survey on quranic lexicons dates back to the early years and decades of early islam. abdollah ibn 'abbas can be considered the most famous and outstanding quranic interpreter of all the prophet's companions with the exception of imam ali. some like ignaz goldziher - bringing up a number of illusions and without considering the so many firm and obvious proofs and evidences confirming t...

the sealness of wilayah is one of the most important and challenging issues discussed by muslim mystics, and has been discussed by the likes of ibn ‘arabi. like other mystics, ibn ‘arabi divides wilayah into two types: absolute and limited. however, his ideas with regards to instances of absolute wilayah and limited wilayah diverge from the norm. sometimes this divergence is so extreme that acc...

the comparison between the views of ibne malek, in alfye, and his son, ibn al-nazem, in sharh ibn al-nazem ‘ala alfiye ibn malek, is one of the most important morphological and grammatical issues in the arabic grammer. alfye (ألفیة ابن مالک) is an educational poetry in arabic grammar that has been versed by ibne malek in the 13th century. at least 43 explanations have been written on this work....

like other religions, there are various currents in imami shiite in the first centuries. this article, relying on discourse analysis and by concentrating on oppositions, attempts to identify the internal shiite currents in iraq and iran in the second and third centuries. according to historical evidences, the opposition between school of hisham ibn al-hakam and majority of shia, which was schoo...

The caudal superior colliculus (SC) contains movement neurons that fire during saccades and the rostral SC contains fixation neurons that fire during visual fixation, suggesting potentially different functions for these 2 regions. To study whether these areas might have different projections, we characterized synaptic inputs from the rostral and caudal SC to inhibitory burst neurons (IBNs) in a...

AIMS & OBJECTIVE To determine the age and gender distribution and clinical presentation of patients together with histological types of colorectal cancer cases presented to Ibn Sina specialized hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective study was conducted in Ibn Sina Hospital (Sudan). Seventy three (73) patients of colorectal cancer who presented in the period from January 2010 to Dec...