We are fortunate to have invited commentaries from the laboratories of Dr Cathy Lord and Dr Fred Volkmar offering their perspectives on the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 criteria for the autism spectrum. Both commentaries note how DSM-5 collapses the earlier diagnostic categories of the pervasive developmental disorders into a single category of autism spectr...

in his book quranic studies, wansbrough presents two criteria of style and function for typification of old commentatorial texts before al-tabari. recognizing twelve commentatorial devices and borrowing some expressions from jewish commentatorial works, he divides old quranic commentaries into five categories of parabolic, juristic, textual, rhetorical, and analogical. based on literary analysi...