Islam remains misunderstood by many in the West essentially because it has not been part of the Western cultural tradition. Negative perceptions in the West are enhanced by popular reactions to abhorrent practices committed by some Muslims, even when those practices clearly contradict the teachings of Islam.1 These negative perceptions are also enhanced by Islamophobia.2 Conversely, the West’s ...

the fact that the prophet did not achieve much success in mecca in converting the people to islam after 13 years of missionary work and that the people of medina turned to islam although the prophet was not physically present is one of the little understood questions in the history of islam. the present paper seeks to study, from a sociological point of view, the reason why the people of mecca,...

prophets’ hadiths are such hadiths narrated in islamic traditional books which narrate some words of divine prophets or ancient celestial books. those hadiths are scattered on the one hand and on a variety of subjects on the other. gathering and classification of those hadiths bear fruitful results. there are 1053 hadiths narrated from 34 prophets in traditional books of them 60% deal with fund...

when muslim arabs conquered transoxiana, the eastern turkistan and semirchie remained unoccupied for two centuries by qarluqs resistance. but islamic teachings were gradually propagated in their area and in the second half of  the fourth century a.h islam became the dominant religion among them. on the basis of  a descriptive-analytic method, this article is to clarify the process of propagatio...

Health is basic need of human being and everybody intends to remain healthy. As far as Islam is concerned, its faith is not merely upon spirit, but also it has given proper place to the physician health. It is a fact that the revaluation in the preserving and restoring health of psychic as well as physical is a gift of Islam. Clearcut guidelines have been given not only for correction of spirit...