Papers by Ahmadou Bamba Gaye
Resume Le RS3PE (Remitting Seronegative Symmetrical Synovitis with Pitting Edema) est caracterise... more Resume Le RS3PE (Remitting Seronegative Symmetrical Synovitis with Pitting Edema) est caracterise par une tenosynovite bilaterale et symetrique des extremites. Nous rapportons un cas de RS3PE survenu chez une patiente hospitalisee pour un syndrome oculo-uretrosynovial. Il s’agissait d’une patiente de 63ans hospitalisee pour une polyarthrite subaigue peripherique symetrique. A l’admission elle presentait des yeux rouges douloureux avec BAV et une brulure mictionnelle. Les examens a l’entree montrait une discrete anemie inflammatoire et une CRP a 87 mg/. L’ECBU isolait E. COLI. La serologie chlamydiae est positive a 1/187. L’examen ophtalmologique confirmait la conjonctivite. Les radiographies des articulations atteintes etaient normales. L’HLA B27 et les facteurs rhumatoides etaient negatifs, ainsi que les examens immunologiques. Les serologies syphilitiques et VIH etaient negatives. Brutalement apparaissaient des œdemes inflammatoires symetriques des dos des pieds et mains prenant l...
The studies included in this volume will discuss important topics of al-Ghazālī's work, which dem... more The studies included in this volume will discuss important topics of al-Ghazālī's work, which demonstrate rational aspects of his interpretation of Islamic theology and spirituality, as rooted in the Qurʾān. In the Qurʾān, the root ʿ-Q-L-meaning at its core, "reason/reasoning" and "understanding"-occurs fifty-nine times; the verbs are not exclusively meant to imply rational activities. In almost all occurrences, these verbs are semantically related to the senses, and in several instances connote a conversion to the proclaimed religion as a result of the perception of natural phenomena.1 Rationality as presented throughout the Qurʾān is clearly a cognitive activity in which a sensual perception is involved that in turn leads man to believe in God. In reverse, to not believe in God means that man eliminates his rational faculty. Remarkably, this conception of a 'towards-faith-oriented-rationality' corresponds with the Qurʾānic characterization of Arabia's pre-Islamic era as a period of ignorance, the jāhiliyya.2 While the faculty of reasoning-that is, the intellect-does not appear in the scripture of Islam, it is nevertheless declared in a statement attributed to the Prophet Muhammad as the noblest ability created by God. The first act the newly created ʿaql performs is the requirement of total submission to God's obedience: God commanded the intellect to first approach Him, and then conversely to get away from Him, and each time the intellect obeyed God's command. Furthermore, the intellect serves within this ḥadīth as a reminder of God's reward and punishment of humans.3 The beginning of the statement might be interpreted in two different ways, however. According to one interpretation (awwalu mā khalaqa Allāhu l-ʿaqlu) the intellect is the very first
Uploads
Papers by Ahmadou Bamba Gaye