While most traditional works on the life of Prophet Muḥammad focus how his ostensible teachings and actions can be used as a template for human conduct, thirteenth-century Sufi thinker, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī (d. 638/1240), turns attention to spiritual significance inner reality Muḥammad. Ibn argues that seal prophets, was not only given Qur’an, which incorporated elements from previous revela...

Prophets are personalities that left traces in human history. Their lives regarded as important every aspect and studied with interest. This interest has gained direction according to the needs of age which takes place. Today, issues such family children widely researched discussed. In this respect, acquis life is valuable. For, work actions people who have social influence both for believers p...

Let X1,X2, . . . ,Xn be i.i.d. random variables with a known continuous distribution function. Robbins’ problem is to find a sequential stopping rule without recall which minimizes the expected rank of the selected observation. An upper bound (obtained by memoryless threshold rules) and a procedure to obtain lower bounds of the value are known, but the essence of the problem is still unsolved. ...

Addressing a perennial apologetic and pastoral demand, the twelve Minor Prophets undertake to assert and demonstrate the goodness of God in the face of apparent evidence to the contrary. I will argue that the Twelve were intended to be read together and have the purpose of encouraging the post-exilic reader to trust Yahweh’s faithfulness to his salvation promises, even in the face of the many s...

ALEXANDER KOHN, False prophets. Fraud and error in science and medicine, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 226, £14.95. While I was reading Alexander Kohn's splendid new book for review, three new pieces of the scientific piracy, plagiarism, and forgeryjigsaw emerged: the long-delayed report by Stewart and Feder on the classic Darsee case; the investigation of Slutsky's work (who, if f...

A detailed discussion of the question of the historical Jesus and the Law might properly begin with a consideration of such important matters as sources, criteria of authenticity, and review of previous research. It should also include some discussion of the quest for the historical Law, which has become equally problematic. Within the brief compass of this paper it is possible to do little mor...