Scholars have approached the study of rabbinic sage stories from a wide range of methodological perspectives, including historical, literary, folkloric and, most recently, cultural studies. Despite this variety of approaches, there exists a broad consensus among scholars on one key issue: sage stories are an essentially aggadic, and therefore non-halakhic, genre. As such, the question of how be...

Purpose In this paper, the authors argue that fine wines can be considered art and as such awarded luxury status. The discuss processes of artification, through which are recognized (Shapiro Heinich, 2012), heritagization, in cultural differentiation implicit concept terroir (the various elements a microclimate contribute to wine's specific attributes) connects wine its history provenance. inve...

although ‘allāma ḥillī and shaykh anṣārī have pointed out the feature of confirmation (iḥrāz) in some of the practical principles, its refinement has been one of mīrzā-yi nā’īnī’s initiatives. he divided the practical principles into “confirming and non-confirming. the confirming principle determines the practical duty of the religiously ccountable (mukallaf) in view of reality, such as: istiṣḥ...

Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complement...

Classical Islamic theology has laid down a meticulous and intricate methodology of dealing with novel issues from theological perspectives; to understand actualise religious viewpoints regarding any matter or event that did not take place during the early formative period Shari’ah, i.e., lifetime Prophet (S.). During later period, classical scholars developed several principles such as Qiyas (a...