#Russia spreading false claims about #Qur’an burnings to harm Nato bid, says #Sweden

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/06/russia-spreading-false-claims-about-quran-burnings-to-harm-nato-bid-says-sweden

"Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript" late 13th–early 14th century
Dept: Islamic Art
Classification: Codices
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1942
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on parchment
#museumbot #metmuseum #qur'an #calligraphy
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/450486

Updates on the #Qur'an #QuestionAnswering Shared tasks (Qur'an QA 2023) organized at WANLP 2023 Conference on December 7th, 2023 are available here:

https://sites.google.com/view/quran-qa-2023/home

You can find information on the two tasks and register until August 10th, 2023 on the website.

The Conference on #Arabic #NLP

WANLP2023

https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/

has posted its five shared tasks:

1. NADI #Dialect Identification
2. ArAIEval - Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation
Detection in #Arabic Text
3. #Qur'an QA 2023
4. WoojoodNER
5. #Arabic Reverse #Dictionary

For more on how to participate and the respective deadlines check:

https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/shared-tasks

#SamCast for 4/5/23

1. #Trump His day in court

https://apnews.com/article/b633d9ac29fc0ab8144f7e8a9bf65895

2. #Ukraine Zelenskyy visits Poland

https://apnews.com/article/8afc3249af0eadf3289434c53e7c1e33

3. #Wisconsin Supreme Court

https://apnews.com/article/0d188b5c6f841546f98436c1ab8180fa

4. #Qur’an by memory.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/memorizing-qur-an-ottawa-1.6799786

#News

With regard to #Turkish, I’ve almost finished a 300 page introduction course (half grammar half conversation texts). I’m switching to YouTube’s Easy Turkish series to train my brain more in the sound of the language and picking up more vocabulary and idiom.

I’ve purchased a second hand copy of a 3rd edition Redhouse New Turkish-English Dictionary to supplement Wiktionary. It looks pretty new—no actually gorgeous. I also have an old grammar by G. L. Lewis.

The version of Redhouse that I’ve got seems very good. But #Wiktionary is not bad either. Wiktionary often adds #etymology, which often points to #Arabic, which is rather distracting for someone who’s interested in that language as well.

There has been a huge language reform in Turkish to purge it from Arabic, Persian and more, but a lot still remains. Which is cool by me. I like how I can discover Chinese in Japanese and Arabic in Turkish.

So here’s a fragment from Easy Turkish: “Söyle aslında boş vakitlerde ben genelde resim çizmeyi çok seviyorum.” The second word (aslında, “actually”) already comes from Arabic, ʾaṣl, (ground, origin, foundation, basic rule, root—etc. in Wiktionary). Also fun to input the root in qurantools.mst.edu.au and see where the word is used in the #Qur'an (#quran)

إِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ تَخْرُجُ فِىٓ أَصْلِ ٱلْجَحِيمِ

innahā shajaratun takhruju fī aṣli l‑jaḥīmi

That is a tree that rises in the root of Hellfire.

What tree is that? The tree of Zaqqūm.

Wikipedia: The fruits of Zaqqum are shaped like heads of devils (Qur'an 37:62-68). Some Islamic scholars believe in a literal meaning of this tree grown in fire, showing the inverted flora of hell. The inhabitants of hell are forced to eat the tree's fruits, which tears their bodies apart and releases bodily fluids as a punishment.

Yeah, that’s the Qur'an alright.

With regard to #Turkish, I’ve almost finished a 300 page introduction course (half grammar half conversation texts). I’m switching to YouTube’s Easy Turkish series to train my brain more in the sound of the language and picking up more vocabulary and idiom.

I’ve purchased a second hand copy of a 3rd edition Redhouse New Turkish-English Dictionary to supplement Wiktionary. It looks pretty new—no actually gorgeous. I also have an old grammar by G. L. Lewis.

The version of Redhouse that I’ve got seems very good. But #Wiktionary is not bad either. Wiktionary often adds #etymology, which often points to #Arabic, which is rather distracting for someone who’s interested in that language as well.

There has been a huge language reform in Turkish to purge it from Arabic, Persian and more, but a lot still remains. Which is cool by me. I like how I can discover Chinese in Japanese and Arabic in Turkish.

So here’s a fragment from Easy Turkish: “Söyle aslında boş vakitlerde ben genelde resim çizmeyi çok seviyorum.” The second word (aslında, “actually”) already comes from Arabic, ʾaṣl, (ground, origin, foundation, basic rule, root—etc. in Wiktionary). Also fun to input the root in qurantools.mst.edu.au and see where the word is used in the #Qur'an (#quran)

إِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ تَخْرُجُ فِىٓ أَصْلِ ٱلْجَحِيمِ

innahā shajaratun takhruju fī aṣli l‑jaḥīmi

That is a tree that rises in the root of Hellfire.

What tree is that? The tree of Zaqqūm.

Wikipedia: The fruits of Zaqqum are shaped like heads of devils (Qur'an 37:62-68). Some Islamic scholars believe in a literal meaning of this tree grown in fire, showing the inverted flora of hell. The inhabitants of hell are forced to eat the tree's fruits, which tears their bodies apart and releases bodily fluids as a punishment.

Yeah, that’s the Qur'an alright.

I'm pleased to note that the following MRes dissertation is now available in the UWTSD Repository:

Musa, Shahajada Md (2022) The Emergence of a Scholar from a Garrison Society: A contextual analysis of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhāb's doctrine in the light of the Qur’ān and Hadīth.

#Qur'an #Islamic #Research

https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2096/

Wissensvermittlung in Qur’anschulen: Gesundheit braucht Erziehung
Die heutige muslimische Jugend steht vor schwierigen Zeiten. Wir leben in einer dominanten Kultur, die sich über den Globus verbreitet hat und die un
https://islamische-zeitung.de/wissensvermittlung-in-quranschulen-gesundheit-braucht-erziehung/
#Gesundwerden,gesundbleiben #Bildung #Grundlagen-Sonstige #IZPlus #Bildung #drogen #essstörung #Gesundheit #gesundheitserziehung #heilung #koranschule #qur'anschule #schulen