religious knowledge is consists of doctrines that could be attain with amethodological cognition and inquiry concerning religious sources. but theprerequisite of this kind of knowledge is some principles that from whichscholarly studies on religion is begin and leads to conclusion. allamehtabatabaei, in his efforts to achieve a regular and accurate cognition ofreligion according to his special ...

Driving back from Professor Viseltear's funeral, a friend presented us with a paradox. By temperment and training that friend was a medical materialist; he believed in what he could see and study-in tissues and cells, molecules and atoms. Within such a world the spiritual seemed to have little foundation, and yet he wasn't ready to believe that with the ceasing of Professor Viseltear's heart hi...

In recent years, a growing number of studies have presented—in one way or another—various psychotherapeutic projections set spiritual practices early Christian monasticism. an attempt to establish dialogue between the doctrines Late Antiquity and contemporary psychotherapy, it could be risky extrapolate anachronistic terms, questions discussions that are foreign original context Early Church Fa...

179 IN 1978, THE PHILOSOPHER DANIEL DENNETT presented us with an interesting and entertaining thought experiment entitled “Where am I?” as the last chapter of his Brainstorms book.1 Dennett recounts the story of a “curious episode” in his life where his brain got surgically separated from his body, with each connection between them restored by placing two “microminiaturized radio transceivers” ...

ghazzali has viewed pleasure as perceiving what is desirable and has given it in different types of: sensible and hearty, sensible and non sensible, external and internal, sensible and intellectual, intellectual and bodily. he has viewed human pleasure growth to be in five steps and known five elements for distinguishing them including those of the faculty of perception, perceptions, the meanin...

Large-scale events such as COVID-19 show that there are situations that can lead to huge stress on health infrastructuresystems (HIS). The pandemic reveals that it is very difficult to protect HIS from all kinds of possible hazards. Considerthe trend of these types of viruses, such as N1H1, SARS and Ebola. These types of hazards could be more frequentand extreme in the future....

Our much respected Editor-in-Chief turns 75 years on 1st December, and we would like to seize the opportunity to thank him for all the support and wish him many more years of success and fruitful collaboration with us. Terry Erwin was with ZooKeys from the very beginning. Words can barely describe how much has he contributed to strengthening and developing the journal, especially during its inf...

the renowned proverb “shāhnāma axarash xoš ast” has implicit question which its answer may change our understanding of the nature and function of shāhnāma. the end of shāhnāma contains numerous tragic events in sassanid age. also it does not seem to be normal if the iranians have deemed the bitter adventure of the shahs and pahlavāns as a happy ending like what firdausi narrates at the end of h...

ethics of social relations in a way that would pave the way society is experiencing mental breakdown and failure you can not be a separation between law and moral, religious order, legislative regulation of human life, whether it is from god for the actions, sports, and other objects of his own life and ethical issues it is also a religious order and the legal charge welcome to god's moral...