Ikram Hawramani

The meaning of life is trying to discover the meaning of life.

[Ikram Hawramani @IkramHawramani]

I apologize to everyone whose messages I've been ignoring. My illness of 16 years resurfaced and completely disabled me. I hope to be able to start answering emails today, but with this illness can't say what my condition will be like an hour from now until the illness has passed

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@atmoio A very strong signal is sentence length. My experience for 10-15 years has been that the length of the sentences a person uses is directly correlated with their intellectual competence. Few people can casually process a 40+ word sentence, let alone compose it.

[Ikram Hawramani @IkramHawramani]

The amazing Tahdhīb al-Lughah dictionary of Al-Azharī (d. 981 CE) soon to be added to The Arabic Lexicon inshaAllah (parser program completed). #ArabicLinguistics #ArabicLanguage, #IslamicStudies

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@MM_Knight @OliverOjeil @shahanSean Iranian-heavy chains to others (keeping length constant) using (my) HadithRank. It will show if there is any fundamental difference in their quality.

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@MM_Knight @OliverOjeil @shahanSean the "field" of hadith and its professional practitioners (a very Iranian network), so it was natural that he received most of his hadiths from Iranians. Just a theory, maybe Nawas addresses it. It would be interesting to compare the hadiths with

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My software for automated abuse detection and rate-limiting for web servers is now open source, optimized to deal with distributed cloud-based abusers (analyzes whole IP ranges, not just individual IPs) https://t.co/Mi9NcjtO9D

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@icutmyownhairs These days Yandex is far better than Google for exact searches: vast database, no useless fluff. https://t.co/2maK1wuMa4

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Why Islam Has No Concept of “Renewal” Like In Christianity: From Earth-Centrism to God-Centrism https://t.co/aMcKXRpRK2

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New on my github: WordPress Table-of-Contents Shortcode Done Properly https://t.co/HiRgblblHZ

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New: A complete rebuild of my work on hadith verification (now with a formal algorithm and JavaScript implementation): The HadithRank Algorithm: From Subjective Sahih-Daif Grades to Objective Mathematical Scores Based on Information Theory

https://t.co/LYNW0fcchl

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@PhysInHistory The fact that it exists; that something exists rather than nothing.

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New blog post: Ali Shariati: Being for Yourself and Being for Others https://t.co/fKf7Pe0dk4

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Updated and greatly expanded article on Hawrami/Gorani "Kurds" not being Kurds, thanks to this recent scholarly work (Gorani in Its Historical and Linguistic Context) that supports what I said in 2017 (Hawramis are to Kurds as Persians are to Kurds). https://t.co/mBDLyxQh31

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@TheLaurenChen This is a good book on the topic, with many quotes from the earliest Christian authorities to pre-modern ones. https://t.co/IIsZ5ntgEv

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@henrizakaria I see absolutely nothing wrong with her attitude. It is supercilious and patronizing to decide for her which identity is superior; it implies she hasn't the intelligence and sense to decide for herself.

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@JeremyTate41 I love his 3D letter drawings and worked hard to copy his style during my ethics classes.