Background and purpose: Good nutrition is an important part of healthy lifestyle. Guidelines on nutrition are correlated with individual and public health and prevention or treatment of various diseases. Quran that covers all aspects of human life, provides guidance on nutrition too. Pomegranate is mentioned three times in Quran under the name of “Ar-Rumman”. The main aim of this st...

Introduction: Test anxiety is a factor interfering with academic achievement of students. Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) is one of the best methods for evaluating medical students’ achievement, but one of its disadvantages is creating anxiety. This study aims to investigate the effect of listening to Holy Quran recitation on the anxiety caused by OSCE in students of Khomein Uni...

ABSTRACT Background & Objectives: In addition to pharmacological effects, medications normally cause adverse side effects. Discovery of plant-based medications for the treatment of various diseases and symptoms such as pain has been a major concern among researchers. During the process of discovering pharmacological drugs of herbal origin, some issues may be neglected in planting and harvest...

One of the common views in contemporary Quranic research is the dialog on the existence of allegory and symbolic language in the Quran and Quranic stories. Citing such arguments as the common literary style between the Quranic stories and human stories, the use of symbols with specific modes of expression in the Quran and the cases in which the Divine intent is expressed through questions and a...

Human honour is one of the principal categories of the contemporary thought. After semantic analysis of human honour in the meaning system of holy Quran, the paper attempts to deal with the verses which are related to the results and requirements of human honour in Quranic discourse and also to achieve the mentioned requirements from the perspective of various verses about it. Regarding the res...