Alireza Aslani 2 1 Department of Nanobiotechnology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University Medical of Science, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, P. O. BOX: 19945-546, Tel: +98-9161161165, Email: [email protected], [email protected] . 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, Jundi Shapur University of Technology, Dizful, Islamic Republic of Iran, P. O. BOX: 64615-334, Tel:...

K. Fathi1∗, S.F. Bagheri2, M. Alizadeh3 ∗, M. Alizadeh4 Department of Statistics, North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 1 Department of Statistics, College of Basic Sciences, Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahr-e-Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran2 Branch of Mazandaran, Statistical Center of Iran3 Department of Mathematical since, University of Mazandaran, Mazandara...

This Article gives a brief overview of Islamic views on assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). Islamic law is applied to ARTs to determine what may be lawful and/or moral and what may be impermissible. The article examines artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy and cloning.

This work focuses on a controversial topic within women studies of the Islamic world, the very young marriage of Mohammad's second wife Aisha. The work attempts to meet the issue on level ground and explain that while this may seem as a spark on conflict between non-Muslim cultures and the Islamic world this marriage was not altogether that uncommon for the time.

OBJECTIVE To understand lay beliefs and attitudes, religious teachings, and professional perceptions in relation to diabetes prevention in the Bangladeshi community. DESIGN Qualitative study (focus groups and semistructured interviews). SETTING Tower Hamlets, a socioeconomically deprived London borough, United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS Bangladeshi people without diabetes (phase 1), religious ...

This study examines the implications of how teachers’ views of immigrant parents predict their ratings of first-grade students’ academic competence and behavioral problems. Teachers rated 191 first-grade immigrant students attending Islamic and public schools in the Northeast United States. The results showed that when teachers perceived parents as having discrepant value differences, they rate...

PurposeThe purpose of this conceptual paper is to attempt to demonstrate the impact of marital roles and family structure on consumer decision-making style within an Islamic culture. Design/methodology/approachThis paper wants to understand how husbands/wives with Eastern norms and Islamic culture use different decision-making style. Reviews of literature in consumer decision-making and family ...

This chapter traces how British and Dutch colonial officials gathered and organized knowledge on Islamic law in the British Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) and the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) respectively. Despite clear differences between the legal systems and administrative structures of the two colonies, colonial authorities shared a considerable amount of ...

This study compares the hazard of failure in Islamic and conventional commercial banks using survival models. The sample consists of 421 banks from 20 Middle and Far Eastern countries observed during the 1995 to 2010 period. The conditioning variables are of both bank-level and country-level type. The analysis suggests that Islamic banks have lower failure risk and are less interconnected which...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing awareness of the perceived stress and approach to learning effects on academic achievement. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the educational environment and approach to learning in clinical phase medical students. METHODS This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among fifty-nine clinical stage medical students at Omdurman Islamic University ...