Bilal Syed Arfeen

The Chants Have Cycled: Structural Convergence Between The Mars Volta's Lyrical Corpus and the Qur'anic Architecture of Formed Agency

This paper examines the lyrical corpus of The Mars Volta (seven studio albums, 2003--2022) through the interpretive framework developed in two companion papers: a three-level architecture of moral responsibility for formed agents, and a computational ontology grounded in Islamic...

The Chants Have Cycled: Structural Convergence Between The Mars Volta's Lyrical Corpus and the Qur'anic Architecture of Formed Agency

This paper examines the lyrical corpus of The Mars Volta (seven studio albums, 2003--2022) through the interpretive framework developed in two companion papers: a three-level architecture of moral responsibility for formed agents, and a computational ontology grounded in Islamic...