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among factors causing disagreement of shiites and sunnis is commentatorial   hadiths. such hadiths are of great significance in the process of understanding as well as commenting on the quran–and even inferring juristic precepts. hence, attitude of muslims towards such   hadiths play a significant role in the process of formation of their beliefs and inferring islamic precepts. attitude of sunn...

Website quality measurement tools have been largely static and have struggled to determine relevant attributes of user satisfaction. This study compares and contrasts attributes of user satisfaction based on usability guidelines seeking to identify practical easy-to-administer measurement tools. The website users assessed business school homepages according to six criteria and fulfilled a rando...

investigating a hadith narrated from the fifth shi‘a imam (abu ja‘far muhammad al-baqir) in two quranic commentaries of al-tibyan and majma‘al-bayan, the present essay finds its origin in al-masabih fi tafsir al-qur’an by abu al-qasim wazir maghribi (370-418 a.h.). wazir maghribi attributes that hadith to abu ja‘far in an ambiguous way. however, that hadith is neither narrated in shiite books o...

Background: The present study aimed to compare the complete blood count (CBC) indices between COVID-19 patients and the control group, and assess the relationship of these indices with COVID-19 prognosis given the role of complete blood counts in the COVID-19 prognosis. Methods: COVID-19 patients (confirmed by PCR or CT-Scan) who visited Imam Hospital in Sari were selected in this case-control...

Renal Stone is one of the fairly common diseases in all over the world. According to statistics , its prevalence in America is between 10 to 15% (1). Iran and its neighbors such as Turkey and Pakistan locate on stone-making region. The exact prevalence and incidence rates of urinary calculi in Iran are not clear (2). Since a) mortality rate in this disease is not high, b) there is no longer tim...

medical books written in islamic societies have devoted special chapters to preventive medicine named hefzossehha’. nowadays, ferdous alhekmah is considered as the first medical text authored by muslim scientists in islamic countries. but in this review study we offer a more ancient text that belongs to ali ibn musa (imam reza pbuh), the 8th imam of shi’ites. this text was written about 815-818...