Search results for "Arabic"
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Language for International Communication: Linking Interdisciplinary Perspectives (3rd international symposium, University of Latvia, Latvia, on May 2…
2016
This collection contains papers delivered at the 3rd international symposium Language for International Communication: Linking Interdisciplinary Perspectives held at the University of Latvia, Latvia, on May 26–27, 2016.
Remarks on the Historiography of Mathematics
2021
In this paper, I examine aspects of the methodological debate that originated in 2010, when the distinguished historian of mathematics Sabetai Unguru reviewed Roshdi Rashed’s edition of the Arabic translation of Apollonius’ Conics. In his review, Unguru criticized what Rashed calls “l’usage instrumental d’une autre mathématique pour commenter une oeuvre ancienne”. I consider this debate very important and will try to place it within in the discussion of the so-called “geometric algebra” that goes back to the seventies, by tracing the contributions of the main figures who took part in it. Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 by Aldo Brigaglia Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.ut…
Viollet-le-Duc e la scoperta delle origini dell’architettura gotica
2017
Nella ricorrenza del secondo centenario della nascita, questo studio vuole mettere in evidenza alcuni aspetti ancora poco esplorati della formazione di Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, che hanno influenzato in modo fondamentale le sue ricerche. Ci si riferisce particolarmente all’interesse per la produzione artistica del Medioevo a cui lo studioso francese dedicherà le sue energie di ricercatore instancabile nel tentativo di trovare provenienze, derivazioni ed evoluzione dell’architettura gotica che rappresenterà anche lo stile ideale a cui riferirsi per collocarsi all’avanguardia della produzione architettonica del proprio tempo. Le naturali inclinazioni, la formazione liceale e la speciali…
Evaluation of chloroplast genome annotation tools and application to analysis of the evolution of coffee species.
2018
International audience; Chloroplast sequences are widely used for phylogenetic analysis due to their high degree of conservation in plants. Whole chloroplast genomes can now be readily obtained for plant species using new sequencing methods, giving invaluable data for plant evolution However new annotation methods are required for the efficient analysis of this data to deliver high quality phylogenetic analyses. In this study, the two main tools for chloroplast genome annotation were compared. More consistent detection and annotation of genes were produced with GeSeq when compared to the currently used Dogma. This suggests that the annotation of most of the previously annotated chloroplast …
Réécriture et reformulation des topiques descriptifs du ġazal homoérotique dans le Nasīm al-ṣabā (La brise du vent d’est) d’Ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥalabī (m. 1…
2023
In his work entitled Nasīm al-ṣabā (The Breeze of the East Wind), Ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥalabī (d. 1377) dedicates a chapter to the description of a young man (ġulām). This chapter is characterized by the presence of two parts which differ from a stylistic point of view. This paper deals with the central part of the chapter, which is entirely descriptive. The description of the ephebe in this central part shows great detail both descriptively (regarding the physical features of the ephebe) and thematically (regarding the topics used). In this part, the descriptive topics of the ephebe present in the classical homoerotic ġazal are transposed and reformulated in saǧ‘ (rhymed prose). A salient feature …
Neural Correlates of Visual versus Abstract Letter Processing in Roman and Arabic Scripts
2013
In alphabetic orthographies, letter identification is a critical process during the recognition of visually presented words. In the present experiment, we examined whether and when visual form influences letter processing in two very distinct alphabets (Roman and Arabic). Disentangling visual versus abstract letter representations was possible because letters in the Roman alphabet may look visually similar/dissimilar in lowercase and uppercase forms (e.g., c-C vs. r-R) and letters in the Arabic alphabet may look visually similar/dissimilar, depending on their position within a word (e.g., [Formula: see text] - [Formula: see text] vs. [Formula: see text] - [Formula: see text]). We employed a…
The authentic self : essays in al-Fārābī and late ancient Greek philosophy
2014
The "Umberto Rizzitano Collection" at the Regional Library of Palermo
2016
Umberto Rizzitano was one of the most important Italian Orientalists. Born in Alexandria of Egypt in 1913 into a Sicilian family, he studied Arabic language and literature at the Oriental School of Rome under the supervision of Giorgio Levi della Vida, Michelangelo Guidi and Carlo Alfonso Nallino. He directed the Italian Institute of Culture in Cairo and the Istituto per l’Oriente in Rome. Revivifier of the glorious past of Arabic studies in Palermo after the death of the eminent and well-known orientalist Michele Amari, Umberto Rizzitano taught Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Palermo. Among his most important works we remember his Italian translations of the novel Zayna…
Matrices of the frequency and similarity of Arabic letters and allographs
2020
Published online: 19 February 2020 Indicators of letter frequency and similarity have long been available for Indo-European languages. They have not only been pivotal in controlling the design of experimental psycholinguistic studies seeking to determine the factors that underlie reading ability and literacy acquisition, but have also been useful for studies examining the more general aspects of human cognition. Despite their importance, however, such indicators are still not available for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), a language that, by virtue of its orthographic system, presents an invaluable environment for the experimental investigation of visual word processing. This paper presents fo…
Waiting for Fatima to become Sophie
2018
L’analyse se focalise sur l’« attente », comme temps de la narration du roman Al-kāfira de ‘Alī Badr et moyen de dénonciation de la mentalité misogyne imposée par les mutašaddidīn musallaḥīn qui contrôlent le village où Fāṭima-Sophie a passé son enfance et son adolescence. Dans ce climat de répression politique et d’oppression sociale, la représentation littéraire de l’attente devient métaphore d’une condition existentielle et d’une identité à la fois individuelle et collective.