investigating a hadith narrated from the fifth shi‘a imam (abu ja‘far muhammad al-baqir) in two quranic commentaries of al-tibyan and majma‘al-bayan, the present essay finds its origin in al-masabih fi tafsir al-qur’an by abu al-qasim wazir maghribi (370-418 a.h.). wazir maghribi attributes that hadith to abu ja‘far in an ambiguous way. however, that hadith is neither narrated in shiite books o...

Contemporary Western attitudes concerning the management of natural resources, treatment of nonhuman animals, and the natural world emerge from traditions derived from Western European philosophy, i.e., they assume that humans are autonomous from, and in control of, the natural world. A different approach is presented by Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of indigenous peoples of North Amer...

abu ishaq tha’labi neishaburi is an outstanding iranian islamic scholar and exegete in the 4th and 5th centuries ah. tha’labi has been a distinguished scholar in different islamic sciences such as arabic literature (grammar and syntax, etymology, arabic word endings, and rhetorical sciences), hadith, interpretation, and the quranic sciences in his era. therefore, numerous students from near and...

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This commentary on Victor González’s proposal to introduce the notion of working spheres/engagements in the traditional activity hierarchy adopts a semiotic perspective. It suggests that the benefit of the proposed introduction is rhetorical rather than strictly conceptual. Thus, the commentary focuses on the importance of distinguishing between models (or descriptions) of activities and of ‘‘d...

Central MessageThymomas represent a group of heterogeneous tumors with different staging systems that exclude tumor size. Given their heterogeneity, predictive risk model may be more appropriate than traditional systems.See Article page 309. Thymomas systems. See comprise diverse spectrum rare diseases the singular common feature arising from residual thymic tissues in anterior mediastinum. Mos...