Islam Nusantara in Slogan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika: Al-Quran Perspective

Vicegerency (al-khilafa) and Gender Justice in Islam

A comparative study of al-Tafsir ul-Qurani lil-Quran and al-mizan fi tafsir al-Quran

One of the methods for Quranic commentary is nowadays regarded as Quran to Quran commentary method. The method is originally known to be that of the Prophet and Immams when commenting holey Quran. The study includes a brief comparison between Al-Tafsir ul-Qurani lil-Quran and Al-Mizan fi tafsir al-Quran respectively by Abdolkarim Khatib and Mohammadhosein Tabatabaie. As the commentators have us...

IKA: Unity in Heterogeneity

The growth of the Internet has not only greatly simplified the access to existing sources of information but also motivated the creation of numerous new sources. Paradoxically, this growth has made difficult the tasks of finding, extracting, and aggregating relevant information. Gateways, protocols like Object Database Connectivity (ODBC), and standards like eXtensible Markup Language (XML) are...

Innovation and Creativity: A Slogan, Nothing but a Slogan

For over 2,500 years, innovation was a contested idea. It became de-contested in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two types of argument contributed to this rehabilitation: an economic one (utility) and a cultural one (creativity). Over time, the former became dominant in theories, public policy and discourses. Yet many writers on innovation continue to define innovation as creativity. Wh...

Case-Based Slogan Production

This paper presents a case-based approach to automated generation of slogans. We use a collection of cases out of which the selected ones get transformed and adapted to a new context that is represented by a textual description of the slogan’s target. We also propose a methodology for evaluation and ranking of the final results. The approach is experimentally applied to two real-world use cases...