It was observed that malignancy had been found on follow-up in patients with PET-negative solid solitary pulmonary nodules (SPN). A retrospective analysis was performed to observe the natural history ...and malignant potential of these lesions, which, in routine practice, are presumed to be inactive.
Patients with an incidentally-discovered solid solitary pulmonary nodule who then had a negative follow-up PET/CT from 2005 to 2015 were identified using a text-based search methodology. These patients' charts were mined to determine the rate of development of subsequent malignancy from these index nodules.
Of the patients with initially PET-negative solitary pulmonary nodule (n = 62, 43.5% women, mean age 65), 44 had clinical follow-up of the index lesion. 8 (7 pathology-proven) subsequent malignancies were identified with a mean time to diagnosis of 37.6 (±31.3) months. There were no statistically significant predictors of subsequent development of cancer (including age, gender, and smoking status).
Upon follow up, 18.2% of the initially queried solid PET-negative nodules developed subsequent malignancy at an average time of 37.6 months, suggesting the continued need for follow-up of these initially PET-negative nodules beyond the 2 years currently suggested in popular guidelines. Importantly, these findings also remind radiologists that a negative PET/CT is not a surrogate for tissue diagnosis in the case of non-FDG avid SPN.
The studies in this volume, which cover an unusually wide range of topics in the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought, explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and Islamic intellectual ...life from the beginnings of Islam to the present.
This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Shāfiʿī's Risāla and shows how Shāfiʿī sought to formulate an all-embracing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure ...organized around defined interactions of the Qurʾān and the Sunna.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law. Edited by Rudolph Peters and Peri Bearman. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. x + 345. $149.95, £95.
The Epistle on Legal Theory al-Shafi'i, Muhammad ibn Idris; Lowry, Joseph E; Ali, Kecia
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The Epistle on Legal Theoryis the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi?i (d. 204 H/820 ...AD), was the eponym of the Shafi?i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur?an and prophetic Traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required. The author illustrates his theoretical claims with numerous examples drawn from nearly all areas of Islamic law, including ritual law, commercial law, tort law, and criminal law. The text thus provides an important window into both Islamic law and legal thought in particular and early Islamic intellectual history in general .
This new translation by a leading scholar of Shafi?i and his thought makes available in lucid, modern English one of the earliest complete works on Islamic law-one that is centrally important for the formation of Islamic legal thought and the Islamic legal tradition.
This article follows the reception of Šāfiʿīʾs (d. 204/820) concept of bayān, beginning with Ǧāḥiẓ (d. 255/868) and continuing with discussions in selected later works of uṣūl al-fiqh. For Šāfiʿī, in ...his Risāla, the term covered categories of divine legislative pronouncements and hermeneutical categories for addressing apparent contradictions between them. Ǧāḥiẓ, in the course of elaborating his own, different concept of bayān, seems to have been polemically engaged with Šāfiʿīʾs. For Ǧāḥiẓ, as for the later uṣūl authors, the term connotes a successful act of communication, yet later authors continued to attempt to explain Šāfiʿīʾs use of the term, which fit badly into their own conceptual framework. The disjunction between Šāfiʿīʾs and later authors' use of the term is emblematic of what is tentatively termed the linguistic turn in mature uṣūl al-fiqh.
... I shall consider what Ibn al-Muqaffac has to tell us about the early history of Islamic law. ... he is, in regard to his legal thought, a child of Western scholarship.
The Epistle on Legal Theory Shafii, Muhammad ibn Idris; Lowry, Joseph E; Ali, Kecia
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The Epistle on Legal Theoryis the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204 H/820 ...AD), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur'an and prophetic Traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required. The author illustrates his theoretical claims with numerous examples drawn from nearly all areas of Islamic law, including ritual law, commercial law, tort law, and criminal law. The text thus provides an important window into both Islamic law and legal thought in particular and early Islamic intellectual history in general . The Arabic text has been established on the basis of the two most important critical editions and includes variants in the notes, while the English text is a new translation by a leading scholar of Shafi'i and his thought.The Epistle on Legal Theoryrepresents one of the earliest complete works on Islamic law, one that is centrally important for the formation of Islamic legal thought and the Islamic legal tradition.
AbstractYahyā Haqqī’s short story “Antar and Juliet” depicts a tragic encounter between two characters from different social worlds. Although the story could be read as a depiction of the stark ...reality of class difference, this article explores the characters’ varying degrees of willingness to expose themselves to risk. Using ideas about tragedy and ethics developed by Martha Nussbaum, it is argued that the story portrays the good life as one constituted by ties to others, but also as one that, because of its openness to the world, brings with it the very real possibility of disaster.
