OBJECTIVE Physical inactivity surveillance informs policy and treatment options toward meeting the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal of a 10% reduction in its prevalence by 2025. We currently do not know the aggregate prevalence for Muslim-majority countries, many of which have extremely high rates of comorbidities associated with physical inactivity. METHOD Based on data for 163, 556 pe...

issues on differences between men and women have always been a source for dispute and different approaches in the available literature on women. some have seen these differences resulting from the dissimilar socialization of men and women in family and society. while some put more emphasis on the physiological differences and rely on theological interpretations, some others consider them as ess...

This article examines the use of “Islamic civilization” by Muslim thinkers, undoubtedly, one most controversial concept for contemporary Islamic Thought in Türkiye. The main argument is that civilization discourse has evolved from an eclectic/defensive perception to otherizing/exclusionist position, and otherizing political style ontological awareness, over three generations intellectuals proce...

Age and sex are biological terms that are socioculturally constructed for marriage and marital sexual behavior in every society. Marriage is a universal norm that makes legitimate sexual behavior between a man and a woman in marital life cycle to gain bio-social purposes. Cross-cultural studies reveal that marital sexual frequency as a part of marital sexual behavior not only varies within the ...

Divine attributes and their relation to essence is one of the most fundamental theological issues in Islamic world that Qur'anic verses this regard have led its emergence among Muslim thinkers. Meanwhile, Ash'arites believe divine positiveattributes are different fromessence uncreated time, they various arguments due comparing present with absent, carry attributeson each other on essence, God. ...

BACKGROUND Multiple demographic, genetic, and environmental factors differ between Muslim and Jewish infants in Israel. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether, after adjustment for perinatal factors associated with mortality, excess mortality occurs in very low birthweight (VLBW) Muslim compared with Jewish infants. DESIGN The Israel National VLBW infant database includes data on 99% of all VLBW bir...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the results of an exploratory qualitative study on Muslim adolescents' views on sexuality in the Netherlands. METHODS Data were gathered from an Internet forum on which 44 Muslim and 33 non-Muslim adolescents discussed sexuality as it relates to Islam. These discussions were subsequently analyzed for content using Nvivo 2.0. RESULTS Our analysis revealed seve...

humiliation the role of women in family and emphasize on social identify of women is the common of feminist groups. islamic scholars also offered different opinions about the social role of women. these research efforts has focused on study the ideas of ayatollah khamenei, as one of the largest muslim thinkers in contemporary society and leadership of islamic republic of iran, about social role...

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...