Abstract This paper elucidates the willingness of an autocrat to push through institutional reforms in a context where traditional authorities represented by religious clerics are averse them and military control means repression can potentially stage coup. We show that although always wants co-opt military, this is not necessarily true clerics. Exclusive co-option obtains loyalty autocrat’s ar...

Ever since the dawn of human life on this planet, Man has always tried to understand Nature, his own place in the scheme of Creation and the purpose of Life itself. In this quest for Truth, spanning many centuries and diverse civilizations, organized religion has shaped human life and, to a large extent, has determined the course of history. While some religions have been based on written text,...

Recitation of the Holy book of Muslims, The Holy Quran, is a regions duty and hence is done with utmost care such that no mistakes are made while reading it. These mistakes may include the wrong utterance of words, misreading words, and punctuation and pronunciation mistakes. Believers of Islam are spread all over the world and hence there also can be a difference in accent. To avoid this, tajw...

ethan kohlberg, the jewish orientalist and specialist on shi‘a, sees the distortion in holy scriptures, including quran, inevitable. from his point of view, some quranic verses confirm this point. his second proof is the history of the quran and the time when its whole text was written down. in his viewpoint,   hadiths which prove that the quran had been written down in abu bakr’s time ore orie...

comparison of the effect of instrumental music and voices of holy quran on anxiety of woman before cesarean.     sharifi a [1] *, alipour a [2] , baharloei s [3]     received: 24 aug, 2012 accepted: 20 nov, 2012   abstract   background & aims : fear and anxiety before surgery characterized with the stress with arousal of the autonomic nervous system that causes physical and psychological change...

The emerging concept of computer universe has the potential to bring about a radical change in our perception of the world. Energy is word of God that carries His commands. It derives its properties in accordance with the divine instructions immanent in it. Memetics is the science of information carried by the entity called energy. Living and non-living systems represent two different languages...

Background and Objectives: Sleep is a sign of the greatness of God. In this article sleep is described from Quran and modern health sciences. Methods: This is a qualitative systematic review. Data were gathered from the Quran, related Islamic narratives and literatures. Words that were searched included sleep,sleep stages, Subaat, Hojoo, Ruqood, Nu’ass, Sinah. Results: The results s...