Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, and one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious, and Comparative Studies in the world today. In this interview by Adeel Khan, Managing Editor of the journal Religions-Adyān, and Patrick Laude, Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Nasr el...

Using new survey data (N = 1,646), we examine the attitudes academic scientists at 21 elite U.S. research universities have about the perceived conflict between religion and science. In contrast to public opinion and scholarly discourse, most scientists do not perceive a conflict between science and religion. Different from what other studies would indicate, this belief does not vary between so...

About 110 years ago, Iran experienced a revolution, which was known to be an attempt for development and modernization. The revolutionary roots had been established by new-coming social forces named as intellectuals. Since studying the past highlights the future, the necessity of intellectuals’ discourse as well as understanding their discourse strategies on the road to development and modernit...

the formation of chlamydospores of phytophthora parsiana, a newly described high temperature tolerant pathogen of woody plants, were investigated in culture media and in infected roots of susceptible host plants. different solid agar media and cleared v-8 juice broth were inoculated with different isolates of p. parsiana and incubated for four days at room temperature before they were transferr...