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Dresselhaus Wins Vannevar Bush Award
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news release:
The National Science Board has named Institute Professor Mildred Dresselhaus as the 2009 recipient of the Vannevar Bush award, which annually recognizes an individual who, through public service activities in science and technology, has made an outstanding "contribution toward the welfare of mankind and the nation."
The award, established in 1980, commemorates Bush's unique contributions to public service; it also has a unique tie-in with MIT, as Bush was an influential professor, vice president and dean of engineering ...
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Ghazali and the perils of interpretation.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ABU HAMID AL-GHAZALI (d. 505/1111) is one of the celebrated...cultural landscape. Richard Frank's Al-Ghazali and the Ash arite School provide perhaps...matter. Given the range of his ideas, al-Ghazali has both in spired and puzzled many...
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Al-Ghazali, The Niche of Lights: A Parallel English-Arabic Text.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...53 (in Arabic). $24.95. Al-Ghazali's Mishkat al-anwar has often...the Light Verse, Koran 24:35, al-Ghazali lays down how the text of the revelation...highest level of human perfection. Al-Ghazali's distinction between the alam...
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Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies
; ...Persian city of Tus, 'al-Ghazali or Ghazali became...biographical narrative. Ghazali honed his intellectual...ethos. His Maqasid 'al-Falasifah ("Aims...philosophy, Tahafut 'al-Tahafut ("The...Incoherence"). Ghazali exercised enormous...
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Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...Muslim after Muhammad." Abu Hamid al Ghazali (d. 1111, one of the easiest...in his famous "confession," al-Munqidh min al-dalal. A further historical context is the impact of Ghazali; as Moosa says, "a cursory survey...
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Al-Ghazali on power, causation, and 'acquisition'.(Abu-hamid al-Ghazali)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West
; ...century in the person of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. There has been some controversy as to whether al-Ghazali did, in fact, espouse occasionalism...example, have both contended that al-Ghazali either rejected or compromised Asharite...
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Al-Ghazali's Unspeakable Doctrine of the Soul: Unveiling the Esoteric Psychology and Eschatology of the Ihya'.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; Al-Ghazali's Unspeakable Doctrine of the Soul...BRILL, 2001. Pp. 205. $76. Analyzing al-Ghazali's religious doctrine is a task with...of the most daunting is the fact that al-Ghazali wrote different things for different readers...
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Al-Ghazali and Schopenhauer on knowledge and suffering.(Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Arthur Schopenhauer)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West
; ...together the metaphysics of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) (2) and the aesthetics...In comparing and contrasting al-Ghazali with Schopenhauer the focus will...framework to view the metaphysics of al-Ghazali as a theory of aesthetics. Al...
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Crisis and certainty of knowledge in al-Ghazali (1058-1111) and descartes (1596-1650).
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West
; ...turned into an agonizing quest. Al-Ghazali, the most celebrated scholar and...cognitions)." (1) But let us hear al-Ghazali in his own words: So I became certain...This could, indeed, explain how al-Ghazali, as he discloses himself in his...
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On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Faysal al-Tafriqa.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Faysal al-Tafriqa. By SHERMAN A. JACKSON...theologian, jurist, and mystic Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111). While al-Ghazali can no longer be taken as the architect of...
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God and Humans in Islamic Thought: 'Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West
; ...Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali. By Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth. London...Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali by Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth deals...Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina, and al-Ghazali. The latter two thinkers are probably...
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