Pemikiran Islam lahir menjawab kegelisahan atas realitas yang dihadapi oleh seorang intelektual. Ahmad an-Na’im adalah tokoh muncul dari umat dalam menerpkan konsep syari’ah dan negara. Artikel ini menggunakan analisis ekploratif, ide-ide tentang al-Qur’an akan menjadi focus kajian. Al-Qur’ān penuntun prilaku moralitas manusia, ia bukan narasi tekstual mengenai hukum. Ini paradigma al-Qur’an, s...

As my three-year term as the founding editor of the Journal of Communications (JCM, ISSN 1796-2021) ends in October 2008, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Dr. Kia Makki as the next Editor-in-Chief of JCM. Dr. Makki is a Lucent Technology Professor with tenure, the Co-Director of the Telecommunications and Information Technology (IT2), and has been Associate Dean of the College of Enginee...

The Qur'a?n is an address/book that the forms of its age are formed in it. mind-constructor language (in sense educating minds) reflects phenomena society which revelation was descended and then attributes a divine value to this situation. With series these values it has uploaded, gradually achieves relevant subject goal. In order realize ideal aimed by word(kala?m), moral corruption marginaliz...

Studies on English verses have claimed that the position in which a pause is inserted has a great effect on determining their rhythm. The position in which a pause appears follows a certain rule for the verses to be ‘rhythmic’, however, it is not yet obvious whether Japanese Haiku also has such tendencies or preferences. In this paper, we analysed and compared the metrical structure of English ...

C. P. Brown was the first to collect the palm-leaf manuscripts of Vemana's verses from different centres. He collected about 2500 verses and published some of them with English translation. A number of edition> with ver ses ranging from 100 to 5000 were brought forth by different editors/publishers. It is therefore difficult to establish the authenticity of these verses. The possibility of attr...