Purpose – Islamic finance and socially responsible investing (SRI) have been two of the most rapidly growing areas of finance over the last two decades. During this period, they have each grown at rates that far exceed that of the financial markets as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to find similarities and commonalities of both markets and identifies how both could benefit from each othe...

This Article is concerned with one key aspect of the law of the military jihad: the Islamic concept of martyrdom [shahada or istishhad]. This Article will demonstrate that the current Islamist financing and systematic organization and direction of self-annihilatory acts of violence is only weakly supported, if at all, by the classical sources on martyrdom in Islamic law and jurisprudence. The A...

There are few other specialties in psychiatry where the cultural nature and social norms of a society has more impact than the specialty of forensic psychiatry. In the Muslim and Arab worlds, Islamic principles govern the foundation of thoughts required to make laws. Those necessarily include legal issues in psychiatry. The impact of these matters on individuals as patients and the community at...

islamic jurisprudence is the root of the islamic laws including economic law and it is the very pillar of islamic economic system. the law and economics are two branches of human sciences that were not separate before the 18th century. by development of scientific methodology and its prevailing over economics, gradually economics became a distinguished science without being concerned about the ...

health statistics demonstrate remarkable progresses in the field of primary health care and academic education in iran within recent decades. iran has also had obvious progresses in the field of research and the international publication rate of iranian scientists has been quadrupled over the past decade. progresses in biomedical researches have been associated with considerable activities in b...

according to common law rules of england, obligation by one party is enforceable when the other has provided a consideration or the contract has been put in a deed. in some common law jurisdictions, such as australia, canada and the united states, another doctrine, named reasonable reliance, has developed, which could act as surrogate for the doctrine of consideration. english courts, however, ...