Statistical Analysis of the Aphorisms in Nahj al-Balaghah

EasyChair Preprint 7767

Abstract

Besides the Holly Quran, Nahj al-Balagha is the main source of literature in Arabian nations, specially for Shia as one of the main branches of the Muslims. Along with literary brilliance, the text of this book covers the broad topics. This research deals with the application of the statistical text and data analysis to extract knowledge from the aphorisms in Nahj al-Balaghah. First, we classify these aphorisms in seven topics. Then, the count of the aphorisms in each category is computed. Finally, the counts of the aphorisms of the categories are compared using the chi-square test and the cluster analysis.

Keyphrases: Nahj al-Balagha, aphorisms, data analysis, statistics, text mining

@booklet{EasyChair:7767,
  author    = {Yu Tian and Kim-Hung Pho Pho and Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi},
  title     = {Statistical Analysis of the Aphorisms in Nahj al-Balaghah},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 7767},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}