This article examines the significance of and motives behind projection a distinctively Islamic image King Faruq Egypt in years that followed his ascent to Throne 1936. It argues creation persona al-malik al-salih (the righteous king) was one aspect strategy developed by Ali Mahir Pasha (Prime Minister then Head Royal Diwan) safeguard monarchy an era mass politics. The campaign, however, took o...

Health care politics are changing. They increasingly focus not on avowedly public projects (such as building the health care infrastructure) but on regulating private behavior. Examples include tobacco, obesity, abortion, drug abuse, the right to die, and even a patient's relationship with his or her managed care organization. Regulating private behavior introduces a distinctive policy process;...

this article examines the goals of george w. bush’s middle east policy and its legacy in the region. it further gives a detailed analysis of three major dilemmas in us policy - iraq, iran, and lebanon - towards the region at the present time. it then examines barak obama’s declared positions on these issues during his election campaign and his possible course of action in the region as presiden...

in his discourses concerning perception of universals, mullā ṣadrā has brought up various issues. on one hand, he says that in sensory and imaginative perceptions, the soul (nafs) is the originator and creator of images and then with its substantial and ontogenetic motion it achieves its higher level of perception, i.e. rational perception, unites with the rational non-material substance named ...

in this research, the viewpoint of mīzā mahdī iṣfahānī, as the founder of tafkīk school (separatism), concerning the most important epistemological issues like the quiddity of cognition (or episteme), types of cognition, truth, and justification of knowledge (ma‘rifa) are studied. given the fact that epistemology has not been regarded as an independent science in the muslim world, but the musli...

the present article studies the reality of “zohdyyat” by abul atahie. has abul atahie been a real pious? or has he chosen piety as a technic for poetry? is his piety islamic? or is it spiritual? or is he an infidel? the present article tries to study the doubts and accusations in this regard so that we will know the reality of his “zohdyyat”. for the sake of this reason we first study the eleme...

This article examines Philip Reeve’s novel for children, Mortal Engines, and M.T. Anderson’s young adult novel, Feed, by assessing these dystopias as prototypical texts of what Ulrich Beck calls risk society. Through their visions of a fictional future, the two narratives explore the hazards created by contemporary techno-economic progress, predatory global politics and capitalist excesses of c...

In the light of the fact that the Qur’ān is connected to the divine knowledge, this article examines the exegetic opinions and the definitive religious realities, and compares and analyzes them in order to decode the mysterious references made by the Qur’ān to the unmatched victoriousness of Dhul-Qarnayn in designing and founding the infrastructure of a magnificent civilization with a highly de...