The article is devoted to the work of Mahmud Kashani (d. 735/1334-35), who was a sheikh Suhravardiya Sufi order and author several significant works. object analysis one parts his most famous — prose treatise “The lamp that indicates true path, key sufficient amount [of mystical knowledge]”. deals with religious views scientific heritage Kashani. A commented translation part first section “On L...

This paper reports on the application of the Text Attribution Tool (TAT) to profiling the authors of Arabic emails. The TAT system has been developed for the purpose of language-independent author profiling and has now been trained on two email corpora, English and Arabic. We describe the overall TAT system and the Machine Learning experiments resulting in classifiers for the different author t...

I thank Manuela Giolfo, Ahmad Hasnaoui, Amirouche Moktefi, Zia Movahed and Kees Versteegh for information, corrections and comments that relate directly to things discussed below. I should also thank Kais Dukes of the Arabic Language Computing group at Leeds University, who sent me some very useful information before going silent — I hope I didn’t make myself a nuisance to him. None of these pe...

In recent years, some people, comparing the word “Ahmad” in a Quranic verse speaking of Jesus’ prophecy about Prophet Muhammad (Qur'an 61:6) with the word “Paraclete” in the Gospel of John (14:26, etc.), have tried to make a connection between them. They have ascribed to Muslims (and even to the Prophet himself) the idea that the word “Paraclete” is a distorted form of the word “periclete</...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sse.2014.12.019 0038-1101/Published by Elsevier Ltd. ⇑ Corresponding author at: School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Goldwater Center, Room 317, 650 E. Tyler Mall, PO Box 878406, Tempe, AZ 85287-8406, USA. Tel.: +1 (480) 772 2247. E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Rajabi). S. Rajabi a,⇑, M. Saremi , H.J. Barnaby , A. Edw...