This photograph shows Kim Nixon in action with camera. She will bring this sense of enthusiasm to her job. Enthusiasm is a strong quality, that spreads energy through your office and spurs a team to successful completion.
Job Hunting: Must involve a sense of service. Team atmosphere & independent projects. Team must be upbeat, creative & supportive. I'd share all my skills from patience under pressure, to writing, photography & computer abilities. I multi-task with ease! Health Insurance stellar! Vacation time. Walk/Bike distance from home a green benefit. Clearly defined breaks. Job cannot include inhaling/handling gluten. 8.50+ and 24-40/week.
Kim is a long- time Upper Peninsula resident with family roots who values ethical business practices and oldtowne feel with can-do attitude.
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You are so awesome and I love the way you talk about yourself! Good luck.


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Gideon Appah, Day, 2017. Acrylics and paint on canvas, 170 x 178 cm. Copyright of the artist and courtesy Gallery 1957.
Gideon Appah is a mixed media artist who draws from personal experiences of life in the capital of Accra. In new works created for 1-54, Appah responds directly to his upbringing, by presenting them in the context of a family setting. The series titled Memoirs Through Pokua's Window, transforms the booth into Appah's Grandmother's house, using old family photo-albums and half-memories as reference material.
Growing up in a large family, the works are reflective of a life characterized by strong emotional bonds, religious activities and folklore. Through nostalgic blues, deep green landscapes and charcoal, his dreamlike compositions place typical domestic interiors from 1980s and 90s Ghana against surreal landscapes.
Pots, stools, lamps, windows, photographs and masks populate Appah's works, appearing as fragments from inconsistent past. Presented alongside glimpses of nature – plains, trees, plants and particularly rivers – Appah alludes to the organic transformation of memories over time.
Using thick, rough applications of acrylic upon collaged layers of appropriated posters, prints and photographs, Appah directly references his own familial histories. The posters used - advertising haircuts, barber shops and tailoring - relate to occupations of his aunts, uncles and grandparents, the overall result becoming an artistic archive of communal life in Accra.


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Month March 2017
March 27, 2017 March 27, 2017 Asmaa A.M.	1 Comment
GENRES– Historical Fiction, Clean Romance
Rate- 5 Stars
Type- Standalone
Graham Astor, mourns over his death wife, whom he loved dearly and can't bare to live without. There is one thing he cannot run from, his daughter, who need a mother to love and a parent to guide. Graham must look for a wife (no), mother for this daughter.
Setting his jaw, Graham once more turned to the window. "I am not looking for a wife."
"I see," Edmond said, and there was something in his voice that made graham look at him. "Do you?" he asked.
Edmond nodded. "You're not looking for a wife, but for a mother for Georgiana"
Rosabel wants not to be burden on her uncle, who took her in after her parents. She wishes to be a governess and live an independent life. Until a stranger ask for her hand in marriage and her uncle agrees instantly.
A shiver went down her back as his eyes met hers, and she averted her gaze without another thought as though afraid the cold in his eyes could turn her to stone." There is something unsettling about him," she whispered.
My Thought-
Had very much fun reading this historical romance, loved how Rosabel felt for Georgiana (Graham's daughter), feeling of love and protecting her as her own daughter, for whom she can fight many war with her husband.
Graham is thick coconut head. His damaged heart is so in pieces that he closed all door for love from his daughter and wife. All claps and standing ovation goes to Rosabel for being strong and brave and for breaking cold walls between her husband and his family.
Recommendation- Yes, I would recommend this to everyone, including teens and young adult. This is a clean romance, very much entertainment read.
About the Author-
Amazon bestselling author, Bree Wolf has always been a language enthusiast (though not a grammarian!) and is rarely found without a book in her hand or her fingers glued to a keyboard. Trying to find her way, she has taught English as a second language, traveled abroad and worked at a translation agency as well as a law firm in Ireland. She also spent loooong years obtaining a BA in English and Education and a MA in Specialized Translation while wishing she could simply be a writer. Although there is nothing simple about being a writer, her…goodreads.com
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ASHOKA – Lion of Maurya (Ashoka, #1) by Ashok K. Banker
March 18, 2017 March 27, 2017 Asmaa A.M.	Leave a comment
Growing up hearing about Emperor's of India it did not took me a second to add this book to 'want to read' list and cover is very much attractive and mesmerized.
This is not a history book but its a historical fiction. I loved that it is based on true historians, and did not bored me with all the date and details and facts. I found myself in magnetic chain of reading, now I am in hangover of the mauryavansh world created by the author. Ashok k. banker is indeed a great story teller. He created a world where all women and men are more than gender. loved how he described chandikas, female military who can beat men face to face and can do more than that., Political minds and strategies. Ashok left me with many questions and incomplete thoughts.
One thing to Ashok K. Banker, "when will the second book of this series will be out?"
Story-
Yuvraj Ashoka is 2nd in line to Throne, he have no desire to be the next emperor of mauryavansh and when he accidentally overhears assassins plot to a threat his family, family of 100 queen mothers and siblings, he get into ground to stop them with help of chandikas. Chandikas, military of females instituted by samrat Chandragupta Maurya himself. while solving each puzzle, he finds out the threat lies within his own family. with advise of his guru Kautilya, the ex prime minister and the great mind Chanakya, he has to stop the assassins and also save himself from get killed……
Ashok is an internationally acclaimed author of mixed-race and mixed-cultural parentage based in Mumbai, India. His Epic India Library is a lifetime writing plan that aims to retell ALL the major myths, legends and itihasa of the Indian sub-continent in an interlinked cycle of over 70 volumes. This includes the Ramayana Series, Krishna Coriolis, the Mahabharata Series, the contemporary thriller Blood Red Sari and other works. His books have sold over 1.4 million copies in 12 languages and 57 countries worldwide….goodreads.com
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With the onset of Technology and Social Media in the 21st century, casual dining seems to have taken the place of fine dining as well. From waiters hankering to take your order, menu cards with concepts on them, right to noisy dining rooms. All these have made a casual dinner date seem less achievable lately. In fact, most couples prefer to order out and stay in for their romantic dinner dates, but back in the day when Chesham escorts were esteemed women of power and commendable beauty, men took them out every night to fancy restaurants just to be able to make them agree to sleep with them. Indeed, it was fancy, glitzy and all the more romantic back when fine dining was the norm. But as times change and the standards of living decline, the option of going to a fine dining restaurant for a date just seems to be quite too far-fetched. For the average man, a restaurant is a more expensive alternative to dinner, but what they don't realise is that women feel special when you take them to a place where they haven't been before. But it looks like this will be a long shot from where we stand in the economic perspective. So in order to seal the deal with the woman you love, here is a fail-safe tip to make sure that your dining experiences will not be spoiled by unexpected and often, unwelcomed surprises.
They say dining at an expensive restaurant is the economic equivalent of an expensive purchase, either via credit card or cash. So the best way to enjoy your planned night out with your lady is to make sure you know enough about the place you're going to be dining at. If it is truly as expensive as they say it is, then its best to check on the restaurants website and check if the food and the ambience is worth the entire amount that you're going to pay. Also, make sure that your wife or girlfriend will find something she likes on the menu. Don't go to a restaurant that only serves vegetarian food when you know she enjoys eating steak and vice versa. Also, do consider reserving a few weeks ahead of time, this is to make sure that you wont have any seating problems upon your arrival. Remember, a fine dining restaurant will not ditch their loyal customers for a walk-in client, even if they're willing to pay. That's why its called fine dining, because you cant just barge into the restaurant and claim a seat. That's just not how classy and refined people do it, and you most certainly shouldn't.
And we cannot stress enough how important it is to make sure that the place you're looking at fits the budget you have allotted for this date. If you're the one who asked and planned this, don't expect your girl to pay for it, that's just low. Really low.


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Tribeca Film Festival Review: ONLY (2019)
Megan Millisky
ONLY, written and directed by Takashi Doscher (Still, A Fighting Chance) is a modern-day romance set in an apocalypse that threatens to wipe out every woman on Earth. ONLY features Freida Pinto (Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle), Leslie Odom Jr. (One Dollar), Chandler Riggs (A Million Little Things), Jayson Warner Smith (Reckoning), and Tia Hendricks (Queen Sugar).
ONLY follows Will and Eva, a young couple in love. One day, mysterious ash starts to fall from the sky. Will and Eva's roommate Carolyn comes home and collapses in front of them. They rush her to the hospital where Will discovers that dozens of women are all suffering the same symptoms from the ash… and it's only women. The disease is spreading rapidly and chaos ensues.
Panicked, Will quarantines Eva in their house. Within weeks Eva is among the last of the uninfected women. Using stolen hazmat suits and yards of plastic wrapped around their furniture, Eva is isolated for over a year. As the government begins to ask uninfected women to come forward to preserve their eggs, Eva panics even more, with the ever-present threat of being discovered. ONLY opens on Day 400 with Eva asking cryptically, "Do you understand now? Do you forgive me?"
The story jumps around, starting at the end, then moving to the first day and days in between. This structure is somewhat standard for apocalypse movies at this point, providing a reference point for the audience to show what's happening to our "regular people" characters.
Luckily, ONLY holds the viewer's interest at every point in its timeline. In the beginning, as the ash falls from the sky, and Will and Eva watch news reports detailing the events. As time goes on, things grow more and more extreme, leading to several boiling point moments that let both actors show their talents.
The writing does a remarkable job of presenting each person's feelings about the situation with equal weight. The characters are all very well-written; even the most deranged characters have reasonable explanations for their behavior. The story rarely feels mushy, instead, it's realistic and charming. The authenticity of the relationship is a combination of good acting, writing, direction, blocking, and cinematography, all of which the movie does excellently.
ONLY doesn't give us anything way outside the box when it comes to end-of-the-world movies, but instead puts a microscope on Will and Eva's relationship. It focuses on humanity's final days as a place to find love and compassion in one another. To have the film focus on one couple's intense, believable devotion to each other feels genuinely fresh. As noxious ash falls around them, Will and Eva find a place where their love is pushed to its farthest boundaries.
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Bio: Megan Millisky is the founder of feminist horror film blog FemmeFataleFilmReviews.com. She has previously worked as a stage manager, producer, and PA, and has won many awards for her creative writing. When she isn't writing or watching horror movies, she enjoys going to museums, drinking an irresponsible amount of iced coffee, and playing with her rabbit, Ampersand.
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Where are the Award wapsi gang, Azadi seekers and left wingers now? Will they stand up for Nahid Afrin the way they did for Gurmehar Kaur?
A total number of 42 Muslim clerics issued the fatwa against the Indian Idol sensation Nahid Afrin yesterday demanding a complete ban on her performance in public shows. Those who were vocal against what happened with Gurmehar are found dumb now.
It is doubted that the fatwas came as a reaction after the 16-year-old singer sang songs which were against the increasing terrorism all over the globe in her recent musical show. And the Mullas of Assam found it against their taste. They accused Nahid of going against the Sharia Law, thus demanding a blanket ban on her performing in public.
'My singing is a gift of god. I believe it must be properly utilised. Not doing so is ignoring god. I am not worried. Many Muslim singers are my inspiration. I won't stop singing.' She said when asked about the fatwas.
According to other reports, the fatwa has been issued against her keeping in view an upcoming event that was to be held on March 25. Since the venue of the event was in the vicinity of a mosque and a graveyard, the clerics have announced to boycott her singing shows and have asked her to stop performing in public.
Many organisations of Assam like ABVP, AASU and others heavily criticised the move and asked for a proper investigation.
Is it not a religious intolerance? Issuing fatwas not against the democratic values of our country? The whole country went berserk when the Gurmehar issue broke out. The issue garnered the first page headlines of every newspaper for days and reserved the prime-time debates on T.V. Sympathy came pouring in for the DU girl from people belonging to different fraternities.
But what happened to them now? Why is Nahid not in the headlines? Why the likes of Ravish Kumar, Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Datt don't find it worth commenting on? Is issuing a fatwa against 16-year-old singer not an attack on our democracy and freedom of expression? What do you think Javed Akhtar Sahab?


While ERP has enabled enterprises to store data more accurately and in greater volumes, it is often difficult to report on all that data – which limits its usefulness for business users.
Enterprise Apps Today's Ann All discussed the importance of ERP reporting with Glenn Wirick, vice president of product development for InsightSoftware.com, which makes productivity tools for Oracle's E-Business Suite and JD Edwards software. Wirick has worked with JD Edwards software for more than 14 years and has extensive experience with data warehousing and business intelligence implementations.
All: You say ERP systems don't really provide what business users need. Can you elaborate?
Wirick: Many organizations rely on transactional reporting, which is an outdated solution to an old problem. Do you use a paper map to find your way to a new restaurant? Probably not. Just a couple of decades ago, a well-designed city map was the best solution. But now we all use GPS, a tool that requires no training, is readily usable by everybody, and provides turn-by-turn answers to get you easily to your destination.
While transactional reports were a great solution 20 years ago, they are now like paper maps – outdated, harder to use, more error-prone and simply a less efficient way to get you to where you are going. Transactional detail is good as supporting information, but the true business gems generally exist as a summary of combined information, not in raw lists of transactions.
All: If transactional data doesn't cut it, what kind of information will add business value?
Wirick: Meaningful business answers are usually reports that combine information from multiple sources. The answers need to appear in a simple-to-use format, where follow-on questions can also be quickly answered. In addition, reports should be readily available online, in real-time, from the original system of record. Business users should be able to easily access reports without requiring training on IT tools and complex software.
All: What about business intelligence systems? Don't they provide the kind of meaningful information you describe?
Wirick: Not really. Clearly, BI has a place. Otherwise, these tools wouldn't be so successful in the marketplace. BI helps you examine historical data, compare results with expectations and then deliver analyses that shape future strategy.
What BI tools don't do is deliver real-time business answers, which is especially important in some business functions like accounting and inventory management. Even worse, BI requires expertise in order to be effective. Someone has to shape the data, analyze it and interpret it, and very few managers have the training to do so. The inevitable result is a collection of highly technical reports and visualization tools generated by analytics specialists that may or may not be used by managers to make actual business decisions.
Another limitation of BI solutions is the lengthy implementation and design work required. Again, this is a major distraction of company resources that slows the business, instead of moving it faster.
All: What kind of information should enterprises focus on with an ERP implementation?
Wirick: The heart of your ERP system is financial information. If you haven't enabled your finance and accounting groups to immediately access business-critical information, then you can't possibly enable your business leaders outside of finance. Once you transform your enterprise around financial answers, then the focus moves to other areas of operational information. Therefore, your information solution must have a strong financial capability as its backbone, while providing users with seamless drilling to and from other areas of the business.
All: Do you have recommendations for enterprises looking to implement an effective ERP reporting strategy?
Think about your users. Don't rely solely on a demo to determine if the reporting solution will meet the needs of your users. Make sure you run the software over your data, with your business users, before you buy.
Don't assume a bundled product will meet your needs. Embedded ERP reporting products often lack ease-of-use, powerful capabilities and speed of benefit. A miss in any of these areas can lead to low user adoption and a failed rollout.
Find a solution that delivers true real-time reporting. For empowering your core business users, staged data does not work. Also, look for a solution that delivers consolidated financial and summarized operational views that highlight exceptions, with the ability to drill in real-time to supporting details, or to related information.
Don't deliver a tech tool to your business users. A common reason for low user adoption of reporting tools is complexity and poor usability of an otherwise capable product. Reporting is for business users. Make sure you deliver a solution focused on ease-of-use and business empowerment. Again, make sure your users work with the solution during a trial, before a purchase.


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Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
Neal R. Haddaway, Alison Bethel, Lynn V. Dicks, Julia Koricheva, Biljana Macura, Gillian Petrokofsky, Andrew S. Pullin, Sini Savilaakso, Gavin B. Stewart
Traditional approaches to reviewing literature may be susceptible to bias and result in incorrect decisions. This is of particular concern when reviews address policy- and practice-relevant questions. Systematic reviews have been introduced as a more rigorous approach to synthesizing evidence across studies; they rely on a suite of evidence-based methods aimed at maximizing rigour and minimizing susceptibility to bias. Despite the increasing popularity of systematic reviews in the environmental field, evidence synthesis methods continue to be poorly applied in practice, resulting in the publication of syntheses that are highly susceptible to bias. Recognizing the constraints that researchers can sometimes feel when attempting to plan, conduct and publish rigorous and comprehensive evidence syntheses, we aim here to identify major pitfalls in the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews, making use of recent examples from across the field. Adopting a 'critical friend' role in supporting would-be systematic reviews and avoiding individual responses to police use of the 'systematic review' label, we go on to identify methodological solutions to mitigate these pitfalls. We then highlight existing support available to avoid these issues and call on the entire community, including systematic review specialists, to work towards better evidence syntheses for better evidence and better decisions.
Nature Ecology & Evolution
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01295-x
10.1038/s41559-020-01295-x
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/eight-problems-with-literature-reviews-and-how-to-fix-them(af63c07f-9ea1-4897-aa03-26a2108f63d6).html
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School of Biological Sciences - Honorary Reader
Person: Honorary
Haddaway, N. R., Bethel, A., Dicks, L. V., Koricheva, J., Macura, B., Petrokofsky, G., Pullin, A. S., Savilaakso, S., & Stewart, G. B. (2020). Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(12), 1582–1589. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01295-x
Haddaway, Neal R. ; Bethel, Alison ; Dicks, Lynn V. ; Koricheva, Julia ; Macura, Biljana ; Petrokofsky, Gillian ; Pullin, Andrew S. ; Savilaakso, Sini ; Stewart, Gavin B. / Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them. In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2020 ; Vol. 4, No. 12. pp. 1582–1589.
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Predictably, pro-EU, managerial Emmanuel Macron and far right Marine Le Pen moved on to the second round of French elections. In a historic result, none of the major parties, the Socialists, as well as the Republicans went to the second round, in what could be a historic first since the second world war. The socialist candidate of President Hollande's party got only 6 percent votes, as his votes were divided between Macron and far left candidate Melenchon, who was another outsider, who won around 19 percent votes, similar to what the center right republican candidate Fillon got. Both Fillon and the Socialist candidate Hammon promptly endorsed Macron, and pointed out that far right is the biggest threat to French unity. The far left candidate, Melenchon, refused to endorse anyone.
Macron's policies, are as most of the readers already know, fairly centrist and neoliberal. Contrary to what the media is trying to portray him as, he is as establishment as it gets. He is an investment banker by profession, and believes in reforming the market which includes controversial statements like changing French work hours as well as French taxation and French retirement plans. Macron is pro EU, extremely managerial, and pro immigration. The country is fairly divided, with almost half supporting Macron, and the top right half supporting Le Pen.
Le Pen is of course on her traditional right wing nationalist populist rhetoric. She is trying to market herself as an independent resigning from her party, but no one is buying it. She wants to "kill" the EU, cut off immigration, ban the Islamic Burqa and Mosques and forge a more nationalistic path for France. In fact the flurry of support for Macron from the republicans and the socialists only help Le Pen bolster the claim that she's the only true outsider here in the race. While Macron wants to shape the race as one between centrism and populism; Le Pen is shaping it as one between patriots and globalists. She aims to kill Macron's reputation as an outside who started his own party barely three months back, instead she wants to paint Macron as an open border globalist stooge in hands of Brussels and Berlin, who is all for globalization and open borders. Infact, if one combines the vote of far right Le Pen, and far left Eurosceptic Melenchon, the total count goes to 46 percent of the vote.
It is also not correct to compare Le Pen with Brexit and Trump. Brexit and Trump are both populist movements, but both with much different causality. Brexit doesn't mean that UK is slowly looking inward, infact quite the opposite UK is dying for trade deals with India, Australia, US and China. Both Brexit and Trump are also fueled by mostly older generation, while the core group of Le Pen support is youth. And, neither UK or US has faced as much terror attacks as France.
And that's why I am refusing to give in to the complacence. There is fair chance of Macron winning, but Le Pen is essentially just one major terror attack away, and it is foolish after 2016 to discount how much public opinion can change. With stagnated economy, a completely divided country and battle lines drawn in half and half, and incessant terror attacks, it would be foolish to discount any possibilities. This is one of those times, where I will be happy to be wrong, but much though I try, I am sounding cynical. Nationalism is a powerful drug, and emotions, especially after a terror attack, can change the course of history of Europe as we know it.


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CPG Brands: Winning in the Era of Relevance
By Michael Gorsche
Consumers have been moving beyond "products" for years. First, they wanted services on top. Then, experiences. Now, they are seeking brands with purpose. According to one recent study, 62 percent of respondents say it is critically important that a brand have ethical values and demonstrates authenticity in everything it does.
For consumer goods companies, this means engendering a sense of connection between brand, consumer and the wider community. That has radical implications for traditionally linear value chains. Everything from product conception and design, through manufacturing and sales, to after-sales services is impacted.
On top of this, the competitive landscape keeps getting tougher. For every traditional brand that struggles to adapt, there are plenty of small or medium-sized players capturing outsized bites of the market.
According to Accenture's Technology Vision for Consumer Goods, in the U.S., the top 25 food and beverage brands now generate just 2% of industry growth, while the smallest 16,000 brands account for a huge 53%. And this phenomenon isn't unique to developed markets. New brands have leapfrogged from outside the top 100 to establish themselves in the top three in just five years.
Consumers are determining what the brand means to them and how it fits into their lifestyle. They are not passively receiving marketing messages and product offers. They are demanding relevance and have become active product creators and curators.
We have seen new business models emerge to meet this need, allowing consumers to participate in every stage of the value chain, whether as investor (Brewdog's crowdfunding model), product innovator (Volition's customer-inspired product development), manufacturer (Bite's Lip Labs), marketer and seller (Ipsy's subscriber vlogging), or employee (Field Agent's mobile audits).
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Above all, they need to reorient their operations to put the consumer, not the brand, at the center of everything they do. Digital technologies and innovations have fueled an explosion in consumer touchpoints. Now, from the home to the office to the hotel to the car, brands have opportunities to engage with consumers that go far beyond the retail store setting.
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Michael Gorshe is Industry Director for Accenture, a global consultancy. For more information, please visit www.accenture.com.
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Q: Adding variables to DOM elements I would like to ask, if is 'legal' to add custom variables to document body elements.
For example:
document.getElementById('elem1').customVariable = 'xxx';

This code just work, but i don't know if it is 'allowed'
It doesn't appear in list of tag's arguments, but variable is usable in further code..

A: I think that will work, but the more common way to add custom attribute is like this:
<div id="elem1" data-customVariable="foo"

And then
document.getElementById('elem1').setAttribute("data-customVariable", "bar");

Or if older browser choke on setAttribute
document.getElementById('elem1')["data-customVariable"] ="bar";

EDIT
Thanks to pimvdb for pointing out that you can also do
document.getElementById('elem1').dataset.customVariable ="bar";

Just note that you'll have to watch how you name this -- the camel casing can throw it off.  You'll want

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Substance over style: Spurs just win titles
By - The Washington Times - Friday, November 11, 2005
In his first season with the New York Knicks, Larry Brown is trying to teach his young team to play "the right way," as he likes to say. But it won't be an easy lesson, given the Knicks' winless start and Brown's short fuse when it comes to doing things the wrong way.
One of Brown's many former teams, the San Antonio Spurs, have learned the lesson.
Guided by the stern hand of coach and ex-military man Gregg Popovich, a close friend and disciple of Brown, and led on the court by an authentic but unpretentious superstar, forward Tim Duncan, the Spurs won last season's NBA championship, making it two in the last three years and three in the last seven. A repeat would not be unexpected. Not only did all the key players return, but the Spurs added three talented veterans.
"This is the deepest team we've had, talent-wise," Popovich said last month before heading to training camp in Duncan's native Virgin Islands. "What I'm hoping is that it ends up being the deepest team we've had knowledge-wise."
But season-wise, it's too early to draw any conclusions as to whether the Spurs match the brainpower of the 2003 champs, which featured such savvy veterans as David Robinson, Steve Kerr, Danny Ferry and Steve Smith. But the early indications are favorable. The Spurs, who play the Wizards tomorrow night at MCI Center, are 4-1 going into tonight's game in Boston.
"This is the best team in basketball by far," Charlotte guard Brevin Knight said Wednesday after the Spurs overcame a sloppy first half to beat the Bobcats behind Duncan's 29 points and 10 rebounds. "They have all that talent, and still Pop goes in and says, 'This guy go here, that guy go there,' and those guys do exactly that."
The Spurs are generally regarded as a model franchise — "persistent in their pursuit of excellence," according to Bobcats coach Bernie Bickerstaff — the NBA equivalent of the New England Patriots.
Not only have they achieved that excellence, "they've done it in a very fiscally responsible manner," Wizards general manager Ernie Grunfeld said.
Duncan remains at the core of the team, but Argentinian guard Manu Ginobili has become an electric, marquee player and point guard Tony Parker teeters on the brink of stardom. As if the Spurs weren't sound enough, they added NBA veterans Michael Finley and Nick Van Exel as well as Ginobili's countryman, 30-year-old Fabricio Oberto, to an already deep bench that includes the likes of NBA Finals hero Robert Horry.
"They've managed the salary cap well, they've drafted well," Grunfeld said. "Obviously, they've had a great piece to work around, but they've put some outstanding pieces around him. … They're not this high-flying, spectacular-play type of team. They're more fundamental. They make the extra pass, they play outstanding defense, they rebound the basketball well and they have a go-to player that rises to the occasion."
That would be Duncan, whose nickname as bestowed by Shaquille O'Neal is "The Big Fundamental." The antithesis of most superstars, Duncan is reserved, practically devoid of self-promotion, guarded about revealing anything but his game. As Shaq and his Miami teammate, Dwyane Wade, grace the cover of video games and LeBron James and Tracy McGrady sell shoes on television, Duncan simply collected his third ring.
"He helps people to be better and he allows people to reach their highest level, because roles can be fit around him very easily," Popovich said recently.
Duncan not only leads by example, he serves as the template for the rest of the team. As with the Patriots, character counts.
"It's not just Tim, it's a philosophy and a mentality," said Sean Elliott, a member of the first championship team in 1999 and now a Spurs broadcaster. "It's bringing in the right people and substance beats style. It's eliminating distractions in the locker room."
Referring to the recently unemployed NFL wideout Terrell Owens, Elliott said, "You won't see any of these guys having a press conference with their agent on their lawn."
Spurs senior vice-president and general manager R.C. Buford, who works alongside Popovich in making personnel decisions, said owner Peter Holt eagerly embraces and facilitates such a philosophy.
"The ownership group gave Pop an opportunity to provide a vision consistent with the values that they, as owners, had espoused," said Buford, who defined those values as bringing in "character people whose goals align with team play and competing for championships."
Finley provides no better illustration. A mainstay with the Dallas Mavericks the last eight and a half seasons, released so the team could avoid paying the luxury tax, he was a desired free agent who turned down offers of more playing time and more money in Miami and Phoenix.
"He's been playing 36, 37 minutes a game for the last four or five years and he's not gonna do that here," Popovich said during his pre-camp briefing. "He knows that already. He wouldn't have come if he didn't realize that or wasn't ready to accept that. The goal is to win a championship and all of us, to some degree, will sacrifice something to get it done."
"The most important thing is to win and to be part of what I consider one of the best organizations in the league," Finley said last month. "I led the league in minutes [twice]. I just wanted to have the opportunity to contribute to a winning situation."
Popovich, who doubles as executive vice-president, has a wry sense of humor and numerous outside interests, including an appreciation of fine wines. But he never has been labeled a "player's coach" nor, apparently, would he want to be. An Air Force Academy graduate, Popovich, like his mentor, Brown, is unafraid of hurting a player's feelings if it means achieving the desired results.
Elliott remembers Popovich's eruptions and even now, when he sneaks into the restroom at halftime and can't help but hear the coach go off, it remains a little jarring.
"It's eye-opening," Elliott said. "If Tim's not playing well, I tell you, he'll go after him. He'll go after Manu and Tony and do it to the 12th guy, too. There's no favoritism, no special treatment. I guarantee it's not like that with 90 percent of the coaches in the league."
Yet for all the Spurs' success, they remain somewhat trapped by their small-market status and vanilla image. Some of that is a carryover from the slow, methodical way they used to play, with Robinson and Duncan as the twin towers. Now, with the speedy Parker and the acrobatic Ginobili, that is no longer the case. But there is no wasted motion, no gratuitous showmanship.
"This isn't your father's Spurs team," Elliott said. "In years past, people thought this team was boring and plodding and slow, but they're the opposite of that. It's easy to dismiss them as boring because they don't have these brash and outrageous personalities, but you put this team in a Celtics or Knicks or Lakers jersey and people would think this was the most exciting team in the league."
Elliott said he was flabbergasted when he heard somebody on TV call Duncan an "uninspiring" MVP after the Spurs beat Detroit last season in the NBA Finals.
"I guess if he pounded his chest five times with his fist after dunking, people's opinions would change," he said. "I guess you've got to do that in today's environment."
Or you could just play the game the right way.


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Category: Arabic Christian Literature
A new translation of Agapius into Italian, plus the publication of two more pages of the text
Posted on September 23, 2016 by Roger Pearse
A correspondent has drawn our attention to a rarity – a new translation of the Arabic Christian writer, Agapius of Hierapolis (or Mahbub ibn Qustantin, in the graceless phrase of that language). It is a translation into Italian, by Bartolomeo Pirone, who translated Eutychius back in the 80s. Here's the front cover:
Bartolomeo Pirone, Agapio di Gerapoli: Storia universale, Edizioni Terra Santa (2013), series: Monographiae vol. 21. Links: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and the Italian site of the publishers. The ISBN is 978-88-6240-164-7, it is 494 pages long, and available for around $50, which is quite a lot.
For anyone interested in Arabic Christian studies who knows Italian, this is probably a must-buy. The histories that a language group write about themselves are always the first items to read.
It is now a few years since I converted the old French translation of Agapius into English, and placed it online. The second half of the work exists in only a single, water-damaged manuscript in Florence, Ms. Laurenziana Or. 323. A few years ago Robert Hoyland went to look at the manuscript, and discovered that it had been conserved, and two pages, previously stuck together, were now readable! He published them with an English translation; and has now uploaded that to Academia.edu here. Which is rather marvellous, really!
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Arabic sources for Mohammed – from 1854
Posted on August 3, 2011 by Roger Pearse
Brockelmann's History of Arabic literature does list English translations known in 1940. One of these was by Alfred von Kramer, from 1854, and was a translation of al-Wakidi's biography of Mohammed. It was published in British India at Calcutta as the History of Muhammad's Campaigns by Aboo Abd Ollah Mohammad bin Omar al Wakidy, by the Baptist Mission Press.
Copies are uncommon. I was wondering how on earth I would get hold of one, when I luckily stumbled across a copy on Google books here. Some of the introductory remarks seemed well worth bringing into the light. From p.2:
Three works on the biography of Mohammad, from which the whole stock of information regarding the establishment and development of the Islam may be derived, have come down to our days, and are existing in different libraries.
I. The first is Ibn Hishâm's biography of Mohammad known commonly by the title of "Syrat-Ibn-Hishâm." Its author died A. H. 213 (A. D. 828) or according to others A. H. 218 (A. D. 833) and his work is an extract from the chronicle of Ibn Ishâk who died about A. H. 151 (A. D. 768). Thus, through Ibn Hishâm's médium, we get access to Ibn Ishâk's work, though in some instances Ibn Hishâm seems to have made some pious alterations tending to cover up many of the prophet's weaknesses and deficiencies *. A complete copy of Ibn Hishâm's work is in the imperial library at Paris. An abridgment of Ibn Hishâm's book was made at Damascus A. H. 707 (A. D. 1307,) by Ahmad Ibn Ibrahym, Ibn Abd-ar-Rahman-al-Wâsity, of which a copy is preserved in the Asiatic Society's Library at Calcutta.
II. The second work is Mohammad Ibn Sa'd's work, commonly called Tabakât or annals. Some volumes of "the Tabakât are in the ducal library of Gotha;" Mr. Wüstenfeld has given a notice of their contents in the fourth and seventh volumes of the Journal of the German Asiatic Society. Another volume of the Tabakât containing the biography of Mohammad is in Dr. Sprenger's hands, whose indefatigable researches were recompensed by the discovery of this volume in a library belonging to Mozaffar Khân at Cawnpoor, and who has recently discovered some other volumes in Damascus.
* Consult on this question the excellent dissertation on "the original sources for the biography of Mohammad" inserted in the Calcutta Review No. XXXVII. for March, 1853.
Ibn Sa'd, who was Wâkidy's secretary, acquired great knowledge of historical and traditional matters from his master, after whose death he condensed in his "Tabakât-al-Kabyr," a work consisting of fifteen volumes, the results of Wâkidy's historical researches, which were scattered through this author's numerous works. Such at least is Ibn Khillikân's opinion, and it seems that Ibn Sa'd, without much trouble of his own, gathered the fruits of his master's untiring studies.
III. The third standard-work is Tabary's history. Aboo Ja'far Ibn Jaryr-al-Tabary was born A, H. 224 (A. D. 838-9) at Amool in Tabaristân and died at Baghdad A. H. 310 (A. D, 923). He was considered by his contemporaries, as the greatest authority in historical and traditional matters. His great work on the history of the Islam, some volumes of which exist in several libraries, seems to justify the high consideration in which he is held by all subsequent Arabic historians. His work is written with great conscientiousness, he always indicates the names of the persons, on whose testimony a fact is narrated, and a cursory perusal of his book will convince every reader, that Tabary wrote with the sincere intention of composing a true and impartial history.
Though these three chief works reflect, however troubled this mirror's surface may be, the great outlines of the early history of the Islam, yet they are far from enabling us to get a clear view and to form a just idea of those remote ages. Not one of these authors ever thought of submitting to a critical inquiry the authenticity of the traditions, which had been collected by his predecessors, not one of them dared to question the veracity of the most extravagant stories told about their prophet's miracles, and Ibn Hishâm, as has been observed already, did not hesitate to commit some pious alterations in Ibn Ishâk's text tending to cover some of Mohammad's errors.* Ibn Sa'd, whose works are mere extracts from the writings of his master, must be considered as a second-hand writer, and probably would lose every authority, if his master's works had not perished.
* Consult on Ibn Hishâm Dr. Sprenger's Life of Mohammad, p. 70.
Tabary is doubtless a scholar superior in knowledge and trust, worthiness to both Ibn Hishâm and Ibn Sa'd, but unfortunately he lived at an epoch too remote from the foundation of the Islam. At his time the fertile imagination of the Arabs had veiled the origin of their religion and their prophet's rising in such a cloud of poetical legends, that it was utterly impossible for any Mohammadan writer to discern the true from the false.
These remarks are sufficient to show how desirable it is for the historian to get access to the works of Wâkidy who being coeval with Ibn Ishâk, whose works have been lost, and anterior to Ibn Hishâm, and Ibn Sa'd, who were mere compilers, certainly deserves the title of "Father of Arabic history."
Aboo Abd Allah Mohammad Ibn O'mar Ibn Wâkid-al-Wâkidy was born at Madynah A. H. 130 (777) ; he was a manumitted of the Banoo Hâshim and professed the Shy'ah doctrines, From Madynah he migrated to Baghdad, where at first he obtained the post of Kadhy in the eastern suburb, afterwards the Kalyfe Mamoon conferred upon him the same dignity in O'skaral-Mahdy another suburb of Baghdad, which at Ibn Khillikân's time was commonly called Rossâfah. Mamoon held him in the greatest esteem. At his death he left a library of six hundred chests full of books, which were sold for two thousand dynârs. Wâkidy always kept two slaves, who were continually busy in copying manuscripts for his library. He is author of thirty-two works ; it suffices to indicate here only those, which appear to be the most important.* (1) The campaigns of Mohammad (Kitâb al-Maghazy). (2) The history of the apostates, having for its subject the history of those, who after the death of Mohammad, apostatized from the Islam and relapsed into idolatry. (3) History of the wars of Mohammad's companions against Tobayhat Ibn Khowaylid-al-Azdy, Aswad-al-A'nsy and Mosaylamat-al Kaddâb. (4) History of Makkah. (5) History of the Conquest of Syria. (6) History of the Conquest of I'râk. (7) On the battle of the Camel. (8) On the battle of Siffyn. (9) On the battles of the Banoo Aws and Khazraj. (10) On the death of Mohammad. (11) Biography of Aboo-Bakr.* This séries of works is quite sufficient to prove the high literary character of our author. Wâkidy died at the age of seventy-seven years in Baghdad.
* See Hammer-Purgstall's Literaturgeschichte III. p. 403.
It is the first named work of this eminent scholar which is contained in this volume: viz. the Kitab-al-Maghâzy, or History of the military campaigns of the prophet.
The original manuscript was discovered by the editor at Damascus in 1851, and as no other copy of this work is known to exist in any library, it is presumed to be the only one of Wâkidy's works, which has escaped the all-destroying tooth of time.
That is quite a nice English-language summary. After struggling with Brockelmann, it is pleasant to see something outlined so clearly! Brockelmann states, however, that this translation is only partial.
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An unpublished English translation of Abd al-Latif?
Posted on August 3, 2011 August 29, 2011 by Roger Pearse
It's always worth doing a Google trawl. You never know what you may find.
This evening I was idly looking to see what I could find in English by Galen. I kept hitting "next page". Much of it was dross. But then… I struck gold.
I found myself looking at a page at the British National Archives. It turned out to be a catalogue of papers held at the Royal College of Physicians in London, once belonging to a certain Dr Greenhill. Greenhill, whoever he was, was interested in Galen and in the Arabic material about him.
There are translations of extracts from the great biographical dictionary of medical writers by Ibn Abi Usaibia. These are probably good themselves, tho brief.
But then I stumbled across this:
Translation of Account of Egypt by Abd Al Latíf Ibn Yúsuf MS-GREEW/264/153 n.d
These documents are held at Royal College of Physicians of London
In two Folders; 1st Folder 120pp; 2nd Folder pp. 131 – 140; Unbound
Now as far as I know there is no published English translation of this work, although of course I am no Arabist and I might be quite mistaken. But here is 140 pages of translation in manuscript! This, surely, needs to be copied and placed online?
I've enquired about the possibilities here.
But I also see various standard works in German on the subject, bound interleaved with blank paper on which the good doctor has written notes. These too might be very interesting!
Mind you, a thought has struck me. Given the notorious badness of the handwriting of members of the medical profession, will we be able to read any of what he wrote?
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Extracts from Brockelmann's "History of Arabic literature" – 1
Posted on July 30, 2011 August 9, 2011 by Roger Pearse
For the last week or so, I've been reading sections of vol. 1 of the 2nd edition of Carl Brockelmann's History of Arabic Literature. I'm starting to get some idea of what exists, which is the object. I thought that it might be useful to give some extracts in English here. Let's look at some material from the introduction, starting on p.2. I've added links to the books where I could find them online, but if you can find more of them, do let me know!
II. Sources and earlier manuals on the history of Arabic literature.
The most important sources for biography and bibliography for the whole subject, leaving to one side monographs on particular subjects that will be given in their place, are the following:
1. Biographical works.
b. Ḫall. = Ibn Ḫallikān (S. 326), Wafayāt al-A`yān, Būlāq 1299 1) Vitae illustrium virorum, ed. F. Wüstenfeld, Gottingae 1835-40. [vol.1, vol. 15 – there are other vols online] Ibn Khallikans biographical Dictionary translated from the Arabic, by Mac Guckin de Slane, 4 vols. Paris-London 1843—71. [vol.1, vol.2, vol.3, vol.4 I could not find]
Fawāt = M. b. Šākir al-Kutubī (II, 48), Fawāt al-wafayāt, 2 vols. Būlāq 1299.
2. Bibliographical works.
Fihr. = Kitāb al-Fihrist, ed. by G. Flügel, after his death continued by J. Rödiger and A. Müller, 2 vols. Leipzig 1871/2. [I couldn't find this online]
HḪ = Lexicon bibliographicum et encyclopaedicum a Mustapha ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi dicto et nomine Haji Khalfa celebrato compositum, ed. latine vertit et commentario indicibusque instruxit G. Flügel, Leipzig-London 1835-58, 7 vols. [I could not find vols 1 or 2, vols.3-4, vol. 4, vols.5-6, vol. 6] Kesf el-Zunun, Birinci Cilt, Katib Celebi elde mevcut yazma ve basma nüshalari ve zeyilleri gözden gecirilerek, müellifin elyazisiyle olan nüshaya göre fazlalari cikarilmak, eksikleri tamamlanmak suretiyle Maarif Vekilligin karari üzerine Istanbul Üniversitesinde Ord. Prof. Serefettin Yaltkaya ile Lektor Kilisli Rifat Bilge tarafindan hazirlanmistir, Maarif Matbaasi 1941.
This is followed by others, of no obvious special use, and then a list of catalogues of manuscripts. There is a footnote on Ibn Khallikan:
1. As this volume will be cited mainly using the numerals of the Lives, here is a short concordance with that of Wüstenfeld: W. 1-75 = K. 1-75. Missing in K. are: W. 76, 78, 133, 147, 149, 150, 154, 186-199, 201, 202 (= Fawat I, 145), 213, 214 (= Fawat I, 149), 217, 277, 278 (= Fawat I, 171), 288, 291, 292, 293, 294, 303, 317, 318, 337-347, 364, 380, 381, 528, generally only a single line, occasionally with date of death. On the other hand 297 K. is missing in W.; 357 was skipped by W. in the count of numbers; 405 W. gives as an appendix to 404 = 367 K. and not separately ennumerated. In the following Lives K. is more detailed than W.: 220 K. = 233 W.; 223 K. = 236 W.; 230 K = 243 233 K. = 246 W.; 248 K. = 261 W.; in the other direction only 242 W. is more detailed than 229 K. On the other hand 181 K. = 186 W. Because W. reverses the sequence Ha'-Wäw in K., note the following: W. 778-90 = K. 745-57 and W. 791-96 = K. 739-44.
Not that "Wüstenfeld" has been mentioned yet — sloppy editing, this — but fortunately for me I started at the histories, and this was defined at the top of the section, in the middle of p.140, which gave these general sources:
F. Wüstenfeld, Die Geschichtschreiber der Araber und ihre Werke, Abh. d. Kgl. Ges. d. Wiss. zu Göttingen, vols. 28 and 29, 1882/3, (cited as "Wüst.").
E. Sachau, Studien zur ältesten Geschichtsüberlieferung der Araber, MSOS VII Westas. St. 154/96. [I could not find this online by title, although it dates to 1905][PS. it's here]
A curiosity appears on p.6, after a long list of catalogues of Arabic manuscripts:
2. The first attempt to present a complete history of Arabic literature was made by J. Hammer-Purgstall.1) The shortcomings of this book are so familiar that we may simply ignore it in what follows. The same is true of Arbuthnot's work.2) The short sketch by A. von Kremer 3), however, is masterful and we acknowledge our debt to it.
1. Literaturgeschichte der Araber, von ihrem Beginne bis zu Ende des zwölften Jahrhunderts der Hidschret, 7 vols, Wien 1850-56. [At Google books: vol.1, vol.2, vol.3, vol.4, vol. 5, vol.6, vol.7]
2. Arabic authors, a Manual of Arabian History and Literature, London, 1890.
3. Kulturgeschichte des Orients unter den Chalifen, vol. II, Wien 1877, p. 341-484.
That's enough of this highly condensed information for now, I think. All these reference works were very, very rare. How delighted and excited Dr Brockelmann would have been, to see links to them accessible at the touch of a key!
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Working with Brockelmann's history of Arabic literature
Posted on July 23, 2011 July 23, 2011 by Roger Pearse
Yesterday I started to compile a list of the passages in Galen where he mentions the Christians. I believe that there are six. Unfortunately Walzer's book Galen on Jews and Christians has not arrived, so I had to make do with whatever PDF's I had.
Two of the fragments come from Arabic authors of the middle ages. I had a couple of PDF's by Sprengling in which he analysed these. I noticed that he attributed one of them to Agapius, and that other Islamic historians copied him. But the Patrologia Orientalis edition and translation has no material about Galen! So I suspect that it is the other way around. For the CSCO edition of Agapius uses material from al-Makin, writing 3 centuries later, on the basis that al-Makin quotes Agapius extensively. So, far from being present in Agapius and copied by later writers, probably it is present in al-Makin, and al-Makin borrowed the Galen material from Islamic writers! But that's a detail.
However it pointed out to me, what has been apparent for some time, that I need to have an overview of the historians and translators of the Islamic period.
So last night I picked up a pencil and my copy of Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (2nd ed., vol 1 of 2, 1943) and took it to bed with me. I started looking at the section on the Islamic historians of the post-classical period, and scribbling notes in the margin.
Today I continued by doing the same for the classical period (ca. 750-1000 AD).
It's a weird book, it really is. I can only explain its baffling structure by presuming that much of it was composed in an air-raid shelter by people who hadn't slept properly for six months.
Firstly, and most damningly, it isn't complete. I've only got volume 1 of the 2nd edition, which covers history up to ca. 1500. This has numbers in the margin, which look to me like the page numbers of the first edition.
Why on earth would you need these, we might ask? The answer lies in the text, where, for many writers, there is only a short entry and then "See Suppl. I". Or else there is a longish entry, but the list of works by that author consists of numbers 1, 5 and 6; and there is a note "2-4 see Suppl.".
Brockelmann published his first edition in two volumes ca. 1900. In the late 30's he published two volumes of supplements to the first edition, keyed to the page numbers of the first edition. He published the second edition in 1943.
You or I would imagine that the second edition consisted of the first edition plus the supplements plus some revisions. But in fact it seems to be just new material, plus some framework words. So to find all the information on a writer, you need to look in the 2nd ed., then in the supplement volume, and possibly in the first edition also since it is the page numbers of the first edition that are used in the supplement.
This … is appalling. I can't understand quite why Brill allowed a book to go out like this, and have left it in this state for 70 years. If I'd paid $1,000 for the 2nd edition, instead of producing a bound photocopy for my own use, I'd be pretty cross right now. Fortunately the first edition is on Archive.org, and the supplements can be found on a site in India. But I may still need to produce paper versions of these, as I can't read these kinds of books on-screen.
Nor is this the only problem. Someone new to the subject will find all the names rather unfamiliar. The average writer is given as the equivalent of "John son of Bill son of Harry son of John who lived in the Camden Town and was often known as Mad John". When you see something of that length, you know, beyond doubt, that no-one repeats all that lot to refer to him. But in Brockelmann you have to scan the highly abbreviated notes beneath to work out that scholars call that author "the one from Camden Town" in the literature. Brockelmann does not feel that he needs to indicate this. I've ended up underlining parts of the names so I can tell that (e.g.) this long list of Arabic names is actually "al Tabari" or "al Mahsudi".
The sins of the author are visited on the reader, and Brockelmann committed many more sins than these.
Here's another. All those names are unfamiliar to the newcomer. So what he did was abbreviate them, to make them even less recognisable. Why say "ibn" when you can say "b."? Why say "Ali" when you can say "A."? Of course, if you are unfamiliar, this means that you can't even read the name! And he doesn't trouble to give a proper decryption key either. This is unforgiveable, really it is. We can only be grateful that he didn't encode the names in Arabic characters as well. But he does his best to be difficult, using a strange version of "h" where normal people write "kh".
What I take from this is that there is an urgent need for a new History of Arabic Literature. It should have the same scope as Brockelmann, but be properly organised, and in English. The actual entries in Brockelmann are much too brief anyway, and I have no doubt that 70 years has brought many more editions and translations.
If I were an academic working in this area, I would do it. It would make my name live for a century. If so bad a book as Brockelmann's GAL is still the standard reference work, it should be trivial to surpass it. It could be done in a year or two.
Nor is it necessary to translate Brockelmann, nor desirable to do so. Retain his structure, yes; and give a marginal reference to his pages. But it will be far easier to simply write your own text, rather than fight to understand his cryptic notes.
I'd do it myself, except that I have to write software for mobile phone companies and the like in order to pay the electricity bill and so I don't have the time. But … come on, chaps. This is a simple exercise that we could all do.
Meanwhile, I think I shall look at getting a print-off from Suppl. vol. 1!
UPDATE: I'm just looking at the PDF of the supplement, and, in this, he places the important bit of the name in italics! So he was clearly aware of the issue also. Again it shows that you can't even read the GAL pages by themselves.
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Table of contents of Brockelmann's history of Arabic literature
Posted on June 29, 2011 by Roger Pearse
I've been looking at the 1898 edition, and the contents gives an idea of the subject all by itself. Here is the opening portion:
Book 1. The Arab national literature.
Section 1. From the beginnings to the emergence of Muhammad.
1. The Arabic language. . 11
2. The beginnings of poetry 12
3. The forms of Arabic poetry 13
4. General characteristics of early Arabic poetry. 14
5. The tradition of ancient Arabic poetry. … 16
6. Sources of our knowledge of ancient Arabic poetry. 17
7. The six poets 22
8. Other poets of the heathen days 24
9. Jewish and Christian poets before Islam. . 28
10. The beginnings of Arabic prose 31
Section 2. Muhammed and his times.
1. Muhammed the Prophet 32
2. The Koran 33
3. Lebid and al A`Sa 36
4. Hassan b. Tabit 37
5. Ka`b b. Zuhair. . 38
6. Mutammim b. Nuwaira 39
7. Al Hansa' 40
8. Abu Mihgan and al Hutai'a 40
9. Lesser poets 41
10. Two forgeries 43
Section 3. The Umayyad era.
1. General Characteristics 44
2. `Omar b. abi Rabi `a 45
3. Other poets in Arabia 47
4. Al Ahtal 49
5. Al Ferazdaq 53
6. Gerir 56
7. Du'r Rumma 58
8. The Regez poets. . 59
9. Lesser poet, 60
10. Prose literature in the age of the Umayyads. . 64
Book 2. Islamic literature in Arabic.
Section 1. The classical period from ca. 750 to ca. 1000
1. Poetry 72
A. The Poets of Baghdad 73
B. Poets in Iraq and the Gezira. . 83
C. Poets in Arabia and Syria. 83
D. The circle of Saifeddaula. 86
E. Egyptian poets. 91
2. Prose 92
3. Philology 96
3.1. The school of Basra. . 98
3.2. The school of Kufa, 114
3.3. The School of Baghdad. 120
3.4. Linguistics in Persia and the eastern countries 127
3.5. Linguistic studies in Egypt and Spain 131
4. History 133
4.1. The history of Muhammed 134
4.2. Town histories 137
4.3. History of Arabian antiquity 138
4.4. Political and World History 140
4.5. Cultural and Literary History 146
4.6. History of Egypt and North Africa 148
4.7. History of Spain. 149
5. Prose commentaries 151
6. The hadith 156
7. Al Fiqh 168
7.1. The Hanafites 169
7.2. The Malikites 175
7.3. The Shaf `ites 178
7.4. The lesser schools 181
7.5. The Shi `a 184
8. Koran studies 188
8.1. The copying of the Koran 188
8.2. The interpretation of the Koran 190
9. Dogmatics 192
10. Mysticism. 197
11. Translations 201
12. Philosophy 208
13. Mathematics 215
14. Astronomy and astrology 220
15. Geography 225
16. Medicine 230
17. Natural sciences and the occult ……. 240
18. Encyclopadias 244
Section 2. The post-classical period of Islamic literature from approximately 400 (1010) to approximately 656 (1258). …
Isn't it interesting to see the large part played by poetry?
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I have volume 1 of Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (2nd ed. 1941) on order via my library. But a correspondent sent me an interesting word document yesterday. He'd downloaded volume 1 of the 1898 first edition, run it through some OCR, and then run the output through Google Translate. The .doc file contained the result, which was really rather interesting, and by no means useless.
Last night I also downloaded the PDF, and I ran Finereader 10 against it during the night. The results were not too bad, although I gather that quotations may not be handled that well. The PDF resolution is not that great, unfortunately. Footnotes tended to be handled rather badly. I started correcting the OCR of the main text, but had to go away unexpectedly, which prevented further progress. But I will do more next week, if Adam's curse permits.
While I was hunting for PDF's of Brockelmann, I found another interesting item, Nicholson's 1907 book, A literary history of the Arabs. This looked interesting enough that I ordered a version on paper from Amazon. We have to ignore the early chapters, dedicated to pre-islamic material — at least, that isn't what I want to read about — but it gets quite interesting from the Ummayad period on. Something I can scribble on is what I need.
I'm still cursing Brill for the price they place on Brockelmann's second edition. A thousand dollars, for heaven's sake, for a thousand page paperback!?!
Let's see what kind of a grasp of Arabic literature I can get.
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Searching for Ibn Abi Useibia's work on medical writers
Posted on June 22, 2011 August 29, 2011 by Roger Pearse
Using the form of the name "Ibn-e-Abi Useibia", I was able to find a bunch of matches for "ibn abi usaybiah" in Worldcat. We're looking, of course, for his ʻUyūn al-anbā' fī ṭabaqāt al-'aṭibbā'. It has things to say about Hippocrates and Galen, and also about Hunain ibn Ishaq.
There are several publications listed in Worldcat. The catalogues indicate that he lived between 1203-1270.
First, there is "Abdollatiphi bagdadensis vita", 1808, Oxford, ed. J. Mousley, here. This is a Life of `Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, by our man. The latter also wrote, I find, a Historiae Aegyptiae Compendium, which I think we came across when looking at Bar Hebraeus and exists in Latin in the same sorts of places.
There is a German publication Geschichte der Aertze, published "Königsberg : Selbstverlag, 1884" — is that "self-published?" — by August Muller, who turned up yesterday as the editor of the Arabic text in Cairo in 1882. This sounds very like a translation; but the record says "principally in Arabic". There are no UK locations for it, nor US, nor even German! The latter, I think, probably reflects a lack of upload from German libraries, rather than lack of holdings. There is a copy in Paris, tho.
There also seems to be a 1995 publication at Frankfurt-am-Main, in two volumes — I would guess this is a reprint of the 1882 edition.
The 1882 edition exists in the British Library — so useless to us — and in three US libraries, including California and Chicago universities.
There is a curious publication Oyūn-al-anbā fi tabaqat-al-attebba, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim Ibn Abi Usaybi`ah; trad. et commenté par Seyed Dja'far Ghazban et Mahmoud Nadjmabadi, Publisher: Tehran : Imprimerie Organization de l'Universite de Tehran, 1970-. Language is French. The only copy seems to be in "Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen" in the Netherlands.
But then … I find a mysterious item, with no copies held. "English translations of History of Physicians (4 v.), and The Book of Medicine of Asaph the Physician (2 v.). 1971." What can this be? A web search quickly turns up a source — in manuscript! — here. It's MS C 294, a manuscript at the US National Library of Medicine! There's no indication of any further information.
It is a pity that WorldCat is so slow. But it has given several leads to the material we want.
I shall now compose an email enquiring about that manuscript!
UPDATE (5th August 2011): I was able to get PDF's of the Muller publication, which is entirely in Arabic. No response ever appeared on the US item.
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Ibn Abi Useibia and his history of medical writers
R. Haddad wrote an interesting article Hunayn ibn Ishaq, apologiste chrétien (1974), which I was reading this evening, thanks to the kind gift of a bunch of articles over the weekend.
On p.293-4 he gives details of the appalling treatment of the great translator by the Caliph al-Mamun, which apparently come from a History of medical writers by a certain Ibn Abi Useibia. The Arabic text was published in Cairo in 1882 by A. Müller. I won't attempt to give the Arabic title, but Muller, Cairo, 1882 was enough for me to find the book in COPAC. This contains, on p.190-197, a long extract from On his own misfortunes.
I can't find any sign of an English translation of Useibia's work. The nearest I can come is an extract from it, from 1834, by William Cureton, on physicians from India. It's here. I don't know how we could get access to the Arabic text; and what other version exists?
Here is what Haddad says:
When he returned to Baghdad after a long period in the country of the Rums, Hunayn ibn Ishaq quickly became famous. Al-Mamun, learning of his ability as a doctor, wanted to make use of him. But, afraid, in case Ibn Ishaq had been bribed by the Byzantine emperor to kill him, he decided to put him to the test. After giving him many gifts, he asked him to supply a violent poison, good enough to kill an enemy. Hunayn put him off by saying that he only concerned himself with useful medicaments, to the exclusion of lethal poisons. Threats having no effect, the Caliph threw him in prison. A year later, he was brought out and the demand repeated with strong threats and promises. But faced with the obstinate refusal of Hunayn, al-Mamun then revealed what he was really thinking, and reassured him, and then he asked to know what were the reasons for such behaviour. Hunayn replied:
"Religion and medicine. Religion, in fact, commands us to do good to our enemies, still more to our friends. And medicine forbids us to do harm to men… That is why I could not disobey these two noble obligations, and am resigned to die, believing in the God who will not abandon anyone who risks his life to obey him."
The words quoted are from Ibn Abi Useibia's work, apparently, pp.187-8 of the Cairo edition.
Arabic literature is so unknown in the west. I'm interested; yet the only guide I can hear of is Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Literatur, which is multi-volume and, worse, in German. Why isn't there an English translation? Why aren't all these texts online in English?
UPDATE: It seems that something does exist in English, in Dwight F. Reynolds, Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition. 2001, p.107-118. This covers the episode when he was entangled by his enemies in a palace intrigue under the Caliph Mutawakkil, and once again ended up in prison.
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Books by the Coptic Pope Shenouda III at Google Books
I accidentally stumbled on a mass of English translations of works by the current Coptic Pope, Shenouda III, at Google books. This search brings up a long list. Some have preview; some are full view, and can be downloaded in PDF form.
The first one I saw was a hagiography of St. Mark, here. The work is a modern composition in the traditional style, and references are on p.143 to sources like Eusebius HE, Jerome's De viris illustribus, Severus ibn al-Mukaffa's History of the Patriarchs, and other interesting-looking sources.
These books are an invaluable insight into modern Coptic church thinking. It is very good to see them accessible. For which of us could otherwise even know they existed?
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