Seminar The pen, its history and origins
Sponsored by prof. Dr. Alaa Nafea Jasim (the director of the center) , the center of heritage revival , the center organized seminar entitled ( the pen , its history and origins ) where sited on Tuesday 17th/9/2024 , , the seminar presented by prof. Dr. Zainab Kamel Kareem (one of the center’s members) who talked about the importance of pen As it relates to education and learning, God Almighty said (Nun, by the pen and what they write), God Almighty swears only by great matters, and when He swears by the pen and the book, it is only to spread knowledge and knowledge by which souls are guided and minds are opened to draw from the sciences of the Holy Quran. The pen was and still is the common writing tool, and the first thing that began was from tree branches, where the Sumerians used it. It is a pointed pen that they made from small branches after trimming them and making them into pens suitable for writing on soft clay tablets. Then the reed pen appeared among the ancient Egyptians, and it was made from hollow tubular trunks from bamboo plants by cutting one end of this tube at an angle, then filling the reed trunk with writing fluid. Types of pens developed, so the feather pen appeared and was used for a long period from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. By the fifties of the nineteenth century, half of the world’s pens were made in Birmingham. After that, the fountain pen began to appear, and the first to invent it was The Romanian Petrache Bonaro, who obtained a patent for the first fountain pen with an ink barrel in 1827 AD. Pens continued to develop until the pencil, ballpoint pen, and others appeared. In conclusion, the director of the center thanked the lecturer, wishing her continued success in serving our university and our beloved
Field visit
Under the direct direction of the respected President of the University of Baghdad, Professor Dr. Baha Ibrahim Insaf, to support the people of Ghazara, a delegation headed by the Director of the Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage, Professor Dr. Alaa Nafeh Jassim, and a number of professors and employees of the center, on Tuesday morning, September 17, 2024, visited the City of Medicine Hospital / Private Nursing Home, where the delegation provided moral, material and logistical support to the injured patients in the hospital as a result of the unjust bombing of Gaza. The director of the center confirmed the future visit to these injured people. This is not the first initiative, but the center is always a pioneer in humanitarian cases and drawing a smile on their faces despite the pain, suffering and loss they went through with their families. In conclusion, the director of the hospital thanked the delegation for this initiative, wishing them success.
Meeting
On Monday, September 16, 2014, the Director of the Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Baghdad, Prof. Dr. Alaa Nafeh Jassim, held the first meeting with the heads of departments in our center. The meeting included how to work on developing the work assigned to them by opening field visits to the center from the departments of the various colleges to explain and clarify the heritage and employ it at the present time, i.e. introducing students to the initial and postgraduate studies of the heritage. This represents the center’s openness to the rest of the university’s formations. The director of the center stressed the opening of horizons of cooperation with other institutions. The conference on the history of science among the Arabs and the scientific, administrative and technical preparations were discussed. The 2024 plan was also discussed, in addition to some proposals that serve our center and our venerable university.
Seminar : (Signs of Pause and Start in the Holy Quran)
Under the supervision of Professor Dr. Alaa Nafeh Jassim, Director of the Center, the Center of the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Baghdad organized a seminar, entitled (Signs of Pause and Start in the Holy Quran) where held on Monday, 16/9/ 2024, with the presence of a number of professors and researchers . The lecture was given by Professor Dr. Taha Sabti Ibrahim, Head of the Department of syntactic Sciences in the Center, who talked about The science of pause and start is considered part of the science of Tajweed. Imam Ali (may God honor his face) said in defining the chanting commanded in the Almighty’s saying ((And recite the Qur’an with chanting)) (Surat Al-Muzzammil: from verse: 4) he said: (Chapter: chanting the letters and knowing the pauses)).
Scholars have placed signs that guide the reader to the places of correct and incorrect pauses, and the most prominent of these signs are:
1- Mem: This sign indicates the pause Necessary.
2- geem: It indicates the permissible endowment.
3- Qala: It indicates the permissible endowment, although endowment is more appropriate.
4- salla: It indicates the permissible endowment, although connection is more appropriate.
5- La: It indicates the impermissibility of endowment
In conclusion, the director of the center thanked the lecturer, wishing him continued success
Celebration in the occasion of birth the great prophet Mohammad
The Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage holds a celebration on the occasion of the birth of the Greatest Prophet, the Messenger Muhammad (may God bless him and his family and grant them peace) The Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Baghdad organized a celebration on the occasion of the birth of the Greatest Prophet Muhammad (may God bless him and his family and grant them peace) on Monday morning, September 16, 2024, in the hall of Professor Nabila Abdel Moneim Daoud, where Professor Dr. Anas Essam Ibrahim, a lecturer at our center, gave a lecture on the qualities of the Greatest Prophet (honesty, trustworthiness, mercy, the Prophet’s smile in the face of his brother, asceticism, generosity, and courage..) and stressed the importance of adopting these eternal qualities and establishing them for future generations and explaining how to treat one’s wife properly, talk to her, listen to her, be gentle with children, and talk to them with interest and love, and treat hypocrites mercifully without taking revenge on them as long as they declare their Islam. In conclusion, Professor Dr. Alaa Nafeh Jassim thanked the attendees, wishing them continued success and prosperity. Happy New Year
Discussion committee
on Thursday, 9/12/2024, Prof. Dr. Alaa Nafeh Jassim, Director of the Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage, participated in the discussion committee of the master’s thesis of the student (Zeina Jamil Abdul Farman) / Department of History / College of Education for Girls, on her thesis entitled (Social Aspects in the Book of Anbaa Al-Ghamr Bi-Abnaa Al-Omar by Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani (d. 852 AH / 1448 AD)), where the student received an excellent rating by decision of the committee supervising the thesis, wishing the student success in her scientific field…
The beginning of the academic year in universities
Welcome to new academic year ,
Professor Dr. Alaa Nafea Jasim (the director of the center of heritage revival) presents congratulations to center’s staff in the occasion of the beginning new academic year in university , it is anew step towards future to serve the great Baghdad university and to great home Iraq ,and also congratulates to develop the center , may God bless everyone and guide their steps, and wish it will be a year of goodness and blessings, full of giving and progress for the successful and honorable work and achievements For what we have done in previous years. May God bless everyone.
University of Baghdad ranked first in the Spanish Webometrics ranking
The University of Baghdad topped the Iraqi universities in the Spanish Webometrics ranking, ranking 40th in the Arab world and 1438th globally out of more than 12,000 universities. The University of Baghdad advanced 55 ranks, as its progress in this ranking represents among the top 12% of universities worldwide. The Spanish Webometrics ranking issued by the Spanish Scientific Research Council is based on three basic criteria: The university’s visibility with a weight of 50%: depends on the content of the university’s website and the number of external links that point to the university’s website and transparency with a weight of 10%: calculated based on the number of citations received by the most cited researchers at the university, in addition to excellence with a weight of 40%: measured by the number of research papers classified among the top 10% of the most cited papers in each of the 27 specializations of the complete database for the period 2019-2023. The University of Diyala came in second place locally and Al-Mustansiriya University came in third place. It is worth noting that the classification included analyzing data from more than 32,000 higher education institutions from more than 200 countries. The editors of the classification network are scientists working in a world-class public research institution with long experience in metrics-driven evaluation. The classification network or Webometrics is the largest academic classification of higher education institutions. Every six months, it provides an independent, objective, free and open scientific exercise to provide reliable, multidimensional, up-to-date and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world. The primary goal of the classification network is to promote open access to the knowledge produced by universities, so the best strategy to improve the rank of universities is to increase the quantity and quality of their web content
The Lecture the historical roots in Jewish sanctities
Assistant Professor Dr. Wasan Hussein Muhaimid, a lecturer in the Department of Humanities / Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage / University of Baghdad, gave a lecture entitled (The Historical Roots of Jewish Sanctities in Iraq) which was held on Saturday 7/13/2024 in the Word of Life Forum Hall affiliated with the National Evangelical Baptist Church. It was attended by a group of distinguished researchers. In it, she discussed the historical roots of the ancient presence of Jews in Iraq, then touched on their sanctities that are linked to the shrines of their prophets that are still visible to this day, namely the shrine of Joshua bin Nun (Joshua), Ezra (Ezra), Ezekiel (Al-Kifl), Daniel, Obadiah, Jonah (Jonah), and Nahum Al-Qoshi, referring to what was mentioned about these prophets in the Old Testament and what historical sources included of information confirming or denying the burial of these prophets in Iraq. She also discussed the shrines attributed to the Jews that belong to other prophets. Some of their righteous people include Seth, son of Adam, Benjamin, son of Jacob, the Prophet Job, the tomb of Rabbi Judah, son of Yetira, Joses the Galilean, and Isaac the Gaonite. Father Arar Badlian, the church’s pastor, presented the doctor with a certificate of appreciation and a shield of distinction, wishing her continued scientific giving.
Maintenance
Under the direct supervision of the center’s director, Prof. Dr. Alaa Nafea Jassim, regarding maintenance of works and rehabilitation of work requirements in the center, she began maintaining the center’s generator and prepared the necessary and ready for any electrical problem to finish prepared the necessary materials of kerosene and raw materials to operate the electric generator during the summer vacation.
The Director of the Center inspects the progress of studies and planning
Among the administrative activities carried out by the Director of the Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage, Prof. Dr. Alaa Nafi Jassim visited the Studies and Planning Unit to see the ways of workflow and what are the administrative developments, where she praised the work of the unit because of its importance as one of the important joints of the administrative structure and what are the obstacles that the unit suffers from and ways to solve them and address the obstacles that affect the work of the unit