Is Islam compatible with modern economic development? The poor development record of predominantly Muslim countries during the past century has led to claims that only a return to medieval Islamic institutions will produce economic growth in a manner that is compatible with Islamic culture. Using data from the thirteenth century Islamic Levant, this paper examines how one medieval Islamic insti...

As societies transform from a predominantly traditional to a predominantly modem system they tend to experience considerable demographic changes. Ansley Coale (1984) notes that this "transformation is the substitution of slow growth achieved with low fertility and mortality for slow growth maintained with relatively high fertility and mortality rates." Islam is one of the world’s major monothei...

The authors state three explicit goals for this book.The first goal is to measure what degree Muslim countries are Islamic. second explain the (bad) performance of vis-à-vis non-Muslim countries. third and final establish an Islamicity index as a benchmark country comply with demands Islam compare their position other

The ultimate success of the reconquista (the reconquering of Muslim lands in the Iberian Peninsula from 718-1492) and the ensuing consolidation of Spain beneath the joint rule of Ferdinand and Isabel helped define the course of western civilization. This paper uses the unique institutional organization of Muslim rulers in Iberia to explain the fall of Muslim power in the Peninsula. Through vast...

High fertility and low market returns to schooling are predicted by a clubgood model of religious sects. We investigate fertility and returns to education among families of graduates of Muslim religious schools in Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Cote D’Ivoire, and Pakistan. Fertility is significantly higher among these families in all five countries. Returns to education are generally lower among...

background cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. organized cervical screening and vaccination against human papilloma virus (hpv) have been successful interventions for prevention of invasive cervical cancer (icc). because of cultural and religious considerations, icc has low incidence in iran and many other muslim countries. there is no organized cervical scre...

1Shaheen, 2Seema Hakim, 3Veena Maheshwari, 4Smriti Bhargava 1Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India 2Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India 3Professor, Department of Pathology, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim Univer...

Traditionally, the time of prayer was being announced through mosques. Nowadays, there’s a special time in cities of Muslim countries, known as prayer times table. Mean while villages lack such division or table, they use the Prayer times of nearby cities. In non-muslim countries, such tables just belong to big cities and other areas have difficulties to find (precise) prayer times. Quantitativ...