abū al-jārūd is one of the leading figures of zaydis and the narrator of the significant books and traditions of imam al-ṣādiq (a.s.) and imam al-bāqir (a.s.), who has received the attention of the imāmī rijālīs (biographers) and dignitaries. on one hand, the imāmī and sunnī rijālīs have weakened him and, on the other hand, he is known as the transmitter of many and sometimes important traditio...

abstractmuhammad asif mohseni, a shia religious authority and an afghan political activist, has recently published the second printing of his al-mu’jam al-ahadith al-mu’tabarah in 8 volumes. a new arrangement has been adopted regarding the jurisprudential and non-jurisprudential chapters of the book, which indicates the author’s stance toward the status of reason and science as well as the posi...

At this fin-de-siècle, the “post” that was meant to mark off the modern, or perhaps to qualify it, has turned out to be a looking-glass of sorts, reviving engagements with the question of modernity. However, lurking in the shadows of this discourse is the “constitutive outside” that makes possible such narratives: tradition. In this article, I explore the question of modernity through the trope...

The vast majority of human beings derive their religious convictions from participation in a tradition, into which they were either born or converted. An important, but largely neglected, topic, therefore, is when, if at all, such participation is warranted) Quite a lot hangs on the answer to this question. For, as I shall make explicit, if it is warranted to participate in one tradition rather...

Images of reversal twist through many folklore traditions, celebrating the poor fool who becomes king and condemning the powerful to ruin. For Mikhail Bakhtin, such reversals express the creative energy of "a carnival sense of the world." In carnival, laughter and excess push aside the seriousness and the hierarchies of "official" life. Carnival shakes up the authoritative version of language a...

A more detailed analysis is made of the energy spectrum of the diffuse component of extragalactic gamma rays over the range of 0.3- 10 GeV, obtained fromthe EGRET instrument at the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The derived excess energy spectrum of high galactic latitude, b > 60°, using intercept method shows that it is correlated with Virgo cluster (over lsr) and average Virgo intensity i...

Purpose. The problem of the origin Eskimos has received considerable attention, at same time also providing insights about human presence in far Northeast Siberia and America. I review earlier studies discuss some more exciting recent results emerging from ancient DNA data sets. highlight important features genetic archeological key questions future research directions. Results. Paleo-Eskimos N...

there is no doubt that the way to gain access to religious rulings and doctrines is the sunna of the prophet and the imams, as only second to the holy qur’ān, which is reported in thousands of traditions in various tradition books. in the meantime, every theologian and ḥadīth researcher has to leave behind two stages for a proper understanding of traditions: in the first stage, he is to conside...

Gupta and Ray (Fuzzy Sets and Systems 54 (1993) 191) introduced the notion of fuzzy projective planes. We show that an old theorem of Dembowski classi$es all $nite fuzzy projective planes, that the examples in Gupta and Ray (Fuzzy Sets and Systems 54 (1993) 191) arise from ordinary projective planes and have much easier descriptions that can easily be generalized, and that there exist fuzzy pro...