This generation of Orthodox women, more highly educated than any before, earns Ph.D.'s from secular universities and studies the Talmud in new women's institutes and scholars' circles.
Brubeck was among the first musicians to popularize jazz as an academic subject, barnstorming colleges on tours that earned him a young audience and favor in music scholar circles, especially for his ambitious choral and symphonic works.
The second group of disciples were Muslim scholars in the circles of Yahya b. 'Adi and of his pupil Abu Sulayman al-Sijistani, and in the general ambiance of the time, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sabians, and Mazdaeans communed in the study of the ancients—united by what Werner Jaeger once called 'the ecumenical power of antiquity'".
As troubles mounted, Mr. Sun cultivated ties to a circle of scholars who study rural issues.
After their initial discovery they were tightly held by a small circle of scholars.
Mesrop Mashtots dispatched his circle of scholars to Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Alexandriaandand Rome in search of biblical and literary manuscripts.
BEIJING — It's known among a small circle of scholars in China as "the Qian Xuesen question".
For decades after the scrolls were discovered in caves near the Dead Sea east of Jerusalem, access was limited to a tight circle of scholars.
Associated with this circle of scholars have been Mircea Eliade, the eminent Romanian-French historian of religion, and the Hungarian-Swiss historian of religion Károly Kerényi (1897 1973).
But unlike the famous men in her life, Malvina Harlan is now all but unknown beyond the Harlan family and a small circle of scholars.
This was the result of the cultural policy of the sultan Maḥmūd (reigned 998 1030), who assembled a circle of scholars, philosophers, and poets around his throne in support of his claim to royal status in Iran.
