Muhammad Afzal Upal & Carole M. Cusack (eds.). Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements.

for the Handbook of Pragmatics, Horn & Ward (eds

1. Context, Semantics, and Pragmatics The linguistic subfields of semantics and pragmatics are both concerned with the study of meaning. We might say that semantics studies what Grice (1967) called the TIMELESS MEANING of a linguistic expression φ —the basic meanings of the words in φ composed as a function of the syntactic structure of φ. Formal semantics, especially since the seminal work of ...

A.E. Gelfand, P.J. Diggle, M. Fuentes, P. Guttorp (eds.): Handbook of spatial statistics - Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2010

A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Movements in Indonesia and the Islamic Revolution in Iran

Throughout history until today, the Islamic world has been witness to various movements which have been formed in response to special demands. The current article aims to address the similarities and differences between the political thought[1] of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and two movements in Indonesia namely the Nahdatul Ulama (NU) and the Muhammadiyah movements using a descriptive-compa...

easement justification in islamic sects'point of view

one of the important issues in daily affairs of human life is easement,when onesees other people'sneeds and helps them to solve their problems. there is no general evidence to justify easement that five-sect jurisprudents cite. there arenot specific verses about easement rights in the qur'an; but,we can mentioncommon rights between neighbors and granting benefits to him as implied int...

M. Kramer, N. Wex, and R. Wielebinski, eds. Pulsar Electrodynamics

First I emphasize the magnetospheric loop current system induced by the wind activity. Next, I address the formation of the fieldaligned electric field. An interesting aspect is the reaction of the inner magnetosphere to an induced current. In the traditional outer gap, the current running through the gap is all carried by the particles created in the gap. However, if external current-carrying ...