Tahḏīb al-aḥkām fī šarḥ al-Moqna‘at. Éd. critique par ‘Alī-Akbar Ġaffārī, 10 volumes, Tehrān, Ṣadūq, 1377/1998.

The Methodology of Al-Kashf wa al-Bayān fī Tafsīr al-Qur’ān

Abū Isḥāq Tha‘labī Nayshābūrī is an outstanding Iranian exegete of the fourth and fifth centuries LH. Tha‘labī has been so skillful in various Islamic sciences such as Arabic linguistics (including morphology, syntax (grammatical inflection), vocabulary, and rhetoric), Ḥadīth, exegesis, and qur’ānic sciences that numerous students from many near and far places attended his classes. Tha‘labī’s c...

A review and criticism of Wahba Zuḥaylī's method in al-Tafsīr al-Munīr fī al-‘Aqīda wa al-Sharī‘a wa al-Munhaj

The science of interpretation has a special position in the Islamic sciences and has been addressed seriously by Muslims from the very first days of Islam, because interpretation is to understand and discover the points of the best speech, i.e. the speech of the Sublime Allāh. One of the new commentaries on Muslims' divine book is al-Tafsīr al-munīr fī al-‘aqīda wa al-sharī‘a wa al-munhaj, auth...

Critique of Arabic Texts/ Critical Review of Al-Adab al-Arabi Min-Asr al-Jahili, Ali Ghahramani and Masoud Bavanpour

A STATISTICAL CRITIQUE OF THE WITZTUM et al PAPER

This paper examines whether the significance test described in the paper Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis by Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg was carried out in accordance with accepted procedure, and whether the distance metric used accomplishes its stated purpose. In the light of that examination, it appears that the conclusion of the paper is unfounded.

Mosaic Brains? A Methodological Critique of Joel et al. (2015)

In their recent and widely publicized paper, Joel et al. (2015) made two main empirical claims. First, they claimed that the brains of individual males and females show very little internal consistency in their combination of " male-typical " and " female-typical " features, e.g.: " Our results demonstrate that even when analyses are restricted to a small number of brain regions (or connections...