Sunni Islam has no supreme legal authority and disagreement by doctors of Islamic law over all issues not clarified by Islamic law is physiological. This is the case with Medically Assisted Reproduction: after an initially critical attitude, tolerance, limited exclusively to homologous practices, is spreading, whilst recourse to heterologous practices is considered on a par with adultery or for...

Polymyxin B effects on motility parameters of cryopreserved bull semen Mojtaba Rashedi, Mohammad Hashem Fazeli, Hamid Gholami, Mohammad Bahreini Young Researchers and Elites Club, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran ...

1Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, I.R. Iran 2Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I.R. Iran 3Cellular & Molecular Biology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I.R. Iran 4Genomic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, ...

1Endocrine Research Centre, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Disease Control and the National Committee for the Control and Management of Diabetes, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 23/04/02; accepted: 06/01/03 SUMMARY Diabetes mellitus is a significant threat to public health. It...

1 Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University-Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Amol, P.O. Box 678, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics Education and the RINS, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju 660-701, South Korea 3 Department of Mathematics, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, South Korea 4 Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università degli Stu...

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, and one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious, and Comparative Studies in the world today. In this interview by Adeel Khan, Managing Editor of the journal Religions-Adyān, and Patrick Laude, Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Nasr el...

The authors regret that there is a mistake in the university name in one of the author’s affiliation. It is written over the article as ‘‘Al-ImamMuhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University’’. The correct one is as follows: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Al ImamMohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), P.O. BOX 90950, 11623 Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The authors ...

Mohammad Reza Youssefi, Reza Tabaripour, Vahid Fallah Omrani, Adel Spotin, Behzad Esfandiari Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Islamic Azad University Babol-Branch, Iran Department of Cellular and Molecular, Islamic Azad University Babol-Branch, Iran Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Paras...

The comparative approach regarding the ethics of surrogacy from the Western secular and Islamic bioethical view reveals both commensurable and incommensurable relationship. Both are eager to achieve the welfare of the mother, child and society as a whole but the approaches are not always the same. Islamic bioethics is straightforward in prohibiting surrogacy by highlighting the lineage problem ...

Objective The analysis in this paper represents the first step of a multi-phase effort to understand the disease burden, and to develop strategies for tackling the health problems of Islamic populations. In this starting phase of the analysis, an overview of the burden of disease for selected Islamic populations is presented. Criteria Used for Country Selection Countries included in the analysi...