Desertification has been widely recognized as a major environmental and ecological problem facing humanity today. Combating desertification is a global challenge for sustainable development and requires collective action involving government, local communities, businesses, NGOs, and international organizations. Scholars’ role in this important endeavor and their mechanisms of participation, how...

in 1985-86, the european office of world health organization (who) proposed the health promotion program under the theme “healthy cities projects”. with the aim of securing individual and collective welfare, the staffs of healthy city in tehran also began their official activities at 13th aban street at rey (tehran’s 20th municipal district) along with community participation and intersectoral ...

undoubtedly the developments in arabian countries are one of the most important and influential developments that have occurred in the middle east over the past decades. of course there are widespread differences of opinions in regard of the nature, content and even the title or name of these developments. as a matter of fact some consider it as arab spring, arab developments and others conside...

Confronting scholarly viewpoints is as old as science itself. And never the amount of published scholarly knowledge has been quite as huge as nowadays. This fast growth can eventually overwhelm the capacity of the scholars using them as a support for creativity, by diluting their ability to link their subject of research with other works. In our work, we study the concept of ontology matching, ...

according to the content of the traditions that later on became renowned as “traditions of exposition” (‘arḍ) in the language of the legal theorists and jurists, the traditions whose issuance by the infallibles is suspicious are exposed to the holy qur’ān and are at least rejected in case they are opposed by the qur’ān. these traditions, that are among the sound and valid traditions in the shī‘...

the subject of current article is a review of the rationalist beliefs of the mu’tazilite scholars of the 3rd century in regard to the issue of “imamate”. the first half of the 3rd century is a very special period of time in islamic history during which superiority of the doctrine of “rationalism” or “following wisdom and being reasonable” is highly evident. the issue of “leadership” or “imamate...