politics as an arena of macro decisions that influence on life of all human, from the start, connected to current thought in societies, but because that such conjunction done more according to necessity, events and or selectivity, therefore led to specific results for each two. in modern age, for the sake of birth of new age and its reciprocity with subjective and objective structures in past, ...

islamic fiqh especially imami fiqh, contains subjects that their application need a powerful government and a ruler that must be aware of divine teachings. accordingly, it should be noted that there is a strong connection between the fiqh of islam and the issue of government. here, we study some expressions of this connection, including: a) review of fiqhi texts to make the connection of fiqh a...

Politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. Conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. Were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. Civil society moveme...

religion, as one of the most effective elements of culture and civilization, has had a tangible presence in all human societies from the ancient times up to the present. it has been tried, in this study, to look over iranians’ religious beliefs from the point of arabic sources view. the results show that the religious beliefs, especially in the field of politics, had an important role in ancien...

a commonly desired ultimate foundation or ground is full unity, community, or consensus, which is often, if not typically, figured as lost or perhaps lacking, usually because of the intrusive presence of others seen as outsiders or polluters of the city or the body politic. One may, however, insist that such unity, community, or consensus is absent and that the sociopolitical problem is how to ...

What does it mean to live for sociology, today? In attempting to answer this question I return to Max Weber’s famous lectures delivered toward the end of his life—one on science as a vocation and the other on politics as a vocation. He presented ‘‘Science as a Vocation’’ in November 1917 toward the end of World War I and the more pessimistic ‘‘Politics as a Vocation’’ in January 1919 after Germ...