While the science–religion debate on human creation has been widely explored in Muslim world, Iranian opinions have missed mainstream literature. To see whether they follow lead of majority thinkers or not, here is an overview Qur’anic Perspective Scholars. After reviewing previously categorized approaches Muslims encountering evolution mentioned literature, this paper will survey verses relate...

¶1 It has become increasingly common for brain images to be proffered as evidence in civil and criminal litigation.2 This Article offers some general guidelines to legal thinkers about how to understand brain imaging studies—or at least avoid misunderstanding them. And it annotates a published brain imaging study by several of the present authors (and others) in order to illustrate and explain,...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between ethnicity, ethnic intermarriage, ethnic composition of schools and adolescent alcohol use. DESIGN Data were derived from the National Survey of Students in the Netherlands, a repeated, nationally representative, cross-sectional study of students aged 11-20 in secondary school. Surveys conducted in 1994, 1996, 1999, and 2001 were pooled, leading to ...

OBJECTIVES This study is carried out with the aim of describing the pattern of health-promoting behaviors (HPBs) among middle-aged women and its relevant factors in Iran as a Muslim developing country. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 483 middle-aged women were selected using cluster random sampling from Yazd city in Central Iran. An adjusted Persian version of Health Promoting Lifestyle P...

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 ...

This position paper reflects on why we want greater participation in the computing sciences, what ‘greater participation’ means and should mean, and on the particular characteristics of AI that recommend it as an enticement and way into computing. Primary tenets are that the need for and training of socially-engaged ‘computational thinkers’ (Wing, 2006) is the most important motivation for incr...

Imam Sadiq is one of the scientific, jurisprudential, and moral pioneers our time an outstanding personality Islamic world humanity. He established a large scientific center in Masjid al-Nabi located Madinah Munuwrah, which had status first university world, educated up to four thousand students various branches religious intellectual sciences time, valuable contribution flourishing civilizatio...

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...