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Qur'anic Views on Human Cloning (I): Doctrinal and Theological Evidences. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Fertil Steril, 2021
Nasr-Esfahani MH   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Word Stools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This is the third in a series exploring meaningful word ladders, the first two appearing in the August issue. Word Stools is my nickname for one-step word ladders-pairs of related words differing by a single letter, e.g.

core   +1 more source

Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
wiley   +1 more source

Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

Time in written spaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Time in written form pervades our social existence. From the daily news, whether on the web or in print, to wall calendars in our homes or offices, which tell us what day it is; from personal watches or cellphones to public clocks, which tell us what ...
Hannah, Robert
core   +1 more source

Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the family in traditional judaism. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In questo contributo viene esaminato il ruolo della famiglia nei testi tradidionali rabbinici e in alcuni filosofi ebrei medievali. Viene messo in evidenza il differente ruolo di "padre" e "madre" legato al genere, sia nelle fonti tradizionali sia in
PEPI, Luciana
core  

EFL learning, religious faith and globalization in Indonesia's pesantren

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing global demands to teach and learn English in religious educational institutions remain high, yet little EFL research has been conducted in such contexts. Using Indonesia's Islamic educational institutions (i.e., the pesantren) as a focus of analysis, this article seeks to narrow that gap by examining the key factors driving EFL ...
Muhammad Jauhari Sofi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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