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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2008 Given that each teaching of the Qur’an is essential, it is neither possible nor desirable to divide its teachings into “essential,” “less-essential,” or “nonessential.” Since this book seeks to serve “the needs of those new to the study of the Qur’an ...
Syed Asim Ali
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA AWAL AL-QUR’AN MELALUI METODE ALBANA PADA ANAK USIA 5-6 TAHUN
Al-Mudarris, 2018 As an institution that is concerned with Islamic Education, especially the Qur'an, TK Aisyiyah 19 Bandung has made Al-Qur'an education as a priority curriculum.
eko setiawan
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Aging and the Division of Labor of Theory of Mind Skills in Metaphor Comprehension
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract While some aspects of pragmatic competence are known to decline with age, for metaphor skills the evidence is inconclusive, possibly due to heterogeneity in the assessment tools. Furthermore, the previous literature on age‐related changes in pragmatic skills has rarely considered the role of Theory of Mind (ToM), which is described as one of ...
Irene Ceccato +6 more
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The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract This paper provides ethnographic analysis of interactions between volunteers in an open‐science AI project entrusted with preparing multilingual text for use in fine‐tuning a pretrained LLM. Volunteers were encouraged to entextualize translated text into structured corpora and to write and edit prompt‐completion pairings in over 100 languages.
Joseph Wilson
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ArGemma: A Multi‐Task Fine‐Tuning Framework for Adapting Gemma to Arabic
Expert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 11, November 2026.ABSTRACT Open‐source large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), particularly for English. However, their performance in Arabic has remained limited due to the scarcity of high‐quality datasets and the high computational cost of full fine‐tuning.
Taha Alselwi +2 more
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Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 4, 2026.Despite decades of policy interventions, the world suffers from profound social problems including drug abuse, family breakdown, and systemic injustice. The research problem is the persistent gap in existing sociological theories: objective criteria lacking for diagnosing social harm before it becomes visible.
Jilani Ben Touhami Meftah
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Countering Islamic conservatism on being transgender: Clarifying Tantawi's and Khomeini's fatwas from the progressive Muslim standpoint. [PDF]
Int J Transgend Health, 2020 Zaharin AAM, Pallotta-Chiarolli M.
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