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Optics and theory of vision in the Kitāb nūr al-'uyūn wa-jāmi' al-funūn: critical edition, translation and comment of the second maqāla
No full textScience changes constantly. Most of the time, progress involves minor issues or specific elements of inquiry. Much more rarely, instead, the foundational paradigms evolve, entailing processes of conceptual re-elaboration which re-define the disciplines anew. Let us consider optics. The re-definition of the discipline as the physics of light is quite recent. Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, its status was completely different. Optics was in fact conceived as the science of vision, the eye being its primary element of investigation, rather than light. Such a paradigmatic link warranted a special connection between optics and medicine, namely with ophthalmology. The medieval Arabic production in this field is a case in point inasmuch as the lion’s share of its texts usually presents a section devoted to optics. Within this tradition, deeply influenced by the ancient Greek legacy, the Kitāb nūr al-ʿuyūn wa-ǧāmiʿ al-funūn stands out. Contrary to a standard, unoriginal treatment of the ophthalmological issues, the contents, sources, and general setup of its second maqāla, entirely devoted to optical matters, is as peculiar as to make this work a unicum in the field of medieval Arabic ophthalmology. Centered on the examination of this section, this study aims to produce a critical edition thereof, integrated with an annotated translation. Before that, a contextualization of the Kitāb nūr al-ʿuyūn wa-ǧāmiʿ al-funūn is provided in Chapter One. The first paragraph introduces the work regarding its main contents, setup, and approach. A brief overview concerning the state of the art on the Kitāb nūr al-ʿuyūn wa-ǧāmiʿ al-funūn is presented afterwards. The second paragraph focuses on the second maqāla, which is examined upon the background of the Arabic medieval literary production on ophthalmology. By means of retracing models and patterns regarding the treatment of optical matters within the most famous works in the field, the uniqueness of the maqāla is established. The third paragraph deals with diagrams, pivotal elements of Euclidean geometrical optics. In particular, diagrams are examined with regard to their paleographical-codicological peculiarities, in order to shed some light upon issues relating to the material culture, as well as to investigate how diagrams interact with the leaf and the mathematical content they refer to. The fourth paragraph is reserved to the author of the Kitāb nūr al-ʿuyūn wa-ǧāmiʿ al-funūn, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā b. Abī al-Raǧāʾ. This section is structured as an attempt at sketching a biographical profile of the author of the treatise. Chapter Two focuses on the manuscript witnesses of the Kitāb nūr al-ʿuyūn wa-ǧāmiʿ al-funūn, which are thoroughly analyzed with regard to their codicological and paleographical characteristics. In Chapter Three, the critical edition and annotated translation of the second maqāla are provided. Three Appendices conclude the study. Appendix I is devoted to diagrams; synoptical tables comparing the lectiones of the lettering and the drawings of manuscripts are presented. Appendix II focuses on bāb 14 of the ninth maqāla, “On strabismus and its cure”; the critical edition of the Arabic text and an annotated translation are provided. Appendix III is a specialized glossary of technical terms relating to the field of optics. Finally, a bibliography is supplied
The Wear Project
Get PDFWhen we meet a character in a performance, the implicit understanding is that they have existed until the point where we join their journey and will continue existing after we leave them. Their clothing tells a story to the audience before any words are spoken and before any action takes place. As a Costume Designer and Lecturer, my awareness of costuming as an anthropological practice has led me to explore these principles using myself as the subject of scrutiny. For one year I am logging every clothing combination I go through along with memories, prices, locations and dates etc. in order to explore the clothing decisions I make and the stories, embedded in my clothes, that I am surrounded by every day. What does my wardrobe mean to me inwardly and reveal outwardly to others? How does this ‘me-search’ extend my artistic practice?
The Wear Project will be a visual archive, a teaching tool, and a foundation for further academic research/writing through the questions it raises about design, visual storytelling, memory, dress and audience: a personal interrogation generating a critical framework for understanding the dramaturgical significance of costume. I welcome any interest, suggestions, questions, provocations, conversations or counter-projects that could lead my research, costume design or performance related teaching in general into unexplored areas. The Wear Project is available for anybody to view or use on flickr at http://bit.ly/1kAYv7
Abd al-Malik en de positie van christenen in zijn kalifaat
No full textVan 685 tot het jaar 705 regeerde kalief Abd al-Malik, een heerser uit de clan van de Omajjaden, over het gigantische islamitische kalifaat. Abd al-Malik kwam aan de macht in een periode waarin het islamitische rijk getuige was van een gewapend conflict tussen verschillende moslimgroepen, een periode die bekend staat als de Tweede Fitna. De regeringsjaren van Abd al-Malik werden echter niet geheel in beslaggenomen door dit intra-moslimse conflict en al tijdens het conflict, maar ook zeker nadat zijn voornaamste tegenstander, Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr in 692 van het toneel was verdwenen, kon Abd al-Malik zich focussen op andere zaken in zijn wereldrijk. Zo liet Abd al-Malik onder andere het muntenstelsel in zijn rijk grondig hervormen en liet hij in Jeruzalem de indrukwekkende Rotskoepel op de Tempelberg bouwen. In dit onderzoek is bekeken op welke manier onder andere deze zaken invloed hebben gehad op de positie van christenen in het kalifaat
Motivation of manager`s responsibility in business entities of rural tourism
No full textMalik M. Motivation of manager`s responsibility in business entities of rural tourism / M/ Malik, L. Zaburanna, N. Gerasymchuk // Journal of finansial management and accouting. - 2016. - №4 (1). - c. 73-8
In riot
No full textMany scholars and historians have professed that America’s “original sin” is slavery and that the nation has moved slowly, and at times stubbornly, towards repentance and atonement for this sin. Even after the emancipation of blacks in America, the scars of racism remain. Throughout the centuries, there have been a number of slave revolts, rebellions and race riots that have reddened America’s soil. In Riot is a volume of poetry that examines these riots, most specifically the race riots of the 20th century from the 1906 riot of Atlanta to the 1992 LA riots. The events of these riots are told through the voice of a collective “We,” which may be interpreted as the voice of a people who participated or suffered in these riots. Martin Luther King said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” But in In Riot we hear their actual thoughts and justifications for rebellion. Each riot is dealt with in its own section but pieced together to create a long narrative or “epic” poem. Each section opens with a brief overview of the time and place the riots occurred. The reader is then introduced to a number of characters who help tell the story; some of these characters are actual historical figures that played a central role in the riot or its causes. The second section of the volume deals with other issues of race and racism in America from injustices of the criminal justice system to poverty, gentrification and the destructive nature of dangerous stereotypes in the media and popular culture of black violence and criminality.M.F.A.by Malik Abdul-Jabbaa
İmam Malik ve Muvatta adlı eseri
No full textİlmi yöntemlere göre hazırladığımız bu tezimizde Türkiye'de, İslam dünyasında ve Batıda yapılan İslami araştırmalarda sıkça müracaat edilen kaynaklardan biri olan Muvatta adlı hadis kitabı ile müellifini inceledik. Araştırmamız, bir giriş , iki bölüm ve sonuçtan oluşmaktadır. Giriş bölümünde: araştırma konusunun çerçevesi çizilmiş, araştırmada sıkça başvurulan kaynaklar tanıtılmış, ilk asırlarda hadis tedvini hareketi ve ilk musannifler ile eserleri hakkında bilgi verilmiştir. Tezimizin birinci bölümünde ilk olarak İmam Malik'in teferruatlı biyografisi verildikten sonra hadis öğrenimi, ilmi şahsiyeti, hocaları, öğrencileri, ahlaki özellikleri, alimlerin kendisi hakkındaki kanaat ve övgüleri, eserleri ve vefatı ayrıntılı bir şekilde işlenmiştir. İkinci olarak ise, İmam Malik'in Muvatta' adlı eseri ele alınmıştır. Bu bağlamda kitabın ismi, telifi, özellikleri, ilmi değeri, ravileri, rivayet nüshaları ve etrafındaki nüshalar üzerinde durulmuştur. Tezimizin ikinci bölümünde ise, Muvatta'ın muhtevası ve İmam Malik'in Muvatta'daki metodu araştırılmıştır. Bu bağlamda birincileyin Muvatta'ın hadis muhtevası ve İmam Malik'in Muvatta'daki hadis metodu üzerinde durulmuştur. İkincileyin, Muvatta'ın fıkıh muhtevası ve İmam Malik'in Muvatta'daki metodu incelenmiştir. Araştırmamızın sonuç kısmında ise, ilmi usullere göre hazırladığımız tezimizle ulaştığımız neticeleri özetledik. İmam Malik ve eseri hakkındaolarak şunu diyebiliriz: Muvatta, İmam Malik'in üstünlüğünü gösteren bir eser olup Medine fıkhının önemli ve sağlam bir kaynağıdır. Onu İslam Kültürünün ebedi bir şaheseri olarak nitelendirmek yanlış olmaz. In this scientifically prepared thesis, we examined hadith book called Muvatta which is one of the most populer source of islamic researches in Turkey, in Muslim World and in Europe and we examined its author. Our research is made up of an introduction, two parts and a conclusion. In introduction part, framework of the research is shaped, frequently used sources are acquainted , knowledge about hadith recording moments , first authors and written- works of first author are given. In the first part of our thesis, first of all detailed biography of Imam Malik is given, after that his hadith education, knowledge personality, his teachers, students, his moral characteristics, opinions and eulogies of omniscients to him, his writen- work and his death are given. And for the second part we examined write-work of Imam Malik called Muvatta. Name of the book, its publication, its knowledge value, its transmitters and tranmission copies that surrounds it are examined in detail. In the second part, content of Muvatta and method of Imam Malik for Muvatta are examined. In that contextual, first hadith content and hadith method of Imam Malik in Muvatta is examined and than moslem canonical jurisprudence content and Imam Malik's method in Muvatta is examined in detail. In conclusion we summarized the result of our thesis. In brief we can say about Imam Malik and his written-work : Muvatta is an important written-work which show the superiority of Imam Malik and important source in Medine moslem canonical jurisprudence. We can say, it is a brilliant eternal written- work for islamic culture
Multimedia – the rise of the south: human progress in a diverse world
No full textKhalid Malik, lead author of the 2013 UNDP Human Development Report, recently shared the report’s findings at LSE. In his talk, he emphasised the importance of focusing on human development for economic growth in the Global South
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