Background: While religious beliefs and values influence health behaviors, conventional health disparities research rarely examines health outcomes by religious affiliation particularly within multi-ethnic minority communities. Methods: Using a systematic strategy we searched the Medline literature to identify empiric studies that report on health disparities between American Muslims and nonMus...

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of British media representations of Islam. It offers a contribution to the literature on the international student sojourn by focusing on the unique experiences of the Muslim segment of that student body. International Muslim students perceived Muslim countries to be portrayed by the media as: (1) sympathetic to terrorism; (2) economically b...

The death of a child has a profound and often long-lasting impact on families. The parent's relationship and their ability to bond with and take care of surviving children may be affected. It is important for healthcare workers to understand the dynamics associated with bereavement, especially when the family comes from a non-Western culture. Islam is one of the three most populous religions al...

In recent years, there has been a global growing demand for Islamic knowledge by both Muslims and non-Muslims. This has brought about a number of automated applications that ease the retrieval of knowledge from the Holy Book, being the major source of Knowledge in Islam. However, the current retrieval methods in the Quranic domain lack adequate semantic search capabilities; they are mostly base...

On 18 October 2006 the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Star carried the front page headline ‘BBC PUT MUSLIMS BEFORE YOU!’. The headline was accompanied by a picture of a woman in a face-covering niqab making a two-fingered gesture. Despite the fact that the 2001 census recorded 1,588,890 Muslims living in the United Kingdom, comprising 2.78 per cent of the population, the use of the word yo...

Introduction: The Kalash are the only non-Muslim ethnic group living in three small and beautiful valleys of district Chitral. They are the last tribe of the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush. The Kalash exhibit, perhaps, one of the ancient and unique primitive traditions and cultures. They are living with the Muslims in this region for a long period of time, and had been under Muslim rule most of this ...

Islam is the second largest religion in the world and Muslims constitute approximately 22% of the world’s population. According to latest data, the total number of Muslims in the world is over 1.5 billion. In Europe Muslims constitute approximately 7% of the overall population. In the UK the size of the Muslim population is estimated to be close to 1.6 million, constituting 2.7% of the overall ...

The greatest security threat to the sovereignty of Nigeria today is the Boko Haram insurgency. The terrorist have carried their campaign of terror up to the police force headquarters. These developments led to the belief in many circles that Islam and terrorism are synonymous. The paper in its attempt to capture the issue of National security in Islam describes the Qur’anic schools that intend ...