The article is devoted to wine drinking in the Sufi sources of Transoxiana 16th century, on example Manakibs. importance research this topic lies determining secular and religious traditions Muslim society. Besides, topic's relevance due insufficient study issues semantic interpretation concept writings. Hence, aims disclose various meanings contained primary method issue historical comparative...

The importance of contemplating the Holy Quran for a Muslim's belief and its positive impact on course his life, worship, dealings is not hidden from any rational person. Hence, this study, which aimed to help in providing mechanisms means that words meanings Noble Qur’an our Non-Arabs speaking brothers, responds at same time definition contemplation Qur’an, brings benefit goodness life worship...

This article contains the reasons for the establishment of sacred trees in Israel based on a field study. It includes 97 interviews with Muslim and Druze informants. While Muslims (Arabs and Bedouins) consider sacred trees especially as an abode of righteous figures' (Wellis') souls or as having a connection to their graves, the Druze relate sacred trees especially to the events or deeds in the...

Background: While religious beliefs and values influence health behaviors, conventional health disparities research rarely examines health outcomes by religious affiliation particularly within multi-ethnic minority communities. Methods: Using a systematic strategy we searched the Medline literature to identify empiric studies that report on health disparities between American Muslims and nonMus...

persian sea and persian gulf have a historical and geographical background that arabic sources approve their originality since long time ago so that the muslim writers, arabs and non-arabs, repeatedly mentioned these names in their works including historical, geographical and interpretative works and literary sources. in this study, we have tried to search and extract the usage of the terms “pe...

This study exploits the unique demographic structure of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel and their geographical immobility in order to help resolve the riddle why women in the Middle East and North Africa are less likely to participate in the labor force than women elsewhere in the world. We show that, controlling for economic variables, Muslim and Druze Arab women are more likely to ent...

Received 3 November 1993 Revised version accepted for publication 28 March 1994 Abstract Metachromatic leucodystrophy is an autosomal recessive degenerative disease of the nervous system caused by the deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme arylsulphatase A (ARSA). We report here on the high incidence of late infantile MLD among Muslim Arabs originating from Jerusalem, most probably because of a fou...

A merica has an image problem. Only 1 percent of people surveyed in June 2003 in Jordan or the Palestinian Authority expressed a favorable opinion of the United States. Favorability ratings elsewhere in the Middle East were almost all below 30 percent. Osama bin Laden was among the top three leaders most often trusted to “do the right thing” by survey respondents in Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, ...

Abstract This article examines a ḥadīth text that illustrates the complicated interactions between Christian and Islamic sacred spaces in early period of rule Near East. In this narrative, Prophet Muḥammad gives group Arabs instructions for how to convert church into mosque, telling them use his ablution water cleansing repurposing space Muslim worship. Contextualizing narrative terms Muslim-Ch...