This paper investigates the ways in which terrorism is linked to education and poverty using data newly culled from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) documentary sources. The paper presents a statistical analysis of the determinants of participation in terrorist activities by members of the Hamas and PIJ between the late 1980s and May 2002. The resulting evidence suggests that both high...

this article is an attempt to study two historical junctures in the history of iran: from the qajar era to the mashrooteh movement; and from the pahlavi era to the islamic revolution. the two junctures have been studied from different perspectives; however, this article concentrates only on how political legitimacy emerged and diminished in the the above-mentioned revolutions. the basic questio...

Wasim Maziak Syria Of all its accomplishments, the West is perhaps most proud of its scientific revolution, which has been unfolding for the past halfmillennium. Only students of history remain consistently mindful of the pivotal and catalytic role that the Arab world played in the early phases of this revolution. Now, all of us should have a vested interest in advancing science and technology ...

a large number of people are affected by cancer and the primeval history of this malady has attracted attention toward complementary and alternative therapies to manage this disease. the present study has performed a survey on cancer in the iranian traditional medicine during the islamic era (itm) by focusing on cancer terminologies and related diseases over a millennium, from medieval to the e...

this paper discusses the number of scholars and their scientific interests in the reign of bu-veyhid. buveyhid the most important iranian-shi ‘it dynasties appeared in the early era of islam. they were so powerful that the abbasid caliphs had to obey them. according to their shi ‘it religion, they practiced the idea of democracy and all sects were free in their reign. according to the survey mo...

clay and earthenware statuettes of women are amongst first human artworks of prehistoric era. after historic period the tradition of making women earthenware statuettes continued in islamic era with special changes. these earthenware statuettes including different method of making and decoration often have made in important persian pottery centers as rey and kashan cities. the seljuk and il-kha...