According to Islam, Allah created man to worship Him and to lead a virtuous life based on His teachings and guidance. But how can man know and fulfill his role and the purpose of his existence if he does not receive clear and practical instructions of what Allah wants him to do? The existence of prophethood, by which Allah sent a prophet to every nation to reveal His message in terms that the p...

This paper reports emotion recognition results from speech signals, with particular focus on extracting emotion features from the short utterances typical of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications. We focus on distinguishing anger versus neutral speech, which is salient to call center applications. We report on classification of other types of emotions such as sadness, boredom, happy, an...

BACKGROUND Islam and Muslims are underrepresented in the medical literature and the influence of physician's cultural beliefs and religious values upon the clinical encounter has been understudied. OBJECTIVE To elicit the perceived influence of Islam upon the practice patterns of immigrant Muslim physicians in the USA. DESIGN Ten face-to-face, in-depth, semistructured interviews with Muslim...

In this paper the cultural impact of Islam on the future directions of nurse education is considered. In so doing, Islam is demonstrated as a living and growing religion, transcending almost all races and cultures in many parts of the globe. The historical review of Islam suggests its pervasive impact on almost all aspects of life: affecting both the East and West. In spite of an unjustified ne...

Islam is a hotly debated topic on YouTube, comprising approximately a half-million videos, tagged with this word. The study presents empirical material regarding three aspects of Islam’s representation: (a) how Islam is framed in user-created videos; (b) how it is visualized; and (c) what are the motivations of the YouTubers who create these videos. The theoretical framework of the study is bas...

At least from the nineteenth century onward, certain observers have viewed Islam as a religion that discourages entrepreneurship by fostering fatalism, conform-ism, and conservatism. 1 Leading Muslim reformers of the nineteenth century, including Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1839–97), believed that this view confuses a perverted form of Islam, which counsels passive resignation to events, with auth...

Title: Small volume plasma exchange for Guillain-Barré syndrome in resource poor settings: a safety and feasibility study Authors: Md Badrul Islam ([email protected]) Zhahirul Islam ([email protected]) Shafiqur Rahman ([email protected]) Hubert Endtz ([email protected]) Margreet Vos ([email protected]) Mathieu der Jagt ([email protected]) Pieter van Doorn (p.a.v...