in 41 ayat of holy quran, it is discussed about child birth, formation of fetus in uterus and also its process. it led to attention of muslim scholars to this topic. they had wide researches and experiments on gynecology, fertility, infertility and childbirth. their findings are considerable even in current era. medical sciences in islamic golden age (contemporaneous with medieval age in the we...

In this paper, I analyze how the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, marked by increased parliamentary power in late 2006 due to unprecedented success in the 2005 elections, impacts female labor force participation in districts in which Muslim Brotherhood candidates won compared to those in which they did not win. I use a difference in differences estimation strategy, using both district a...

In December 1996, TIME magazine published an article titled ‘‘Finding God on the Web,’’ which projected how the Internet would shape information seeking on faith and religion. A decade later, the Web has become a popular tool for gathering religious information as well as information and imagery related to religious travel. Yet there is little research on religious destination imagery online. I...

In the process of studying the number of tourist arrivals of each moment on every day, one of the key findings is a very good statistical regularity about tourist total arrivals. There exists high similarity among different scales of tourist arrivals, including the nearly same change trend. And on this basis this paper puts forward a new method of modeling and forecasting real-time tourist arri...

Medical anthropological research on science, biotechnology, and religion has focused on the "local moral worlds" of men and women as they make difficult decisions regarding their health and the beginnings and endings of human life. This paper focuses on the local moral worlds of infertile Muslims as they attempt to make, in the religiously correct fashion, Muslim babies at in vitro fertilizatio...

The purpose of this manuscript is to present a reliable estimate in form of tables of the Muslim population and its percentage in each country in Africa. This data is summarized to be a reference for other studies and discussions related to Muslim population. The presented data show that about 27% of the population of Africa is Muslim, a total of about 446 million.

This study, for the first time, attempts to explore the factors affecting tourist satisfaction with a theatrical performance, The Romance of the Song Dynasty in Hangzhou, China. Four factors are identified to have affected tourist satisfaction: “Performance,” “Venue Environment,” “Service,” and “Stage Facilities”. These theatrical performance factors are examined to assess the relative influenc...

Guest Editors help invite many high-quality papers for Remote Sensing. To acknowledge and encourage the generous work and precious time of the guest editor team of Special Issues in Remote Sensing, we launched the Best Guest Editor Award last year for Special Issues closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017. In total, 40 Special Issues were closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017 and these Specia...

many people and even some doctors, in the past, believed that only god decides about human birth. they believed that human knowledge is far from determining this. when islamic civilization began to spread, medical knowledge made great progress too. muslim doctors began to express their opinions about fertility and infertility. this study, which is basically a library research, is an attempt to ...

This paper examines the relationship between nationalism, state formation, and the marginalisation of national minorities through an historical focus on Pakistani state’s relationship with the Ahmadiyya community, a self-defined minority sect of Islam. In 1974, a constitutional amendment was enacted that effectively rendered the Ahmadiyya community a non-Muslim minority, in spite of claims by t...