Natura ostile nella Rihlat al-Yusi di Mahammad al-ʿAyyashi b. al-Hasan al-Yusi (m. 1719)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The present study focuses on the analysis of the travelogue entitled Riḥlat al-Yūsī, an Ottoman-era document belonging to the genre of the riḥla ḥijāziyya. The work, long attributed to the famous Maghrebi scholar al-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd al-Yūsī (d. 1691), was compiled by the latter’s younger son, Maḥammad al-ʿAyāshī b. al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (d. 1719), an eyewitness of the long journey undertaken with his father in March 1690 that would lead them from Fez to Mecca, then along the return road to Timezrit (July 1691). Although the text does not present long descriptive passages of a landscape type, the narrator constantly evokes nature within his riḥla. Nature, however, often takes on a dysphoric value (violent winds, intense heat, devastating rains, wādī floods, impervious terrain, etc.), and is related to the harshness and fatigue of the journey. Starting from these elements, this study will focus on the role of the nature in this travelogue, dwelling in particular on the topos of “hostile nature” and its relationship to man.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.016 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.011 | 0.011 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.042 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.161 | 0.075 |
| Open science | 0.022 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".