Currently, various issues on environment have been discussed, whether the importance, destruction or ways to prevent the destruction of the environment. This paper will explore the issue from the conventional viewpoint as well as from the Islamic perspective. Destruction of the environment in recent times has worsened due to the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources by human beings in ...

This booklet by Dr. Maurice Bucaille has been in circulation for the past nineteen years and has been a very effective tool in presenting Islam to non-Muslims as well as introducing Muslims to aspects of the scientific miracle of the Quran. It is based on a transcription of a lecture given by Dr. Bucaille in French. In this reprint, I decided to improve its presentation by simplifying the langu...

Ellicott C. Matthay, PhD; Mathew V. Kiang, ScD; Holly Elser, Laura Schmidt, Keith Humphreys, PhD

In this problem we illustrate how gradients can be used to solve the least squares problem. Suppose we have input data matrix X ∈ Rn×p, output data y ∈ R and weight vector w ∈ R, where p is the number of features per observation. The linear system Xw = y corresponds to choosing a weight vector w that perfectly predicts yi given X{i, :} for all observations i = 1, . . . , n. The least squares pr...

AbstractThe Arabic language has a high position in the hearts of Muslims and their conscience, there is no surprise that; as it holy Quran noble hadith that Noble Prophet uttered, also honourable people Paradise, wonder, then, like learning language. Study Problem: It known teaching to native speakers different from way taught speakers. for very important master recitation Holy Qur'an, understa...

Holly Mercer is Head of Digital Services & Scholarly Communication in the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M University; e-mail: [email protected]. © Holly Mercer Academic librarians are increasingly expected to advocate for scholarly communications reforms such as open access to scholarly publications, yet librarians do not always practice what they preach. Previous research examined librar...

alī ibn ḥamzah al-kisā’ī is one of the seven reciters of the qur’an (ghurā’ al-sab‘ah) and the chief of the grammar school (maktab al-naḥwī) in kūfah. he was precepted by more than twenty-five grammar and recitation teachers to the extent that none of his teachers became as successful as him. most of his disagreement with other reciters returns to the verbal rules which has nothing to do with t...