The Intricacies of Capturing the Holdings of a Mosque Library in Yemen: The Library of the Shrine of Imām al-Hādī, Ṣaʿda

This article discusses the The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition (ZMT) initiative. The initiative aims to salvage the Zaydi literary tradition by gathering digital surrogates of as many Zaydi manuscripts as possible in a single repository and providing comprehensive and systematic open access to them for scholars worldwide, regardless of whether the physical manuscripts are preserved in Europe or in North America, in Yemen or elsewhere in the Middle East. The ZMT is a joint project initiated by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, in partnership with the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Work on the ZMT began in September 2016 and to date the project comprises some 1,000 digitized manuscripts from several European and Yemeni libraries which are accessible online through the project\u27s Portal and HMML\u27s virtual reading room

Cloning and functional expression of a cytokinin receptor from Cucurbita maxima seedlings

Aus einer cDNA-Expressionsbibliothek aus Kürbiskeimlingen wurde eine Histidin-Kinase isoliert, die homolog zu dem Cytokininrezeptor AHK4 (CRE1/WOL) in Arabidopsis thaliana ist. Das Gen mit der Bezeichnung CmCRE1 (C. maxima cytokinin response) zeigt 80% Ähnlichkeit und 72% Identität zu AHK4 und enthält einen offenen Leserahmen von 2943bp, der für 981 Aminosäuren kodiert. Die funktionelle Expression von CmCRE1 in dem Hefe-Stamm sln1-Delta bestätigte die Fähigkeit der Histidin-Kinase, die verschiedenen Cytokinine t-Zeatin, Benzyladenin (BA), Isopentenyladenin (IP) und Kinetin wahrzunehmen und eine Signaltransduktionskette vom Typ Zwei-Komponentensystem zu aktivieren. Zwei isolierte Hefe-Klone, die CmCRE1 exprimierten und als CmCRE1-1 and CmCRE1-7 bezeichnet wurden, reagierten unterschiedlich sensitiv auf die verwendeten Konzentrationen der besagten Cytokinine. Dies basiert vermutlich auf der Substitution einer Aminosäure in einer konservierten Region in der Histidin-Kinase-Domäne nahe dem phosphorylierbaren Histidinrest. Expressionsstudien mittels kompetitiver RT-PCR führten zu einer konstitutiven Transkription von CmCRE1 in verschiedenen Geweben und Entwicklungsstadien der Kürbiskeimlinge in Abhängigkeit endogener und exogener Faktoren. Darüber hinaus wurde gezeigt, dass die Expression von CmCRE1 in intakten Pflanzen im Gegensatz zu AHK4 durch die exogene Applikation von t-zeatin nicht hochreguliert wird.Out of a cDNA expression library of pumpkin seedlings a histidine kinase homologous to the cytokinin receptor AHK4 (CRE1/WOL) in Arabidopsis thaliana was isolated. The gene named CmCRE1 (C. maxima cytokinin response) shows 80% similarity and 72% identity to AHK4 and contains an open reading frame of 2943 nucleotides encoding 981 amino acid residues. Functional expression of CmCRE1 in the yeast mutant sln1-Delta confirmed the ability of the histidine kinase to sense the different cytokinins t-zeatin, benzyl adenine (BA), isopentenyladenine (IP), and kinetin and to activate a two-component signal transduction system. Two different yeast clones expressing CmCRE1, named CmCRE1-1 and CmCRE1-7, react differently on the applied concentrations of the mentioned cytokinins. This is possibly based on an amino acid substitution in a conserved region in the histidine kinase domain near to the phosphorylatable histidine residue. Expression studies carried out by competitive RT-PCR lead to a constitutive transcription of CmCRE1 in different tissues and developmental stages of the pumpkin seedlings in dependency on endogenous and exogenous factors. Moreover was shown that in contrast to AHK4 expression of CmCRE1 in intact plants is not upregulated by exogenous application of t-zeatin

Early Ašʿarite Theology

In a recently published article, Daniel Gimaret has offered a first study on the Kitāb Hidāyat al-mustaršidīn, Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī’s (d. 403/1013) most comprehensive and, as it would seem, last work in the field of kalām. Gimaret consulted and described two manuscripts containing different parts of the work, viz. ms. Qarawiyyīn 692 (Fez) and ms. al-Azhar III 337, ʿilm al-kalām [21] 342 (Cairo). The purpose of the present article is to introduce two additional partial manuscripts of al-Bāqillānī’s work, ms. St. Petersburg, The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, # C 329 and ms. Tashkent, al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, # 3296, constituting Volumes Five and Eleven of the work.Dans un article publié récemment, Daniel Gimaret a fourni une première étude sur le Kitāb Hidāyat al-mustaršidīn, l’ouvrage le plus développé d’Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī (m. 403/1013) et apparemment le dernier qu’il ait écrit dans le domaine du kalām. Gimaret a consulté et décrit deux manuscrits contenant des parties différentes de l’ouvrage, à savoir le ms. Qarawiyyīn 692 (Fès) et le ms. al-Azhar III 337, ‘ilm al-kalām [21] 342 (Le Caire). Le but du présent article est d’introduire deux manuscrits partiels supplémentaires de ce livre d’al-Bāqillānī, le ms. St. Petersbourg, Institut des Manuscrits Orientaux de l’Académie Russe des Sciences, # C 329, et le ms. Tashkent, Institut al-Biruni des Études Orientales, Académie des Sciences de la République d’Ouzbekistan, # 3296, constituant les volumes V et XI de l’ensemble.نشر الباحث دانيال جيـماريه مؤخراً مقالة قدّم فيها أول دراسة لكتاب هداية المسترشدين لأبي بكر الباقلاني (توفي سنة 403/1013) وهو من أوسع كتب الباقلاني في علم الكلام وعلى ما يبدو آخر ما صنّفه في هذا المجال. وقد استند جيـماريه إلى مخطوطتين تحويان أجزاء مختلفة من الكتاب، هما: مخطوطة القرويين، رقم 692 (مدينة فاس) ومخطوطة الأزهر، رقم III 337، علم الكلام [21] 342 (القاهرة). والقصد من المقال الحالي هو تقديم مخطوطتين أخريين تحويان أجزاء من مصنف الباقلاني، هما: مخطوطة بطرسبورغ، معهد المخطوطات الشرقية في الأكاديمية الروسية للعلوم، رقمC 329، ومخطوطة طشقند، معهد البيروني للدراسات الشرقية، أكاديمية العلوم في جمهورية أوزبكستان، رقم3296. وتشكل المخطوطتان المجلد الخامس والمجلد الحادي عشر من الكتاب

Gallego, María Angeles, Bleaney, Heather and García Suárez, Pablo (éd.) Bibliography of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill, 2010)

The cultural and intellectual history of non-Muslim communities in the Islamicate world and the multiple encounters between the representatives of the various denominations have received enhanced scholarly attention over the past decade. Apart from the numerous thriving book series devoted to non-Muslims under Muslim rule, mention should be made of various major publication projects such as the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (ed. Norman A. Stillman et al., Leiden, Brill, 2010), the..

Conférences de Mme Sabine Schmidtke

Schmidtke Sabine. Conférences de Mme Sabine Schmidtke. In: École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses. Annuaire. Tome 114, 2005-2006. 2005. pp. 183-186