Muhammad (pbuh) is the last prophet sent by Allah to mankind. Qur'an divine message through him. In some verses of Qur'an, which contains many universal principles, Prophet's struggle with polytheists and deniers mentioned, as well his distinguished position among prophets. It stated that it "best example” (‘usva al-hasene) for believers, qualities related him are also mentioned. For this reaso...

Leadership is essential to making and establishing policies, directing controlling environments, influencing people perform at a high level. Innovation awaits the proper balance of labor motivation. When employees desire level efficiency for organization are committed living their families, they should not be subject abuse, harassment, or workplace stressors. Yet, many workers struggle with lea...

According to the most widely accepted interpretation of the book of Revelation, the Emperor Nero, the Roman Empire, and the imperial cult in Asia Minor loom large in the symbolic foreground of the book, reflective of the conviction that John is addressing the historical situation contemporary to him. To Wilhelm Bousset, “the observation that the core of the prophecy in the Apocalypse refers to ...

parents in Tudor and Stuart times, and Antonia Fraser, in her The weaker vessel (Weidenfeld, 1983) tells numerous stories of passionate marriages. The Stonian interpretation has now been reinforced by Miriam Slater's anatomy of a seventeenth-century gentry family, the Verneys. Slater's is a bleak view indeed. She does not see the Verney family in the Stuart age as a "human socializing and nurtu...

RICHARD KIECKHEFER, Magic in the Middle Ages, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 219, illus., £20.00/$39.50, £6.95/$9.95 (paperback). Magic in the Middle Ages is meant to be a general textbook on anything covered by the term "magic"-defined in the most generous sense as a cultural form in Europe between the years c. 500 to 1500. It succeeds admirably. Be...

I went to medical school mainly because it was the hardest course to get into and carried the greatest prestige. I entered as an intellectual snob but quickly found out that medical school in Scotland in the 1960s required taking risks, putting up with a lot of stuff, and working hard! I enjoyed all clinical courses, but the most intense competition was for the professorial surgical internships...

RICHARD KIECKHEFER, Magic in the Middle Ages, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 219, illus., £20.00/$39.50, £6.95/$9.95 (paperback). Magic in the Middle Ages is meant to be a general textbook on anything covered by the term "magic"-defined in the most generous sense as a cultural form in Europe between the years c. 500 to 1500. It succeeds admirably. Be...

Scholarly reputations that for a time seem unimpeachable now shrink or evaporate so speedily that ‘‘intergenerational’’ perceptions of whom to read will soon be measured in months rather than decades. As some theorists have begun to explain (e.g., Hassan 2012; Rosa 2013), to remain hip in any single intellectual or artistic field becomes ever more taxing, more and more breathless, with returns ...

searching about nationalism in dramatic literature of iran, cause us to consider two special eras in the one hundred and fifty year old dramatic history of iran: first pahlavi and the time of war between iran and iraq which has allocated a lot of artistic works under the name of defa’e moghadas to itself. but the main aspect of this research is introducing and surveying sho’bie movement – the f...