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Swahili language and literature as resources for Indian Ocean studies
Abstract In this contribution, our common point of convergence as an anthropologist and a literary scholar is to see Swahili language, literature and other texts as interwoven with the depth, scope, and complex dynamics of human experience and social life on the East Africa coast, with its long history of Islam.
Kai Kresse, Clarissa Vierke
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A Novel Framework for Arabic Dialect Chatbot Using Machine Learning
With the advent of artificial intelligence and proliferation in the demand for an online dialogue system, the popularity of chatbots is growing on various industrial platforms. Their applications are getting widely noticed with intelligent tools as they are able to mimic human behavior in natural languages. Chatbots have been proven successful for many
Nadrh Abdullah Alhassan +4 more
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UNINTERRUPTED CENSORED DARWIN: FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE MALAY‐INDONESIAN WORLD
Abstract This essay outlines the significance of understanding the relationship between Islam and science, particularly from the twentieth century onward. It mainly revolves around the viability of Darwin's evolutionary thought in the Muslim world, which is confronted by various groups of Muslim commentators and scholars.
Majid Daneshgar
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The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law [PDF]
The qirāʾāt or variae lectiones represent the vast corpus of Qurʾānic readings that were preserved through the historical processes associated with the textual codification and transmission of the Qurʾān.
Shah, Mustafa
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The aim of this contribution is to review some of the major areas of current research on the Arabic Bible, along with the factors and trends contributing to them.
Gibson, Nathan P. +5 more
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Traces of Ideologies in Four English Translations of the Qur’ān: A Comparative Study of Authorised and Unauthorised Versions [PDF]
Throughout history, the Qur’ān has been translated for religious and political reasons resulting in more than 150 English translations with significant differences among them. However, not enough critical consideration has been paid to those translations
NAJLAA ALDEEB
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On the morphology of the word tawriya according to al-Ṣafadī (d. 764/1363): Between Baṣrans and Kūfans [PDF]
The starting-point for this article is the statement made by al-Ṣafadī (d. 764/1363) that the Arabic word tawriya has the original form (aṣl) *wawriya, corresponding to the pattern (wazn) tafʿila, in which the first radical wāw has been replaced by the ...
Rizzo, Luca
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IN THE FOLDS OF TIME: RASHĪD AL‐DĪN ON THEORIES OF HISTORICITY
ABSTRACT By focusing on Rashīd al‐Dīn's (d. 718/1318) historiographical oeuvre and here in particular his “History of the World,” this article challenges the usual approach to his Jāmiʿ al‐tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles) and argues that his was a deeply pluralistic enterprise in a world with many centers, tremendous demographic change, high social ...
JUDITH PFEIFFER
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Ascaris lumbricoides is the most common soil‐transmitted helminth and infects 447 million people in impoverished areas worldwide. It causes serious morbidity including wheezing and influences various aspects of human immunity, such as type 2 innate lymphoid cells, regulatory T cell function, and acquired immunity.
Haruko Takeuchi +7 more
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An Axiological Dimension of Qur’ānic Epistemology [PDF]
This study inquires into the value system associated with two epistemological conceptual schemes of the Qur’ān, namely, āyah (sign) and ḥikmah (wisdom).
Kabir, A, Solihu, H
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