since the victory of the islamic revolution in 1979 shiite islam has been adopted as state ideology in iran. this paper is concerned with the impact of islam on iranian strategic culture. more specifically, it examines the impact of islam on the manner iran employs force in self-defense. to shed light on the influence of ideology, the article has relied heavily on ayatollah khomeini's spee...

http://journals.cambridge.org/asp Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (ASP) is an international journal devoted to the Arabic sciences, mathematics and philosophy in the world of Islam between the eighth and eighteenth centuries, in a cross-cultural context. In 2009, the journal extended its scope to include important papers on scientific modernization from the nineteenth century in the Islamic worl...

the essential role of reading can be overlooked neither in the native nor in the second or foreign language. reading skill is an important asset in the process of literacy as well as a means of extending one's knowledge, however, teaching reading involves unique problems and challenges at all conceivable levels of instruction. focusing on teaching english to children, practitioners complai...

background and objectives: information ethics, according to islam, equals observing human rights and morals in dealing with information transmission and provision, which must be based on honesty and truthfulness. as islam highly values society and social issues, it believes that human behaviors and interactions are strongly interconnected in a society. committing to ethical issues regarding inf...

CONTEXT In order to gain a more detailed insight into the concept of spiritual health, a hybrid model of concept analysis was used to remove some of the ambiguity surrounding the conceptual meaning of spiritual health in Islamic and Iranian contexts. The purpose of this study was to clarify the meaning and nature of the spiritual health concept in the context of the practice of Islam among Iran...

N. S. Johari, I. Ahmad, and N. Halib b,c,* School of Chemical Science and Food Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia Medical Technology Division, Malaysian Nuclear Agency, Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), 15 Floor, Menara B, Persiaran MPAJ, Pandan In...

Recently, a number of methods have been proposed to improve image retrieval accuracy by capturing context information. These methods try to compensate for the fact that a visually less similar image might be more relevant because it depicts the same object. We propose a new quick method for refining any pairwise distance metric, it works by iteratively discovering the object in the image from t...