A. R. Bozorgmanesh a , M. Otadi b, A. A. Safe Kordi c, F. Zabihi d, M. Barkhordari Ahmadi e (a) Department of Chemical Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (b) Department of Chemical Engineering, Central Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (c) Department of Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (d) Department of ...

Ayatollah Khomeini and Ali Shariati are seen as twin pillars of revolutionary Islam in contemporary Iran. This article contextualizes and compares these radical discourses in three sections. It first problematizes the transformation of Khomeini as a quietist cleric into a revolutionary ayatollah. While Khomeini’s theory of velayat-e faqih was a radical departure from the dominant Shiite traditi...

belief in matter of matters or the prime matter is one of the earliest human beliefs in the field of philosophical thinking. from among the muslim philosophers, the peripatetics have confirmed it and come up with certain arguments; however, some others have not accepted it. in this article, it is tried to critically review the arguments on proving the prime matter and the objections that muslim...

BACKGROUND The status of hepatitis A virus (HAV) among health care workers has not been studied yet in Iran. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the HAV seropositivity among the healthcare personnel in Ayatollah Rohani Hospital, Babol, Iran, according to age, number of working years, and other demographic data. PATIENTS AND METHODS This cross sectional study was performed on all nurses,...

Ayatollah Yusef Sanei was a prominent contemporary Shia scholar whose particular methodological approach led him to issue some of the most progressive fatwas on subject women’s rights. However, ideas he expressed in last decades his life have scarcely been addressed English language scholarship. This article explores Sanei’s broader jurisprudential and how applied it analyzing often challenging...