the examination of the method of authenticating the hadith dates back to the history of hadith itself. authenticating the hadith was common among shiites in different periods of time. content criticism of the texts, attributed to shiite imams, was the criterion for authenticating the hadith in the time of imams and previous shiite scholars. in this research, the factors of authentication approa...

like other religions, there are various currents in imami shiite in the first centuries. this article, relying on discourse analysis and by concentrating on oppositions, attempts to identify the internal shiite currents in iraq and iran in the second and third centuries. according to historical evidences, the opposition between school of hisham ibn al-hakam and majority of shia, which was schoo...

Sixteen subjects, with sickle-cell anaemia, all Iranians (ages 3 to 56 years), with very mild symptomatology are reported. Some of the subjects had been totally asymptomatic. Splenomegaly was noted in 9 cases. There was an increase in the mean level of fetal haemoglobin (18%); this is the probable explanation for the mild phenotype. In 29 subjects with sickle-cell trait, the level of HbF was al...

recent developments and newly-discovered methods for infertility treatment including in vitro fertilization and third party reproduction raise many questions and challenges with different ethical, legal, sociological and psychological dimensions. in islamic countries, despite great developments in using this technology, the questions concerned with recognition of ivf methods and third party rep...

Background Islamic doctrine and related teachings play a seminal role in constructing the sexual performance of followers, women in particular. Objective The aim was to explore women's understandings of Islamic Shiite principles related to their sexuality. Materials and Methods In a qualitative content analysis approach, four individual interviews and seven focus groups conducted in Rafsanj...

it is an undeniable necessity for muslims to deeply understand the orientalists’ opinions regarding islamic knowledge and to scientifically scrutinize their viewpoints. to this end, the present writer has tried to examine martin’s opinions regarding incarnation. the research method in this project is library research, while the adopted approach is an analytic-critical one. however, this does no...

Râfıza isminin Şiî düşünce ve İmâmiyye ile iltisâkını araştıran bu makalede, söz konusu ismin türediği rafz kelimesinin içerdiği “reddetme”, “terk etme” “ayrılma” anlamlarının Şiâ uyumuna işaret edilmektedir. Bu bağlamda, kendilerine muhaliflerince verilen kaynağına dair rivayetlerden hareketle genel özel olarak iki farklı anlam içerdiği: anlamda Hz. Peygamber’den sonra imâmeti nas tayine dayan...