background: protecting islamic values are of great importance for every person as well as every organization. respecting hijab by university students is considered as one of the best examples. this study intends to evaluate the attitude of female students about hijab in health faculty of isfahan university of medical sciences in 2009. methods: 315 female students were selected. data was collect...

background mental health as an important part of overall health can be affected by various factors. it seems that islamic covering associates with an individual’s overall health and affects mental health and wellbeing. this study was performed to evaluate the relationship between the attitude toward islamic covering and mental health in female students of bushehr university of medical sciences....

This paper investigates the ways in which terrorism is linked to education and poverty using data newly culled from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) documentary sources. The paper presents a statistical analysis of the determinants of participation in terrorist activities by members of the Hamas and PIJ between the late 1980s and May 2002. The resulting evidence suggests that both high...

Recently there has been a heightened global concern over ‘contagion’ in the conventional financial markets. Our study is motivated by the desire to test empirically whether this contagion is reflected in the fast growing Islamic financial markets as well. This study is the first attempt at testing whether there has been any contagion among the Shari’ah-compliant stock markets during the most re...

the primitive arab people ruled women’s (body) covering as well as chastity, and the poets were honored to praise these qualities in their poems.in the present article reasons of women’s (body) covering are studied.the main reasons to be mentioned are grief and sorrow, fear of captivity in wars, enthusiasm and interests and poverty.

The recent global financial crisis once again revealed the harmful effects of interest-based contracts in the conventional financial system. Islamic finance, as an alternative financial system, discourages interest rate and debt financing. This paper investigates the effects of two financial systems, namely the conventional and Islamic systems, on macroeconomic variables. To achieve this goal, ...

In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated H. pylori seroprevalence and the relevant factors in 1518 people aged > or = 6 years from the general population of Nahavand, western Islamic Republic of Iran. Questionnaires covering sociodemographic variables were completed by interview. Blood samples were taken from each individual. Sera were tested for anti-H. pylori IgG using commercial enzyme im...

First of all, one point seems in order regarding the title: this article is not intended to be comprehensive in its coverage. Rather, it focuses on a deliberately and highly selected body of studies on the division of labor ranging from ancient Greeks to WWII as represented by those reproduced in Sun (2005a), with particular attention paid to what I believe has been relatively unknown even amon...

The status of Islamic women varies in different Muslim countries, which interpret Islamic religion and law differently, especially with regard to their attitudes toward women. Most of these Islamic countries have specific beliefs about women and have restrictions concerning them. Gender stereotypes of Islamic women have their origin in the evolution of the Muslim religion. This is similar to th...