Northumbria was still preeminent in scholarship, and the fame of the school of York, founded by Bede's pupil Archbishop Egbert, attracted students from the Continent and from Ireland.
Scholarships, Scholarship, Scholarships.
Najaf, for centuries the preeminent center of Shiite scholarship, was losing influence to Qom, and after the revolt against the British in 1920, a succession of Iraqi regimes -- monarchs, generals and strongmen -- were determined to break the clergy's power.
It received the APSA's Woodrow Wilson Award, the International Social Science Council's Stein Rokkan Prize, the American Society for International Law's Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, and the International Studies Association's Best Book Award.
Qom would be lessened as a place of scholarship," said the preeminent Shiite religious authority in Lebanon, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.
Technology and Culture, the preeminent journal of the history of technology, draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists.
A preeminent scholar working at the border of law and psychology, his scholarship involves a mix of experimental and non-experimental empirical research as well as computational modeling and simulation.
The University's strengths in the modern period are now growing across disciplines to match its prowess in historical studies, improvements that will add to "the rich and interdisciplinary tradition of Islamic world scholarship at this university, a tradition that already is internationally preeminent and clearly set to stay that way," said Stokes.
It is a combination of scholarship and readability that has earned Caro a place among Americas preeminent historians.
The country has long been a centre of Islamic scholarship, and al-Azhar University located in Cairo is widely considered the world's preeminent institution of Islamic learning.
