alī ibn ḥamzah al-kisā’ī is one of the seven reciters of the qur’an (ghurā’ al-sab‘ah) and the chief of the grammar school (maktab al-naḥwī) in kūfah. he was precepted by more than twenty-five grammar and recitation teachers to the extent that none of his teachers became as successful as him. most of his disagreement with other reciters returns to the verbal rules which has nothing to do with t...

The major light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein (Lhcb1,2) of photosystem II is inserted into the thylakoid via the signal recognition particle dependent pathway. However, the mechanism by which the protein enters the membrane is at this time unknown. In order to define some topographical restrictions for this process, we constructed several recombinant derivatives of Lhcb1 carrying h...

data collected confirmed the RNA-Seq results. ChIP-Seq methods are being optimized to identify the direct targets of OpaR. Select targets were confirmed direct targets via in vitro electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) with purified hexahistidine tagged OpaR. A previously published position specific weighted matrix (PSWM) will be utilized to assist in identification of possible OpaR bind...

The mutL gene product is part of the dam-directed mismatch repair system of Escherichia coli but has no known enzymatic function. It forms a complex on heteroduplex DNA with the mismatch recognition MutS protein and with MutH, which has latent endonuclease activity. An N-terminal hexahistidine-tagged MutL was constructed which was active in vivo. As a first stop to determine the functional doma...

fakhr al-dīn al-rāzī, theologian and philosopher of the 12th centuriy (1148-1209), has a huge literary production in many scholary disciplines of his time. nothwithstanding some original ideas which are mostly found in his theological and philosophical writings, most of his other works are compilations based on other sources. some of these sources still exist, while most of the others seem to h...

â  â  ibn al-amid’s poetry â â â â â  s.f. mirghaderi * â  hossein kiani** â  â  abstract â  ibn al-amid is one of the most distinguished writers of the arabic literature who is believed, even by his contemporary critics, to be at the top of his profession due to the unique characteristics of his writings. besides being a writer, ibn al-amid also had a taste in composing poems. his poems are ...

abu `al-barakat al-baghdadi, before explanation of his selected view about the problem of the quality of emergence of multitudinous from unit, expresses the theory of peripatetic philosophers with a historical outlook. he then critics the viewpoint of peripatetic philosophers and finally explains his view in the course of four descriptions. the following points are proposed when criticized his ...