Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece, The wind in the willows, contains a classic description of a religious experience as Ratty and Mole come face-to-face with the Piper at the Gates of Dawn. This chapter draws on Happold’s identification of seven characteristics of mystical experience, as amplified by the Francis-Louden Mystical Orientation Scale, to test whether Ratty and Mole’s experience can be p...

abstract: lexical interpretation is a method that guides interpreter to study words and vocabulary of quran from different perspectives and in his interpretative understandings of quran's terms refers mainly to various definitions of a word, their roots and the compositions of the sentences. there is no doubt that the holy prophet, based on divine tradition, didn’t invent a new method to e...

standardizing persian alphabet letters in pcs, note books and cell phones is an important issue in persian writing. diversity of letters assigned to a given key as well as inappropriateness of the assigned letters to keys in relation to the frequency of letters are the most important issues for the iranians using persian keyboards. although the standard persian keyboard has been organized in a ...

the holy qur’ān possesses a specific divine structure and various semantic levels and layers, in which an endless ocean of divine meanings and knowledge encompassed by evident arabic letters and words are compiled, introducing itself as ﴾allah has sent down the best of discourses, a scripture [composed] of similar motif.﴿ (q. 39:23). the term “mathānī” is among the terms describing the state of...

‘Hojjat-al-Tafasir’ commentary is a ten volume commentary among Shiite contemporary commentaries. It has been written by an Iranian Persian scientist, Sayyed Abdol Hojjat Balaghi. Seven volumes assigns to commentary and the first two volumes is about general setting of descent of the Quran and its elements and tenth volume also belongs to complementary explanations. Sayyed Abdol Hoj...

Correspondance du P. Marin Mersenne, ed. by PAUL TANNERY and CORNELIS DE WAARD, Volume III (1631-1633), 2nd ed., Paris, editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1969, pp. xiv, 660, illus., 120F. The correspondence of Mersenne (1588-1648) antedates and practically anticipates the monumental collections of scientific work given in the second part of the century in the Transaction...

This research aims to identify the quantity, pattern, and characteristics of irregular plural forms in Arabic, especially shighah muntaha al-jumu’ (ultimate plural) Qur'an. was conducted based on many problems identifying pattern ultimate plural. Although most them are analogous, students still complain that it is complex, as a solution they memorize. However, raises its own because patterns. T...

In speech, the phenomenon of coarticulation (differentiation of phoneme production depending on the preceding or following phonemes) suggests an organization of movement sequences that is not strictly serial. In the skeletal motor system, however, evidence for comparable fluency has been lacking. Thus the present study was designed to quantify coarticulation in the hand movement sequences of si...