this paper deals with the importance of regionalism in iran's foreign policy. some of the existing outlooks view the characteristics of iran's power structure and politics in such a way that make any security-political, economic and cultural coalition and cooperation difficult in the region. but the author holds that political, security and geopolitical changes in the middle east regi...

in this study we tried to examine the role of participatory institutions in the local development by measuring the effect of social capital on the promotion of performance. our research sample was dehong's (a village in south of iran) islamic council. on the other hand it tries to evaluate effect of social capital on local development. the result of the study showed that some of social capital ...

As a country with the greatest Muslim number, Indonesia has a long history on its introduction to Islam. Unfortunately, there has not been effective and interactive ways of learning Islamic history in Indonesia, beside text-books-based stories, which may not be interesting for students. Therefore, Indonesian Muslim students may not value Islamic history, so that they cannot learn from and imple...

Islamic Finance is more than an asset class – it is a way of life lived by 1.6 billion Muslims around the world. But its reach goes even further – non-Islamic countries, governments, and businesses, have all invested in or issued Islamic securities for one reason or another. With the ongoing push of globalization of trade and finance, Islamic financial flows, long a localized phenomenon, have b...

Abstract Tafsir studies, due to its focus on reception history and tradition rather than the origins of Islam, may be a locus fruitful cooperation between new field Islamic theology ‘regular’ studies that transcends problematic dichotomy insider/outsider perspectives. Redefining normativity as negotiating future Islam’s discursive tradition, arguably shared concern theologians Islamicists, alth...

The Prolog III programming language extends Prolog by redefining the fundamental process at its heart : unification. Into this mechanism, Prolog III integrates refined processing of trees and lists, number processing, and processing of two-valued Boolean algebra. We present the specification of this new language and illustrate its capabilities by means of varied examples. We also present the th...