Title of Dissertation: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HOMEGROWN RADICALIZATION: AN IMMIGRANT ACCULTURATION PERSPECTIVE Sarah Louise Lyons, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Michele Gelfand Department of Psychology In the post-9/11 era, an increasing number of extremist threats are homegrown. Radical organizations such as the Islamic State are actively targeting Muslim i...

Addressing the cultural and religious beliefs around the issue of family planning has been a big challenge for the international development community. The concept of family planning has raised some concerns regarding its acceptability within Muslim populations. While some Muslim states and organisations have adopted a rather cautious approach to the issue, others have gone to the extent of inv...

traditionally, muslim intellectuals influenced by various trends and conditions, have presented a variety of different interpretations to explain the relations between religion and politics. among these thinkers and muslim philosophers, we can mention ibn sina. while attending the field of practical politics, bu ali attempted to make use of the religious teachings and resources and his own phil...

The existing representation of juxtaposition the religious literature late Middle Ages and contemporary to it university philosophy requires clarification. It is particularly difficult draw this boundary in texts tradition so-called "German mysticism". This question discussed on basis German-language work “The Mystical Treatise Mass Its Effects Loving Soul” (Mystischer Trakt...

A conceptual model has recently been hypothesized in which parallel but correlated developmental pathways exist for attention deficit behaviors and conduct problems. An important component of this model suggests that attention deficit behaviors are related to later scholastic underachievement, whereas conduct problems are unrelated to scholastic underachievement except by their common correlati...

Using a questionnaire validated by the project Biohead-Citizen, where 15 questions are dedicated to evolution, we analyse Muslim teachers' conceptions of evolution in several countries. The first part compares nine francophone countries, with varying degrees of Muslim or Christian culture: France, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Gabon, and shows a strong ...

Working memory deficiency has been implicated in developmental disorders of scholastic skills. The auditory P50 component of event-related potentials reflecting preattentive processing was investigated in 38 children with developmental disorders of scholastic skills and 19 sibling control children, as elicited during a working memory test. The P50 was evoked by two tones of low and high frequen...

After Sep. 11, the Muslim people in USA were facing a critical situation of anti-Muslim hate crimes, which caused great impacts to Muslim people’s daily lives. The Muslim people’s social status and their lives therefore became the focused concern in the hostile urban environment. What is the Muslim people’s reaction and feel to this change? And how do they adapt themselves to the critical urban...

This article was written with the aim of discussing integration between religion and philosophy in view Ibn Rusyd. In classical civilization there have been long debates struggles caused by differences opinion philosophers jurists. One side based their ideas on thinking intellect, while other argued revelation. Rusyd, a Muslim philosopher who very fond science, sought to integrate religion. Rus...