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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Farabi"”.
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Translating Justice : between Al-Farabi and Derrida
… the medieval Turkish/Persian philosopher’s, al-Farabi’s, works on sovereignty and translation, it holds that the switch in the paradigms of sovereignty from a Derridean kingly cape to an al-Farabian imam implies a change in the dynamics of translating sovereignty that is aesthetic in nature. The …
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Il tema della città felice in Platone e al-Farabi, una lettura comparata di filosofia politica.
… analizza la filosofia politica di Platone e al-Farabi, filosofo del medioevo islamico, mediante il ricorso ad una metodologia di tipo comparativo. La riflessione politica farabiana accoglie dichiaratamente alcuni passaggi fondamentali del platonismo, insieme a diverse concezioni ereditate dalla …
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The Impact of Medieval Debates on the Nature of the Soul on Modern Discussions of Abortion and Euthanasia in Islam
… of philosophy will focus on the work of Al-Farabi (870-950 C.E.), Avicenna (980-1037 C.E.), Al-Ghazali (1058–1111 C.E.), and Averroës (1126-1198 C.E.), who write extensively on the ontology of the human soul. It will focus only on the juridical opinions on abortion and euthanasia published …
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Knowledge and the City: Redefining Islamic Urbanism, 762–1067
… the political writings of the philosopher al-Farabi (d. 950), who argues that cities require the administrative wisdom of learned men trained in law. To historically corroborate al-Farabi’s theory, which has been cast as utopian, I identify these learned men in the historical record as the …
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The Cascade Control of a Partially Simulated Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor
The results of single-loop and cascade control systems are compared to show the advantages of the cascade system over the other in controlling a reactor outlet temperature. Tests were performed for both control systems on a totally simulated and on a partially simulated continuous stirred tank …
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Solid state electrochemical processes for nanofabrication
Metallic nanostructures play a defining role in micro and nanotechnology, from interconnects in electronics to electrodes in chemical sensors, batteries, fuel-cells, antennae, plasmonic waveguides in sub-wavelength optics and structural color generation. While the demand for making functional …
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RECONCILING ISLAM AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE VIRTUOUS CITY: REREADING AL-FARABI'S AL-MADINAH AL-FADILAH WITHIN 10TH-CENTURY ISLAMIC THOUGHT
In his tenth-century work, al-Madīnah al-Fāḍilah, the Muslim philosopher Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī posits a solution to the internecine hostilities between Muslim intellectual communities which occurred as a result of conflicting positions on the relationship between revelation and reason, religion and …
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Extracting Theory from Practice: A Computational Analysis of the Persian Radif
<p>This dissertation studies radif, the repertoire/system of Persian classical music, by developing a framework for computational research on vocal music performance. The radif consists of seven dastgāhs and five āvāzes (secondary dastgāhs). Each dastgāh consists of several pieces (gushes). …
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On Prophecy and Revelation in the Virtuous City: Towards Establishing a Viable Framework for Re-Contextualizing al-Fārābī
Though relatively unknown to non-specialists, Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī is a fundamental member of the community of Muslims who founded Islamic Philosophy. In his tenth-century work, On the Perfect State, al-Fārābī tackles questions of eminent importance to society of Muslims still deciding who they were. …
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Basic functional and geometric inequalities for the fractional order operators on homogenous Lie groups
In this PhD dissertation, we study functional and geometric inequalities on homo- geneous Lie groups. As for direct inequalities we obtain fractional Hardy, Sobolev, Hardy-Sobolev, Gagliardo-Nirenberg, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg, logarithmic inequal- ities, Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev and Stein-Weiss …