Religion and psychiatry have had complicated, sometimes neutral or friendly and cooperative, sometimes competitive and antagonistic relations over their long histories. Relations between psychiatry and religion are influenced by complex belief systems, each diverse and changing. Psychiatry has often ignored spiritual and religious dimension in health and illness while religions influenced the t...

India had never aspired to live in isolation and always kept its doors open for the people and culture from across the world. The philosophy of tolerance and coexistence of all faiths and races had been the essence of its civilization. It remained a melting pot for the world culture and civilization. The intensive interaction between India and Arab world was dynamic, diverse and multidimensiona...

This paper initially examines theories proposed by Feenberg abouttechnical systems and alternative modernity, analyzes his thoughts, andconcludes that a framework of values needs to be provided in shapingtechnical systems. In a society like Iran, where policy makers are looking forthe realization of Islamic values, this framework of values is derived fromIslam. To explain the relationship betwe...

IT was Sir Winston Churchill who remarked in 1944, when addressing the Royal College of Physicians, that "the longer you can look back, the further you can look forward." Probably in no field is this more true than in the biological sciences. An understanding of their evolution in a historical sense at once provides a perspective and a background to knowledge which illuminates the path to furth...

Khiva has such a resemblance with Iranian art, culture, and civilization and it will not be irrelevant to consider it as a gemstone in the field of culture and civilization of Iran in Transoxiana. This city is located in the Khwarezm. Reviews tell of earlier historical and cultural links of Khwarezm with Iran. Khwarezm name has come in the Achaemenid inscriptions.Khiva is a city with a plethora...

this research is to study the iranian society in the first era of the qajar reign. an important feature of this era lies in its traditional socio-political structure's not being affected by the western civilization. thus, the political behaviour of this society is naturally and to a great extent harmonious with the iranian historical background. in this historical juncture, the roots of au...

this paper initially examines theories proposed by feenberg abouttechnical systems and alternative modernity, analyzes his thoughts, andconcludes that a framework of values needs to be provided in shapingtechnical systems. in a society like iran, where policy makers are looking forthe realization of islamic values, this framework of values is derived fromislam. to explain the relationship betwe...

south indian language, culture and civilization, dravidian civilization, is important for many of linguists, anthropologists and archaeologists. so, they are trying to find the origins of it. today, the scholars of civilizations try, however, to find any connection between dravidians culture and their own language and culture. so, they attempt to study in this field. it is clear that the cultur...