Abū Isḥāq Tha‘labī Nayshābūrī is an outstanding Iranian exegete of the fourth and fifth centuries LH. Tha‘labī has been so skillful in various Islamic sciences such as Arabic linguistics (including morphology, syntax (grammatical inflection), vocabulary, and rhetoric), Ḥadīth, exegesis, and qur’ānic sciences that numerous students from many near and far places attended his classes. Tha‘labī’s c...

Western scholars have been interested in the origins and historical reliability of ḥadīth literature since roughly third quarter XIX. century. There whose works stand out because their significance for further Hadīth scholarship originality. They all claimed crucial problems regarding transmission its literature, then struggled to solve them through modern methods literary criticism. In this co...

Bu makalede Mağrib coğrafyası muhaddislerinden Kâbisî’nin (ö. 403/1012) Mâlik b. Enes’in 179/795) Muvatta’ının İbnü’l-Kâsım rivâyetindeki muttasıl senedleri bir araya getirmek üzere kaleme aldığı Kitâbü Mülahhısi’l-Muvatta’ eserine yazmış olduğu mukaddime ele alınmaktadır. Söz konusu mukaddimede müellif Mülahhısi’l-Muvatta’ın telif amacı ve eserde izlediği yöntemi belirtmesinin yanı sıra bazı h...

the article presented here deals with the issue of takfīr (accusing others of apostasy), which is an intellectual complexity in the world of islam. in this respect, a survey of the historical roots of takfīr as a phenomenon and its development course in regard to the originating context and the factors and roots of it occurrence, comprises the main approach to this topic. the article demonstrat...

Colton discusses three conditions for attributing creativity to a system: appreciation, imagination, and skill. We describe an original computer system (called DARCI) that is designed to eventually produce images through creative means. We show that DARCI has already started gaining appreciation, and has even demonstrated imagination, while skill will come later in her development.