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The Jews of Yemen in the literary work of Ali al-Muqri: A bold and liberal Yemeni author on Jews and Judaism
No full text...The novelist, poet and journalist, Ali al-Muqri, native of Ta‘izz (b. 1966), is known for expressing his views on religious and social minorities of Yemen. A powerful expression to this effect has been given in his four novels (2008–2014). Al-Muqri was compelled to self-imposed exile from his native country on account of threats to his life, arising from his harsh criticism of the Yemeni society, and due to its religious conservatism. Without intimidation, and by making very bold statements, he ruthlessly attacks the negative attitude towards minorities, the more vulnerable elements of society: the Akhdām (a socially marginalized sect), women and Jews.
The article treats the prominent presence of Judaism and of the Jews in two of al-Muqri’s novels:
The novel, which bears the provocative and challenging name, Al-Yahūdī al-Ḥālī (“The Handsome Jew”) (2009). It is the story of a love affair which happened in the 17th century between a young and educated Muslim girl, the daughter of the local mufti (high religious personality), and a very handsome young Jewish boy. The background is set against the infamous Headgears’ Decree (1667) and the Mawza’ Exile (1679).
(b) Bukhūr ‘Adanī (Adeni Incense) (2014), a very comprehensive novel wherein al-Muqri lays out in detail his cultural and humanitarian perspective that spans the world, by means of a utopian perspective of mutual co-existence between the adherents of different religions and faiths in the cosmopolitan city of Aden. The first disintegration of this social framework, which stands at the very center of the novel’s plot, comes actually with the immigration of Yemenite Jews to the land of Israel, an event that al-Muqri views with great understanding. Thus, based on al-Muqri’s literary fiction which reflects therein, in accordance with his mimesis, a true reality, the end of the homeland Aden is ushered in: the end of individual freedom, the end of Jewish communal life in the city, and above all, the end of universal human equalit
The Chase as an Allegory for the Wrong and Suffering in the World as Found in Tahkmeoni by Yehuda Alḥarizi against the Background of Arabic Poetry
No full textثمّة اختلاف جليّ، فيما بتعلق بالطرائد، بين القصيدة الجاهلية والعباسيّة، ففي الأولى نلاحظ أسماء، مثل: الماعز، الأرانب، الثعالب، الأفاعي، الحبارة، القطا والقبّر، ومجموعة متنوّعة من الطيور. بينما في الثانية، نلاحظ الظباء، الحمر، الثيران والنعام.[1] تجدر الإشارة إلى أنّ موضوع الصّيد حاضر في القصيدة العربية، على اختلاف فتراتها، منذ العصر الجاهليّ وحتى العصر الحديث، كما يظهر ذلك من "قصّة الرّامي" للشاعر المغربيّ الكحيليّ، وسنعود للحديث عنه لاحقا.
تحدّث الباحثون العرب في مجال قصيدة الصّيد، في القصيدة العربية القديمة الجاهلية وحتى عصر صدر الإسلام، عن ستة محاور مركزيّة (موتيفات)، تشكّل معا قصيدة الصّيد، وهي: (أ) الزّمن (ب) المكان (ج) وصف حيوان الصّيد (د) مكانة الطريدة (ه) المدح المرافق أو الموّجه في عملية الصّيد (و) وعرض الصّيد. وبالمقابل، فقد احتوت بعض الطرديات من الفترة العباسيّة بعضا من هذه الموتيفات، بينما ندرت الطرديات التي احتوت هذه الموتيفات مجتمعة.[2] فيما يلي سنقوم بتحليل ومناقشة مقامة الصيد للحريزيّ، وفقا للأسس التقليديّة، التي تؤلّف موضوع الصّيد في القصيدة العربية، دون أن يكون النقاش مطابقًا تماما للمحاور الستة المذكورة سابقا. بداية سنقوم بقراءة سريعة لمضمون المقامة، التي تقسّم لقصّة الإطار، المحتوية على (أ) حبكة الصيد، (ب) خواطر الراوي الحادة حول مصير العباد، والعدل الإلهي. ونقسم حبكة الصّيد لقسمين: (أ) وصف البطل – الصّياد والحيوانات المرافقة له – الحصان الذي يمتطيه، الباز والكلاب التي تساعده في الصّيد؛ (ب) وصف عملية الصيد، بما في ذلك وصف معسكر (قطيع) الظباء. وسنناقش فيما يلي كلّ موضوع على حدة.
Not only literary materials relating to the description of the act of hunting and its participants – the hunt and its horse, the hawk and the dogs, and, of course, the animals being stalked – been at the disposal of Alḥarizi who borrowed from Arabic poetry in his Maḥberet Ha-Ṣayyad, whether from the jāhiliyyah or the mukhaḍramūn poets, or from the Umayyad or Abbasid poetry – but also the ethical question centered around the hunting of animals and the fate of man. However, Alḥarizi’s work is perhaps the best in this regard, both in the detailed account of ‘the chase’ and in the thorough investigation into the question of divine justice, a discussion which he was far more adept to engage in than his Arab counterpart, seeing that he was raised upon religious and philosophical thought
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
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