in this article, the author studies the history of pluralism in the west and islamic world. then he has a look on the scopes and applications of pluralism and gives a new classification for it: 1- behavioral pluralism 2- cognitive pluralism he extends his philosophical thoughts and offers a novel point of view on this topic.

The rhetoric of Islamic banking – exemplified in this opening quote by one of the industry’s most prominent pioneers – is derived from its historical evolution as a model of two-tier silent partnership. In fact, Islamic banks have mimicked conventional bank assets – from receivables to bonds, with credit sale and lease-backed debt instruments. In the meantime, Islamic banks have continued to re...

Evaluation of performance and productivity is among the fundamental concepts inmanagement. In order to achieve their goals, organizations must evaluate theirperformance. One of the important stages of performance appraisal is evaluation oforganization’s efficiency. Banks, financial and credit institutions are among the mostimportant organizations of every economic system, because every activity...

background: deterministic thinking is one of the major cognitive distortions. this type of thinking ignores any possibility in making a conclusion about events. any consequence of an event may be thought as: 2×2= 4. equality is a dominant factor among all conclusions of this kind of distortion. distortion emerges in cognitive rigidity in the mind and could be the source of all distortions. cogn...

1Biology Department, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IR Iran 2Neurophysiology Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran 3Physiology Department, Medicine Faculty, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran 4Biology Department, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Hamadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, ...

Despite the enormous number of documents and the huge amount of information contained in the Internet, the information search process is still difficult and unsatisfactory. The main reason behind this is that the search engines use the traditional search which depends on the keywords not on the concepts as semantic search engines. Tim Berners-Lee invented the Semantic Web in 2001 and until now ...

1Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Environment and Energy, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Environment and Energy, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Management, University of Tehran, Iran 4Department of Environmental Science, Faculty...

The purpose of this study is to calculate and examine the Islamic banks operating efficiency in Pakistan. It consists of 04(four) full-fledged Islamic Banks of Pakistan. The results of Liquidity & Profitability ratios and stochastic frontier approach using data of 2004 to 2011 showed positive patterns with respect to ROE, ROA and NPR. According to the achieved results, Meezan Islamic Bank can b...

Marwan Saad Azzubaidi *, Anil Kumar Saxena , Ahmed Ghazi Alattraqchi 3 and Abualrahman Mohammed Abdualkader 4 1 Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuantan, Malaysia. 2 Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuantan, Malaysia. 3 Biochemistry Unit, Faculty of Medicine,...