Thackston has said of this that Hafez " sang a rare blend of human and mystic love so balanced ... that it is impossible to separate one from the other.

Thackston retired from teaching at Harvard in 2007.

Thackston has retired from his position at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr. ( born 1944 ) is an Orientalist and distinguished editor and translator of numerous Chaghatai, Arabic and Persian literary and historical sources.

Thackston is a graduate of Princeton's Oriental Studies department, where he was a member of Princeton's Colonial Club, and Harvard's Near Eastern Studies department ( Ph. D., 1974 ), where he was Professor of the Practice of Persian and other Near Eastern Languages since 1972.

* Thackston, W. M., Rashiduddin Fazlullah ’ s Jamiʻuʾt-tawarikh ( Compendium of Chronicles ), Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1998 – 99

* Thackston, Wheeler M .; Robert Irwin ( 1996 ).

Some classical rabbinical literature argues that this was the original form of the name and was a reference to the advanced age of Jacob when Benjamin was born.

Even Colchester Museum argues strongly regarding the historical Arthur: " It would be impossible and inconceivable to link him to the Colchester area, or to Essex more generally ", pointing out that the connection between the name Camuloduum and Colchester was unknown till the 18th century.

* Essenes and Others: argues that the Hebrew original form of the name later spelled " Essenes " is in some Qumran scrolls as a self-designation.

Scholar Ronald Hutton argues in his Triumph of the Moon that Gardner's tradition was largely the inspiration of members of the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship and especially that of a woman known by the magical name of " Dafo ".

Marcello Durante links " Homeros " to an epithet of Zeus as " god of the assemblies " and argues that behind the name lies the echo of an archaic word for " reunion ", similar to the later Panegyris, denoting a formal assembly of competing minstrels.

In Republic by Plato, the character Thrasymachus argues that justice is the interest of the strong — merely a name for what the powerful or cunning ruler has imposed on the people.

One argues that in the 17th and 18th centuries minestrone emerged as a soup using exclusively fresh vegetables and was made for its own sake ( meaning it no longer relied on left-overs ), while the other school of thought argues that the dish had always been prepared exclusively with fresh vegetables for its own sake since the pre-Roman " pulte ", but the name minestrone lost its meaning of being made with left-overs.

Klein argues that large multinational corporations consider the marketing of a brand name to be more important than the actual manufacture of products ; this theme recurs in the book and Klein suggests that it helps explain the shift to production in Third World countries in such industries as clothing, footwear, and computer hardware.

Shah argues that the Arabic name aghlaq-which was given to such sufi masters-with plural form " aghlaqueen " pronounced with the guttural gh-as the Spanish jota, would have given the word Harlequin.

The traditional approach argues that economic and political factors have led to the invasion of the inner-city, hence the name political-economic.

Paul Doherty, drawing extensively on the Fieschi Letter of the 1340s, has argued that Edward in fact escaped from Berkeley Castle with the help of William Ockle, a knight whom Doherty argues subsequently pretended to be Edward in disguise around Europe, using the name " William the Welshman " to draw attention away from the real Edward himself.

Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was a separate character from Luke's father ; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1978 ( further reinforcing this is Obi-Wan Kenobi calling Vader " Darth ", as if it is his true name rather than his new Sith name ).

The " Hugues hypothesis " argues that the name can be accounted for by connection with Hugues Capet king of France, who reigned long before the Reform times.

Pascal advocates strict adherence to the principles of the relational model, and argues that departing from the model in the name of pragmatism is responsible for serious data management troubles.

As part of his argument, Velikovsky uses the fact that Akhenaten viciously carried out a campaign to erase the name of his father, which he argues could have developed into Oedipus killing his father.

Miguel Leon-Portilla interprets the name " Ometeotl " as " Lord of the Duality " and argues that Ometeotl was the supreme creator deity of the Aztecs, and that the Aztecs envisioned this deity as a mystical entity with a dual nature akin to the European concept of the trinity.

Sheldon Richman, editor of the libertarian journal, The Freeman, also sees the IMF imposing “ corporatist-flavored ‘ neoliberalism ’ on the troubled countries of the world .” The policies of spending cuts coupled with tax increases give “ real market reform a bad name and set back the cause of genuine liberalism .” Paternalistic supranational bureaucrats foster “ long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change .” Free market economist Richard M. Salsman goes further and argues the IMF “ is a destructive, crisis-generating global welfare agency that should be abolished .” “ In return for bailouts, countries must enact such measures as new taxes, high interest rates, nationalizations, deportations, and price controls .” Writing in Forbes, E. D. Kain sees the IMF as " paving the way for international corporations entrance into various developing nations " and creating dependency.

nonetheless argues that the standard name —" Cayley's Theorem "— is in fact appropriate.

Christopher Beckwith argues that the name Tabgach was originally / taʁ vatʃ /, meaning " princes of the earth ".

The " end of history " is discussed by Francis Fukuyama in his book of the same name which argues that history has " ended " ( in the Hegelian sense ) because there is no serious or viable competition to liberal democracy as a form of government and / or to capitalism as an economic system.

The scholar and poet Aaron Kaminka argues that the name is a corruption of Machbanai, a leading commando in the army of King David.

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

He argues that because a child's suffering is so horrible and cannot easily be ex-plained, it forces people into a crucial test of faith: either we must believe everything or we must deny everything, and who, Paneloux asks, could bear to do the latter?

" A woman cannot be herself in modern society ," he argues, since it is " an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint.

Searle argues that without " understanding " ( what philosophers call " intentionality "), we cannot describe what the machine is doing as " thinking ".

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Eddy argues that given the absolute goodness and perfection of God, sin, disease, and death were not created by Him, and therefore cannot be truly real.

With regard to ( 1 ), Hume argues that the uniformity principle cannot be demonstrated, as it is " consistent and conceivable " that nature might stop being regular.

Turning to ( 2 ), Hume argues that we cannot hold that nature will continue to be uniform because it has been in the past, as this is using the very sort of reasoning ( induction ) that is under question: it would be circular reasoning.

Naturalistic dualism comes from Australian Philosopher, David Chalmers ( born 1966 ) who argues there is an explanatory gap between objective and subjective experience that cannot be bridged by reductionism because consciousness is, at least, logically autonomous of the physical properties upon which it supervenes.

He also presents an argument against qualia ; he argues that the concept is so confused that it cannot be put to any use or understood in any non-contradictory way, and therefore does not constitute a valid refutation of physicalism.

In Personal Knowledge, Michael Polanyi argues for the epistemological relevance of knowledge how and knowledge that ; using the example of the act of balance involved in riding a bicycle, he suggests that the theoretical knowledge of the physics involved in maintaining a state of balance cannot substitute for the practical knowledge of how to ride, and that it is important to understand how both are established and grounded.

In his book Knowledge and its Limits, Williamson argues that the concept of knowledge cannot be analyzed into a set of other concepts — instead, it is sui generis.

Sam Harris argues that there are societally optimal " moral peaks " to discover. In modern times, many thinkers discussing the fact-value distinction and the Is-ought problem have settled on the idea that one cannot derive ought from is.

He further argues that much of the information individuals have cannot be collected or used by others.

Behe argues that organs and biological features which are irreducibly complex cannot be wholly explained by current models of evolution.

Where Hegel argues that an ultimate understanding of the logical structure of the world is an understanding of the logical structure of God's mind, Kierkegaard asserting that for God reality can be a system but it cannot be so for any human individual because both reality and humans are incomplete and all philosophical systems imply completeness.

Peter W. Edbury, on the other hand, argues that William, as well as the thirteenth-century authors who continued William's chronicle in French and were allied to Raymond's supporters in the Ibelin family, cannot be considered impartial.

Lohmar argues that one cannot view memes through a microscope in the way one can detect genes.

Language, he argues, " cannot be equated with ' the set of all grammatical sentences ', whether that set is conceived of as finite or infinite ".

" He argues this " implies that any conceivable parallel universe theory can be described at Level IV " and " subsumes all other ensembles, therefore brings closure to the hierarchy of multiverses, and there cannot be say a Level V ."

The theorist Benedict Anderson argues that nations are " imagined communities " ( the members cannot possibly know each other ), and that the main causes of nationalism and the creation of an imagined community are the reduction of privileged access to particular script languages ( such as Latin ), the movement to abolish the ideas of divine rule and monarchy, as well as the emergence of the printing press under a system of capitalism ( or, as Anderson calls it, print-capitalism ).

Indeed, he argues that any course of action can be made out to accord with some particular rule, and that therefore a rule cannot be used to explain an action.

Universalisation leads directly to utilitarianism, Singer argues, on the strength of the thought that one's own interests cannot count for more than the interests of others.

He further argues in his piece Against the Sophists that rhetoric, although it cannot be taught to just anyone, is capable of shaping the character of man.

Pinker argues that usage of singular they in English cannot be condemned on grammatical grounds, because it is probably better understood as a linguistic marker of a bound variable rather than as a pronoun with a referent.