In many languages, loss of an underlying vowel results in stress patterns which are atypical for the language as a whole. For example, in Bedouin Hijazi Arabic (Al-Mozainy 1981, Al-Mozainy et al. 1985, McCarthy 1999), syncope of /a/ in an open antepenult creates words with stress on a light (CV) penult rather than the antepenult, the typical pattern for words with a light penult: underlying //i...

abd al-wahhab al-bayyati(1926-1999) is one of those poets whose poems make frequent use of myths. drawing on the ancient myths, and making modifications to them, he tries, while enriching his literary work, to express his views more cogently he does not simply retell the traditional myths, rather, he present new and richer interpretations of these myths and using defamiliarization, conveys his ...

‘Abd al-Şamad al-Fālimbānī who was considered a prolific scholar and had made major contribution to the development of Islamic scholarship, it turns out that his ways explaining hadith has unique way have been overlooked by previous researchers. In fact, he not only recognized as an expert in Sufism studies, but also sufficient credibility be narrations. Therefore, this article reveals characte...