the verse on “the world of primal covenant (‘alam al-zarr)” is among difficult quranic verses whose difficulty can be discovered by consideration of different opinions, which are sometimes opposite to one another, presented by quranic commentators. having accepted the existence of “the world of primal covenant,” mulla sadra has interpreted and expounded that world in accordance with his philoso...

In this paper, we present a simple mining technique named the Quran Mining Technique (QMT) in an attempt to automatically classify the Suras (i.e. chapters) of the Quran based on predefined set of 10 themes. QMT is composed mainly of two phases: a preprocessing phase and a classification phase. In the first phase, we manually label a set of representative words for ten predefined themes. In the...

BACKGROUND Local television news is the number 1 source of information for most Americans, and media health reporting has increased significantly during the past 10 years. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the health topics and reporting characteristics of health stories on local television news across the United States. STUDY DESIGN Content analysis of full-length broadcasts of local television news f...

Scholars have approached the study of rabbinic sage stories from a wide range of methodological perspectives, including historical, literary, folkloric and, most recently, cultural studies. Despite this variety of approaches, there exists a broad consensus among scholars on one key issue: sage stories are an essentially aggadic, and therefore non-halakhic, genre. As such, the question of how be...

Among the earliest reincarnation narratives found in India’s Puranic texts, we find the stories of Jaya and Vijaya, the two gatekeepers of the spiritual world. Though there is little in these stories to explain reincarnation in a philosophical sense, the teaching of transmigration is implicit in the stories themselves, for we follow the two gatekeepers through three successive incarnations (alo...

This paper describes our participation in the TREC 2010 Blog Track. For the Top Stories Identification Task, we explore the relationship among news events, news stories and blog posts. We first extract important news events from the TRC2 corpus using a probabilistic mixture model. Then, we propose a probabilistic approach to identify top news stories. Furthermore, we use an additional feature t...

The national anthem Indonesia Raya, created by Wage Rudolf Supratman, appeared to encourage the struggle for independence of Republik Indonesia. Religious zeal accompanied ideology nationality release archipelago from grasp colonialism. spirit warriors imprinted holy book Koran, really became a shield power derived Creator. Quran is preserved Almighty, thus being only source information and the...

Stories are really an interesting one to read, especially kids love to listen to stories. It grabs the reader’s attention and gives them great pleasure or excitement or thrill or suspense while reading it. Readers go along with stories and may have the expectation and predict the flow of story based on the previous situations narrated by the authors. Predicting the flow of story requires reason...

the sciences of syntax, reading, and interpretation are among the literary arts that are made by clerics for understanding the word of god (kalāmollāh) from various viewpoints, and from which a collection of 30 scientific disciplines called quranic literature developed. at the top of these sciences is “using diacritical marks in quran” which is extremely important. in this area, many noted scho...