Islamic Concept of Human Needs

Evaluation of Conformity of Isfahan Urban Development Plans with the Comprehensive Model of Human Islamic Needs

This study aimed at evaluating the conformity of Isfahan urban development plans with the comprehensive model of human Islamic needs. This study, in terms of objective, is practical and, in terms of methodology, it is a descriptive-analytical research. The most important data collecting tool used in this study is the bibliographic method. The results showed that the processes of preparing, test...

Islamic Constitutionalism and the Concept of Democracy

A Concept of Human Dignity

Who needs the concept of spirituality? Human beings seem to!

Well, it ’s finally happened. I’ve been attacked in the scientific literature ~Salander, 2006!. Well, just to clarify, it wasn’t a personal attack, but rather an attack of the highest and most noble order: an attack on the scientific rigor of the conceptual underpinnings of my recent work on meaning and spirituality in advanced cancer patients ~e.g., Breitbart, 2002!. To be honest, and a bit le...

The Concept of an Integrated Islamic Curriculum and Its Implications for Contemporary Islamic Schools

The Emergence of `Islamic Education Movement` is a response to the `secularization of education` faced by the ummah (muslim people) all over the world; in the sense that the `traditional Islamic Sciences` which are rooted in Islamic sources i.e. al-Qur’an (the Holy Book) and as-Sunnah (Tradition of the prophet) have been marginalized. Subsequently, Muslim scholars have made serious endeavors to...