Short abstract Compounding is one of the few sequential word formation processes found across sign languages. We examine the properties of compounds in languages in the visual-gestural modality, showing both similarities to spoken language compounds, as well as a modality-specific type of simultaneous compounding. We also explore the development of compounds in a new sign language, (Al-Sayyid B...

The division of linguistic structure into a meaningless (phonological) level and a meaningful level of morphemes and words is considered a basic design feature of human language. Although established sign languages, like spoken languages, have been shown to be characterized by this bifurcation, no information has been available about the way in which such structure arises. We report here on a n...

member of the teaching staff in yazd university. the musha'sha'ids'uprising in south region of mesopotamia and khoozestan was performed under the sayyid mohammad b.falah's leadership (died in 870 a.h.) and then shiite's centeral government under the centerality of hoveizeh was established. until now, we don,t have considerable works about sayyid mohammad b.falah's ...

This is the full text (excluding notes) of the study by Martin Kramer, “The Oracle of Hizbullah: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah,” in R. Scott Appleby, ed., Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders in the Middle East (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. 83-181. Refer to the paper version for the 324 footnotes. Much of the study, with notes, can be previewed at Amazon and...

This article explores the influence of local concepts of matrilineal kinship and descent through women in the construction of a modern Sufi silsila (an authorized ‘chain’ of spiritual and genealogical ancestry) in Sri Lanka. Makkattar Vappa, a popular Sufi shaykh in the Tamil-speaking eastern region of the island, asserts hereditary maulana (sayyid) status as a member of the Prophet’s household...

The article presents a part of Russian translation (with an introduction and commentaries) the important treatise: Dalil al-mutahayyirin (A Guide for Perplexed) by Sayyid Kazim Rashti, one founders Shaykhi school. work is dated 1842. made from Arabic original two Persian translations treatise.

“euclid’s elements” begins by an introduction into definitions, postulates and common notions; the postulates are presented in the science of geometry by euclid without any or explanations. however, regarding the significance of postulates which is the fundamental to geometrical proving and solving geometrical theorems, some translators and interpreters of euclid’s elements provide explanation ...

the literary approach to quranic interpretations is founded on words, morphology, syntax and rhetoric. however, contemporary literary school, in addition to these principles, takes into account other principles like authenticating solely the literary understanding. comparing sayyid murtazā's literary approach with the principles and ideas of sheikh tusi in al-tibyan reveals various aspects...