the fact that the prophet did not achieve much success in mecca in converting the people to islam after 13 years of missionary work and that the people of medina turned to islam although the prophet was not physically present is one of the little understood questions in the history of islam. the present paper seeks to study, from a sociological point of view, the reason why the people of mecca,...

There are several debates around why Socrates executed but none of them has explained why he executed at seventy. I think Socratic hubris can explain it. In fact, if we refer to “earlier Socrates” dialogues that cover life of Socrates from youth to seventy years, it is obvious that Socrates on effort to find and present a good life appealed to speech and used it to cross-examine Athenians. Howe...

In his recent study, Gordon Shen analyses a pertinent question facing the global mental health research and practice community today; that of how and why mental health policy is or is not adopted by national governments. This study identifies becoming a World Health Organization (WHO) member nation, and being in regional proximity to countries which have adopted a mental health policy as suppor...

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