Islamic Counselling: An Introduction to Theory and Practice by G. Hussein Rassool successfully differentiates Islamic counseling theory from a wide range of mainstream therapeutic models such as psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive–behavioral, and solutionfocused approaches. It serves as an introductory guide to support academics, clinicians, paraprofessionals, and students in the understandin...

The purpose of this article is to substantiate Islamic culture and religion as a kind cardiocentrism. It no secret that in the educational research literature, Slavic, especially Russian Ukrainian philosophy, represented by P. D. Yurkevich, G. S. Skovoroda, I. A. Ilyin, Chizhevsky others, there current which might be called cardiophilosophy or “philosophy heart”. We tried prove Islam likely mor...

Islamic building codes require mosques to face Mecca. The further Islam spreads, the more apt are believers to fall into a quandary. X faces Y only when the front of X is closer to Y than any other side of X. So the front of the mosque should be oriented along a shortest path to Mecca. Which way is that? Does the path to Mecca tunnel through the earth? Or does the path follow the surface of the...

This paper explores some of the issues that arise in the regulation of Islamic capital market products and services. As many of the products are distributed to retail clients by Islamic banks and through the Islamic windows of conventional banks, it is also pertinent to deal with the regulation of these institutions, not least because of the distinctive liability and asset structures of Islamic...

Before 1987, iodine deficiency was not considered an issue of major importance in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). Progress began with a systematic national study of goitre and other iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) in the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1983. Following a major review of the prevalence of IDD in member states, Guidelines for national programmes for the cont...

This paper presents a case series with preliminary data regarding the neurophysiological effects of specific prayer practices associated with the Islamic religion. Such practices, like other prayer practices, are likely associated with several coordinated cognitive activities and a complex pattern of brain physiology. However, there may also be changes specific to the goals of Islamic prayer wh...

medicine, and their use may be independent ofParacelsian theory or cosmology. This continuity is further obscured by Beier's belief in such sixteenthand seventeenth-century worthies as Lanfrance ofMilan (fi.1293) and Albertus Magnus (d. 1280, here called A. Magnus), and in such Englishmen as Forestus (Dutch) and the Germans Jacob Rueffand Scultetus. Her reliance only on English versions of thei...