scholarly journals A great book without winners or losers

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-380
Author(s):  
Milan Ducháček
Keyword(s):  
Great Book

TAFSIR AL-QUR’AN DENGAN AL-QUR’AN Studi Analisis-Kritis dalam Lintas Sejarah

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Abdurrahman Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Great Book

Al-Qur’an sebagai kitab suci yang berisi teks-teks sakral, yang merupakan sumber hukum Islam. Dengan kandungan yang universal, telah banyak orang membicarakannya dan menulis, tetapi tetap saja belum dipahami dengan baik. Setelah Nabi Muhammad Saw wafat, persoalan muncul dalam kehidupan sosial yang penuh tantangan dan dinamika persoalan hukum terus berlangsung dan berubah seiring perkembangan dalam permasalahan-permasalahan hukum. Dalam literatur lain dijelaskan bahwa al-Qur’an sebagai great book dalam perspektif budaya yang dapat didekati dengan pendekatan antropologis.Kitabullah al-Qur’an dianggap sebagai petunjuk, tentunya al-Qur’an harus dipahami, dihayati, dan diamalkan. Namun pada kenyataannya, tidak semua orang bisa dengan mudah memahami al-Qur'an, bahkan para sahabat Nabi Muhammad Saw sekalipun yang secara umum menyaksikan turunya wahyu, mengetahui konteksnya, serta memahami secara ilmiah struktur bahasa dan makna kosa katanya.Dalam artikel ini membahas seputar tafsir al-Qur’an dengan al-Qur’an, walaupun masih banyak catatan yang perlu dikembangkan seiring dengan kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan yang begitu cepat perkembangannya sejalan dengan fenomena dan problematika sosial keagamaan terhadap tafsir tek-teks kitab suci al-Qur’an. Kata Kunci : TafsirAl-Qur’an dengan Al-Qur’an dan Analisis

Roshdi Rashed

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 279-295
Author(s):  
Mohammed Aref
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Great Book ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Elementary Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

This review essay introduces the work of the Egyptian scientific historian and philosopher Roshdi Rashed, a pioneer in the field of the history of Arab sciences. The article is based on the five volumes he originally wrote in French and later translated into Arabic, which were published by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies and which are now widely acclaimed as a unique effort to unveil the achievements of Arab scientists. The essay reviews this major work, which seems, like Plato’s Republic to have “No Entry for Those Who Have No Knowledge of Mathematics” written on its gate. If you force your way in, even with elementary knowledge of computation, a philosophy will unfold before your eyes, described by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei as “written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe—but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.” The essay is a journey through this labyrinth where the history of world mathematics got lost and was chronicled by Rashed in five volumes translated from the French into Arabic. It took him fifteen years to complete.

John Horsley

1932 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
George Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Great Book ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Present Purpose ◽  
First Time

On January 12th, 1732, John Horsley, Presbyterian divine and schoolmaster, died suddenly at Morpeth at the early age of 46. The following March or April witnessed the publication of his great book, in which real scholarship was for the first time brought to bear upon the interpretation of Romano-British antiquities. The occurrence of this double bicentenary seems to provide an appropriate opportunity for reminding readers of the Journal of the magnitude of the achievement represented by the Britannia Romana. A fully documented account of the author's career, together with an estimate of the value of his work, will appear in the forthcoming volume of Archaeologia Aeliana. For the present purpose, therefore, a brief summary will suffice.

Major New Editions of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 377-378
Keyword(s):  
Great Book ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Democracy In America

At this time of the 150th anniversary of Tocqueville’s great book about America, four major new editions of the Democracy are in preparation — each in a different language and each drawing heavily on Tocqueville’s working papers, especially the drafts and original autograph manuscript, which are available to scholars at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Notes on Tocqueville’s Interpreters

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-155
Author(s):  
Jacques Barzun
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Explosive Charge ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Book ◽  
The Way

The role of commentator has seemed to me invidious ever since I read in a classics journal a description of the chorus in Greek tragedy: “It comments freely about what it does not understand.” But one would have to be uncommonly stupid to have failed to understand he papers in this symposium, marked as they are by lucidity, pedagogical logic, and that very winning quality, personal conviction. As I recalled the several topics treated and reviewed my notes, it seemed to me that there was one point on which everybody agreed, which is this: Tocqueville’s great book was addressed primarily to the French and next to Europe at large, last to the United States. Its aim was to find the way of organizing the aftereffects of revolution, of defusing the explosive charge. The march of democracy was inevitable: need It be violent?

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