features of a world view. There is no better testimony to human intellectual effort over one hundred thousand years than human languages. Rather than letting go of this information, we should try to preserve as much as possible of it before it is too late. 2. The conceptual frameworks associated with different human languages

throughout history, muslims have approached quranic exegesis in various ways among which being a persuasive, intellectual way on the basis of proofs from the quran, hadiths, and intellect. although they benefitted from hadiths up tothe third/fourth hijri centuries in their commentaries, they did not ignore intellectual method – as will be proved in the present essay. overshadowing other methods...

What does it mean “to put an idea in context”? Does explaining the as effect of a certain set causes? Or articulating range responses to issue that are recognizably conventional particular place and time so force any given response can be assessed? Something else? Intellectual historians answer this question about context variety ways, but I think all would recognize is particularly important f...

the article presented here deals with the issue of takfīr (accusing others of apostasy), which is an intellectual complexity in the world of islam. in this respect, a survey of the historical roots of takfīr as a phenomenon and its development course in regard to the originating context and the factors and roots of it occurrence, comprises the main approach to this topic. the article demonstrat...

Yet, unless I greatly deceive myself, the general effect of this chequered narrative will be to excite thankfulness in all religious minds, and hope in the breasts of all patriots. For the history of our country during the last hundred and sixty years is eminently the history of physical, of moral, and of intellectual improvement. Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a g...