Kāfūr was a genuine scholar, however, and a patron of the greatest Arabic poet of the time, al-Mutanabbī, whose friend he was for a time.
In Jerusalem, Buber returned to the field of social philosophy, an academic appointment the university administration wrested from a faculty that deemed the "Schriftsteller Dr. Martin Buber" neither a genuine scholar of religion nor sufficiently educated as a specialist in Jewish studies.
That might mean a cartoon rock band or world music from Africa or a concept album about 16th century figure John Dee, a somewhat obscure historical figure to most who was a major figure in his time, a genuine scholar and also a spiritualist who tried to commune with angels.
It takes a genuine passport scholar like Boucar to be able to detect the difference between a real and a fake passport from, say, Uzbekistan, not to mention whether every entry and exit stamp is authentic.
(As I write this, Professor Rowbotham, now a distinguished scholar, has her job under threat from the ghastly, grey accountants who run Manchester University. We are now in an epoch of production-line universities with celebrities paid fortunes to teach eight hours a week and genuine scholars dumped in the bin).
For more than a thousand years Islam has stood still because the mullahs, who became de facto clergy instead of genuine scholars, closed the door on 'ijtehad' [reinterpreting Islam in light of modernity] and no one came forward with an evolving application of the message of the Holy Quran.
At worst, the Bush Foundation could be free to staff the institute with pseudo-scholars happily lavishing praise on Mr Bush under SMU's aegis.It is also unclear whether the library will be able to make Mr Bush's papers available to genuine scholars and historians.
Posting genuine scholars, scientists and artists in children's classrooms would expose public school students to a higher standard of academic rigor than they currently enjoy, while helping to infuse the teaching profession with the prestige it deserves.
The university, and academia in general, will be better off if Mr. Sexton can pull off this sea change -- a shift from "me, myself and I" entrepreneurship to participation in a genuine community of scholars.
Above all, his visual imagination is expressed in the unique Liber figurarum ("Book of Figures"; discovered in 1937), a book of drawings and figures thought to be a genuine work by most Joachim scholars today.
The Greek philosophers belong to the highest class of human beings and to the greatest scholars, since they showed a genuine interest in all branches of wisdom, mathematics, logic, natural science and metaphyiscs, as well as economics and politics": trans.
