in the view of quran, the standee mountains holding the layers of earth start to move and getting the anxious and exploded and even turn to dust. at the beginning of the doomsday in the researched verses they are simile to tufts of yarn. god in the many verses announced of finality of mountains that they flattened with the earth and scattered about – and like tufts of yarn are pulverized and al...

The paper aims to develop and design a cloud-based Quran portal using Drupal technology and make it available in multiple services. The portal can be hosted on cloud and users around the world can access it using any Internet enabled device. The proposed portal includes different features to become a center of learning resources for various users. The portal is further designed to promote resea...

Information repositories containing text data of different languages are abundant on the World Wide Web. Digital corpora of sacred text of Islam related to Quran containing Arabic language are also publicly available. The availability of these corpora and intelligent application to analyze them are vital to better comprehend the religious text of Islam. In this paper I propose a method of repre...

in some verses (ayat) of the holy quran, we come to a wise learned man, who had the responsibility of musses> teaching for a short period, and taught him knowledge and morality. the holy quran has not referred to the name of this character, but some interpreters and translators of quran believe him to be the khizr. two of great persian poets, ferdosi and nezami, have entered khizr into the real...

The holding of doubts about climate change is often referred to as ‘scepticism’. However, there has been a lack of clarity in previous work as to what exactly this scepticism comprises. We integrate data obtained from discussion groups and a nationally representative survey, to interrogate and refine the concept of climate change scepticism with respect to the views of members of the public. We...

The Quranic Arabic Dependency Treebank (QADT) is part of the Quranic Arabic Corpus (http://corpus.quran.com), an online linguistic resource organized by the University of Leeds, and developed through online collaborative annotation. The website has become a popular study resource for Arabic and the Quran, and is now used by over 1,500 researchers and students daily. This paper presents the tree...

This paper presents the compilation of a corpus of question-answer pairs for the holy Quran. The corpus has been manually collected from a wide range of sources, and designed to represent the Quran Arabic-English Question and Answer Corpus (QAEQ&AC). QAEQ&AC is a written, bilingual corpus, which comprises Arabic and English text. First, question-answer pairs have been collected from several tru...