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Abstract
Cambridge Companion * Jonathan E. Brockopp (Ed.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 * 326 pp. * ISBN 978-0-521-88607-9 (HB) * 978-0-521-71372-6 (PB) Europeans and Western people are making research on every subject ... except the personality of Sayyidina Muhammad, salla Allahu 'alayhi wa-sallam Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani in khutbat al-Jumu'a at the First International Islamic Unity Conference in Los Angeles on August 2, 1996. Cambridge Companion is a collection of fourteen essays introduced by Judaism and Islam in practice: A Sourcebook author Jonathan E. Brockopp and written, the cover blurb informs us, to engage and inform. readers coming the subject for the first time. essays are presented in three parts respectively entitled Muhammad in world (three historico-biographical essays and the book's most relevant part), Muhammad in (six monographical essays on his legacy as a law maker, philosopher, and politician), and Muhammad in memory (five essays on how has been remembered. in biography, prose, poetry ... film and fiction) by professors active in university departments of religion, theology, Islamic studies, Arabic studies, Asian and African studies, near eastern languages and civilizations, and history in the US (9), Israel (2), the UK(1), Canada (1), and France (1). Of all the contributions in this volume University of Exeter Arabist and expert on legal theory Robert Gleave's article in Part Two (pp. 103-122), Personal piety (a misnomer), on the juristic hadith-based determination of obligation versus mere desirability and whether the Prophet can make mistakes, impressed me for its fair tone and general accuracy--even if he adduces four forgeries in its first three pages. rest do not live up the promise of the title nor do they rise Shaykh Nazim's challenge, leaving seekers of a true vade mecum defrauded. In 1982 Salah al-Din al-Munajjid published a 400-page sourcebook of works about the Messenger of Allah (Miijam ma ullifa Qan Rasulillah) in twelve sections of up twenty-one sub-sections each, documenting the massive tradition of hadith, sira, shama'il, khasa'is, dala'il, nasab, tarikh and the interactive/paradigmatic manuals of mawalid, salawat, and mada'ih among other aspects of the study of the Prophet. It is disappointing that, thirty years later, a work purporting be an English-language guide the same subject that gave rise such a still-growing mine of published material is only a festschrift offering snapshots often devoid of relevance its subject-matter. Worse, the Cambridge Companion is a faithless one in three senses: 1. It maintains a wall of separation between itself and its supposed company, whom it distrusts as it does all of hadith, sira, and tafsir: By portraying the law as a well-designed series of rationally explainable interactions between the Qur'an and the Sunna, the role of the Sunna was made seem not only integral but absolutely indispensable the structure of the law (Joseph E. Lowry, p. 87; emphasis added). Muhammad's biographies should not be classified as history books ... among Muslims, the[ir] popularity ... is based not on the historical evidence that they include but on their didactic, edifying, propagandistic, and entertaining features that address the needs of readers and listeners on various educational, psychological, and artistic levels. Had it not been for those features, the biographies would have been forgotten or marginalized long ago. (Michael Lecker, p. 63) The post-Qur'anic sources read back sira events into the Qur'an because [p]ost-Qur'anic Muslims needed a hero who could be venerated.... a new Muhammad, a person blessed with powers that he still lacked in the Qur'an and that bridged the gap between him and the previous prophets. (Uri Rubin, p. …
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.290 | 0.145 |
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".