scholarly journals The Need of a Good Story: Understanding Come From Away’s Warm Reception

2017 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 52-58
Keyword(s):  
Good Story ◽  
Story Understanding

Let Me Tell You a Good Story . . .

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (48) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas V. McGovern
Keyword(s):  
Good Story

scholarly journals What makes a good story?

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Anholt
Keyword(s):  
Good Story

One Good Story, That One

1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Branko Gorjup ◽  
Thomas King
Keyword(s):  
Good Story

The Teachers of Shihāb al-Dīn ‘Umar al-Suhrawardi

1950 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-356
Author(s):  
A. J. Arberry
Keyword(s):  
Good Story ◽  
Eminent Scholar

We are informed by Ibn al-‘Imād that Shihāb al-Dīn ‘Umar b. ‘Abd Allāh al-Suhrawardī (d. 632/1234), the celebrated Ṣūfi and founder of the Suhrawardīya Order, “heard Traditions from a number (of scholars)”, and that he wrote “a Mashyakha in an attractive section (fijuz’inlaṭtīf)”. This Mashyakha was known to Ḥājjī Khalīfa,4 but no copy is noted by Brockelmann. Now it is always interesting to have the names of the teachers of famous men, more especially when such information rests on the authority of the celebrities themselves, and it is therefore a fortunate chance that a manuscript of Shihab al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī’s essay in autobiography has actually survived. What is more, this unique copy is in the autograph of an eminent scholar; the colophon is signed Muhammad b. Shukr al-Shāfi‘ī, and is dated 738/1337. To complete the good story, the recension mounts to the author himself, and the learned copyist has transcribed from his archetype a note of samā’ with al-Suhrawardī dated 620/1223 at Baghdad.The author gives the names of fifteen of his teachers, together with the texts of a small number of Traditions heard by him from each; each Tradition is furnished with a full isnād; and in some instances the dates of the teacher's birth and death are provided. The list begins with Shihāb al-Dīn's uncle, Diyā’ al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Qāhir b. ‘Abd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, himself a well-known Ṣūfī scholar (d. 562/1168, see Brockelmann I 436, Suppl. I 780); significantly enough no mention is made of ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1167) who is commonly reported to have initiated al-Suhrawardī into Ṣūfism.

Stories as Technology: Past, Present, and Future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger’s Bacon ◽  
Sergey Samsonau ◽  
Dario Krpan ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Good Story ◽  
High Level ◽  
Future Technologies

What is it about a good story that causes it to have life-changing effects on one person and not another? I wonder if future technologies will enable us to develop the type of truly deep and fine-grained understanding of stories as social, cognitive, and emotional technologies that might allow us to answer this question with a high-level of precision.

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