” It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion. And sufficient is Allah as Witness.” [Quran 48:28]
Kopimism: the world’s newest religion
Posted 11 January 2012 by Abdulbaqi SharafTagged As: kopimism | Categories: Quran and Society | Leave a Comment
Multiple Tafsir Texts
Posted 10 November 2011 by Abdulbaqi SharafTagged As: | Categories: Quranic Applications | 1 Comment
I have gathered texts of the tafsir of a particular verse from three books of tafsir in one single page. This makes it easy to compare the tafsir of a single verse. Besides, I intend to use the data in future for some automatic text analytic tasks. here is the link: http://www.textminingthequran.com/apps/tafsir.php
What damage does alcohol do to our bodies?
Posted 3 October 2011 by Abdulbaqi SharafTagged As: alcohol | Categories: Quran and Science, Quran and Society | Leave a Comment
They ask you about wine and gambling. Say, “In them is great sin and [yet, some] benefit for people. But their sin is greater than their benefit.”
Virtual Monkeys and the Universe!
Posted 27 September 2011 by Abdulbaqi SharafTagged As: evolution, language, random, text, universe | Categories: Quran and Science | Leave a Comment
And if whatever trees upon the earth were pens and the sea [was ink], replenished thereafter by seven [more] seas, the words of Allah would not be exhausted..
Quranic Pronoun References
Posted 11 July 2011 by Abdulbaqi SharafTagged As: langauge, NLP, pronoun | Categories: Text Analytics | 1 Comment
We have created annotation of the Quranic pronouns that are tagged in Quranic Arabic corpus as PRON. These are amounting to 24,668 instances. With each such instance we link this pronoun to a list of concepts and also identify the location of the antecedent if available.
Slutwalkers: the point they missed
Posted 12 June 2011 by Abdulbaqi SharafTagged As: modesty, nudism, slutwalker | Categories: Quran and Society, Quran in Context | Leave a Comment
Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land [3:14]
Quranic N-grams
Posted 5 June 2011 by Abdulbaqi SharafTagged As: text | Categories: Text Analytics | 1 Comment
I have added this new tool to search for n-grams of the frequent phrases of the Quran. N-grams are good tools to analyze common Quranic phrases. I have used until 5-grams, and considered only phrases that are repeated 5 times or more in the Quran. This tool will help Quranic students and researchers a lot. [...]
Power of Prayer
Posted 28 May 2011 by Abdulbaqi SharafTagged As: 27:62, prayer | Categories: Quran and Society | Leave a Comment
Is not He (better than your gods) Who responds to the distressed one, when he calls on Him, and Who removes the evil, and makes you inheritors of the earth, generations after generations? Is there any ilâh (god) with Allâh? Little is that you remember! 27:62
Why do people get married after having children?
Posted 28 May 2011 by Abdulbaqi SharafTagged As: 16:72, marriage | Categories: Quran and Society | Leave a Comment
And Allah has made for you from yourselves mates and has made for you from your mates sons and grandchildren and has provided for you from the good things. Then in falsehood do they believe and in the favor of Allah they disbelieve?