BACKGROUND Muslim women are one sub-population in Ghana among whom the rate of skilled maternal health services accessibility and utilisation is very low. However, there are no studies in Ghana that explore the maternity needs and care experiences of Muslim women, and why they do not utilise maternal healthcare services at health facilities. The purpose of this paper is to explore the maternity...

My aim in this paper is to carve out a political understanding of the Muslim identity. The Muslim identity is shaped within a religious mold. Inseparable from this religious understanding is a political one that is valuable in its own right in order to secure any sustainable possibility of participating politically as Muslims within a democratic liberal democracy, such as the United States. Her...

İslâm düşünce tarihinde ortaya çıkan iç ve dış kaynaklı problemlerini, İslâm’ı savunmak adına çözüme kavuşturmak için farklı ilmi disiplinler çıkmıştır. Bu disiplinlerden her biri önemli fonksiyon icra etmekle beraber kullandıkları yöntem metotların olmasından dolayı bazen birbirine yönelik eleştirilerde bulunmuşlardır. bağlamda öncelikli olarak i‘tikādî konularda akla yer vermeyerek istidlal t...

having relations with the muslim countries are very important for israel. many of these countries had avoided of establishing an open relation with it, because of their muslims opposite population against israel existence. the majority of them have considered israel as an enemy which had created by the efforts of the colonialists. so they considered it as an aggressive state and so they denied ...

— This essay focuses on two questions: How do the current economic systems and institutions of Muslim countries differ from those of other countries at the same stage of economic development? What is the impact of Islam on the economic and social performance of these countries? Employing a cluster analysis I find that there is no special Muslim economic system; moreover, few economic institutio...

Out of the total population of Sri Lanka, the Muslim community constitutes about 8%, while the Buddhist majority makes up 69,1%. Still, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, a Muslim political party, has been a significant player in the Sri Lankan political arena since the early 1990s. This article explores how they managed to gain support as quickly as they did, from the early 1980s to the present, a...

Fr. O'Rourke is professor of bioethics, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola I 'mra-sity Chicago; Fr. Kopfen steiner is associate professor, 'Lheo/ojjy Department, Lordham University, Bronx, NT; and Dr. Hatnel is senior director. Ethics, CHA. C atholics engaged in health care t h r o u g h o u t the centur ies have always sought to minister in the spirit of Christ and in accord with the reaching ...

In this paper, I analyze how the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, marked by increased parliamentary power in late 2006 due to unprecedented success in the 2005 elections, impacts female labor force participation in districts in which Muslim Brotherhood candidates won compared to those in which they did not win. I use a difference in differences estimation strategy, using both district a...

In December 1996, TIME magazine published an article titled ‘‘Finding God on the Web,’’ which projected how the Internet would shape information seeking on faith and religion. A decade later, the Web has become a popular tool for gathering religious information as well as information and imagery related to religious travel. Yet there is little research on religious destination imagery online. I...