General outline In the Renaissance, astrology provided a compelling explanation of human and natural phenomena. !rough an elaborate system of correspondences, humans and their social world were connected to the movements of the heavens and especially the motions of the planets. !is general worldview was shared by people across all registers of society, from the illiterate peasant to the Renaiss...

The Holy Quran is the biggest Miracle of Muslims everywhere and at every time; therefore, it is valid for every time and place. Actually, researches and studies into the Holy Quran that aim to uncover new miracles within are considered as a kind of worship for Muslims researchers since it facilitates the Islamic mission and clarifies the vague picture of Islam throughout the world. From this pe...

Al-Qur’ān is the holy book as a guide for people in any condition. This including COVID-19 pandemic that has spread across world. article aims to outline message Qur'ān about work ethic during Covid-19 pandemic. literature review study with Maudhui method of verses related ethic. It was using content analysis. The showed even though taking place, Muslims are still obliged because Allah expressl...

The number of Internet Muslim-users is remarkably increasing from all over the world countries. There are a lot of structured, and well-documented text resources for the Quran interpretation, Tafsir, over the Internet with several languages. Nevertheless, when searching for the meaning of specific words, many users prefer watching short videos rather than reading a script or a book. This paper ...

Biological nitrogen fixation is a very valuable alternative to nitrogen fertilizer. This process will be discussed in the “Biological Nitrogen Fixation” book. A wide array of free-living and associative nitrogen fixing organisms (diazotrophs) will be covered. The most extensively studied and applied example of biological nitrogen fixation is the symbiotic interaction between nitrogen fixing “rh...

"Holy Grail" is a well-known metaphor for the eternal spiritual pursuit for truth and wisdom. It suggests that in order for us to find what no one has found, we must search where few have looked. In 2013, a group led by Helen Mayberg published a groundbreaking paper that sought an answer to one of the most discussed conundrums in psychiatry and neuroscience: Can specific patterns of brain activ...

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While writing a book on paraphilias, the author made a thorough search of early references to paraphilias in literature, especially the Bible. Surprisingly just one published paper was available in the literature having any discussion on the references of paraphilia in the Bible, and that too was in French. [Bieder J. The polymorphous sexual deviant: a reading of Freud and the Bible. Ann Med Ps...

The Shepherd of Hermas is an important second century writing about a Christian, in Rome, who experienced five visions, twelve mandates (or commandments), and ten parables. It is a very long book of 114 chapters dealing with the spirituality of the main character, Hermas. It was so popular among second and third century Christians that many thought it should be included as part of the New Testa...