the issue of muhammad's illiteracy and the issues around it have been important debatable topics for a long time. this issue has both positive and negative news. opponents commonly attribute ommy to ommolghora that is the same mecca. however, advocates emphasize to prophet's illiteracy based on verse 48 (spider) and other qur'anic verses. there abundance of historical and anecdot...

Six new species of the large lycaenid genus Philiris Röber, 1891 (Philiris petriei sp. n., Philiris bubalisatina sp. n., Philiris baiteta sp. n., Philiris radicala sp. n., Philiris hindenburgensis sp. n. and Philiris parsonsi sp. n.), from Papua New Guinea, are described and illustrated, as are the early stages of the former taxon, with Litsea sp. near callophyllantha K. Schum (Lauraceae) recor...

attention to character of relevance and proportion in qur'anic text plays a key role in correct understanding and secure interpretation of this scripture. achieveing to its conceptual grace and some of its secrets is required such attention. according to the statistical analysis in this study, without taking into account name of allah, god's attributes constitute nearly two percent of...

The Ca na dian Cor dil lera, where the Juan de Fuca oce anic plate is cur rently be ing subducted be neath the North Amer i can con ti nent, is com prised of oce anic and is land arc ter ranes accreted to the west ern edge of an ces tral North Amer ica since the Neoproterozoic (Gabrielse and Yorath, 1991; Mon ger et al., 1972; Mon ger and Price, 1979; Mon ger et al., 1982). The Me so zoic Necha...

In this paper, we describe a different approach to the proof of the nonexistence of homogeneous rotation symmetric bent functions. As a result, we obtain some new results which support the conjecture made in this journal, i.e., there are no homogeneous rotation symmetric bent functions of degree > 2. Also we characterize homogeneous degree 2 rotation symmetric bent functions by using GCD of pol...

ahmad matar is the prominent iraqi poet and a committed character of this age who in the contemporary arab world enjoys great fame. since the holy qur'an and religious texts, are the inspiring references to all arab poets, ahmed matar is no exception. the borrowing of qura'nic verses and contents in his poetry is due to his understanding and his wisdom in a unique manner. this article intends t...

the arabic language of the qur'an is an integral aspect of this revealed book. it is not only the content of the qur'an which has come from allah, the container is also divine and cannot be separated from the message. since the message has been sent to mankind, it has a clear human language as its vehicle of expression' but the very words and verses of the qur'an have no! be...