This paper looks at how Muslim women with an Iranian background and now living in Canada perform their identity through wearing the hijab. This was achieved by observing the behavior of six members of this community on Facebook using Erving Goffman’s stigmatization theory. The observation reveals that women who wear the hijab are more likely to identify themselves as Muslim-Canadian while those...

Theories of justice in the spirit of Harsanyi and Rawls argue that fair-minded people should aspire to make choices for society — that is, for themselves and for others — as if in the original position, behind a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing their own social and economic positions in society. While the original position is a purely hypothetical situation, developed as a thou...

The issue of radicalism and fundamentalism is still in the news aimed at Muslims. phenomenon hijrah has become a trend among Muslim community, Anis Baswedan responded positively as an indication awakening Islam, but there are differences opinion, according to Ahmad Muzaki that must have assistance order avoid entering door their version terrorism. One phenomena many women use veil / niqob. form...

iraninan women coverage status has cheng  and in some cases, been transformed after the constitutional “mashroteh” dealing with the iranian culture adopting western culture(modernity). with the islamic revolution and the islamic values ​​and roots of iranian culture, regeneration and culture and chastity were again in the country's cultural policy agenda. nevertheless, also raised concerns...

BACKGROUND The clothing style is an important factor that influences vitamin D production and thus bone mineral density. We performed a case-control study in order to evaluate the effect of veil wearing (concealing clothing) on bone mineral density in Moroccan post menopausal women. METHODS The cases were osteoporotic women whose disease was assessed by bone mineral density measurement. Each ...