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Tribulation

2025· book-chapter· en· W7125705432 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Basit Kareem Iqbal

Bibliographic record

VenueFordham University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTheological Perspectives and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSufismIslamMeaning (existential)RefugeeEthnographySacrifice

Abstract

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This chapter develops a grammar of tribulation. For the director of an Islamic education program in Zaatari Refugee Camp, witnessing the divine trial requires the acceptance of sacrifice and distinguishing between degrees of affliction. For a Salafi exile whose revolutionary television program taught rebel fighters the law of jihad, engaging the divine trial yields a strenuous reckoning with the corrosive drift of idolatry. For activists at an Islamic charity serving refugees in Amman, the divine trial is the secret means by which God distributes the worldly occasions of good or ill. And for a teacher at an Islamic school in Edmonton, who embraced Sufism decades ago in Damascus, the divine trial is disclosive: not of a single rule or divine habit but of the evanescent dynamic of outer meaning and inner reality. Taken together, these interlocutions offer an ethnographic constellation of contemporary Islamic theology, with the Syrian war debated respectively by a pragmatic pedagogue, a Salafi scholar, a lay activist, and a Sufi mystic.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.967
Threshold uncertainty score0.619

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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