the thought of leaving this world for the heavens, paradise and hell inspired by the holy prophet’s ascension appeared in the form of fictional stories in the arabic literature in the fifth century (solar calendar), i.e. in the late abbasid period, although the history of such journeys goes back to the time before islam. as it goes in pahlavi texts, the first one to have gone on oneiric journey...

The environmental factors are considered to have a very important role in the development of different types of carcinoma (1,2). Among them, the nutritive factors containing initiators and promoters of carcinogenesis or acting as genotoxic carcinogens are of special importance. On the other hand, some nutritive deficiencies may influence the appearance of malignant diseases (3,4). Therefore, Ma...

A close look at the writings of the Middle Eastern and North African scholars who lived in the Middle Ages (roughly between A.D. 476-1500) reveals an immense body of theoretical knowledge pertaining to the humanities, and behavioral and social sciences. A partial list of the scholars who wrote on these issues includes names such as Abu Yusuf (8th century), Abul-Fadl Al-Dimishgi (9th century), A...

Formally established on 26 August 1941, its intellectual inspiration came from the thoughts of Mawlana Sayyid Abul A’la Mawdudi, who, along with Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, set the pace for contemporary Muslim thinking in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. With the establishment of Pakistan on the 14th August, 1947, the Jama‘at was also reorganized in the form of two independent organizations – the Jama‘...

Labor necessitates continuous adjustments of cardiac autonomic reflexes by alternate activation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. The division of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that predominates during the first stage of labor is unclear and needs to be further investigated. The study aimed to compare heart rate variability (HRV) in pregnant women in the third trimeste...

this article aims, with a detailed insight into the historical process of khul’ divorce in two phases in arabia before islam and after islam, to discover the creation of successive theories and the evolution of ‘the khul’ divorce institution’ to its current form as supporting iranian legislation. while presenting the views of the jurists, we encountered two streams of thought as regards the dis...

al-jawahiri, one of the most illustrious contemporary classical poets of iraq, was born in the holy city of najaf to a cultured, scholarly, and cultivated family. the scientific and cultural environment of najaf, the literary and scientific richness of his familial atmosphere, and al-jawahiri’s poetic taste and talent caused him to turn to his predecessor poets’ works, especially the ones from ...