Muslim marriage (non) recognition: implications and possible solutions

Health disparities between Muslim and non-Muslim countries.

We examined differences in health indicators and associated factors across countries according to the proportion of the population who are Muslim. Of 190 UN countries, 48 were classified as Muslim-majority countries (MMC) and 142 as non-MMC. Data on 41 potential determinants of health were obtained from 10 different data sources, and 4 primary outcome measures (male and female life expectancy, ...

Study and Recognition of Muslim Sage Abdullah Azdi and His Medical Dictionary Called “Kitāb Al-ma”

This study seeks to identify one of the pioneers of traditional clinical medicine named Abdullah Azdi and his medical dictionary. This research is an analytical study. The focus of the search was on two keywords, Abdullah Azdi and Kitab al-Ma'ma, but the scope of the search included all appropriate terms such as: medicine, Bu Ali Sina, traditional medicine, medical dictionary, ethics, and medic...

Finding Robust Solutions to Stable Marriage

We study the notion of robustness in stable matching problems. We first define robustness by introducing (a,b)-supermatches. An (a, b)-supermatch is a stable matching in which if any a pairs break up it is possible to find another stable matching by changing the partners of those a pairs and the partners of at most b other pairs. In this context, we define the most robust stable matching as a (...

Living Islam in Non-Muslim Spaces

The Effects of Islam, Religiosity, and Socialization on Muslim-Canadian Opinions about Same-Sex Marriage

Critics of Islam often frame anti-Islamic positions as a defense of tolerance against intolerance, and of equality against inequality. Islam, for this perspective, poses challenges for the ideological integration of Muslim immigrants in Western societies. This paper examines Canadian Muslims’ opinions about same-sex marriage. The analysis suggests that Canadian Muslims, as a group, do have dist...