INCLUSIVE ISLAM IN AHMAD TOHARI’S NOVELS

Raheel Ahmad

My current research is focused around building frameworks for intelligent agents and agent-oriented software engineering. In my dissertation, I have developed a new formal framework for the analysis and implementation of multi-agent systems. Most of my other research activities are associated with applied computational intelligence—including fuzzy expert systems for natural language-based compu...

Islam in local contexts: Localised Islam in Northern Pakistan

As Clifford Geertz remarked in his Islam Observed (1968), the idea of a ‘changing’ religion is a contradiction in terms, as religion is fundamentally concerned with what is permanent and eternal. Still, one way to come to terms with religious change is to consider the many ways that religion is interpreted, by laymen and scholars alike. Social anthropologists like myself have naturally found a ...

Identification of Speakers in Novels

Speaker identification is the task of attributing utterances to characters in a literary narrative. It is challenging to automate because the speakers of the majority of utterances are not explicitly identified in novels. In this paper, we present a supervised machine learning approach for the task that incorporates several novel features. The experimental results show that our method is more a...

Asst.-Surgeon Zahiruddin Ahmad

mT%?? the 25th May 1901 after' prolonged suffering from enlargement of the spleen and liver, which lie contracted in Bogra. He was 53 years old, and 30 years in service when he died. He had his early > j ?ry ' ? +Vifi General Assembly s Institution. He joined the Medical College, Calcutta, in 1866, and obtained the diploma for , T M g jn 1871 While in the College he obtained honours in several ...

Islam in the West: From Immigration to Global Islam