professor abolghasem gorji was an outstanding professor and also an eminent jurist of contemporary iran whose valuable works were chiefly on jurisprudence and law and then on the quranic sciences – as his edition of quranic commentary jawami‘ al-jami‘ as well as annotations found in the end of a treatise entitled “criteria of veraciousness of commentaries” can clearly prove. presenting a biogra...

â â  this article deals with the systematic significance of ney (the flute) , which is rooted in persian literary heritage and was manifested in the work of jaläl-ad-dä«n-e rå«mä«, also known as mowlavi. it then elaborates on its influence on modern arab poetry. to achieve this, the article first takes a glimpse at the famous poem by mowlavi, known as “ the flute” and outlines its symbolic...

The journal retracts the article entitled “Climate Adaptability Analysis on Shape of Outpatient Buildings for Different Climate Zones in China Based Low-Energy Target” by Wei et al [...]

On 13 December 2020, the New York Times ran a detailed piece entitled ‘2020: The Year in Sports When Everybody Lost’ (Drape et al., 2020). article lamented economic impact of COVID-19 p...

Abstract The debates on Kulliyyāt I .1.ii of Ibn Sīnā’s Qānūn (“on the subjects medicine”) were initiated by Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and continued Afḍal al-Ḫūnaǧī, Naǧm al-Naḫǧawānī, Yaʿqūb ibn Ġanāʾim al-Sāmirī, Rafīʿ al-Ǧīlī, al-Nafīs, al-Quff al-Masīḥī. In his own commentary, entitled al-Tuḥfa al-saʿdiyya , Quṭb al-Šīrāzī preserved scrutinized predecessors’ commentaries, in order to offer what h...

UKMAS has now been running for six years, in 1996 and 1997 under the heading of FoMAS (Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems) both organised by Michael Luck at Warwick University and then subsequently in its current incarnation, UKMAS, first by Michael Fisher at Manchester Metropolitan University then by Chris Preist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol and finally by Mark d’Inverno at St Cath...