofan a number of factors influence capabilities. Possessing a village market, proximity to the nearest town, and access to credit are economic variables that have a significant and highly positive effect on community capabilities. Regarding the environment, capabilities are found to be greater where there is more rainfall, but access to groundwater from lower-quality aquifers and cracking clay soils have negative impacts on capabilities. War shocks, as might be expected, have a negative and significant effect. Particularly interesting is the generally weak correlation found between capabilities and wealth, along with strong correlations between institutional and social dimensions of community capabilities and participation in donor-funded projects. This combination suggests that development interventions must take into account the non-identity of poverty reduction and empowerment processes, at least when the targeted agents are communities rather than individuals or households. The findings reveal areas for further investigation into the relationship between the determinants and dimensions of capabilities, and the potential significance of the relationship for some dimensions suggests context-specific interventions to strengthen the relevant capabilities." from Authors' AbstractCapabilities, Community Capabilities Index, Empowerment, methodologies, Social capital,
Translation of the Imperative Forms in the Holy Qur'an
No full textA Master of Arts thesis in Translation and Interpreting MATI (English/Arabic/English) by Ibrahim El Sayed Elaissawi entitled, "Translation of the Imperative Forms in the Holy Qur'an," submitted in May 2016. Thesis advisor is Dr. Ahmed Ali. Soft and hard copy available.This thesis is about the translation of the imperative forms in the Holy Qur'an. Relevant issues in translation theory are covered in the beginning of the thesis. I focused on the linguistic approaches in translation studies because they may be helpful in the translation analysis section of the thesis. Then some of the syntactic structures and semantic features of the imperative forms are explored, with examples cited from the Holy Qur'an. In the chapter on translation analysis, ten examples are discussed in light of the theoretical and linguistic background explored in the first six chapters. The three translations selected are each carried out by reputable Muslim scholars. The first translation is Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an in the English Language, written by Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan. The second translation, Towards Understanding the Ever-Glorious Quran, is written by Professor Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali, and the final translation is entitled The Qur'an, A new Translation by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. The analysis is done systematically according to the following approach. After citing the ayat, the imperative form is defined in terms of its dictionary meaning, lexical root, and morphological measure. Then it is analyzed syntactically to identify its grammatical relationship to the other grammatical items preceding and following it. If there could be more than one reading of a word, these readings are studied to see their effect on meaning. All this is done in light of what the authentic books of Tafseer say about the ayat under discussion. Some elements of the translation models are explored in the beginning of the thesis to be used as a theoretical background for the translation analysis in chapter seven. The thesis concludes that the three translations examined approached the translation of the Qur'anic text in different ways. The renderings may sometimes be literal, sometimes non-literal. In several places in the translations, lexical and grammatical equivalences were maintained. However in other places, another grammatical category other than that in the source text was used to maintain the meaning of the Qur'anic text.College of Arts and SciencesDepartment of Arabic and Translation StudiesMaster of Arts in English/Arabic/English Translation and Interpreting (MATI
Channel estimation and ICI cancellation for adaptive OFDM systems in doubly selective channels
No full textMagdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Diss., 2010von Ali Ramadan M. Al
Analysis of the Architectural heritage of El-Mansoura city, Egypt: towards urban conservation approach
No full textMansoura city is one of the Egyptian intermediate cities in the Nile delta, The city center heritage are in mostly the European Mediterranean style because of the presence of the foreigners in the city spatially Greek and Italian communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
As many other Egyptian intermediate cities, the city heritage suffers from lack of maintenance and the absence of organized conservation programs.
El-Mansoura architectural heritage are divided into main five zones around the city center. The first is the “private palaces and villas zone” in the west of the city center, it was the residence of the aristocratic Egyptians. The second is the “Northern city center” on the Nile, it was the administration zone near the old port. The third is the “Commercial center” with high concentration of commercial activities. The fourth is “El-Mokhtalat neighborhood” in the east of the city center, it was the residence of the foreigners and elite Egyptians. The last one is “Torel neighborhood” it is a combination of private villas in a grid of perpendicular street.
Their are some trials to preserve and restore some building of the city heritage but normally they are individual trails and some times without professional procedures and studies, Now there is some projects to make urban development of the city valuable zones in collaboration between “El-Dakahlia’ governorate and “Mansoura university, Department of architectural engineering” and that will lead to effective restoration and rehabilitation projects in the future
Rapport de M. Ali effendi Bahgat sur la mosquée el-Moàllaq à Fayoum
No full textBahgat Ali, Herz Max, Sabri Saber, Zarb J. Rapport de M. Ali effendi Bahgat sur la mosquée el-Moàllaq à Fayoum. In: Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe. Fascicule 18, exercice 1901, 1901. pp. 51-52
Figure 2 in Target-site insensitivity to some acaricides in a field population of Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) from Egypt
No full textFigure 2. Multiple alignment of the amino acid sequences of T. urticae acetylcholinesterase (AChE) between Eg-Bernasht population and GenBank published populations. Tetranychus urticae AChE sequences were performed local as well as global alignments, using BLASTX search protein databases, using a translated nucleotide (NCBI). Three different specific primer sets (1, 2, and 3; Table 1) contained 422 amino acids of AChE gene. Dots: indicate amino acid similarity. Digital number: amino acid position on the AChE protein.Published as part of Zein, Haggag S., Afifi, Abdallah M., Ali, Fatma S., Shaurub, El-Sayed H. & Ahmed, Mahmoud M., 2022, Target-site insensitivity to some acaricides in a field population of Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) from Egypt, pp. 323-337 in Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (2) on page 329, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v11i2.71694, http://zenodo.org/record/717353
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