1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910511429303321

Autore

Crone Patricia

Titolo

Islam, the ancient near East and varieties of godlessness Collected studies in three . Volume 3 / / by Patricia Crone ; edited by Hanna Siurua

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-31931-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, , 0929-2403 ; ; Volume 131

Disciplina

297.09021

Soggetti

Islam - History - To 1500

God (Islam)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- “Barefoot and Naked”: What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like? -- The Ancient Near East and Islam: The Case of Lot-Casting -- Idrīs, Atraḫasīs and al-Khiḍr -- Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥaḍrī and the Punishment of Unbelievers -- The Dahrīs According to al-Jāḥiẓ -- Ungodly Cosmologies -- Post-Colonialism in Tenth-Century Islam -- What Are Prophets For? The Social Utility of Religion in Medieval Islamic Thought -- Oral Transmission of Subversive Ideas from the Islamic World to Europe: The Case of the Three Impostors -- How the Field Has Changed in My Lifetime -- List of Patricia Crone’s Publications -- Index of Names and Terms.

Sommario/riassunto

Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness , places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters , pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic



religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands , examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829872603321

Titolo

Human muscle fatigue [[electronic resource] ] : physiological mechanisms

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Pitman Medical

Summit, N.J., : Distributed in North America by CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. (Medical Education Administration), 1981

ISBN

0-470-71542-1

0-470-71512-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 82

Altri autori (Persone)

PorterRuth

WhelanJulie

Disciplina

612.7/4

612.74

Soggetti

Fatigue - Etiology

Muscles - Physiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Symposium on Human Muscle Fatigue: Physiological Mechanisms, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 9-11 September 1980"--P. [v].

Editors: Ruth Porter (organizer) and Julie Whelan.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Human muscle fatigue: physiological mechanisms; Contents; Human muscle function and fatigue; Glycolytic and oxidative energy metabolism and contraction characteristics of intact human muscle; Discussion; Muscle fibre recruitment and metabolism in exhaustive dynamic exercise; Discussion; Relevance of muscle fibre type to fatigue in short intense and prolonged exercise in man; Discussion; Effect of metabolic changes on force generation in skeletal muscle during maximal exercise; Discussion; The glucose/fatty acid cycle and physical exhaustion; Discussion



Shortage of chemical fuel as a cause of fatigue: studies by nuclear magnetic resonance and bicycle ergometryDiscussion; Indirect and direct stimulation of fatigued human muscle; Discussion; EMG and fatigue of human voluntary and stimulated contractions; Discussion; Firing pro- perties of single human motor units on maintained maximal voluntary effort; Discussion; Muscle fatigue due to changes beyond the neuromuscular junction; Discussion; Contractile function and fatigue of the respiratory muscles in man\; Discussion; Neural drive and electromechanical altera- tions in the fatiguing diaphragm

DiscussionThe tremor in fatigue; Discussion; The pathophysiology of inspiratory muscle fatigue; Discussion; Fatigue in human metabolic myopathy; Discussion; General discussion; The perception of fatigue; Electricity or chemistry?; Chairman's summing-up; Index of contributors; Subject index