Exceptional Scholar Research Articles

History of the Founding and Early Years of the Journal of Law and Religion

Abstract In this essay, I recount the history of the founding and early years of the Journal of Law and Religion from its origins in the Committee on Religion and Law through the editorial transitions in 1988 that led to a second phase of JLR’s history. In recounting this history, I focus on the exceptional scholars who brought JLR into existence and nurtured its growth during those early years, creating, in the process, not only new academic endeavor but a community and a kind of family.

A footnote on) the places of knowing the holy Quran and explaining its truth( by Mala Salh Gozapany from verse 148 of the surah to verse 160 of Surat An-Nisa.

This study explores the life of a great scholar among the scholars of Islamic world. This distinguished scholar، who has spent nearly sixty years in serving knowledge and science، has written many valuable books. Consequently، his writings have offered a great service to the Islamic library and many great scholars were learned and educated on his hands. In this research an intensive investigation has been made on those footnotes that this scholar has written on a number of the holy Quran verses، in the interpretation “the places of knowing the holy Quran and explaining its truth” that was written by Abdulla Ibn-Ahmed Al-Nafasy. It is considered as one of the valuable books. It has an accurate academic style and only a group of exceptional scholars can understand it، for understanding the terms and concepts they are in need of these footnotes that “Gozapanky” Scholar has written. The study resolves these footnotes which mostly have been taken from sources، footnotes and reliable enlightenments for explaining “the places of knowing the holy Quran and explaining its truth”. Accordingly، it was done by rewriting the text as the writer wanted to be، then confirming the academic material from various aspects of the reliable sources، and simplifying these footnotes for readers and researchers، as a service and an easier way of taking benefit from it. The research explains the unknown aspects of the author’s life and unobvious places of the footnotes. It also referred the derived quotes to their owners as it is required in a scientific research. This paper comes up with a number of results which in general benefit all the researchers of the Kurdish scholar lives and their efforts and this great scholar in particular، including: “Mala Salh Gozapany” has been an educator، a Daii، a teacher and a Mufti، too ،The footnotes involve quoting، collecting، making concise that solve the difficult and the vague terms،The author، in his footnotes، has combined the interpretation of the Prophet companions and his interpretation These footnotes mention those distinguished signs that are taken from the holy Quran and the interpretation of “the places of knowing the holy Quran and explaining its truth”.

Advancing Gerontology through Exceptional Scholarship (AGES): a Mentorship Initiative for Early Career Faculty.

Mentorship is critical to supporting professional development and growth of new and emerging faculty members. Working with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), we created the Advancing Gerontology through Exceptional Scholarship (AGES) Initiative as a mentorship model to promote productivity and peer support for new and early career faculty members. In this commentary, we highlight the AGES Program as a prototype to facilitate peer support, collective learning, and co-authorship opportunities to advance new and early career faculty members, especially in the field of aging. Moreover, we identify four crucial strategies that cultivated and refined our AGES Program including: i) ensuring flexibility to address mentee needs; ii) establishing check-ins and accountability to enhance productivity; iii) fostering peer support and collective learning; and iv) delivering motivational and educational activities. Drawing on our experience with the AGES Program, this commentary provides recommendations to support other groups looking to develop high-quality mentorship programs to support new and early career faculty members in academia.

ADVANCING GERONTOLOGY THROUGH EXCEPTIONAL SCHOLARSHIP (AGES): FIRST INSIGHTS FROM A NEW MENTORSHIP MODEL

Abstract Mentorship is vital to supporting professional growth among early career faculty members. Working with the Gerontological Society of America, the Advancing Gerontology through Exceptional Scholarship (AGES) Program was created as a mentorship model to promote productivity and peer support for early career faculty members. This presentation will: 1) describe the AGES Program as a prototype to facilitate peer support, collective learning, productivity, and co-authorship opportunities to advance early career faculty members; and 2) identify effective strategies to facilitate other groups looking to develop high-quality mentorship and training programs to support early career faculty members. After a competitive process, a cohort of 7 AGES members (including 2 program co-leads and 5 participants who all studied dementia) partook in monthly workshops from November 2022 to June 2023. Drawing on our experience with the AGES Program, we identified four strategies that cultivated our AGES Program: 1) being adaptable to address mentorship needs; 2) establishing accountability measures to enhance productivity; 3) fostering collective learning and peer support; and 4) delivering inspirational and educational activities. Following on the completion of the AGES Program, an open discussion was held with the cohort to assess and critically reflect on the program. Discussion results indicate the AGES Program was valuable in supporting early career faculty members. Specifically, findings demonstrate that the program was perceived as successfully supporting team science, collaborative opportunities, and enhancing productivity. Next steps are to conduct an anonymous evaluation survey to identify specific areas to strengthen and enhance the program for future cohorts.

The Concept of Syntactic Dependencies and Its Impact on Understanding the Meanings of the Holy Quran in Ibn Ashur's "Tahrir wa Tanwir" Commentary

Background. Quranic exegetes have endeavored to find appropriate mechanisms that can help unravel the mysteries of Allah's book and interpret Quranic verses correctly. Method. Rarely do we find a scholar who has a unique approach that provides unprecedented creativity in their interpretations. One of these exceptional scholars is Imam Muhammad Al-Tahir bin Ashur, the author of the tafsir "Tahrir wa Tanwir". Results. In it, we find an unprecedented mechanism among rhetorical tools, known as the "Syntactic Dependency" mechanism. Through this mechanism, Ibn Ashur is able to derive new hidden meanings, elevating the status of his tafsir to a pioneering position among Islamic tafsir works. This study presents examples of the hidden meanings he unearthed by using the "Syntactic Dependency" mechanism. Conclusion. Hence, their books have diversified and multiplied as these mechanisms have evolved.

In Memoriam

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Professor Gad Barzilai (1958–2023), who died on 10 April 2023. Gadi was an influential scholar in the fields of law and political science. He served as the president of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) from 2011 to 2013. His leadership, exceptional scholarship, and vision helped shape the field of Israel studies and foster important intellectual debates on issues pertinent to Israeli society.

Rights Talk and Constitutional Emotivism

Abstract This paper builds on the work of several exceptional scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, law, and history. My central aim is to introduce and explicate an idea closely related to (and derivative of) the concept of rights talk, a concept I call ‘constitutional emotivism’. By drawing upon scholars including Mary Ann Glendon, Jamal Greene, A.J. Ayer, and Alasdair MacIntyre, I aim to gather the conceptual threads that I trace through their work which together form the idea of constitutional emotivism. In a sentence, constitutional emotivism is the conflation of moral disagreements with constitutional rights grievances. When this conflation occurs, rights conflicts that never needed to occur in the first place reinforce rights talk and its uncompromising nature.

Jack Dwayne Farmer April 18, 1947-February 22, 2023.

Jack Dwayne Farmer April 18, 1947-February 22, 2023.

Editor’s Introduction to JPE Micro

Editor’s Introduction to <i>JPE Micro</i>

Systemic Design as Born from the Berkeley Bubble Matrix

From the early 1960s and continuing into the 1980s, an aggregation of exceptional scholars and professionals formed in the University of California, Berkeley environs, establishing a common bond amongst themselves and with other networks of scholars, students, and professionals globally. They were not in the same disciplines, specializations, or professional fields. They were colleagues sharing a common aspiration. What they shared was a deep interest in, and commitment to, the utility of systems thinking and design action as a means to secure improvements and advancements in the human condition. This common bond resulted in what I have called The Berkeley Bubble—which was internationally influential inside and outside of academia. Unfortunately, the Bubble began dissipating in the closing years of the last century, leaving generative echoes of the ideas incubated and matured in this unique crucible to influence future generations. This essay is a narrative account of the individuals involved—starting with a doctoral committee composed of some of the key people entrained in this bubble—of their influences on one another and on the world of practitioner-scholars worldwide continuing through today.

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A Leadership and Ethical Analysis of the Scholar-Practitioner

This analysis aspires to offer informative practice on how to improve scholar-practitionership. Indicated is how the review of scholarly peer-reviewed studies is an investigative process providing context to scholarship studies and overall scholarship. Further, the scholar-practitionership application exhibits how exceptional scholarship skills improve the body of data, structure, and quality needed to investigate global issues. Scholars provide a wide-ranging analysis of phenomena to convey conceptual, theoretical, and empirical analysis of studies. Further, substantive feedback from collaborative research panels allows for substantiation and a well-developed final product. Likewise, the content of a scholarly study must align to reflect objectivity and continuity. Overwhelmingly, scholars must employ a disciplined and ethical research process to refine conceptual, empirical grey literature, and theoretical studies to provide application, transparency, and clarity.

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Stephen L. Zegura (2 July 1943–26 May 2019)

1 Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. 2 Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. 3 Department of Anthropology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, USA. 4 ARL Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. 5 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. *Correspondence to: Rebecca Rogers Ackermann, University of Cape Town, Department of Archaeology, Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, South Africa. E-mail: becky.ackermann@uct.ac.za. KEY WORDS: stephen l. zegura, obituary, anthropology. Human Biology, Winter 2019, v. 91, no. 1. doi: 10.13110/humanbiology91.1.03. Copyright © 2019 Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201 in memoriam Stephen L. Zegura (2 July 1943–26 May 2019) Rebecca Rogers Ackermann,1,2 * Michelle Bezanson,3 Michael Hammer,4 and David Raichlen5 Stephen L. Zegura passed away on 26 May 2019 at the age of 75. Born in San Francisco, California, Zegura was the eldest child of Dragomir Božo Zegura and Adele (June) PerelliMinetti . He earned his BA in anthropology, magna cum laude and with departmental honors, at Stanford University. Even as an undergraduate at Stanford , Zegura was extremely active, brainstorming creativewaystocreateanacademiccareerfocusing onthestudyof humans.Hisenergeticappreciation for Stanford and the inspirational professors he met there was often shared with his students—he was a devoted Cardinal. He then moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a WoodrowWilson Fellow, and received his master’s degree and doctorate in human biology in 1971. His PhD research focused on multivariate analyses of variation in native Alaskan (“Eskimo”) crania. Zegura relocated briefly to New York University before moving to the University of Arizona (U of A) in Tucson, where he stayed for the remainder of his career and life. For nearly 40 years Zegura taught biological anthropology, human evolution, andhumangeneticsatUof A.Hewastherecipient of the 2009–2010 Raymond H. Thompson Award in honor of his distinguished service and contributions he made to the School of Anthropology throughout his career. How do you measure the impact of a life, especially for someone as alive—as large as life— as Steve Zegura was? He was brilliant and tough and kind and generous. He was mischievous, with a slightly irreverent sense of humor. He was an extraordinary teacher, with a sharp intellect and a passion for sharing knowledge. And Zegura was an exceptional scholar, presenting theoretically rigorous and well-written contributions, with approximately 50 journal articles to his name. He leaves behind important contributions to knowledgeintheseresearchoutputs ,andhere,wereflect on the arc of these outputs and their relevance then and now. Zegura’s fijirst works focused on measuring skulls and applying statistical methods to diffferentiate them from one another and from other groups (Zegura 1971), a popular pastime in biological /physical anthropology since the discipline developed in the 1800s, and one that has deep links to racial science (Gould 1981; Sussman 2014) . Even at this early stage, Zegura displayed two traits that continued to shine throughout his research career: meticulous attention to detail and a creative ability to synthesize disparate methodologies into a coherent framework for hypothesis testing. While many skeletal biologists were continuing to use older, traditional methods to examine skeletal variation in human populations, Zegura was quick to include linguistic analyses in his studies, FIGURE 1. Stephen Zegura, early 1970s. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Chesney Zegura. 000 ■ Ackermann et al. examining degrees of correlation between these distinct data sets (Zegura 1975). This early work on Inuit populations led to numerous highly regarded publications. By integrating linguistics and skeletal biology, Zegura was ahead of the curve, and today this work is considered highly creative andsynthetic.Zegurawasalsoanearlycontributor to our understanding of inter- and intraobserver measurementerrorincraniometricstudiesandthe importance of conducting baseline measurement error analyses in order to accurately interpret the biological signifijicance of any results (Utermohle andZegura1982;Utermohleetal.1983),atopicthat still garners considerable attention (e.g., Robinson and Terhune 2017). Ultimately,Zegura’sintereststurnedtobroader questions that highlighted the degree to which racial typology and theoretical approaches had limited the research focus of the study of prehistory in the North American Arctic (Schindler et al. 1985). In this, he was in keeping with the general movement away from typological “racial...

A Tribute to Bert Peeters (1960–2021)

Bert Peeters was an exceptional scholar and colleague who left us prematurely on 22 February 2021 following a battle with brain cancer. Bert’s life and his work were infused with a passion for French linguistics, semantics, culture, applied ethnolinguistics and language pedagogy. He will be long remembered for his ability to combine these fields and for bringing Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) research to European scholars.

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شرح القصیدة الظائیة فی الفرق بین الظاء والضاد لعلی بن عبد الله بن ناشر الوَهْرَانی (المتوفى615هـ) تحقیق ودراسة

هذا بحث متواضع ينفض الغبار بالتحقيق والدراسة عن مخطوطة قديمة قيمة نفيسة لم تر النور بعد تسمى شرح القصيدة الظائية في الفرق بين الظاء ، لعالم لغوي مفسر من علماء القرن السادس الهجري؛ ألا وهو علي بن عبد الله بن ناشر الوهراني المتوفى615هـ ، هي منظومة قيمة مبين فيها ما جاء على لفظ واحد وله معنيان، يکتب على أحد المعنيين بالظاء وعلى الآخر بالضاد، وفيها ذکر عدد من الکلمات الظائية التي لا تناظر بينها وبين الضادية کل ذلک مع الشرح. وقد اقتضت خطة هذا البحث أن يقسم قسمين تسبقهما مقدمة وتعقبهما خاتمة وفهارس، أما المقدمة ففيها عرض موجز للإطار المنهجي للبحث. وأما القسم الأول فهو القسم الدراسي وفيه ثلاثة مباحث: الأول التعريف بمؤلف القصيدة، والثاني التعريف بمخطوطته، والثالث مدخل إلى تحقيق النص. وأما القسم الثاني فهو للنص المحقق، وکان من أهم نتائج هذا البحث ما يلي: کشف البحث عن عبقرية عالم لغوي واسع الثقافة، کثير الاطلاع، کما اتضح من خلال البحث إلى أي مدى شغلت قضية الضاد والظاء علماءنا الأفذاذ، وما ذلک إلا لغيرتهم على لغة القرآن أولا، والالتباس بين الصوتين وعسر التمييز بينهما ثانيا، کما يعتبر صوتا الضاد والظاء من الأصوات القوية المفخمة دائما، کما أن حرف الضاد هو الحرف الوحيد الذي تميزت به لغتنا من أمها السامية، وقد ألمح الوهراني في هذه القصيدة إلى نظرية من أبرز قضايا علم اللغة في العصر الحديث، ألا وهي نظرية (الفونيم)، وتأثر المعنى بتناوب الأصوات، کما أشار فيها إلى المعاني المشترکة للفظ الواحد، وفي هذا النوع من التأليف ما يؤکد المنزلة العالية التي وصل إليها علماء الأمة في تتبع المعاني للمفردات والأصوات. This is a humble research; dusting off the investigation and study of an invaluable ancient manuscript She has not seen the light yet. It is called “The explanation of the poem al-Dha’d in the difference between al-Tha’a,” by a linguist Interpreted by scholars of the sixth century AH; It is “Ali bin Abdullah bin Nasher al-Wahrani, who died in 615 AH,” in which there is an explanation of the difference between the words that were written in al-Tha’a but with al-Dha’d has another meaning The plan of this research was to be divided into two preceding parts An introduction, followed by a conclusion and indexes, while the introduction contains a brief presentation of the methodological framework Search. As for the first section, it is the academic section, and it contains three sections: the first is the definition The author of the poem, the second definition of his manuscript, and the third an introduction to the text of verification. As for the second section, it is the verified text, and one of the most important results of this research was the following The research revealed the following: The research revealed the genius of a widely-educated, well-educated linguist, as it was evident through the research to what extent the issue of dhad and deafness occupied our exceptional scholars, and that is only for others On the language of the Qur’an first, and the ambiguity between the two voices and the difficulty of distinguishing between them secondly, just as the dād and dāa sounds are always strong and exaggerated sounds, just as the letter dād is the only letter that distinguishes our language from its sublime mother. A theory of the most prominent issues of linguistics in the modern era, which is the theory of (phoneme), and the effect of meaning by the alternation of sounds, as he indicated in it the common meanings of a single word, and in this type of composition confirms the high position that the nation’s scholars have reached in tracing the meanings of vocabulary and Sounds.

Four Letters: Deconstructing the Brontë-Héger Myth

Out of many, only four Brontë-Héger letters have survived the test of time, all of them one-sided. Since these unfortunate gaps cannot possibly fill themselves, speculation has largely taken over the scholarship surrounding this complex relationship. Claire Harman, Sally Shuttleworth, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Smith are only a few exceptional scholars who have explored the contemporary obsession with this relationship. The intertextual discourse largely focuses on Charlotte Brontë as a hopeless romantic, an infatuated mentee struck down by first love—the judgment sometimes extending so far as to deem her a Victorian madwoman. In this essay, however, I will be arguing that the intellectual relationship between Héger and Brontë is far more important to analyze than the romantic, as it gives us a justifiable reason to delve into the intimate contents of the letters. For a purpose other than gratifying curiosity regarding Brontë’s private life, perusing the letters offers a fresh perspective to assess her fictional works. In a sense, her novels are given new life through the act of reimagining how and why she made certain literary decisions. What catalyzed Jane Eyre? In this case, who? Constantin Héger directly influenced Brontë’s empowerment as a female novelist, her urgency to improve, and dedication to the art of storytelling. “Her essays bid for his professional attention, a point too frequently missed by critics who treat her attachment to Héger as a romance rather than a writer’s connection,” mirrors Sue Lonoff in her study of Brontë’s Belgian devoir essays (Lonoff 391). As a firm believer that personal writings often hold invaluable resources to enable the reader to distinguish the artist from their art, I intend to explore this further. In this paper, I examine the letters chronologically, approaching them with much more than merely romance in mind, but the sentiments of a woman who was once taken seriously by an intellectual counterpart, embittered by the sudden deprivation of it.

Hawthorne and Presentism: A Backward Glance

Hawthorne and Presentism: A Backward Glance

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