According to Syed Naquib al-Attas and Mahayudin Yahaya, the teaching of Islam arrived in Malaysia during the end of 9 th century, though historical notes on the study and writing of Quranic exegesis or tafsir were not much found except after the 20 th century. Besides, reviewing the literature on the topic found that the writings do not describe the tafsir development in-depth as well factors d...

We develop a framework for using the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) to parse Quranic Arabic sentences. This framework supports the construction of a treebank for the Holy Quran. The proposed model succeeds in parsing different Quranic chapters (Suras) in addition to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) sentences. The availability of such parser will be useful in various natural language processing app...

Scientists are not always remembered for the ideas they cherished most. In the case of the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, his name since the end of the nineteenth century has been tightly linked to the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters. This was indeed an idea that he endorsed, but he did not claim it as his own nor did he give it much thought. He took pride instead in adv...

The world capitalist economy, its interstate system, and its class structure seem to be pursuing a development that may, like Frankenstein, have been created by man (and not by woman?), but which seems no longer to be subject to his/her control least of all through the formulation and implementation of conscious political policy. Indeed, political and economic policies seem more and more to be ...

undoubtedly, the disability to express the mystical experiences is what all mystics in east or west have rigid consensus on; it means that mystical facts and high concepts obtained through intuition aren’t possible to be expressed.  jalāl al-dīn muhammad balkhī, mowlavi has clearly explained in his masnavi the different forms of the issue and actually shows the literal difficulties to express m...

if we take ibn malik as the connecting chain of the interconnected history of syntax, we will find him among the last analytic scholars and theorist grammarians, since in his era, the principles of syntax has been established and grammarians didn’t provide new ideas. but discussion of ibn malik’s innovative syntactic approaches is important because of two reasons. due to his authoritative posit...