chapters 1 and 2 establish the basic theory of amenability of topological groups and amenability of banach algebras. also we prove that. if g is a topological group, then r (wluc (g)) (resp. r (luc (g))) if and only if there exists a mean m on wluc (g) (resp. luc (g)) such that for every wluc (g) (resp. every luc (g)) and every element d of a dense subset d od g, m (r)m (f) holds. chapter 3 inv...

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

in this thesis our aim is to construct vector field in r3 for which the corresponding one-dimensional maps have certain discontinuities. two kinds of vector fields are considered, the first the lorenz vector field, and the second originally introced here. the latter have chaotic behavior and motivate a class of one-parameter families of maps which have positive lyapunov exponents for an open in...

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

This paper attempts to study the influence of Islamic mystical love as reflected in Sawāneh-al-Oshshāq (Aphorisms in Love) by the 11/12th century Sufi author, Ahmad Al-Ghazzāli on Christian mystical love as reflected in The Book of the Lover and the Beloved, a famous treatise on love in the Middle Ages, by the 13th century Catalan priest and writer, Ramon Llull. Llull in one of his works p...

Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-Shaybani, as introduced in the majority of Rijal sources, was an anonymous scholar of hadith, of whom had not been narrated, but a few. However, these few remained narrations can be considered as a very source for his lifetime. Based on textual criticism, this study reconstructs his biographical data available in these sources. The period of his life, his teachers, school,...

Bayazid Bastami, Abu al-Hasan Kharaqāni and ‘Alā al-Dowlah Semnāni are three distinguished Iranian mystics who lived in Ghomess Province. They have significant places in Islamic mysticism. A dominant concept in their works is the concept of Light, which is even observable in the titles of their works. Bayazid and Kharaqani named their works al-Noor and Noor al-Oloom respectively. Relying ...