a r t i c l e i n f o The Dow Jones Islamic Market indices (DJIMI) are constructed by screening out stocks that are incompatible with Islam's prohibition of interest and certain lines of business. However, as a blunt instrument, the interest rate can affect discounted cash flows of any firm, even a firm with no financial leverage. This study reveals that the aggregate portfolio of Islamic stock...

Abū Isḥāq Tha‘labī Nayshābūrī is an outstanding Iranian exegete of the fourth and fifth centuries LH. Tha‘labī has been so skillful in various Islamic sciences such as Arabic linguistics (including morphology, syntax (grammatical inflection), vocabulary, and rhetoric), Ḥadīth, exegesis, and qur’ānic sciences that numerous students from many near and far places attended his classes. Tha‘labī’s c...

The article focuses on the manuscript monuments of Turkic-speaking peoples — Muslim metric books. compilers books in Old Tatar language are representatives clergy. study is based archival documents from Bukhara Volost Tobolsk Uyezd, Governorate 19th to early 20th centuries. aim research composition Islamic clergy through introduction understudied sources and historical sociocultural facts conta...

This paper investigates the question of whether the phenomenon of Islamic finance who based on Shariah, or Islamic law is truly globalizing and spreading as a universal system of finance and banking. The paper also addresses various aspects of the globalization for Islamic finance, among other, the issue of the rise of Islamic banking in the world, Islamic jurisprudence and finance, global stan...

In Islamic culture, dome continues its ancient representation when it becomes a clear epitome of Islamic substantial creation of the universe. Islamic signs such as center, circle and sphere which are inherently dome are immediately realized via a symbolic transfer. Although domes have unavoidable relationship with other elements signifying Iranian mosques form and function, it includes secrets...

Abstract This paper presents the results of an archaeobotanical analysis plant macro-remains recovered during excavations a rural tepe site at Qaratepe, Azerbaijan, occupied Sasanian and Islamic periods between 2nd 13th centuries ad . The material derives from 4 year Oxford University expedition which occurred 2015 2018, ‘The Archaeological Exploration Barda Project (AEB)’, established to inves...

BACKGROUND Seyyed Esmaeil Jorjani is one of the most prominent pioneers and scientists of Islamic and Iranian traditional medicine in the 11(th) and 12(th) centuries (4(th) and 5(th) centuries A.H.). The number of his books is not certainly clear, but it is signified that he has written a couple of great books concerning medicine for Persians and too many treatises in such fields as philosophy,...