this paper examines the nature of language in the works of mawlana jalal al-din rumi and consists of three sections: language and reality in rumi; the complex view of language in fihi ma fihi (the discourses of rumi); and, poetry and mysticism in rumi. the paper discusses three main topics: rumi's ambivalent attitude to language, which is seen as both a means of conveying truth and guidanc...

Utilizing the Global Workspace System of Baars (1988), this paper compares conscious and unconscious processes across waking, nonlucid, and lucid dreams. Sleep psychology can display gross functional dissociation between perceptual and cognitive consciousness. We utilize this observation to develop models of sleep experience and dream generation. These models accommodate Hunt’s (1989) “multipli...

If I find myself here today, sharing with Andre Lwoff and Jacques Monod this very great honor which is being bestowed upon us, it is undoubtedly because, when I entered research in 1950, I was fortunate enough to arrive at the right place at the right time. At the right place, because there, in the attics of the Pasteur Institute, a new discipline was emerging in an atmosphere of enthusiasm, lu...

The popularity of this text is attested by the fact that this, the 5th edition, was necessitated after a lapse of but 3 years. Certain, but by no means major, revisions have been made in this edition. The style is concise and lucid. A number of the illustrations are excellent and most of the others are good. One of its most attractive features is the inclusion of an adequate bibliography after ...

the first part of the paper describes the persian translation of naṣīr al-dīn al-ṭūsī’s taḥrīr kitāb uqlīdis by quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī, with a primary focus on his appendix to book i. part of a larger encyclopedic collection, al-shīrāzī’s translation continued to be read for centuries. as evidence of the work’s influence, al-shīrāzī’s appendix to book i was included in a nineteenth century prin...

one of the controversial issues concerning the qur’ān in the contemporary era has been the claim of the existence of mythological stories in the qur’ān. primarily, muḥammad aḥmad khalaf allāh set forth this claim in his al-fann al-qaṣaṣī. one of khalaf allāh’s evidences for his claim is that on nine occasions the qur’ān has been accused of being mythical by the polytheists and the almighty god ...

The popularity of this text is attested by the fact that this, the 5th edition, was necessitated after a lapse of but 3 years. Certain, but by no means major, revisions have been made in this edition. The style is concise and lucid. A number of the illustrations are excellent and most of the others are good. One of its most attractive features is the inclusion of an adequate bibliography after ...

Abstract. Some new results on magnetic dipole (M1) transitions in heavy quarkonium from nonrelativistic effective field theories of QCD are briefly reported. This model-independent approach not only facilitates a systematic and lucid way to investigate the relativistic corrections, it also clarifies some inconsistent treatment in previous potential model approach. The impact of our formalism on...