Quranic Literary Study: Sayyid Qutb’s Thought and Orientation

Two Varieties of Literary Imagination: Metaphor, Fiction, and Thought Experiments

Recently, philosophers have discovered that they have a lot to learn from, or at least to ponder about, fiction. Many metaphysicians are attracted to fiction as a model for our talk about purported objects and properties, such as numbers, morality, and possible worlds, without embracing a robust Platonist ontology. In addition, a growing group of philosophers of mind are interested in the impli...

A comparison between two literary Quranic commentaries Al-Kashshaf and At-Tafsir Al-Bayani Lil-Quran

Quranic commentators have used different approaches one of the most ancient of which can be the literary one. Quranic eloquence and rhetoric are counted as miracle aspects of Quran. Some commentators, therefore, have sought to comment Quran literally to make Divine intention clear. This paper intends to study Al-Kashshaf and At-Tafsir Al-Bayani respectively by Zamakhshari and Bent Ash-Shati`a c...

Introducing Books/ The Literary Mind: The Origin of Thought and Language, Sima Rahimi

Bioinformatics and Classical Literary Study

This paper describes the Quantitative Criticism Lab, a collaborative initiative between classicists, quantitative biologists, and computer scientists to apply ideas and methods drawn from the sciences to the study of literature. A core goal of the project is the use of computational biology, natural language processing, and machine learning techniques to investigate authorial style, intertextua...

Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language

10.1 The forbidden experiment Language and culture separate humans from all other species. No human group lacks either, which must mean that both are deeply seated in human nature. What are the essential ingredients of these two most human of attributes? Our central task as linguists is to try to answer this question for language. One strategy for tackling this problem is to trace all existing ...