One of the many disastrous consequences of the tragic events of 9/11 is the war waged by the neocolonialists in order to “liberate” Muslim women. This gender-based war stands on a series of pillars, such as the presumption that Western civilization offers women a great deal of privileges, while Muslim culture gives none. Therefore, it would be logical to suppose that, because of the many opport...

The Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides perpetrated within the Ottoman Empire by Turkish government at beginning of 20th century were not only direct implementations ideological convictions or a result single decision. Those were, rather, amalgam certain theories adjusted to political economic developments in country desire turn multi-ethnic multi-religious empire into nation-state. Stressin...

The Malay world in the Southeast Asian region holds various Islamic -based scholarly and intellectual treasures, which have yet to be fully explored. Efforts uncover valuable old treasures must made continuously because of its interests, especially framework development advancement ummah. also saw birth influential Muslim thinkers who drove ummah towards excellence glory. One figures discussed ...

BACKGROUND Multiple demographic, genetic, and environmental factors differ between Muslim and Jewish infants in Israel. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether, after adjustment for perinatal factors associated with mortality, excess mortality occurs in very low birthweight (VLBW) Muslim compared with Jewish infants. DESIGN The Israel National VLBW infant database includes data on 99% of all VLBW bir...

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 the Americas. This data is summarized to be a reference for other studies and discussions related to Muslim population. The data show that Muslim population in the Americas, both in size and in percentage, remains very low. Accordingly, there are less...

This article explains the level of economic freedom in Muslim countries through the theory of institutional path dependency. Islamic countries are generally not free and they have a poor record regarding property rights. To explain these realities we use the institutional history of Muslim countries. We define three steps: the Arab and Ottoman Empires when Islamic law was of great importance, E...

We construct a unique geocoded dataset on temples, dynasties and battles in medieval India and propose a test to identify the motive for observed temple desecrations in that period. We test two competing historical narratives of temple desecrations. The first focuses on the idea of iconoclasm, i.e. destruction of religious sites and imagery deemed heretical, as embedded in Islamic theology. The...