background & aim: the four elements of the nursing meta-paradigm, namely, human, health, environment, and nursing have attracted much attention in the west for years. this study redefined the meta-paradigm or core concepts of nursing from the perspective of islam . methods & materials: a qualitative content analysis was used to collect and analyze data. data collection were based on in-depth se...

art has not been extensively discussed in the islamic tradition, except a few instances in the islamic jurisprudence. there is no discussion of the essence or definition of art in islamic scholarly spheres, including philosophical spheres. one can find nothing comparable to the philosophy of art as found in the western philosophy, especially after the eighteenth century, in the philosophical or...

muslim philosophers have since their long history encountered lots of severe surges of doubts and oppositions, so they did their best to remove them all through deep investigation which brought about the progress of islamic philosophy both in quantity and quality. muslim philosophers were sometimes challenged by such questions as, determinism, the temporal creation of the world, the otherness o...

william lane craig, american recent philosopher has tried with appealing to cantor’s latest ideas and also theory of “big bang” in physics; present a new explanation of cosmological argument. his explanation which is called “kalam- cosmological argument” is going to describe moslem philosopher’s argument in this aspect, like kendi and ghazali. he makes efforts to refuse the doctrine of eternali...

viewpoint ofimamiehilm al-kalam on wickedness hussein emadzadeh1,dr. mahdi farmanian21- ph.d. student ofimamiehilm al-kalam, tehran university (farabi campus), instructor at islamic azad university of gachsaran, corresponding author, e-mail: [email protected] assistant professor, university of religions and denominationsabstractscholars before khawja that were living at a time when ilm a...

“And by this means your mind will be delivered from all those small images flitting through the air, called intentional species, which worry the imagination of Philosophers so much” – writes Descartes in his Optics (First Discourse), referring to the medieval and contemporary scholastic theories of vision. Although, at least since Gilson’s work, considerable effort has been made to put Descarte...