the theory of perfect man that was dispersed in published works of islamic thinkers, started out as an independent subject and eventually annotations were added to it. the ontological aspect of this issue has been reviewed several times. however, the worldly functions of the perfect man have not been analyzed yet. unlike some mystics and sufis who limit the perfect man to practice in spiritual ...

great revolutions which their effectiveness was over of the changing political sovereignty are a source the transformation of the educational systems. islamic revolution of iran as a great revolution has a different characters than other great revolutions due to its historical context. changes in the educational system strongly depends on characters of revolutions influenced on them. this issue...

I was asked by ISNA to produce a short guide to Islamic Banking and Finance for the Muslims of North America. To keep this guide short, we had to define our target audience rather carefully. This introductory guide is meant to address the Muslim who is familiar with the fundamental tenets and sources of legislation in Islam. The reader is not assumed to have elaborate prior knowledge of Islamic...

6th century BCE, probably as part of the expansion into the region of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Lying on one of the main branches of the ancient Silk Roads, which connected Europe and Africa to the Far East, a succession of cities flourished. By the early medieval period these encompassed over 1,000ha (Fig. 1). The great Islamic city of Sultan Kala, capital of the eastern Islamic world, wa...

The notion of " Islamic finance " was born during the tumultuous identity-politics years of the mid-twentieth century. Indian, Pakistani, and Arab thinkers contemplated independence from Britain, and independence of Pakistan from India, within a context of " Islamic society. " Islam was assumed to inspire political, economic, and financial systems that are distinctive and independent of the Wes...

Copyright © 2014, Iranian Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ISRAPM); Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There are many references in ancient Iranian literature on...

Abstract For scholars that are working with epistemology and the importance thereof within context of ongoing bickering (fighting/mudslinging) between theist atheists, or rather rationality irrationality in theology religion, may come to view religion as a monument from where better belief system (as an incentive) can have effect on current faith systems. Therefore, Judeo-Christian-Islamic lang...

This article recognises the potential importance of Islamic finance products in Australia, along with the current regulatory impediments preventing Australia from becoming a leader in the Asia-Pacific Islamic finance market. Taking into account the potential importance of, and impediments to, Islamic finance, this article highlights, through the historical development and contemporary state of ...