This paper examines Tanzanian Muslims’ practical and discursive stances on AIDS in relation to the context in which they are produced. The AIDS problematic is interacting with lively debates, as for the last two decades Muslim reformists have been demanding revisions to ritual practice and a more restrictive application of Muslim social norms. The state-sponsored central organisation for Tanzan...

Introduction Much sponsored research in our lab either falls under or intersects with machine reading. In this short paper we give an encapsulated presentation of some of the research in question, leaving aside, for the most part, the considerable detailed technical information that underlies our work. Demonstrations of our technology will be provided at the symposium itself. Our machine readin...

for the first time, it is mentioned in the interpretation of muqātil bin sulayman that: ‘nadr ibn al-harith, who was familiar with the traditions of ancient iran, claimed that the qur’an contained ‘legends of the ancients’; i.e. stories like those of rostam and esfandiyār. following muqātil, commentators often quoted this view, associating and translating ‘legends of the ancients’ with and into...

Within the Messianic movement of our times, the search to reclaim the Jewishness of Yeshua and His Apostles has rightly led to an investigation of the text of the Apostolic Scriptures (New Testament), and particularly whether they were originally written in Greek or in a semitic language such as Hebrew, Aramaic, or a dialect of Aramaic known as Syriac. The popular mistrust of anything “Greek” a...

This paper briefly examines two approaches to the position of women in Judaism. One is from an orthodox perspective, represented by Chana Weisberg, and the other is a non-orthodox and feminist approach, represented by Judith Plaskow. By examining these two approaches, we expect to contribute to a better understanding of the diverse views of women in contemporary Judaism. Plaskow criticizes t...