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DUPREE, LOUIS
(775 words)
Following the completion of his Ph.D. degree, Dupree taught at the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base and Pennsylvania State University. Between 1959 and 1983 he was affiliated with the American Universities Field Staff (A.U.F.S.) as its expert on Afghanistan and Pakistan. A version of this article is available in print Volume VII, Fascicle 6, pp. 588-589
DUPREE, LOUIS (b. Greenville, N.C., 23 August 1925; d. Durham, N.C., 21 March 1989; Plate LIV), American anthropologist who specialized in Afghan studies (Plate XLIV. During World War II Dupree,…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
Date:
2017-09-12
al-Aʿrāf
(474 words)
al-Aʿrāf (pl. of
ʿurf, “elevated place”, “crest”), appears in an eschatological judgement scene in Qurʾān 7:46, where a dividing wall is spoken of, which separates the dwellers of Paradise from the dwellers of Hell, and men “who are on the
al-aʿrāf and recognise each by his marks” (Q 7:48, “those of the
al-aʿrāf”). The interpretation of this passage is disputed. Richard Bell makes a doubtful conjecture that the word is
al-iʿrāf and translates: “(Presiding) over the recognition are men, who recognise… .” According to Tor Andrae the “men on the elevated places” are …
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
