the household of the prophet (a) have played a significant role in explaining and interpreting the verses of qur'an. in addition to shia interpreters, sunni interpreters too have benefited much from these interpretations. they mostly refer to the virtues and the high status of the household (a) in their interpretations that show the elevated position of ahl al-bayt (as) in the interpretati...

Routinely, so much well-intentioned effort is thwarted and morale is destroyed in organisations because of the lack of commitment to decisions. The likelihood and consequence of this is greatest where divergent groups, ie, different divisions, department or units are involved. This paper discusses a Group Model Building case study using qualitative system dynamics to create consensus, team lear...

Induction of L1 and L2 -Lactamases of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Rouh-Mei Hu, Kuang-Jay Huang, Lii-Tzu Wu, Ying-Ju Hsiao, and Tsuey-Ching Yang* Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Asia University, Taichung 413, Taiwan; Department of Microbiology, China Medical University, Taichung 404, Taiwan; and Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, China Medical University...

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Students’ Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding author: Maani Beigy, Students’ Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran. Tel: +98-2188989161, Fax: +98-21889...

one of ahl al-bayt’s methods of interpretation is the intratextual interpretation or the qur’an to qur’an commentary. this method which is based on the interaction and dialogue between the qur’anic verses, is reflected, to a huge extent, in those narratives of ahl al-bayt regarding qur’anic interpretation. the investigation of these narratives, not only leads to the derivation of ahl al-bayt’s ...

the purpose of this article is to identify the various mystical interpretations of horuf-e-moqatta’e (separated letters) in qur’an. ten mystical interpreters-the qur’an-al-azim, haghayegh-al-tafsir, lata’ef- al-esharat, kashf-al-asrar, ara’es-al-bayan, ta’vilat, rouh-al-bayan, manzum e safi, bayan-al-sa’adah- have been selected from several centuries and their explanations, after entries about ...

one of the controversial issues concerning the qur’ān in the contemporary era has been the claim of the existence of mythological stories in the qur’ān. primarily, muḥammad aḥmad khalaf allāh set forth this claim in his al-fann al-qaṣaṣī. one of khalaf allāh’s evidences for his claim is that on nine occasions the qur’ān has been accused of being mythical by the polytheists and the almighty god ...