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…
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
Periodical meeting
Under the supervision by prof. Dr. Alaa Nafea Jasim (the director of the center of heritage revival) , the center organized a meeting on Thursday 18th / 7/2024 The meeting resulted in discussing the center’s activity plan for the year 2025 and the seminars that presented by the researchers. It also discussed the decisions of the Opinion Board regarding research centers and developing a future strategic plan to develop the center’s work
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
Director of the Heritage Revival Center participates in a training course in the realization of texts
Prof. Dr. Alaa Nafi Jassim, Director of the Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Baghdad, participated in a lecture in the course (the first basic training in the realization of written heritage texts) on Wednesday, 3/7/2024, in cooperation with Dar Al-Shawon General Cultural and the Iraqi Manuscripts House, managed by Professor Hussein Mohamed Ajeel, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Hilal Mohi Sarhan, and with the participation of 24 trainees with her tagged research (My journey with the manuscript and my experience in achieving historical texts) and the course concluded on Thursday and certificates were distributed .