Hizb’allahs råderum i transnationale shia islamiske magtstrukturer

Philosophical Rationalism in Shia Kalam

One important question that the emergence of philosophical or rational Kalam has raised is what rationalism in the so-called Kalami (theological) schools actually means. This paper investigates the answers to the aforementioned question in Shi’a Kalam. Also, we have a comparative look at the philosophical Kalam and the rational one, concluding the identity of Shi’a Kalam with Shi’a philosophy. ...

Modern Sunni-Shia conflicts and their neglected tropical diseases

1 Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texa...

Western Zionist Stream against Shia Culture

Westerns, who thought that they were the unrivaled rulers in the world after the collapse of the Soviet :::::union:::::, suddenly faced with Islamic revolution in Iran and the power of Shia, and from the beginning of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, they tried to prevent the increasing power of Shia in Iran and all over the world in different ways. The purpose of this study is rev...

A Comparison between Shia Islamic Theory of State and Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic of Iran

Use of Lower Limb Measurements in Reconstructing Stature among Shia Muslims

The present study aims to reconstruct stature among male and female Shia Muslims of Delhi using lower limb dimensions. To this aim the stature, femur length, tibial length, fibular length, foot length and foot breadth were recorded on each subject using the standard measurement techniques recommended by Martin and Saller 1 The data is composed of 1011 Shia Muslims (503 males and 508 females) wi...