![]() The only Surah, which has been entitled by the name of a woman in the Qur’an, is this very Surah, Surah Mary.įor the virtue of studying this Surah, it has been cited that whoever continues reciting this Surah (whenever he can), he will not die save that Allah will suffice him in life, wealth and children. There is no doubt, of course, that the one will make himself free from want from others by means of practicing the contents of this Surah. An Enlightening Commentary into the Light of the Holy Qur'an vol.Q. ![]() 19 ( Sūrat Maryam) – an end-rhyming, and, by general consensus, middle to late Meccan sura of 98 (or 99) verses – has been the subject of considerable exegetical and scholarly attention. Besides commentary, naturally, in every tafsīr of the Qur'an, Sura 19 has also benefited from separate, individual treatment. It has been the object of special attention by modern Western scholars, in particular those of comparative religion and of Christianity, whose attention has centred largely on the virtue and piety of Mary, on the miraculous nature of the birth of Jesus, on Jesus' ministry, and on how Jesus' time on Earth came to an end. In addition, Sura 19 is a favourite of the interfaith community. Given this sustained and multivectored scrutiny, it is remarkable how little analysis has been devoted to its lexicon. ![]() This article is a contribution to the study of the lexicon of this sura, with a particular emphasis on three features: rhyming end words, hapaxes, and repeating words and roots, some of which occur in this sura alone. The Journal of Qur'anic Studies is a triannual, bilingual, peer-reviewed journal that aims to encourage and promote the study of the Qur’an from a wide range of scholarly perspectives, reflecting the diversity of approaches characteristic of this field of scholarship. JQS publishes articles both in English and Arabic, to encourage the bridging of the gap between the two traditions of Muslim and Western scholarship. However, they still have a lot of room to catch up with the established virtual worlds.JQS also includes a ‘Notes and Correspondence’ section, which is intended as a space for members of the Qur’anic studies community to contribute news and information on current research, projects and developments in the field, including new courses, conferences, Qur’an-related activities on the Internet, CD-Rom releases, and other The Journal of Qur'anic Studies is principally dedicated to the publication of original papers, with a book review section including reviews of new works on the Qur’an in the various languages of the Muslim world, as well as the output of the western academic presses. Kaneva gives a good twist on social networking, drawing in the younger, non-gamer MySpace crowd into virtual worlds. Currently you can only chat, dress up, and do some basic animations, which is not enough to contend with the alternatives of just chatting online or the more complex game of dress-up SecondLife suppots. Kaneva is also working on a quest engine to incorporate games into the world, which will be essential to its success. Groups created on Kaneva’s site can carry their meetings out in the virtual world. ![]() Users can not only decorate their apartment with TVs and photo frames, but also fill those items with content from the site so that you could have your virtual friends over to watch your favorite viral video (click on the screen shot above and note the music video playing in the background). However, the really interesting part is how Kaneva ties together their 2D and 3D worlds. Your personal apartment serves as your “3D profile”, which you can decorate and use to host parties. The site gives you some basic hair, color, body, and shape customizations for you avatar, but still has a way to go in order to catch up with the more established SecondLife and There. Goods are purchased with a virtual currency. The architecture of the world is based on warping to different public locations (mall, club…) and your personal apartment. The virtual world has a kind of Sims or look to it. Unlike MySpace, Kaneva also includes a voting system, called “raves”, to mark the best profiles, groups, photos, and videos. If you really feel like replicating your MySpace’s horrid layout, you can also dress your profile in straight CSS. Kaneva also gives you control over what your home site and profile look like, using an AJAX editor to drop modules into the page. The social networking site is chock full of all of MySpace’s main features: friends, photos, videos, messages, groups, and personal blogs. The idea is that users can create personal profile pages in the 2D space, like MySpace, but also carry out the same personalization to their virtual world apartments. Although you’ve been able to sign up for a 2D profile on Kaneva they recently opened the doors to their 3D world. Kaneva is a new social network that extends the concept of MySpace into a virtual world.
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