according to the famous theory in islamic jurisprudence regarding diya, the diya of a woman, generally, is considered as half in comparison with a man’s. to prove it there are some reasons attributed to quran, sonnat, idjma and qeas. in spite of the famous view, there are a few of early jurists who argued for being equal of dyia for both woman and man. their rationale is the generality of the q...

one of the special ways of god's cognition is intuition. in this article after offering the definition of this notion and explaining the difference between intuition and munificence, and also divine and devils intuition, we will imply the necessity of existence a criteria for truth and believe to these intuitions. theosophies maintain that these criteria are reason, scripture, i.e. quran, ...

During the interwar period in Iran and Egypt, local and regional manifestation of tajadod/al-jidida (modernity) as a “cultural identity crisis” created the nationalist image and practice of zan-e emrouzi-e shahri/al-mar’a al-jidida al-madani (the urban/secular “New Woman”). The dynamics of the process involved performance art, including the covert medium of journalism and the overt world of the...