OBJECTIVE to gain insight into pregnant Muslim Moroccan women's preferences regarding the content of and approach to antenatal counselling for anomaly screening. DESIGN qualitative study using in-depth interviews. SETTING participants were recruited from one midwifery practice in a medium-sized city near Amsterdam. PARTICIPANTS 12 pregnant Muslim Moroccan women who live in an area with a ...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the results of an exploratory qualitative study on Muslim adolescents' views on sexuality in the Netherlands. METHODS Data were gathered from an Internet forum on which 44 Muslim and 33 non-Muslim adolescents discussed sexuality as it relates to Islam. These discussions were subsequently analyzed for content using Nvivo 2.0. RESULTS Our analysis revealed seve...

some contemporary logicians have introduced a new simple method of logical consequences and reduced all immediate arguments to conversion and obversion. by dint of positive and infinite terms, one of the logicians, reza akbari, increased the four traditional quantified propositions to 32 ones: the 4 well-known positives, 4 subject-infinites, 4 predicate-infinites, 4 two-sided-infinites, and the...

Culture defines how persons behave towards each other. When nurses and patients belong to different cultures, culture-based misunderstandings could influence the nurse-patient relationships and interactions adversely. The purpose of the study was to determine non-Muslim nurses' knowledge about Muslim traditions pertaining to obstetric units in a Muslim country. A quantitative descriptive resear...

BACKGROUND American Muslim women are an understudied population; thus, significant knowledge gaps exist related to their most basic health behaviors and indicators. Considering this, we examined American Muslim women's contraception utilization patterns. METHODS Self-reported data collected in late 2015 were analyzed. Women who identified as Muslim, were at least 18 years old, sexually active...

Objective The analysis in this paper represents the first step of a multi-phase effort to understand the disease burden, and to develop strategies for tackling the health problems of Islamic populations. In this starting phase of the analysis, an overview of the burden of disease for selected Islamic populations is presented. Criteria Used for Country Selection Countries included in the analysi...

In this article the author explains the social role of Muslim woman in a postmodern society through a public symbol of her identity--the veil. The article's thesis is that the Muslim women's manifestation of their Islamic denomination through veiling and wearing appropriate clothes (in the case of men through growing beards and wearing clothes considered appropriate for them) signifies an expre...

main purpose in this research is the explanation of different views of muslim philosophers on the p.f.c to establish an imperative religion education. reaching to this purpose we use the content analysis and logical deduction among the research methods. on the basis of the research findings, we can find two different approaches in the religious-intellectual education: popular and specialized. t...

a r t i c l e i n f o Although negative stereotypes towards Muslims escalated after the events of September 11th, little is known about how Muslim children think about their own group members. Therefore, the current study examined Muslim children's attitudes towards Muslims and non-Muslims. Sixty-five 5-to 8-year-old Muslim children, enrolled in an Islamic school, engaged in two tasks. In the a...

There is a long tradition of the interest of logicians in computer science and of computer scientists in logic. On the one hand, many problems raised and investigated by logicians before the emergence of computer science turned out to be relevant for the new science. We may quote here the notion of algorithm, model theory or relational systems. On the other hand, some problems stemming from com...