the phenomenon of conversion to islam in the territories conquered by the muslim arabs, is one of the ambiguous and controversial topics in the studies of islamic history. major part of the social transformation of copts in islamic egypt returns to their conversion from christianity to islam. gradual changing of the majority to a minority group under muslim rule was a complex process, because m...

being contemporary with avicenna and rhazes, abu maher shirazi was born in shiraz the 10th century ad. he was known as the rst inuential physician in shiraz in the islamic period and his students, such as haly abbas, called him a great scientist. concerning his signicant impact on medicine in this era, abu maher shirazi is a good candidate for the title “the founder of shiraz medical doctrine”.

Islamic Finance is more than an asset class – it is a way of life lived by 1.6 billion Muslims around the world. But its reach goes even further – non-Islamic countries, governments, and businesses, have all invested in or issued Islamic securities for one reason or another. With the ongoing push of globalization of trade and finance, Islamic financial flows, long a localized phenomenon, have b...

women, as half of the effectual population of iranian society, have always been active in different aspects of life including social, economic, political and cultural ones. entailment is one of their contributory areas of presence which has not been discussed much. in south khorasan women entail some of their properties to charities symbolizing their benevolence and their status and economic in...

after capturing maghreb, moslems sought for more conquests in order to make the field ready to spread islam more and more. the moslems' readiness and appropriate circumstances prepared the arrangements for the spread of islam in a vast area, called andulus. and when andulus was captured, islam covered the whole area. at first, the rulers' peaceful polices and the islamic solidarity le...

the subject of this paper is the analysis of islamic period earthenware of iran containing decorative designs of women. the basic goal of the paper is recognition of determining factors to use these figures and also responding to important questions such as: in which islamic periods women’s figures can be seen? and what features and factors have been influential in applying them? answering thes...

While process technologists are obsessed to follow Moore’s curve down to nanoscale dimensions, design technologists are confronted with gigascale complexity. On the other hand, post-PC and post dotcom products require zero cost, zero energy yet software programmable novel system architectures to be sold in huge volumes and to be designed in exponentially decreasing time. How do we cope with the...