IN the Western study of medieval Islamic history, the institution of iqta — land grants from the sovereign to his soldiers — once loomed large, because scholars searched for reasons behind the Muslim failure to develop feudalism, and with it the contractual relationships that eventually led to constitutional government.
The fact that the perpetrators were, by and large, senior scholars and thus the logical person to whom one would report, could also be a complicating factor.
At the University of Cincinnati, where he had been invited to give a series of lectures, his mien at the lectern took on a menacing aspect; the English Department had to seat a human shield of large-bodied scholars in the front row for fear that he would physically attack his audience.
Yugur studies have seen an upswing in the past 10 years, with a large number of scholars devoted to gathering, researching and preserving traditional Yugur culture, including many scholars, researchers and even nomads belonging to this ethnicity.
The Survey was completed in 1938, after eight years of toil by Pope and a large staff of scholars.
Part of this problem is a practical one: communism left Russia with no large body of scholars competent in translating Hebrew and New Testament Greek.
Yet Arabic still remained the language of theology and scholarship throughout the Muslim world; both Turkey and India could boast a large number of scholars who excelled in the sacred language.
There are so many works, of which hundreds of thousands are available only in manuscript, that even a very large team of scholars could scarcely master a single branch of the subject.
Under the Second Empire, many of Sainte-Beuve's earlier acquaintances, now dead or in retirement, were replaced by other writers: Gustave Flaubert, Ernest Renan, the Goncourt brothers, Prosper Mérimée, Ivan Turgenev, Matthew Arnold, and a large number of scholars, historians, and academicians.
What is now generally referred to as the Prague school comprised a fairly large group of scholars, mainly European, who, though they may not themselves have been members of the Linguistic Circle of Prague, derived their inspiration from the work of Vilém Mathesius, Nikolay Trubetskoy, Roman Jakobson and other scholars based in Prague in the decade preceding World War II.
It is the third such object to be discovered in the area, and the same people on the Northeast Project are involved: "The Hankyoreh confirmed that the research team includes a large number of scholars who took part in the Northeast Project, which was controversial for its distortions" of Koguryo history, it wrote.
