Cuentos Sufis

The Impact of Soviet Policy on Female Sufis in Chechnya

Análisis de dependencias para la marcación de cuentos con emociones

This paper presents an approach to automated marking up of english texts with emotional labels (EmoTag), stressing the employing of dependency-based parser (MINIPAR) for the finding of words related to negatives. The approach considers the representation of emotions as emotional dimensions (activation, evaluation and dominance). The first step in order to develop EmoTag was to get a corpus of e...

Sufis on parade: the performance of Black, African, and Muslim identities.

For over twenty years, West African Muslims from the Murid Sufi Brotherhood have organized the annual Cheikh Amadou Bamba Day parade in New York City. It is a major site where they redefine the boundaries of their African identities, cope with the stigma of blackness, and counteract an anti-Muslim backlash. Rather than viewing religion as a subset of ethnicity, this study shows how African Muri...

Analisis y síntesis de expresión emocional en cuentos leídos en voz alta

An important challenge for text-to-speech is to get a synthesized voice that sounds as like as possible to the human voice. The voice synthesized by these systems sounds artificial and this is the most principal cause of rejection by the public at the moment. In order to obtain a lively synthesized voice it is necessary to generate a voice with emotions. The main goal of the generation of emoti...

A Critical Review of the European Travelogues Reports on the Sufis of the Safavid Era

The European travelers' reports on the Sufi-era Sufism contain exquisite and valuable details as they are written out of the requirements of official historiography. Designed in a descriptive-analytical way, this article attempts to evaluate the reports of the travelers as compared to the works of dissidents, sympathizers, and Sufi scholars. The result showed that the travelers, due to their li...