Bibliographic record
Abstract
Scholars on several continents were shocked at the premature passing of one of Islam's premier spokespersons on July 2, 2011.Likewise at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada, where we felt particularly bereft.As the first holder of the Edmonton Council of Muslim Community's Chair in Islamic Studies, Dr. Abu-Rabi' had endeared himself to both the academy and the people in a marked way, as evidenced by the range of articles in this memorial edition of Religious Studies and Theology.But let us not get ahead of ourselves.First, a brief overview of the professional trajectory of Ibrahim Abu-Rabi'.After acquiring his Ph.D. at Temple University and having two temporary positions at the University of Texas and Virginia Commonwealth University, in 1991 Ibrahim Abu-Rabi' was appointed professor at the MacDonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at the Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut.He remained at the seminary until 2008, when he left to assume his new position at the University of Alberta.Ibrahim Abu-Rabi' demonstrated at the Seminary both his desire and ability to be a public intellectual, not only in Connecticut but throughout many parts of the world.He did this numerous ways: engaged in extensive Christian-Muslim interfaith work, coordinated and led groups of people on study trips to Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, North Africa, and Indonesia; arranged for students and faculty from abroad to come to and study for varying periods of time at the Seminary and brought Islamic religious leaders from Syria and Turkey to the United States for discussions with American religious scholars, clergy and others.During the 2006 academic year, as a senior Fulbright scholar, Ibrahim not only taught in Singapore and Indonesia; he also lectured on the merits of interfaith activity and work.It is well-known that Ibrahim concentrated his oeuvre around five interlocking themes.We have not been able to represent all of them here, but it is worth rehearsing them for a wider audience.First was his work on his Palestinian heritage, a theme that cropped up in all his public discourses in one way or another.The second is his interest in Said Nursi's Philosophy of Non-Violence, a perspective that came to dominance towards the end of this 4
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".