Purpose – The paper utilizes Whitley’s (1984; 2000) theory of the intellectual and social organization of the sciences and builds on research carried on by (Aarek et. al, 1992; Vakkari, 1996; Rochester and Vakkari, 2004 and Åström, 2008), to analyze both intellectual and institutional characteristics of Arabic library and information science. Design/methodology/approach – Data derived from a co...

in the opinion of many specialists and teachers, there is lack of enough attention to the needs of the students and their learning styles in the arabic language curriculum. learning styles are important factors in the success of teaching. this study aimed at determining the learning styles of arabic language and literature students in iranian universities. the method of study is survey, and the...

with the update of practical knowledge such as pharmacology by adding information taken from books composed by authors contemporary with him including ibn Wafid (see Bos’ introduction, pp. xvii–xxii). This short analysis illustrates the importance of publishing the Arabic texts of Maimonides’ medical works, when we explore the history of medicine. Bos has made a great contribution to the schola...

In this paper we present a survey of the literature on Arabic writer identification scheme and up-to date techniques employed in identification. The paper begins with an overview of the various writer identification schemes in Arabic and Persian languages. After that, an attempt is made to describe the complex character of Arabic strokes. Previous studies have used a number of Arabic datasets c...

Modern Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic, both Semitic languages, share many orthographic, lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic similarities, but they are still not mutually comprehensible. Most native Hebrew speakers in Israel do not speak Arabic, and the vast majority of Arabs (outside Israel) do not speak Hebrew. Machine translation (MT) between these two language has the potential...