the mu'tazila and the new mu'tazila are two rationalist schools of islamic theology the adherents of which have paid special attention to the literary exegesis of the qur'n.the mu'tazila's literary approach was rooted in their thinking which was based on kalām, including doctrines like quranic createdness )khalq-e qur'an(, inimitability )i'jaz(, the existence ...

Echoed parts of Quranic accent (Qiraat) signals are exposed to reverberation of signals especially if they are listened to in a conference room or the Quranic recordings found in different media such as the web. Quranic verse rules identification/Tajweed are prone to additive noise and may reduce classification results. This research work aims to present our work towards Quranic accents (Qiraat...

The Quranic Arabic Corpus (http://corpus.quran.com) is an annotated linguistic resource with multiple layers of annotation including morphological segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic analysis using dependency grammar. The motivation behind this work is to produce a resource that enables further analysis of the Quran, the 1,400 year old central religious text of Islam. This paper...

In this paper we describe the process of designing a task-oriented continuous speech recognition system for Arabic, based on CMU Sphinx4, to be used in the voice interface of Quranic reader. The concept of the Quranic reader controlled by speech is presented, the collection of the corpus and creation of acoustic model are described in detail taking into account a specificities of Arabic languag...

The Quranic Arabic Corpus (http://corpus.quran.com) is a collaboratively constructed linguistic resource initiated at the University of Leeds, with multiple layers of annotation including part-of-speech tagging, morphological segmentation (Dukes & Habash, 2010) and syntactic analysis using dependency grammar (Dukes & Buckwalter, 2010). The motivation behind this work is to produce a resource th...

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...

The Quranic Arabic Dependency Treebank (QADT) is part of the Quranic Arabic Corpus (http://corpus.quran.com), an online linguistic resource organized by the University of Leeds, and developed through online collaborative annotation. The website has become a popular study resource for Arabic and the Quran, and is now used by over 1,500 researchers and students daily. This paper presents the tree...

in this paper the most important arguments of muslim philosophers in supporting the createdness of the human soul are examined. we will criticize five arguments by some new objections and show that none of them is reliable and unquestionable. then we go through the most important views of exegetes on the nature of the world of pre-existence (the world of zarr) and criticize them. two of these v...

survey on quranic lexicons dates back to the early years and decades of early islam. abdollah ibn 'abbas can be considered the most famous and outstanding quranic interpreter of all the prophet's companions with the exception of imam ali. some like ignaz goldziher - bringing up a number of illusions and without considering the so many firm and obvious proofs and evidences confirming t...

in this essay the most important arguments of fakhr al-din al-razi for the theory that all acts are created only by god (khalq al-amal) are investigated. in the course of this investigation each of his three arguments rejecting the necessity of free will and all his thirteen arguments for proving his theory of occasional cause (kasb) are refuted. subsequently, fakhr al-din al-razi’s interpretat...