BACKGROUND It is well known how often psychiatric patients report religious experiences. These are especially frequent in schizophrenic and epileptic patients as the subject of their delusions. The question we pose is: are there differences between this kind of religious experiences and those we find in religious texts or in the mythological tradition? RESULTS An overview on famous mythologic...

abd allah b.sa’d, believed in islam and for a short time recorded divine revelations; but then he lost his faith. historical studies prove that his apostasy has no relation to writing celestial words. but story-writers who often lack an analytical mind, perhaps credulously or tendentiously connect his blaspheme to the act of recording sacred verses. these unfounded stories have entered history ...

the problem of pleasure is one of the long life, great, effective and much as disputable during the human history. and a variety of philosophical-ethical schools, and also religions, divine and non-divine have paid attention - affirmatively or negatively - to it since a long time ago. although, avicenna has been affected in his definition of the pleasure by scholars of the past, but he had not ...

mamdūh adwān (1941-2004) is a contemporary syrian poet who has vastly used traditions in his poems and has tried to express his ideas and stances toward arab world's current problems in a symbolic way and through traditional characters. mamdūh adwān is known as a poet committed to his country and people, and so, he considers expression of problems and provision of solutions as the highest ...

such elements as water, earth, creatures like plants and animals, and balanced biological relations among them comprise the natural order. such a rich resource is a grand divine bounty bestowed upon living creatures, so that while all creatures enjoy and use these resources, human beings would be able to develop land and earth, and provide all with a suitable habitat. thus the right to use such...

comparing the works of sohrab sepehri, iranian contemporary poet and jibran khalil jibran, arabian contemporary author fits the comparative literature in the american school though no such effects have been observed to exist between these two literary characters. one of the commonalities between these two literary figures is naturalism which has been considered as the utopia in their works. the...

We present a molecular theory to study the adsorption of different species within pH-sensitive hydrogel nanofilms. The theoretical framework allows for a molecular-level description of all the components of the system, and it explicitly accounts for the acid-base equilibrium. We concentrate on the adsorption of hexahistidine, one of the most widely used tags in bio-related systems, particularly...