Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tehseen Thaver's book is a study of the Qurn commentary of the tenth-to eleventhcentury Muslim theologian and writer, al-Sharf al-Ra (d.1015), entitled aqiq al-tawl f mutashbih al-tanzl (Hermeneutical Realities in [Uncovering] the Ambiguities of Revelation).Al-Ra is primarily known as the compiler of Nahj al-balgha (The Way of Eloquence), a collection of speeches and epistles by Al b.Ab lib (d.661).Al-Ra was also a respected poet and an important figure within the Imami Shii community of Baghdad, both as an intellectual and as a leader.He was the brother of another famous Imami author and the syndic (naqb) of the Shiis of Baghdad, al-Sharf al-Murta (d.1044), who had broad connections in high places.Beyond Sectarianism does several things.It first situates al-Ra in his political and cultural milieu and the aqiq in its literary and intellectual context.It also carefully studies the exegetical strategies of the text while focusing on a number of themes prevalent in Abbasid culture: theories of language, ambiguity, and the relation between all of these and the Qurn.Along the way, the book raises some larger methodological questions for Islamic studies.In particular, it challenges some prevalent historiographic assumptions that have reigned in Islamic Studies for over a century.These assumptions have to do with the nature of sectarian difference, and the nature of Shiism and its relationship with Sunnism in particular, and have provided the framework through which medieval Islamic intellectual, social, and religious history has been viewed.To sum up this conventional approach: it is often assumed in studies on Islamic religious and intellectual history that what a Shii scholar or a political figure did or wrote was mainly informed by his/her being Shii.What exactly being Shii means differs from one place to another, but it is
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".