Tafsir Falsafi (philosophical exegesis) is one of the Islamic intellectual resource that have occupied intellectualism Muslim thinkers since early period. However, epistemological side interpretation model was problematic, as it creates controversy among readers. Today, still frequently found from some Quranic studies. This paper discusses Muhammad Husain al-Zahabi’s thoughts on philosophical i...

Median thinkers are able to consider things from different perspectives and integrate information efficiently for situationally appropriate decisions. Previous research has found that high median thinkers tend to adopt a global and flexible processing strategy compared to low median thinkers, but less is known about how one’s processing capacity is related to his/her median thinking style. Proc...

The effects of religion, population sub-division and geography on the prevalence of deaf-mutism were investigated using information collected in the 1921 Census of Punjab. The total sample size was 9.36 million, and comprised data on thirteen Hindu castes, seventeen Muslim biraderis and two Sikh castes. A two-way analysis of variance comparing males in Hindu castes in which consanguineous marri...

The murder of Theo van Gogh in 2004 shocked Dutch society. Soon after, debates emerged about the nature of Islam and whether Islam is compatible with ‘Dutch’ democracy and freedoms. There were those among Muslims who praised Mohammed Bouyeri’s actions for being, as he claimed, an expression of true faith, while others condemned the attack as being against the true nature of Islam. Such utteranc...

Background: Altruistic ethics is one of the most important topics for Muslim thinkers, especially the mystics. Among Iranian mystics, the works of Attar Neishabouri are remarkable in terms of addressing humanitarian concepts. Attar had paid particular attention to the type of human being due to the numerous works and the familiarity with the sources of jurisprudence and interpretation. This res...

Choi and Nisbett (2000) reported that Koreans showed stronger hindsight bias than Americans. The purpose of this study was to see whether hindsight bias is stronger among Easterners than among Westerners using a probability judgment task, and to test an ‘explicit-implicit’ hypothesis and a ‘rule-dialectics’ hypothesis. We predict that the implicit process is more active among Easterners to gene...

Marriage is the foundation upon which a family institution erected and it one of cogent measures that Islam enjoins in preserving public morality developing healthy sane society. Furthermore, there virtually consensus among all cultures marriage has been over centuries most legally acceptable gateway conventional source establishing institution. Henceforth, assumes special significance occupies...

liberal thinkers believe that one of the main features of liberal public philosophy is the liberal state neutrality among competing attitudes of happiness. hence, one of the liberal ideals is that state refrains to determine the public goods and guiding people towards a particular virtue and so state remains neutral among opposition and competing views in this regard. by studying the books and ...