INTRODUCTION A common misconception pervades in the West that women are all mistreated in Arab societies due to the application of Islamic law (shari‛a). Scanning media articles, we see references to stoning as punishment for adultery in Iran and requiring of the burka for women under the Taliban. In Morocco, however, women are not obligated to wear the veil and stoning is not an acceptable pun...

the prophet’s political activities in medina indicate a particular kind of power exercise in the public domain. on the other hand, after receiving shari’a, he promulgated it and enforced the related verdicts and teachings among people. realization of these two facts in his behavior turns the relationship between power exercise by him and islamic shari’a into a basic question. the relationship b...

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*Corresponding author: Frank A. Chervenak, New York Presbyterian Hospital, 525 East 68th Street, J-130, New York, NY 10065, USA, Tel.: +1 212 746 3184, Fax: +1 212 746 8960, E-mail: [email protected]; and Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York, NY, USA Shari E. Gelber and Debra Taubel: Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Obstetrics and Gy...

We derive rigorously the leading order term in the asymptotic expansion of the scattering amplitude of a collection of a finite number of dielectric inhomogeneities of small diameter. We then apply this formula for the purpose of identifying the location and certain properties of the shapes of the inhomogeneities using measurements of the scattering amplitude at a fixed frequency. Joint work wi...

shari'atnameh writing as a prescription in political jurisprudence has been of particular importance in islamic political thought. this paper tries to focus on thought of fadhlollah ibn ruzbahan khonji, the last shari'atnameh writer in middle ages in the era consolidation of power of shiite government, shah ismail i, safavid king and the decline of the caliphate. the paper tries to an...