according to the quran, god is the first teacher of the quran. the prophet utilizes a variety of ways for learning of the qur'an and teaches the qur'an to others and especially children has been recommended for this. the problem of legitimacy of getting money or not for teaching the quran causes controversy among islamic scholars such that each group according to some verses have trie...

1Pevtro" de; pro;" aujtouv", Metanohvsate, [fhsivn,] kai; baptisqhvtw e{kasto" uJmw'n ejpi; tw'/ ojnovmati ’Ihsou' Cristou' eij" a[fesin tw'n aJmartiw'n uJmw'n kai; lhvmyesqe th;n dwrea;n tou' aJgivou pneuvmato". All translations are the author's own, unless otherwise noted. There are a few minor textual questions with this verse, none of which impacts significantly the debate on its interpreta...

We present work on a verse-composition assistant for composing, checking correctness of, and singing traditional Basque bertsoak—impromptu verses on particular themes. A performing bertsolari—a verse singer in the Basque Country—must adhere to strict rules that dictate the format and content of the verses sung. To help the aspiring bertsolari, we provide a tool that includes a web interface tha...

For any integer N ^ 3 we will construct a 3-manifold which can be described as +1 surgery on N distinct knots in S. We will also give examples of 3-manifolds which are i^-fold cyclic branched covers of S over 2 distinct knots. Brakes (2) discovered the first examples of 3-manifolds with multiple knot surgery descriptions. Our construction is much different and follows directly from the construc...