Sosok Maryam dalam al-Qur'an

Maryam Heydari

Researchers have shown that skilled readers use variety of strategies to comprehend written texts (Stanovich, 2000; Sweet & Snow, 2003). Hence many readers are not aware of reading strategies; there is a need of explicit teaching instruction to develop those strategies. In fact, in most English reading classes there is absence of teaching comprehension strategies to readers, the strategy usuall...

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...

Eblen Maryam Kamvar Seton Marshall

Towards A Time Based Video Search Engine for Al Quran Interpretation

The number of Internet Muslim-users is remarkably increasing from all over the world countries. There are a lot of structured, and well-documented text resources for the Quran interpretation, Tafsir, over the Internet with several languages. Nevertheless, when searching for the meaning of specific words, many users prefer watching short videos rather than reading a script or a book. This paper ...

Al-Bayan: An Arabic Question Answering System for the Holy Quran

Recently, Question Answering (QA) has been one of the main focus of natural language processing research. However, Arabic Question Answering is still not in the mainstream. The challenges of the Arabic language and the lack of resources have made it difficult to provide Arabic QA systems with high accuracy. While low accuracies may be accepted for general purpose systems, it is critical in some...