Natural Language Processing Working Together with Arabic and Islamic Studies is a 2-year project funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to study prosodicsyntactic mark-up in the Quran (Atwell et al 2013). Tajwīd or correct Quranic recitation is very important in Islam. The original insight informing this project is to view tajwīd mark-up in the Quran as addi...

this paper examines the quranic stories in a narratological approach.first the problem of the research is explained and the hypothesis is raised that there is no relationship between the quranic stories and narratology.the paper then reviews the literary on the litrary approaches to the quran and the holy book.then the genealogy of the words related to quranic stories is given.in the next part,...

commenting on some quranic verses in which the term amr is used, some commentators have spoken of a specific world called world of command (   amr) which is absolutely distinguished from world of creation (   khalq). could such a world, parallel to the world of creation, be admitted? if so, what are characteristics of such world? and what information of that world is presented by the holy quran...