Iran and World Contemporary Developments

Nursing developments in Iran during World Wars I & II: A historical study

Background and Purpose: Iran's nursing has witnessed remarkable changes in the period 1914 to 1945 that could be a turning point in the history of the nursing professionin Iran. This paper is a survey of modern nursing transformation history in the historical period of the World Warsand their impacton the development of the nursing profession in Iran. Methods: In the present historical study, f...

Contemporary Developments in Information and Consultation

Dialectical Materialism and Developments in Contemporary Science

iqbal’s nationalism and contemporary muslim world

this paper deals with the philosophical aspects of nationalism and pan-islamism in view of dr. muhammad iqbal, a great poet and philosopher of sub-continent. the paper examines in an analytical way, how iqbal’s concept of nationalism is different from western brand of nationalism and coincided with jamal-u-din afghani’s ideal of pan-islamism. the paper discusses how iqbal reconciled his ideal w...

Consanguinity in the contemporary world.

The rarity of consanguineous marriage in much of the industrialized world, and the current restriction or outright prohibition of first-cousin unions in a majority of US states and in East Asian countries such as China, North and South Korea and the Philippines, has led many commentators to overlook the fact that the Out-of-Africa migration some 60,000–70,000 years ago had been undertaken by qu...