In her article "Geomancing Dib's Transcultural Expression in Translation Campbell analyses Mohammed Dib Islamic traditions. Campbell contextualizes lexical, syntactic with reference to Oriental schemas by Farīd ud-Dīn Attār and elements of Sufi symbolism elements serve to develop a liminal yet multilingual French language. Dib's poetic aesthetic enquiry and appears to go beyond Sufism in its de...

The emergency room (ER) psychiatrist confronts an increasingly diverse patient population that presents complex challenges to diagnosis and treatment in this acute setting. Such challenges include difficulties involving language barriers, interpretations of behaviors, prayer and fasting rituals, gender roles, attitudes about mental health, family issues, and other cultural issues. The Muslim pa...

While the trait of absorption has received a considerable amount scientific study, states have been comparatively understudied and even less scholarly or attention paid to those that are cultivated within contemplative traditions Islam Judaism. This paper explores canonical descriptions in Islamic Jewish traditions, specifically highlighting how they often using sensory deprivation withdrawal, ...

Pesantren is a historical tradition of Islamic education in Indonesia which originated from ancient times and it has been proven that addition to educating about the faith piety students (santri) also noble character. Surau place for traditional ceremonies then gradually becomes worship as gathering young people learn explore skills various knowledges. boarding schools must be maintained develo...

Islam is a comprehensive religion guiding the lives of its followers through sets of rules governing the personal, social, and public aspects through the verses of the Holy Qur'an and Hadiths, the compilation of the traditions of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh), the two main documents that serve as guidelines. Islam is explicit with regard to using animals for human purposes and there is a rich traditi...

Scientific advances and technical developments in the field of laboratory diagnosis and their practical applications have raised ethical issues linked to religion, beliefs, lifestyle and traditions prevailing in different communities. Some of these are pertinent to genetic screening at various stages of life, prenatal diagnosis and the right of the genetically affected fetus to live--all aspect...

by appearance of human societies, the spiritual needs of different individuals and societies to worship the creator and to donate in order to attain the health and to fulfill the wishes had caused them to erect the specific places for offering the sacrificial materials. this article is generally a brief study on the places to donate and offer the sacrificial materials to sacred places regarding...

this study explores how and to what extent recent developments in hermeneutical philosophy and methodology can be applied to religious studies, and particularly to questions that have a political focus. it begins from the assumption that it is possible to apply hermeneutics to interpreting the koran and religious questions. in addition, apart from relativist hermeneutics, other classical approa...

rom March 2011 to June 2012, over three dozen Tibetans set themselves on fire to protest against repression in China. Self-immolation, though exceedingly rare, has been part of the global repertoire of protest for half a century. This article places the Tibetan cases within an international context of suicide protest over several decades. Comparison reveals the Tibetan episode to be one of the ...