Experience, Fantasy, and Reality inWilliam Beckford's Vathek

This paper aims to examine William Beckford's Vathek (1786) in terms of the major impacts that have helped him to compose such a novel. The three main factors that influenced Beckford are: his experience during his residence at Fonthill Abbey; his interest and readings in translations of the Arabian tales, The Arabian Nights; and his combination of fantasy with the soberly sensual grace of Eastern imagery. Despite the fact that Vathek is an eccentric short novel, it is based on a realistic protagonist, Al-Wathek (A.D.815-846), the 9th Caliph of Abassid dynasty, known for his love of food, and his knowledge in music, poetry, astronomy and logic.

المنظومة القيمية لمديري المدارس في الأردن و علاقتها بالجنس و المؤهل العلمي و الخبرة و مستوى المدرسة

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف على المنظومة القيمية لمديري المدارس فـي الأردن و علاقتها بالجنس و المؤهل و الخبرة و مستوى المدرسة. تكون مجتمع الدراسة من جميع مديري و مديرات المدارس في محافظة الكرك و كـان عددهم (225) مديراً و مديرة اختيرت عينة الدراسة بطريقة عشوائية إذ بلـغ عـددها (120) مديراً و مديرة طبقت هذه الدراسة مقيـاس (جـوردن) و ذلـك بعـد تعديلـه و استخراج دلالات الصدق و معامل الثبات و للإجابة عن أسئلة الدراسـة اسـتخرجت الأوساط الحسابية و الانحرافات المعيارية و تحليل التباين.

The Egyptian family court between the Shari’ah and the law

The koran came down to earth in order to reform the human relations and the society. The koranic verses have proved that the organized family is the core and the fundament of the civilization of nations. This study will uncover the texts and the rules mentioned in the koranic verses, which have been subsequently used by the legislator as the base of the law number 10 to create the family courts. The intensive cooperation between the national committees of woman, infancy and maternity and the civil associations, known to care about the Egyptian family, lead to create this law with all the advantages which consider the best interests of people, to facilitate them and to give them the means to demand justice.