hariri’s maqamat is one of arabic cultural and literary works in the field of social aspects of life and linguistic characteristics and language games, as well as on narrative aspects of fictions. avoidance from pure verbal and historical topics and from mere attention to rhetorical techniques in this work, on one hand, and the tendency to survey and follow the narration on the other hand can p...

The ability to find interesting patterns in sequential datasets is important in both data analysis and knowledge discovery. Shapes, such as spikes, valleys, and increasing lines, created when graphing sequential data points are familiar to analysts as a way of identifying trends and anomalous behaviors. This work presents a set of common shapes that can be used by visualization designers to ass...

This is a contribution primarily to the ongoing discussion of textual collation in COST Action A32 ("Open Scholarly Communities on the Web"). It discusses requirements for instruments of electronic collation both for purposes of textual criticism and for critically interpretative work with literary, philosophical, historical etc. texts, and teaching. The existing tools it refers to are the coll...

the creation of adam/human being is one of the most important and ubiquitous subjects in different religious and non-religious works. among the questions which can repeatedly be found in such works are: how was adam/human being created? why was he created? why was he placed on the earth? what is his status among the other creatures? old rituals, religions, literary and mythical works have tried...