Using classical Greek logic to explain the concept of a metaphor to his readers, the famous Islamic scholar Ibn Sina wrote in his book, “Qiyâs”: “So and so is beautiful. Everything beautiful is a moon. Therefore so and so is a moon.” On the other hand, the equally famous Islamic scholar Imam al-Shafi’i is quoted...Read More

For some seven hundred years seminaries across the Islamic world have required that students to take a rigorous course of traditional logic. Instruction was based on a series of short textbooks, explicated through commentaries and glosses. This tradition of “school logicn arose &spite strong religious opposition to logic in the Islamic world. Its texts reflected...Read More

Using modern, electronic technology to promote the culture and worldview of technology producers and to subjugate its consumers is the gist of what McPhail (2006) calls electronic colonialism theory (ECT). As an example of electronic technology, Internet-mediated English educational materials are rapidly growing but they do not appear to have been critically analyzed in terms...Read More

Islam’s view on the status of women has been among the controversial topics in the American universities in recent decades. The rise of the political Islam and its embodiment in the Islamic Republic of Iran is considered by many critics as the turning point in the making of the Muslim women as an analytical category...Read More