one of the fundamental policies of the prophet in the field of education and establishing an ideal society based on religious teachings is the issue of ‘naming’. in order to build culture and identity, along with the qur’anic commands, the messenger of allah aimed – in all relevant areas such as selecting beautiful names for children, refining and changing adults’ names, nicknaming, reforming a...

The use of complementary and alternative medicine has remarkably increased in different societies across the world, such that the World Health Organization has emphasized in its recent approach the revival of traditional medicine in different regions of the world [1]. Throughout the history, in particular, in the past centuries, human beings have attempted to improve their health status to achi...

BACKGROUND Muslims comprise 4.8% of the national population in the UK and also form a significant proportion of its ethnic minority population, with trends set to continue for the foreseeable future. With ethnic minority health inequalities deepening further, there is an apparent lack of strategies to effectively tackle this growing problem. Imams, Muslim religious leaders, represent a hitherto...

contemplation in devine books to obtain earthly rules and regulations has given rise to contradictory controversies. in islam there is a disagreement between the traditionists and the rationalists. the traditionists claim that the quran is addressed only to the prophet and the imams, who are innocent. therefore, common people do not have the ability to infer precepts from the quran, being liabl...

One of the recent inquiries in the field of hadith studies is the investigation of transferred traditions and their causes and impacts on Shi‘i hadith circles. By exploring some traditions in the hadith collection of al-Shaykh al-Saduq and comparing the textual similarities and also the chain of transmitters, this research attempts to show that traditions of Jewish origin in the Shi‘i hadith ci...

Résumé Dans le shiʿisme duodécimain iranien, deux catégories de traditions populaires (comprenant rituels, pratiques et croyances) ont pris forme au cours du temps autour la question mal, précisément des souffrances mort subies par les personnes famille Prophète ( ahl al-bayt ). La première catégorie comprend expressions poétiques élégiaques marṯīya ) accompagnées reflétant passion compassion p...