BACKGROUND Tobacco control effort should be first started in people that are looked upon as role models for the general population. We aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of religious officials towards smoking and the new tobacco law. METHOD The study group was comprised of 492 Imams and 149 Quran course instructors working in Kahramanmaras city of Turkey, 641 religious o...

Osmanlı Devleti’nde muhtarlıklar İstanbul’da 1829, taşrada ise 1833 yılında kurulmaya başlamıştır. Bu döneme kadar mahallenin yönetimini imamlar üstlenmişlerdir. Mahalledeki huzur ve asayişin temininden sorumlu olan imamlara devlet ayrıca göçle mücadele konusunda da önemli görevler vermiştir. Mahallelinin kefile bağlanması, kefilsiz göçmenlerin ihbarı, mahalleden ihraçları, kaldıkları yerlerin ...

PURPOSE Pakistan is a patriarchal society in which male opinion leaders play an important role in determining health-seeking behaviors pertaining to family planning (FP) among their respective communities. This research focuses on cataloguing the perceptions of opinion leaders (clergymen, health professionals, and social workers) about the barriers for using services and practical solutions for...

BACKGROUND Evidence for the association between religiosity and HIV infections is limited. Sujda, the hyper-pigmented spot on the forehead due to repeated prostration during prayers and fasting to worship, involving abstaining from food, drink and sex during daytime in Ramadhan and other specified days, are measures of religiosity among Muslims OBJECTIVES To assess the association between rel...

Turkish law is applied for all marriage procedures of asylum-seekers, refugees and stateless persons to be conducted in Turkey. Under law, a national an asylum-seeker, refugee or person, two asylum-seekers different nationalities, can married by the authorities. All marriages carried out authorities are subject Civil Code related regulations. Marriages officers at Marriage Departments municipal...

This paper aims to apply the principle of maalat af’al (consequences an action) in analysing issue women converting Islam without their husbands from perspective maslahah (public interest). Despite fact that majority classical scholars maintain view this marriage must be dissolved, dealing with case Muslim minority circumstances needs more consideration, particularly terms (securing benefit and...

In this article, the history of appearance fatwa process is briefly explored, as well what conditions giver must meet today. The search for answers from ordinary citizens regarding any sphere their life Koran calls for, and companions Prophet, peace be upon him, were doing. When studying issue, one can find many scholars’ statements opinions, they differ change depending on time in which speake...

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