Background & Objective:  Islamic fasting is observed by millions of Muslims across the world during the holy month of Ramadan and other specific  days of the lunar year. Fasting  Muslims  abstain from eating and drinking from dawn until sunset. Depending on season and geographical location, Muslims  maintain fasting for approximately 13-18 hours per day. The present study aimed to review the be...

Research has shown widespread discrimination and hostility toward Muslims in Western countries. There is less knowledge of how resist, oppose, or challenge such behaviour. Based on in-depth interviews with 90 young Norway, this study explores responses to anti-Muslim hostility. We describe a repertoire everyday resistance: talking back, entering dialogue, living the example, denying significanc...

Online Journal of Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare Vol. 1, No. 3, 2011 ABSTRACT Purpose: To discover, describe and analyze the traditional generic (lay, folk, indigenous) and professional care meanings, beliefs, and practices related to health and illness of traditional Syrian Muslims in the Midwestern United States (US). Design and Research Methods: Leininger’s Culture Care Theory...

this paper is an attempt to indicate how the educated audience in the us re-reads and interprets the anti –islam movies produced by hollywood. we will use the reception approach of gadamer along with edward saeed's orientalism approach to offer a theoretical synthesis that includes concepts such as 1- lived experience, 2- intercultural communication and 3- digital literacy among american a...

This is a particularly difficult period for Americans, as we struggle with internal economic and fiscal challenges even as we continue to take stock of our place in the post-9/11 world. But take stock we must. And as we do so, one of the most elusive challenges that we face is coming to terms with the cultural dimension of our encounter with the Muslim world. Even now, as we skirmish over issue...

http://gpi.sagepub.com/content/10/3/373 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1368430207078697 2007 10: 373 Group Processes Intergroup Relations Peter Fischer, Tobias Greitemeyer and Andreas Kastenmüller Aggression Potential, and Attitudes Toward Terrorism About the Associations Between Muslims' Religiosity, Religious Identity, What Do We Think About Muslims? The Vali...

Jocelyne Cesari is principal research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris and associate professor at Harvard University. She is the author of When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States, New York: Palgrave, 2004 and European Muslims and the Secular State, London: Ashgate, 2005. In addition, she coordinates the website euro-islam.info.

During 2003-2006, diphtheria rates in Hyderabad, India, were higher among persons 5-19 years of age, women, and Muslims than among other groups. Vaccine was efficacious among those who received >/=4 doses. The proportion of the population receiving boosters was low, especially among Muslims. We recommend increasing booster dose coverage.

Islamic resistance to secularism is one of the most frequently stated problems in France. This paper addresses this issue as seen by French Muslim discourses. It argued, here, that discourses on laïcité are determined claim equal treatment Muslims and non-Muslims Thus, highlights importance inequality framework tendency give preference rights over responsibilities secularism. Seven works publis...

Purpose Statement " The Remembrance of God is greater than what follows " This Guidebook outlines some of the significant aspects of Islamic Environmental Health Ethics to be used by individuals, organizations (governmental and non-governmental agencies), as well as all concerned parties seeking to improve the environmental health situation of the Muslim world. Through Islamic principles, this ...