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- Ambjörn, Lena, et al.
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Qusta ibn Luqa and his production : A survey of an Arabic treatise on dental-nerve dysfunction
- 2007
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Ingår i: The professorship of Semitic languages at Uppsala University 400 years : jubilee volume from a symposium held at the University Hall, 21-23 September 2005 / Studia Semitica Uppsaliensia. - 0585-5535. - 9789155469207 ; 24, s. 69-85
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper concerns the history of medicine, particularly formal medieval medicine in the Islamic cultural sphere. It focusses on the 9th century physician Qusta ibn Luqa and his production, and includes a survey of the contents of a hitherto unpublished Arabic treatise, attributed to Qusta ibn Luqa, on dental-nerve dysfunction.
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From New Values to New Aesthetics : Turning Points in Modern Arabic Literature. Vol. 1. From Modernism to the 1980s
- 2011
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume includes 11 articles which cover a number of pivotal turning points in Arab societies which have inspired to new aesthetic values and forms of expression in Modern Arabic literature until the 1980s. Discussions center on themes such as psycho-social and existential factors leading to the rise of the Modern Arabic Novel, the East-West encounter and search for a modern Arab identity, the influence of avant-garde literary magazines, and the indelible imprint of Naguib Mahfouz in Arabic literary creativity.
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- Kanoni, Stavroula, et al.
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Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis.
- 2022
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Ingår i: Genome biology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1474-760X .- 1465-6906 .- 1474-7596. ; 23:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Genetic variants within nearly 1000 loci are known to contribute to modulation of blood lipid levels. However, the biological pathways underlying these associations are frequently unknown, limiting understanding of these findings and hindering downstream translational efforts such as drug target discovery.To expand our understanding of the underlying biological pathways and mechanisms controlling blood lipid levels, we leverage a large multi-ancestry meta-analysis (N=1,654,960) of blood lipids to prioritize putative causal genes for 2286 lipid associations using six gene prediction approaches. Using phenome-wide association (PheWAS) scans, we identify relationships of genetically predicted lipid levels to other diseases and conditions. We confirm known pleiotropic associations with cardiovascular phenotypes and determine novel associations, notably with cholelithiasis risk. We perform sex-stratified GWAS meta-analysis of lipid levels and show that 3-5% of autosomal lipid-associated loci demonstrate sex-biased effects. Finally, we report 21 novel lipid loci identified on the X chromosome. Many of the sex-biased autosomal and X chromosome lipid loci show pleiotropic associations with sex hormones, emphasizing the role of hormone regulation in lipid metabolism.Taken together, our findings provide insights into the biological mechanisms through which associated variants lead to altered lipid levels and potentially cardiovascular disease risk.
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- Lundin, Emil, 1985-
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Media Arabic Grammar and Semantics. Clauses and non-core elements : A corpus investigation of print hard news
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ”Media Arabic” is taught on universities all over the world and its understanding ranks among the top-reasons for students to pursue Arabic studies. The coursebooks on ”Media Arabic” focus on print hard news and tacitly assume the existence of an Arabic journalese. Previous research on Arabic newspaper language is scarce.Focusing on the morphosyntax and semantics of subordinate and peripheral syntagms within the sentence of a Media Arabic corpus, this thesis aims to quantitatively answer the question of what characterizes Media Arabic from a linguistic perspective.This study is a corpus investigation of print hard news based on a corpus of 35,000 words, or 1,144 sentences, taken from the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram, September 2014. The core focus is on the morphosyntax, and logico-semantic relations of peripheral nominal and clausal non-core elements to their matrices or heads. In laymen terms: the grammar and meaning of adverbs, prepositional phrases, and subordinate clauses.Following a description of the corpus, journalism and journalese, Media Arabic, their contextualization, and relevant theoretical preliminaries, peculiarities, and the methodology, the analysis centres around the morphosyntax and semantics of the attested 1,144 main clauses, 891 complement main clauses and 828 complementizers, 869 non-nominalized non-main clauses, 642 non-deverbalized relative clauses, 473 adverbs (including peripheral accusative nouns), 461 peripheral and predicative participles (including nominalized relative clauses), 40 peripheral accusative verbal nouns, and 6391 prepositional phrases. Backed by detailed quantitative data, the study concludes that the language of Arabic news is characterized linguistically by a high degree of formalization.
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- Ottosson Bitar, Astrid, 1962-
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“I Can Do Nothing against the Wish of the Pen” : Studies in the Short Stories of Widād Sakākīnī
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study focuses on the short story writing of the Lebanese/Syrian writer Widād Sakākīnī (1913-1991). Its primary aim is to discover how she was able to establish herself as a respected writer while keeping her distinctive character as a woman writer within a literary tradition that was strongly defined by patriarchal values and contained many misogynic elements. An additional aim of the study is to present Widād Sakākīnī’s life and milieu alongside her works.The study is based on the assumption that the fact that Widād Sakākīnī was a woman, that is, a representative of a normally silenced community, working within a literary tradition dominated by men, influenced both the form and the content of her writing. Theoretically the study has been influenced by Sandra Gilbert’s and Susan Gubar’s way of considering texts by early women writers as palimpsests; under the conventional and socially accepted surface deeper and less socially accepted levels of meaning can be found. With the help of structuralist theories (A.J. Greimas’ model for interpreting the narrative plot as interpreted by Pil Dahlerup, Irene Engelstad and Irene Iversen and used by them for studying texts written by women writers and Susan Sniader Lanser’s theories about women writers’ use of the narrative voice) as well as poststructuralist theories about intertextuality (Genette and Culler) the study has identified various literary strategies used by Widād Sakākīnī to conform to the dominant male discourse within which she was working while preserving her own identity as a woman writer. The study shows that she skillfully managed to create new, and sometimes, subversive meanings to traditional themes and motifs used in her texts.
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- Qutait, Tasnim, 1987-
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“The Pathos of Past Time” : Nostalgia in Anglo-Arab Literature
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study explores the theme of nostalgia in contemporary Anglo-Arab literature from the 1990s to the present. Examining the implications of nostalgic tropes in Anglophone novels by Arab writers, the study makes the case that nostalgia is a key strategy used by these writers in their critical engagement with national historiographies and diasporic identities. Taking a comparative bilingual approach, the study relates particular nostalgic narratives that recur in Anglo-Arab writing to Arabic literary traditions. The opening chapter establishes that the “standing by the ruins” topos of classical Arabic poetics is used in Anglophone works to problematise a culturally pervasive nostalgia for an Islamic golden age. The second chapter reveals how novels set in the colonial era leverage the romanticisation of anticolonial nationalism to cast a critical light on the ideological functions of authenticity. The third chapter traces the ways in which Anglophone novels dramatise the failures of post-independence regimes through the interlinked nostalgic sites of childhood, home and family. Finally, the study focuses on Arab British novelists’ depiction of the diasporic site of ‘Arab London,’ and demonstrates that nostalgia is deployed as a performative mode in these texts, enabling the creation and revision of identities for migrant and second generation characters. The interconnections of identity and nostalgia are shown to be a recurring theme in the growing field of Anglophone Arab writing. This dissertation argues that nostalgic tropes are deployed in this literature in critical ways that challenge, rather than simply reiterate, nationalist and political ideologies. Utilising the nostalgic lens as an imaginative and critical form of engagement with history, Anglo-Arab writers insist on rendering visible the present repercussions of volatile histories, even as they challenge narratives that view the past not only as better than the uncertain present but, given that uncertainty, better than any imaginable future.
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- Ramsay, Gail, 1955-
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A Presentation of Yūsuf al-Sibāʿī
- 1993
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Ingår i: The Middle East. - Copenhagen : Nordic institute of Asian studies. - 8787062240 ; , s. 241-243
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