background and objectives: prayer is one of the most important religious ordinances and is one of the necessities of islam. in spite of the progression of medicine science, it is sometimes seen that the mundane subjects become hopeless in curing physical diseases and this time, the hopeless man appeals to the lord god. this review study was conducted to examine the positive and negative views r...

In this paper, we propose to analyze the phenomenon of Christian prayer by way of combining two different analytical frameworks. We start by applying Schutz's theories of "intersubjectivity," "inner time," "politheticality," and "multiple realities," and then proceed by drawing on the ideas and insights of linguistic philosophers, notably, Wittgenstein's "language-game," Austin's "speech act," ...

This research takes up the dialectical presentation of Terrorist by John Updike to underscore actively mediating presence reader(s) in treating meaning as an event. Drawing on Rosenblatt’s ‘aesthetic mode’ reading, this paper argues that determinate and indeterminate meaning(s) perpetuate Islamophobia, ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism (mis)informed reader. The central character Terrorist, Ahmad, is ...

Abstract The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted global mobility. ‘Lockdowns’ and travel bans have been used as control measures by international governments. Consequently, ways that we use buildings also these actions. Thus, this paper explores roles heritage sites in a post-COVID-19 society. This research is part Urban Heritage Community Resilience: Conservation, Tourism, Pandemic pro...

This study investigated the proposition of relaxation offered by performing the Muslim prayers by measuring the alpha brain activity in the frontal (F3-F4), central (C3-C4), parietal (P3-P4), and occipital (O1-O2) electrode placements using the International 10-20 System. Nine Muslim subjects were asked to perform the four required cycles of movements of Dhuha prayer, and the EEG were subsequen...