Purpose: The present study aims to identify and explain the futures of Iranian provinces in the competition for the development of NBIC technological convergence (synergy between nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive sciences) with a focus on Yazd province. Method: This research, which has been conducted with a qualitative and descriptive approach, is classified as an exploratory futures-study. In this way, the relevant research records were first reviewed to compile a list of drivers in the development of convergent technologies. The list was then refined and prioritized to identify two key drivers, with the Delphi process attended by fourteen experts. By intersecting the uncertainties of these two drivers, four scenarios of the province's future in technological convergence competition emerged. Findings: The two key drivers affecting the success of the province in the competition for convergent technologies are: the rate of development of the innovation ecosystem and the amount of financial resources allocated to this process. Based on this, four scenarios of the future situation of the province in this field were identified, which have been named as "Vanguard", "Buyer", "Remnant" and "Hired". Conclusion: In order for the provinces to be able to succeed in the forthcoming competitions in the production and operation of convergent technologies, it is necessary to plan for strengthening the ecosystem infrastructure from now; at the same time, it is necessary to make efficient efforts to provide sufficient financial resources for the research and commercialization of these technologies.

Muslims are considered as an exceptional minority in the contemporary Europe. The believers of the Islamic Sharia, especially the immigrants, are among the most problematic minorities of this continent. The Europeans comprehension of their identity and the non-convergent interaction of many of the Muslim Immigrants within European community had some consequences which made most of them, even after many generations, not only being unable to integrate within society but also made them antagonistic against society and vice versa. Muslim immigrants in Europe are mostly faced with identity crisis. It is aimed in this paper to use quantitative method in identifying the causes of Muslim Immigrant not being integrated within European communities. Two cities of Paris and Brussels are taken as sample cities representing European community. The views of Muslim immigrants and the European citizens of these two cities as expressed via questionnaires. The present situation of the immigrant Muslims is a serious challenge for the process of nation-state building and integration and sociocultural mergence in Europe which in the future can paves the way for serious crises for the western civilization. The ideological structure and the discursive system of Europe are non-accommodating with the most of this continent's Muslim population that makes these immigrants unacceptable to merge and become honorable and respected citizens within these societies.

This article’s main inquiry is to find what role Islamic Republic of Iran’s plays in creating unity and convergence among Muslims considering its characteristics and capacities (both material and non-material)? On this basis, the current research adopts a descriptive analysis to reidentify Islamic Republic of Iran’s characteristics, role and actions announced or unannounced, in creating unity and convergence among Muslims and where necessary, it will review a Muslim’s capacities that may prepare the ground for unity and convergence of Muslims as well as barriers of unity.

Face recognition from digital images is used for surveillance and authentication in cities, organizations, and personal devices. Internet of Things (IoT)-powered face recognition systems use multiple sensors and one or more servers to process data. All sensor data from initial methods was sent to the central server for processing, raising concerns about sensitive data disclosure. The main concern was that all data from all sectors that could contain confidential information was placed in a central server. Federated learning can solve this problem by using several local model training servers for each region and a central aggregation server to form a global model in IoT networks. This article presents a novel approach to optimize data transfer and convergence time in federated learning for a face recognition task using Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA II). The aim of the study is to balance the trade-off between training time and model accuracy in a federated learning environment. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in reducing data transfer and convergence time, leading to improved performance in face recognition accuracy. This research provides insights for researchers and practitioners to enhance the efficiency of federated learning in real-world applications.

Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred text of the Sikh Religion, is a collection of some Gurus' words (compiled between 16th to 18th century) and speeches of some Hindu and Muslim Mystics and Poets. The Gurus who collected these words claimed its sections as divine words. Since extending the culture of sympathy and dialogue between followers of religions has a great importance in our world, emphasizing on the common aspects can provide a good ground for it. Now the question is that, what common aspects is there in the sacred texts of these two religions (The Holy Qur'an and Guru Granth Sahib), and what signs of the sympathy with Islam can be found in the narrations concerning Gurus' lives? This Study shows that there is a great similarities between the two sacred texts -even to the extent of the translation of the words- and Sikh historical narrations about Gurus' lives show numerous cases of their sympathy with Islam, and it can be a good ground for dialogue and convergence between Muslims and Sikhs.

In some point of view, neither Michel Foucault nor Ibn Khaldun are considered philosophers in the conventional classifications, but both are very  important in intellectual and, of course, in philosophical contexts, especially for those who are interested in the deep study of human life from the perspective of political thought.The main concern of two thinkers, one in the 14th century, the other in the 20th century, is the issue  of power, although neither of them provided a precise definition of it. In this article, an attempt has been made to show the place of power and domination in the political thought of both thinkers by examining the thoughts of two thinkers. And in search of an answer to this question, how did Asabiyyah and industry of religion in Ibn Khaldun's thought and social control through self-technology and discipline in Foucault's thought lead to the expansion of the domination of power? This article is written by analytically comparing the opinions of two thinkers based on Ibn Khaldun's most important book called Muqaddimah and Foucault's late works

One of the most frequent rules in various areas of demonstrative jurisprudence of Two Major Sects of Islam religion is a rule that is known among Shīʿa as “tolerance in the evidence of traditions” (Arabic: التسامح فی أدلّة السنن) and in Sunnī as “latitudinarianism in documents” (Arabic: التساهل فی أسانید). Believers in the general application of this rule have based it for reasons such as consensus (Arabic: إجماع), tradition famous through practice (Arabic: الشهرة العملیّة), and rational judgement (intellectual judgement) and a group of aḥādīth (Arabic: أحادیث, plural form for ḥadīth, literally “talk” or “discourse”) called “Akhbar-e- Man Balagh” (Arabic: أخبار من بلغ). The understanding of the aforementioned narrations and the extent of application of this rule has caused a conflict of opinions among scholars. The narrations containing the excellences of suras of the Holy Book of Quran is one of the fields of application of the rule of tolerance. The present research has explained the types of exposure to this group of narrations based on the rule of tolerance by using descriptive-exploratory method and using library sources and seeks to find a suitable approach about narrations of the excellences of suras (chapters) of the Holy Book of Quran. The interaction with these narrations is organized based on a special reading of the rule of tolerance in the selected approach, which is based on a rational interpretation of the contents of Man-Balagh (Arabic: من بلغ)’s narrations and is compatible with the indications of some verses and traditions. The use of weak narrations containing the excellences of suras (chapters) will be permissible based on this approach considering three conditions and without any certainty of attributing these narrations to Sharʿ (Islamic rules).

How to profoundly change the beliefs of the polytheists during the age of revelation from the denial of the Prophet (pbuh) to the certainty of his Message and the acceptance of his full guardianship is a question worthy of attention. The order of verses about prophecy based on the order of revelation is the reason to lead a transformative process and a special Quranic method in institutionalizing the belief of prophecy in the lives of Arabs. In the first stage, the Holy Quran in the first Makkī (Arabic: المکّیّ, suras revealed in Mecca) chapters has prepared the community from the motivational side to accept the truth of the Prophet’s (pbuh) prophecy and briefly stating the key issues surrounding it. The Holy Book of Quran at the time of the emergence of oppositions and doubts (the second stage) destroyed the arguments of the polytheists and explained the prophecy and proved its authenticity from a cognitive perspective in the second stage by presenting clear arguments. and the Holy Book of Quran in the third stage after Madanī (Arabic: المدنیّ, suras revealed in Medina) period has undertaken measures in order to fulfill the goals of the Massage by explaining the true position of the Prophet (pbuh) to deepen and operationalize the Prophetic belief through explaining practical duties for the Prophet (pbuh) and behavior based on the acceptance of Walaya (Arabic: ولایة, meaning “guardianship” or “governance”).

The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the employment competencies of educational graduates from the perspective of view of employers. This research was applied in terms of purpose and was among the qualitative researches of Grounded Theory type. The participants of this research included 24 employers in the field of educational (interviewers for the Education recruitment exam, directors of non-state educational institutes, directors and recruitment officers of non-state schools, directors of kindergartens and preschools) in Birjand city. Data were collected using semi-structured interview and analyzed by Strauss and Corbin method and using MAXQDA-2020 software. In order to validate the research, two methods of member control and peer review or feedback were used. Consecutive review and comparison of data resulted in the extraction of 28 categories and 6 themes. Data analysis led to the formation of a sub-theory. The model shows that the focal variable is the process of education and teaching skills. The focal variable, under the influence of contextual and intermediate conditions, leads to the formation of the strategies of "being a lifelong learner", "research skills", "planning skills", "classroom skills and classroom management", "purposefulness" and "problem solving skills". became Finally, "increasing employability" was the consequence of this process.

The Holy Qur'an has introduced education as one of the essential propositions for the development of human beings to perfection, on the basis that the profession of teaching has always been of great value to Muslims. The Holy Qur'an has introduced education as one of the essential propositions for the development of human beings to perfection, on the basis that the profession of teaching has always been of great value to Muslims. It was in the ignorant society of that time that no effort was made, so the origins of this tradition in the Islamic era go back to the first days of the emergence of the Islamic religion, but this ethics-based profession It is through this descriptive-analytical method that the author describes the angles during this research and finally concludes that The teaching and teaching profession in Islamic culture and among Muslims requires a high degree of ethics and diverse talents to put the teacher and teacher in their true position.