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The Iranian-Islamic traditional medicine emphatically gives prominence to each individual’s temperament – or to use the Persian equivalent ‘Mizaj’- as a determining and key factor in deciding one’s lifestyle. In the Iranian-Islamic traditional medicine the excess or less of warmness and humidity define four essential temperaments of “Warm and Wet (sanguine or Damawiy)”, “Warm and …
The first major step to implement much-needed reforms in the Iranian banking sector is to be taken by the government in summer when it submits the Banking Reform Bill to the Parliament, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran said. “It is predicted that the Banking Reform Bill will be sent to Majlis by …
TEHRAN – The 11th national exhibition on hijab and dignity is being held at Tehran’s Shahr-e Aftab Fairground. The event, which opened on May 3 and runs through May 13, follows the aim of making people acquainted with Iranian-Islamic products, Fars quoted Hamid Qobadi, the secretary of the working group on fashion and cloths as …
The government has instructed five ministries and Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization to form a taskforce whose sole responsibility is to ensure Tabriz’s hospitality will live up to its status in 2018. In December 2015, tourism ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation member states selected Tabriz as the capital of Islamic tourism …
TEHRAN – The deputy culture and tourism minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan has held talks with provincial authorities of East Azarbaijan in northwest Iran, laying out a roadmap for widening cooperation thanks to countless mutual commonalities, CHTN reported on Saturday. During his April 26-27 visit to Tabriz, the capital city of East Azarbaijan, Adalat …
TEHRAN, Apr. 09 (MNA) – On the sidelines of ISBF annual meetings in Kuala Lumpur, central banks of Iran and Malaysia agreed to bolster bilateral banking relations. The Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) Annual Meetings and Side Events 2017 was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on April 04-06, co-hosted by the Central Bank of the …
Now that most economic sanctions on Iran have been lifted, the international Islamic finance industry needs to brace itself for fundamental changes when the world’s largest Shariah-compliant banking system readies to enter the global financial stage. Iran, the only Muslim country besides Sudan where the entire financial industry is based on Shariah law, currently accounts …
Iran is the second-largest cosmetics market in the Middle East in terms of revenue, behind Saudi Arabia, and the world’s seventh biggest. Makeup is also a form of personal expression in a society where compulsory wearing of hijab requires women to cover their hair and their body in loose clothing when outside, regardless of their …
Iran’s supreme leader displays exception to his staunch anti-Westernism by expressing admiration for the West’s “instructive and meaningful” musical output. He has the image of an elderly curmudgeon of uncompromisingly anti-Western prejudices but Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top cleric, has shown a surprising side of his character by revealing a taste for some of the West’s …
