American Muslims represent a growing and diverse community. Efforts at promoting cultural competence, enhancing cross-cultural communication skills, and improving community health must account for the religio-cultural frame through which American Muslims view healing. Using a community-based participatory research model, we conducted 13 focus groups at area mosques in southeast Michigan to expl...

In this study, the authors investigated the effect of an individual's political skill on the relationships between 5 different impression management tactics (intimidation, exemplification, ingratiation, self-promotion, and supplication) and supervisor evaluations of performance. To test these relationships, the authors used a matched sample of 173 supervisor-subordinate dyads who worked full ti...

This essay examines deluxe copies of Katherine Parr's “Psalms or Prayers” (1544) distributed as gifts part Henry VIII's wartime campaign. The book promoted supplication for the king, and Parr used hand illumination to amplify its aesthetic sacred character elicit political loyalty. I discuss two annotated by Henry, one previously unknown. argue that volumes shed new light on role queen/author, ...

This study compares the relative role of impression management tactics and the other form of supervisor–subordinate guanxi (s–s g) in predicting supervisor-rated employee performance. Empirical data were collected from 175 supervisor-subordinate dyads working full-time in Taiwanese organisations. Specifically, this study uses the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA) to formulate employee s...

The research focused on the systems in Surat Al-Fatihah with clarification of some rhetorical phenomena and interpretation verses a grammatical study structures systems. dealt phenomenon repetition attention role conscience, impact followers an analysis supplication praise that opened surah. Hence, reason for choosing is because it serves as beginning introduction to Holy Quran. Just includes: ...

Knowing the factors that secure mental health and using them in practice ensure peace of mind for the individual and society. The present study explores this topic in the Quran and hadiths. The study will show that, according to these two sources, the main factors in securing mental health for the individual and society are the following: enhanceing faith in God, trusting God, having a good opi...

This study is concerned with an inscription from Mamlukian period discovered by the researcher in eastern Badia of Jordan site called Ghadeer al-Dahab southeast town Al-Safaweabout 50 km. The provides us information about pastured and gathered truffles which reflection to economic situation for Bedouins tribes. inscriber mentioned a name one pilgrims supplication forgiveness him verse poetry as...

Abstract Despite significant research interest in Norwegian penality, there remains much to be learned about how people Norway experience life during and after punishment. This article is one of the first explore lived desistance as narrated by desisters. We analyse ‘small stories’ that either opened up or frustrated co-creation change, showing develops (or stymied) at a micro level. Our analyt...