aim and background: development of human societies sometimes leads in negative consequences such as stress. this research was conducted to assess the effects of religious commitment and self-efficacy in predicting the amount and type of perceived stress in university students. methods and materials: this was a correlational-descriptive study including 200 undergraduate and postgraduate students...

The Holy Quran is the biggest Miracle of Muslims everywhere and at every time; therefore, it is valid for every time and place. Actually, researches and studies into the Holy Quran that aim to uncover new miracles within are considered as a kind of worship for Muslims researchers since it facilitates the Islamic mission and clarifies the vague picture of Islam throughout the world. From this pe...

Objective To examine the association between Quran memorization and health among older men. Methods This cross-sectional study included older Saudi men (age ≥ 55 years) from Buraidah, Al-Qassim. The neighborhoods were selected randomly (20 out of 96); eligible men from the mosques were recruited. Demographics, lifestyle, and depression were assessed with standardized questionnaires; height, w...

In recent years, there has been a global growing demand for Islamic knowledge by both Muslims and non-Muslims. This has brought about a number of automated applications that ease the retrieval of knowledge from the Holy Book, being the major source of Knowledge in Islam. However, the current retrieval methods in the Quranic domain lack adequate semantic search capabilities; they are mostly base...

according to commonly believed in imamiyeh' s fiqh, a murder commitment made in haram months would causes an increment in blood money to one third. the increment is called taghlize diyeh, increase of blood money. the increase includes all three kinds of murder commitments, namely intentional, quasi-intentional and unintentional ones, the very meaning written down in islamic puni-shment law...

Recently, there has been a great interest in Islamic software that try to harness computer to serve the religion. This brought about some applications and programs for the Holy Quran and its sciences, Hadith " ثيدحلا" (Prophet’s Tradition) and its methodology, Fiqh "ه قفلا" (Islamic jurisdiction), and Islamic law in general. However, these computer-programs, especially those developed for the s...

In this paper we describe the Semantic Quran dataset, a multilingual RDF representation of translations of the Quran. The dataset was created by integrating data from two different semi-structured sources and aligned to an ontology designed to represent multilingual data from sources with a hierarchical structure. The resulting RDF data encompasses 43 different languages which belong to the mos...

BACKGROUND During recent decades, research in Iran in the area of the Quran and medical science has been seriously engaged in. With respect to the tendency toward spirituality and alternative medicine, we tried to find other aspects of the influence of the Quran. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the effect of vocalizations of the Holy Quran with and without translation on the conseque...

There are billions of believers of various religions in the world and Islam is the second largest religion having 1.6 billion followers. The primary written sources of religious beliefs and practices of Muslims are the Quran and the Hadith (saying and practices of their prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him). Written text of the Quran and the Hadith books is of manageable size and hence state of t...

This article concerned with the translation of Quranic verses to Braille symbols, by using Visual basic program. The system has the ability to translate the special vibration for the Quran. This study limited for the (Noun + Scoon) vibrations. It builds on an existing translation system that combines a finite state machine with left and right context matching and a set of translation rules. Thi...