Anke von Kügelgen on Contemporary Islamic Thought

Anke von Kügelgen joins Peter to discuss developments over the last century or so, including attitudes towards past thinkers like Avicenna, Averroes and Ibn Taymiyya. This interview is based on research conducted to write a forthcoming book on Philosophy in the Islamic world in the 19th and 20th centuries, to be co-edited by Prof von Kügelgen together Professor Ulrich Rudolph, and Michael Frey as redactor. It will be the fourth volume of a German Overview of the whole history of philosophy in the Islamic world (Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie in der islamischen Welt, published by Schwabe Verlag in Basel). Prof von Kügelgen would like to recognize the contribution of her collaborators: her main partner for the philosophy in the Arab speaking countries is Sarhan Dhouib, originally from Tunesia, now at the University of Kassel. For Muslim Southasia, she is working with Jan Peter Hartung from the SOAS in London, and for Iran, Reza Hajatpour, Katajun Amirpur and Roman Seidel who are all at present at German Universities. The part on Philosophy in the Ottoman Empire is written by Sait Özervarlı from the Yildiz Teknik Universitesi in Istanbul and for Turkey by Christoph Herzog from the University of Bamberg.

Anglo-Jewish memories and other sermons

by Hermann Adler

A novel CYP17A1 deletion causes a functional knockout of the steroid enzyme 17-hydroxylase and 17,20-lyase in a Turkish family and illustrates the precise role of the CYP17A1 gene

A novel homozygous long-range deletion of the CYP17A1 gene abolished protein expression and caused the severest form of 17-hydroxylase deficiency in one kindred of a Turkish family. The affected subjects presented with 46,XY sex reversal and 46,XX lack of pubertal development as well as severe hypertension.

Stagnation and Change in Islamic History

There appear to be two seemingly contradictory images of economic change in the Islamic World and mixed evidence on whether Islamic societies have been open or conservative against modern ideas, technological advancements, and legal developments. Whereas a conservative attitude has been dominant in some societies and time periods, Muslims were at the forefront of scientific, technological, and legal developments in others. Rather than rely on ad hoc assumptions about the attitudes and characteristics of societies or the inherent qualities of new developments, this paper explains attitudes towards change by studying the political economy of the relationship between the rulers and the legal community. I extend recent theories of endogenous institutional change to develop a framework based on how rulers and legal community reacted to new developments immediately and how their strategic interaction unleashed an endogenous process toward change in the long run. Using this framework, I identify conditions under which new ideas, technologies, and legal developments have resulted in immediate change in Islamic societies. I also examine the process of change in the long run, whether and how immediate outcomes could be sustained over time as strategic interaction continued repeatedly.

Sermons et allocutions adressés à la jeunesse israélite

par Zadoc Kahn

Steering or drifting-which? : Sermons and discourses

by Israel Herbert Levinthal

Sermons by American rabbis

ed. and. published under the auspices of the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Sermones : Sobre los Lay Sermons de S. T. Coleridge

Entre 1816 y 1817, un lapso de la historia inglesa política y socialmente complejo, Coleridge pública dos curiosos textos bajo el titulo de Sermones Laicos, además de su Biographia Literaria, una recopilación de sus poemas, una obra de teatro y una nueva edición de su periódico The Friend. Los Sermones son curiosos artefactos de interpretación de la cultura que utilizan los libros proféticos de la Biblia y las nociones fundamentales de la filosofía trascendental para leer los problemas socio políticos de la escena contemporánea. Esa difícil combinación en la figura del Intelectual-Profeta deja un molde para críticos futuros como Thomas Carlyle, Thomas De Quincey, Matthew Arnold y T.S. Eliot.

Sermones : Sobre los Lay Sermons de S. T. Coleridge

Entre 1816 y 1817, un lapso de la historia inglesa política y socialmente complejo, Coleridge pública dos curiosos textos bajo el titulo de Sermones Laicos, además de su Biographia Literaria, una recopilación de sus poemas, una obra de teatro y una nueva edición de su periódico The Friend. Los Sermones son curiosos artefactos de interpretación de la cultura que utilizan los libros proféticos de la Biblia y las nociones fundamentales de la filosofía trascendental para leer los problemas socio políticos de la escena contemporánea. Esa difícil combinación en la figura del Intelectual-Profeta deja un molde para críticos futuros como Thomas Carlyle, Thomas De Quincey, Matthew Arnold y T.S. Eliot.

Ingestion rate and egg production of copepods collected in the Turkish Strait during Bilim 2 cruise in April 2008

The copepod Ingestion on ciliates, phytoplankton and the copepod production dataset is based on samples taken during April 2008 in Dardanelles Straits, Marmara Sea and Bosporus Straits at the third priority stations. These experiments were set up according to DoW of Sesame project. Copepods for the experiments were obtained with slow non-quantitative tows from the upper 50 m layer of the water column using 200 µm mesh size nets fitted with a large non-filtering cod end. For the grazing experiments we used the following copepod species: Centropages typicus and Acartia clausi according to the relevant reference (Bamstedt et al. 2000). Copepod clearance rates on ciliates were calculated according to Frost equations (Frost 1972). Ingestion rates were calculated by multiplying clearance rates by the initial standing stocks (Bamstedt et al. 2000). Egg production rates of the dominant calanoid copepods were determined by incubation of fertilised females (eggs/female/day) collected in the 0-20m layer. Copepod egg production was measured for the copepods Centropages typicus and Acartia clausi. On board experiments for the estimation of copepod egg production were taken place. For the estimation of copepod production (mg/m**2/day), lengths (copepods and eggs) were converted to body carbon (Hopcroft et al., 1998) and production was estimated from biomass and weight-specific egg production rates, by assuming that those rates are representative for juvenile specific growth rates (Berggreen et al., 1988).