BACKGROUND Islam and Muslims are underrepresented in the medical literature and the influence of physician's cultural beliefs and religious values upon the clinical encounter has been understudied. OBJECTIVE To elicit the perceived influence of Islam upon the practice patterns of immigrant Muslim physicians in the USA. DESIGN Ten face-to-face, in-depth, semistructured interviews with Muslim...

providing analytical and social tools, critical discourse analysis (henceforthcda) can be used to unravel the hidden ideologiesas well as biases in the websof discursive practices involved in texts. in this paper, the van leeuwen’s (1996)cda framework is used to analyze an article from a british broadsheet newspaper,the guardian. to have a more detailed analysis, eleven elements are chosen from...

This article investigates how the identity and sense of belonging evident among young Muslims in Birmingham, England are effected by city’s ‘problematisation’. To do so, this presents findings from new empirical data gathered 125 respondents aged between 18 25 all whom identified as Muslim were resident Birmingham. Having contextualised problematisation, British ‘politics belonging’, adopts a t...

Identity is related to a nation’s culture, belief system, and language. Malaysia multi-ethnic country inhabited by various races religions. Every year there conversion Islam among non-Muslims on the influence of factors. It becomes challenge certain ethnicities maintain their identity build genuine Muslim personality. This study aims identify challenges faced groups who embrace (muallaf) in bui...