Pastoral Psychology is one of the oldest and most well established academic journals in the field of psychology and religion/spirituality. Since 1950, the journal offers an international interdisciplinary forum for the publication of original papers that discuss the work of caring for, understanding, and exploring human beings as persons, in families, in small groups, and in community. This pee...

BACKGROUND Although nurses acknowledge that spiritual care is part of their role, in reality, it is performed to a lesser extent. The purpose of the present study was to explore nurses' and patients' experiences about the conditions of spiritual care and spiritual interventions in the oncology units of Tabriz. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted with a qualitative conventional cont...

insulting to prophet or imam is obscene, shameful and insupportable for any muslim, so the person who insults must be killed. any where that there is no islamic government or it has not been ordained any rule about killing insulter; killing insulter has no retaliation (punishment). but when legislator especially issued a rule for killing punishment in article513 for the crime of insulting to pr...

the mus'haf of imam ali (as) is part of the heritage and precious resources of the shiite imams knoledge, that his manuscript version was from the holy quran to dictation of the prophet (pbuh.).according to the ahadith,both shiite and sunni has been approvedexistence ofthismus'haf. the content of themus'hafof ali(as) is different in the order of the suras and probably in a few ve...

shaykh shams al-din mohammad ben makki ameli known as the first martyr is an outstanding faqih from jabal amel in the ayyubids period. trying to spread shiism in an anti-shiite environment and to have relationships with the sarbedaran of khorasan in iran, he was imprisoned and finally martyred. relying on the relationship between religion and reason and the status of reason in religious precept...

: in this article the presence of women in islamic society has been addressed. women has been discussed in three social, economic, and scientific areas. the relation between the islamic jurisdiction and social presence of women has been studied based on the act and tradition of the prophet and imams. moreover, this article examines how much the islamic rulers adhere to the islamic acts and trad...

being an outstanding hadith transmitter of sunni hadith collections as well as narrating some hadiths in shiite collections while having some relation with shiite fourth, fifth, and sixth imams on the one hand and occupying various posts for 45 years in marwanid court on the other, zuhri played a significant role in organizing and writing down hadiths. such a background caused contradictory jud...

historiography by sunnīs on the subject of the purified imams (a.s.)’s life started along with the shī‘as’ and has continued ever since. the evolutionary development of this trend, which has had its ups and downs proportionate to the cultural vicissitudes of the muslim world, requires undergoing serious studies. despite addressing such issues as the why, the how, and the context of the producti...