the present article studies the reality of “zohdyyat” by abul atahie. has abul atahie been a real pious? or has he chosen piety as a technic for poetry? is his piety islamic? or is it spiritual? or is he an infidel? the present article tries to study the doubts and accusations in this regard so that we will know the reality of his “zohdyyat”. for the sake of this reason we first study the eleme...

resistance poetry is one of the cornerstones of contemporary arabic literature and is one of the vastest realms of poetry poets have concerned themselves with. the poet of resistance does not have any choice but to write his own destiny and invite others to freedom and independence and be devoted to the interests of his society. a careful look at the contemporary poetry of tunisia reveals that ...

abū al-jārūd is one of the leading figures of zaydis and the narrator of the significant books and traditions of imam al-ṣādiq (a.s.) and imam al-bāqir (a.s.), who has received the attention of the imāmī rijālīs (biographers) and dignitaries. on one hand, the imāmī and sunnī rijālīs have weakened him and, on the other hand, he is known as the transmitter of many and sometimes important traditio...

The outer segment is a specialized compartment of vertebrate rod and cone photoreceptor cells where phototransduction takes place. In rod cells it consists of an organized stack of disks enclosed by a separate plasma membrane. Although most proteins involved in phototransduction have been identified and characterized, little is known about the proteins that are responsible for outer segment str...

Literary pedagogy occupied a privileged place in Bourdieu’s early work on education insofar as he saw it as exemplifying in unconscious mode socially segregational dynamics. Bourdieu’s expressly ‘reductionist’ critique was uncannily mirrored, however, by the spread of more economically instrumental approaches to education. Bourdieu’s engagement with these led him to develop a fuller apprehensio...

abu abdullah mohammad ibn musa al-khawarizmi was born at khawarizm (kheva), south of aral sea. very little is known about his early life, except for the fact that his parents had migrated to a place south of baghdad. the exact dates of his birth and death are also not known, but it is established that he flourished under al- mamun at baghdad through 813-833 and probably died around 840 a.d. kha...

A MAN OF UNCONTROLLABLE APPETITE One evening, after I had given a lecture in New York, a man approached me to ask about seeing me as a patient. He was rotund, with a round, ruddy face, a booming voice, and a gentle manner. Everything about him was large—his appetites, his belly, and his heart. He seemed tentatively curious about my work, and I was surprised when he showed up in my office. Samue...

each person’s style of thought and cognition is formed in the frame of time and place conditions in a way affecting his deductions. changes and improvements of jurisprudence are caused by this effect. common parlance has gained lots of attention by jurists since many years ago. ibn idrīs’s full understanding of his time‚ knowing common parlance‚ tending to solve problems, and stating the affect...

I. THE WOLSEY YEARS It is odd that Augustine de Augustinis, M.D., native of Venice but denizen of England for more than twenty years, has not drawn more attention from Tudor historians. Until the publication in 1960 of the first volume of the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Rome, 1960), which includes Mario Rosa's sketch, only meagre biographical details had appeared in print. And yet Aug...