there are some ambiguities about the status of women in islam, andthis paper studies exemplary women in the holy koran by content analysis, referringto valid interpretations. its basic questions include: koran’s method in introducingmodels, gender roles in koran, and koran’s criteria and modeling principles aboutexemplary women. the findings demonstrate that the koran has acted very preciselyto...

There are some ambiguities about the status of women in Islam, andthis paper studies exemplary women in the holy Koran by content analysis, referringto valid interpretations. Its basic questions include: Koran’s method in introducingmodels, gender roles in Koran, and Koran’s criteria and modeling principles aboutexemplary women. The findings demonstrate that the Koran has acted very preciselyto...

Koranic text is one of the most widely written Arabic texts and though it is written in Arabic language, it needs special handling because of the its unique orthographic conventions. Unicode has long supported special Koranic characters, but there still few more needed for proper encoding of Koranic text. The L2/09-419 proposal takes step towards full Koran coverage in Unicode, but we believe i...