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

Ali S. Al-Aufi

The emergence of networked information and communication has transformed the accessibility and delivery of scholarly information and fundamentally impacted on the processes of research and scholarly communication. The purpose of this study is to investigate disciplinary differences in the use of networked information for research and scholarly communication at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Th...

Ali S. Al-Aufi

Green incentives are included in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” (ARRA). It is, however, unclear how these government incentives can be carried out most effectively according to market-based principles and if they can serve as a catalyst for an accelerated green transformation and an ultimate solution to the current U.S. and global economic and financial crisis. The article...

Reading Adab as Fiqh: al-Ǧa

Media Reflection of Syrian Crisis in B.B.C Arabic, al-Arabyia and al-Alam Websites

Along with waves of Islamic awaking in the ME during 2011 and 2012, a series of events took place in Syria which were completely different from this wave and tackled this country with numerous problems for a long time. To display media reflection of Syrian crisis, this article has studied 95 analytic editorial from al-Alam, al-Arabyia and BBC Arabic websites in a six month period from October 1...

Al Qamus al Muhit, a Medieval Arabic Lexicon in LMF

This paper describes the conversion into LMF, a standard lexicographic digital format of ’al-qāmūs al-muh. īt . , a Medieval Arabic lexicon. The lexicon is first described, then all the steps required for the conversion are illustrated. The work is will produce a useful lexicographic resource for Arabic NLP, but is also interesting per se, to study the implications of adapting the LMF model to ...

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...