Abstract The Arab-China relations go back to the second century BC. Silk Road was most important link that enabled early Arabs get know China far from their own countries. In modern era, a new dialogue began between and Chinese, especially after proposed Belt Initiative, which official announcement of establishment linking with Arab world rest world. This preceded by exchanged intellectual, cul...

There has been much speculation as to the type of calendar that was used by pre-Islamic Arabs and early Muslim community. The Hijr? is said have adopted ‘Umar b. al-Kha???b during his Caliphate despite evidence suggesting it instituted soon Prophet emigrated Mad?nah. In this paper, we argue a number competing Arabian calendars existed up until 17 AH/AD 638, after which definitive Muslims. We pr...

Background: Over than eight tenant groups make up Kurdistan region of Iraq local populations. Overall majority the inhabitants are Muslim Kurds, followed by Yezidi Kurds. Alternative including Armenians, Assyrian, Chaldea Syriacs as well a little minority Arab and Turkmen individuals. Methods: A total 60 unrelated males from three population in Arabs, Soran Behdinan kurd were successfully analy...

This article explains the level of economic freedom in Muslim countries through the theory of institutional path dependency. Islamic countries are generally not free and they have a poor record regarding property rights. To explain these realities we use the institutional history of Muslim countries. We define three steps: the Arab and Ottoman Empires when Islamic law was of great importance, E...

We construct a unique geocoded dataset on temples, dynasties and battles in medieval India and propose a test to identify the motive for observed temple desecrations in that period. We test two competing historical narratives of temple desecrations. The first focuses on the idea of iconoclasm, i.e. destruction of religious sites and imagery deemed heretical, as embedded in Islamic theology. The...

historically, there is a consensus that islamic medicine followed the persian, greek and egyptian medicine and that a large number of muslim scholars were non-arabs. it is also known that most famous islamic physicians who took their knowledge to arabic countries received their education in the famous and credible university of gondishapour in iran. therefore, in order to develop a more compreh...

Abstract In late 1924–1925, ʿAbd ul-ʿAzīz us-Saʿūd of Najd invaded and conquered the Hijaz. Guided by their austere Wahhabi convictions, his victorious forces quickly destroyed religious historical sites banned myriad “un-Islamic” social practices. These changes had a significant impact on Indian pilgrims to region, who reacted swiftly emotionally. Some lauded reforms others reviled them, but a...

The dynamics of Israel’s fertility patterns revolve around three major socio-demographic dimensions – religion, ethnicity and socioeconomic structure. Jews, Moslems Arabs, Christian Arabs, and Druze Arabs are the major ethno-religious groups. The second dimension is ethnicity among the Jewish population. Distinction is made between populations of European or American origins (to be referred to ...

The objective of this paper is to review the multicultural nature of Australian society, with a specific focus on the Islamic culture. Islamic principles will be presented and the impact this has on the health-care provision of Muslim people will be explored. This paper highlights issues that Muslim patients face when hospitalized in Australia. Australia has seen a major shift in its society, f...