the manner of understanding of muslims mystics such as ghazzali, sohrevardi and najmeddin kubar about light, degrees of lights, coloured lights and realm of imagination is an issue that this essay intends to study it. in this research, the matters about the influence of gnostics thoughts and islamic theologians on persian painting are presented. certainly if the artist is qualified for deep of ...

This paper examines the relationship between nationalism, state formation, and the marginalisation of national minorities through an historical focus on Pakistani state’s relationship with the Ahmadiyya community, a self-defined minority sect of Islam. In 1974, a constitutional amendment was enacted that effectively rendered the Ahmadiyya community a non-Muslim minority, in spite of claims by t...

This study investigates the relationship between salaries and scholastic aptitude for fulltime public high school humanities and mathematics/sciences teachers. For identification, we rely on variation in salaries between adjacent school districts within the same state. The results indicate that teacher aptitude is positively correlated with teacher salaries with an elasticity point estimate of ...

The primary aim of the current study was to replicate and extend previous findings by examining the relation of self-perceived competence with symptoms of depression and social anxiety in older adolescents. Focusing first on cross-sectional relations, we found that older adolescents' depressive symptoms were similarly related to levels of perceived scholastic competence and social acceptance, w...

Relationships among gender, gender role orientation, grade, and perceived self-competency were examined in this study. Subjects were almost entirely Caucasian and included one hundred and ninety-four adolescents in the sixth through twelfth grades. The adolescents responded to the Children's Sex Role Inventory and the Self Perception Profile for Adolescents. Boys had higher perceived social and...

Al-Ghazālī is considered as imam (the most prominent) in epistemological critique and religious sects during his time, one of the prominent defending belief Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamā‘ah (Sunni Muslims, Sunnis, Sunnites). He also theorizing Ash‘arī theology (Asharites or Ashʿarism) Sufi thought. was able to purify philosophy from superstition, clarifies what bad sound, he mujaddid (reformer) time...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the results of an exploratory qualitative study on Muslim adolescents' views on sexuality in the Netherlands. METHODS Data were gathered from an Internet forum on which 44 Muslim and 33 non-Muslim adolescents discussed sexuality as it relates to Islam. These discussions were subsequently analyzed for content using Nvivo 2.0. RESULTS Our analysis revealed seve...