The chief innovation of the genre was organizational ( i. e. the collection of asbāb-material within one text ) and to a lesser degree methodological, and so while no work prior to al-Wāhidī's Kitāb may be properly called an instance of asbāb al-nuzūl, material of equivalent function exists in the earliest hadith and tafsir.

A detailed examination of the function of asbāb at several of these levels follows.

Unless otherwise noted examples all come from Rippin's The function of asbāb al-nuzūl in Qur ' ānic exegesis ( BSOAS 51 ).

Many " ethnological " asbāb exist for this purpose, with those put forward for Q. 2: 158 particularly illustrative of their function at this level of interpretation:

These asbāb have no legal incidence ; they function merely to settle a matter of curiosity as well as to contrast the Islamic dispensation with what came before, obviously to the benefit of the former.

Unconcerned with the practical function of his actions, the dancer is engrossed exclusively in their `` motional content ''.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

`` Mr. Gross, your report says that ' our function is investigative and advisory and does not in any way derogate from or prejudice Mr. Bang-Jensen's rights as a staff member.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

Men seem almost universally to want a sense of function, that is, a feeling that their existence makes a difference to someone, living or unborn, close and immediate or generalized.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

A primary function is the operation of a Government Bid Center, which receives bids daily from the Federal Government's principal purchasing agencies.

The education function of the Institute is carried on by the staff in the departments of pathology and its consultants.

The responsibility for taking the initiative in generating ideas is that of every officer in the Department who has a policy function, regardless of rank.

This function is staffed by engineers chosen for their technical competence and who have the title, member of the technical staff.

If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.

This is interesting for it combines both the thermodynamic concept of a minimum Gibbs function for equilibrium and minimum mechanical potential energy for equilibrium.

The concept of the strain energy as a Gibbs function difference Af and exerting a force normal to the shearing face is compatible with the information obtained from optical birefringence studies of fluids undergoing shear.

A proton magnetic resonance study of polycrystalline Af as a function of magnetic field and temperature is presented.

Within certain wide limits anatomy dictates function and, if one is permitted to speculate, potential pathology should be included in this statement as well.

When each number of successes X is paired with its probability of occurrence Af, the set of pairs Af, is a probability function called a binomial distribution.

The function f{t} defined in this way is multi-valued.

In some neighborhood in the f-plane of any ordinary point of the graph, the function f is a single-valued, continuous function.

No matter what troubles might betide him, this most American of artists knew in his heart he could not function properly outside his native land.

Fundamentally, an atomic orbital is a one-electron wave function, even though most electrons do not exist in one-electron atoms, and so the one-electron view is an approximation.

In physics, the most common orbital descriptions are based on the solutions to the hydrogen atom, where orbitals are given by the product between a radial function and a pure spherical harmonic.

Applications could not directly address video memory in this mode without modification, so it was incompatible with most games, although there is no inherent reason why a game could not be written to function in shadow mode.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

* act-ACT is a lossy ADPCM 8 kbit / s compressed audio format recorded by most Chinese MP3 and MP4 players with a recording function, and voice recorders

For small values of m like 1, 2, or 3, the Ackermann function grows relatively slowly with respect to n ( at most exponentially ).

This bodyguard function was often executed by the leader's most loyal warriors, and was extremely effective throughout most of early human history, leading assassins to attempt stealthy means, such as poison ( which risk was answered by having another person taste the leader's food first ).

A rational function has at most one horizontal asymptote or oblique ( slant ) asymptote, and possibly many vertical asymptotes.

Although most legislation is initiated by the executive branch, the Bundestag considers the legislative function its most important responsibility, concentrating much of its energy on assessing and amending the government's legislative program.

A number of internal groups flourished within the new party, the most notable of which was the Tawney Society ( mirroring the function of the Fabian Society within the Labour Party ).

On early keyboards without a key ( before the introduction of 101-key keyboards ) the Pause function was assigned to, and the Break function to ; these key-combinations still work with most programs, even on modern PCs with modern keyboards.

for an arbitrary real or complex number α ( the order of the Bessel function ); the most common and important cases are for α an integer or half-integer.

The most fertile time of socialization is usually the early stages of life, during which individuals develop the skills and knowledge and learn the roles necessary to function within their culture and social environment.

This system later gradually developed into a system with a royal judge nominating a number of the most esteemed men of the parish as his board, fulfilling the function of " the people " of yore.

These definitions are equivalent to one another, so the most convenient definition can be used to determine whether a given function is continuous or not.

Curried functions may be used in any language that supports closures ; however, uncurried functions are generally preferred for efficiency reasons, since the overhead of partial application and closure creation can then be avoided for most function calls.

( Overburning itself is so named because it is outside the written standards, but, due to market demand, it has nonetheless become a de facto standard function in most CD writing drives and software for them.

The most common function of a diode is to allow an electric current to pass in one direction ( called the diode's forward direction ), while blocking current in the opposite direction ( the reverse direction ).

For instance, one common function in most languages is the, which returns some human-readable form for the object.

In this most common form of Gnosticism the Demiurge had an inferior though not intrinsically evil function in the universe as the head of the animal, or psychic world.