Muhammad ‘Abid Al-Jabiri dikenal sebagai pemikir wacana keislaman kontemporer yang banyak menghasilkan karya berkaitan dengan studi pemikiran Islam, filsafat, politik, budaya, pendidikan dan lain-lain. Secara umum, pemikirannya penuh kritik kontstruktif terhadap Islam Tradisionalis-Konservatif. Berbicara tentang diskursus pendidikan, ia pernah membahas sistem di Maroko dianggap masih mempertaha...

We propose a concrete procedure of a Σ-protocol proving knowledge that a set of witnesses satisfies a monotone predicate in witness-indistinguishable manner. Inspired by the high-level proposal by Cramer, Damg̊ard and Schoenmakers at CRYPTO ’94, we construct the concrete procedure by extending the so-called OR-proof. Next, using as a witness a signature-bundle of the Fiat-Shamir signatures, we p...

bark". Dietrich provides eleven notes to Ibn al-Baitar's commentary and, as he does in all entries, attempts to identify the plant in modern nomenclature. In this instance, however, Dietrich says, "The plant's identification is very doubtful, perhaps impossible to know". And, he references his discussion of the plant in his Dioscurides triumphans. The reverse happens as well. As an illustration...

During the 1020s Ibn Sı̄nā wrote a commentary in Arabic on the logical works of Aristotle, as part of his encyclopedia Al-Šifā’ (The Cure). The commentary runs to some 2180 pages in the recent Cairo edition; this figure includes his commentary Madk ̄ al on Porphyry’s Eisagōgē, which he counted as an introduction to Aristotle’s work. Apart from the Madk ̄ al which was translated into Latin in the 1...

This primary-source study of 4 medical works of the 13th century Muslim scholar Ibn Al-Nafis confirmed that his Kitab Al-Mujaz Fi Al-Tibb was authored as an independent book meant to be a handbook for medical students and practitioners not as an epitome of Kitab Al-Qanun of Ibn Sina as thought by recent historians. His huge medical encyclopedia, Al-Shamil, represents a wave of intense scientifi...

Even for the knowledgeable, the tasks get vitiated by the blemishes of fate or the gods, or the human nature. It is not impossible to divine what is meant here, but how much more idiomatically it could have been done: Things go wrong, even for the wise, because of the iniquities of fate and of men. The bibliographical control of source works is almost non-existent, although this is not always a...