In medieval Islam, traditional primary educational practices laid special emphasis on learning the Qur??n by heart. Ideally, a pupil was primed to memorize entirety of Holy Book?a feat known as khatma or ?adhqa. The successful learner would earn prestigious sobriquet “??fi?”, for which he/she be proudly rest his/her life. Muslim youngsters continue up present times Qur??n, in conceivably more l...

While there are Muslims who hold that the two identities Muslim and homosexual mutually exclusive it is illegal to practise acts, ongoing revisionist movement seems provide a more understanding approach. Members of this argue although act homosexuality mentioned in Qur’?n, term not inherently similar contemporary based on love (mawaddah) mutual consent. This paper provides comprehensive theolog...

We train and test two probabilistic taggers for Arabic phrase break prediction on a purpose-built, “gold standard”, boundary-annotated and PoS-tagged Qur‟an corpus of 77430 words and 8230 sentences. In a related LREC paper (Brierley et al., 2012), we cover dataset build. Here we report on comparative experiments with off-the-shelf N-gram and HMM taggers and coarse-grained feature sets for synta...