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The 'Cow', The Pedagogical Animal
If it can be said that the Quran presents a special epistemological doctrine, then this doctrine is found in Chapter 2 (The cow البقره);...
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Sep 22, 202410 min read
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The Cow, The Pedagogical Animal (part 2)
Is Color just another Expression For Morphology Thus what we see here is an epistemological condition; color is tied to morphology, which...
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Sep 22, 202411 min read
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The Quran; Between the Authority of Tradition and the Scientific Method.
Questions surrounding the revelation of the Quran are numerous, and so are the arguments for and against its divine status. It's been...
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Sep 19, 20248 min read
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A Theory of Everything
Of the many themes to which modern cinema owes much of its buzz, one stands out the most: artificial intelligence. If we were to distill...
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Jun 25, 202411 min read
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Sunshine, An essay on Destiny
In the rather lengthy list of films that I’ve had the pleasure or sometimes ‘displeasure’, of watching over the years, and especially in...
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Apr 16, 20248 min read
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Mantiq منطق & Other concepts
All progress in conceptual knowledge and pure theory consists precisely in surpassing this first sensory immediacy. The object of...
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Mar 4, 202419 min read
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Time & Consciousness In the Quran (Part 2): Concepts of Experience
The Ear (اذن) Now the concept of experience in the Quran is not different from the above examples. This will show as we delve into...
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Jan 29, 202416 min read
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The Quran As a Complex System
Concinnity & Modularity A concinnity, which we defined in a previous video, describes how a thing is a synthesis of many other things....
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Dec 18, 20238 min read
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The Cave Sleepers (Chp 18); an interpretation using 'Systems theory'
The Meaning Of The Number 7 Seven, one of the numbers postulated in verse 22 or Surah 18, is abundantly explained in the Quran, we find...
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Dec 18, 202312 min read
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The Original Plot; How the Quran is written
Structure Every Story consists of a beginning, middle, and an end point. They come in forms, they can have, like most stories, a natural...
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Nov 4, 202313 min read
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Peripeteia; The True Meaning Of 'Tragedy'
Peripeteia is such a tricky concept. All the articles I have browsed through online gave similar, largely unsatisfactory answers. The...
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Oct 28, 202313 min read
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Cosmogony in the Quran
Is it true that, as Alexander Koyre put it, that "man has lost his place in the world" and that the scientific 'revolution' has brought...
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Oct 16, 202314 min read
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Abraham, The Quintessential Scientist
Believe it or not all science, all those sublime equations that describe how things work are predicated on one principle, which most...
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Oct 7, 202311 min read
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The Ultimate Principle
Let's start our discussion with a conclusive statement The Quran has its own cosmology. This is both a statement and a disclaimer. On its...
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Oct 1, 202313 min read
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Symbolic Logic In the Quran
There's no word, i believe, beside 'felicitous' that can do justice to the Quranic use of words. its words are strategic, to say the...
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Sep 23, 202313 min read
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Sujood, in a nutshell
This is a shorter piece on a topic which we've published in a longer format and which aims to sum up the main points, hopefully without...
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Sep 16, 20236 min read
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Sujood, More Than A Posture
Disclaimer This is only an exploration of some compatibilities which i found between the works of Aristotle and the Quran, not a Quranic...
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Sep 15, 202312 min read
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A Stone's throw (away)
Stone never lies, it’s perhaps why man chose it as his storytelling medium. Before he ever wrote, he etched, in protest of his own...
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Sep 15, 20232 min read
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There’s no Gender In The Quran…
One of the popular questions often directed at the Quran is ‘why does god refer to himself in the masculine?; The lack of any proper,...
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Sep 15, 20238 min read
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