Tahura

About Tahura

A. About the "Tahura" Software:

In the final years of the Middle Ages, based on humanist thought, new movements and campaigns were initiated by women in the Western world aimed at obtaining their social and political rights. This occurred while, during the final decades of the 20th century, the world witnessed the emergence of a new intellectual framework regarding Women and Family Studies, which differed significantly from previous prevailing intellectual systems. These movements, later known as "Feminism and related trends," brought a new intellectual system to women worldwide. Within this framework, new ideas were presented by thinkers that did not promise a bright future.

With the advent of feminism, Western societies entered a crisis and transformation. In this cycle of change, the institution that suffered most from an identity crisis was the "Family"; thus, the role of women in the family and their traditional movement were altered. Feminism attacked the traditional family by criticizing the nuclear family and patriarchal authority, changing women's family relations without offering a suitable alternative.

An examination of the "status of women and the family system" in today's world reveals the inability of the humanist system and feminist trends to meet the needs of the family and organize it. In contrast, the comprehensive and complete ability of the clear religion of Islam to identify and define the components related to establishing a complete and sublime system titled "Family" has been proven. Accordingly, religious researchers must play a significant role at national, regional, and international levels in creating an intellectual flow based on the cognitive foundations of Islam in the field of Women and Family Studies.

The specialized quarterly journal "Tahura," recognizing the necessity of addressing these matters, aims to examine and respond to needs, doubts, questions, and to propose new theories in this field. It is hoped that these scientific efforts will pave the way for the production of religious sciences in Women and Family Studies.

It is worth noting that the contributors to this quarterly journal decided, by utilizing modern information technologies to update communication methods with the audience and facilitate their access to the journal's articles, and in cooperation with the Computer Research Center for Islamic Sciences, to develop the software program "Tahura." Below, the "Content" and "Features" of this software are introduced.

B. Program Content:

This program contains the text of 13 issues of the specialized international quarterly journal "Tahura," comprising 85 articles by researchers and distinguished professors from Al-Mustafa International University. These articles focus on Women and Family Studies, based on Islamic foundations and critiquing non-Islamic and non-religious identifiers, and are made available to researchers and enthusiasts in this field of Islamic sciences.

C. Program Features:

* Text Display:

- Access to the text and index of all works available in the program.

- Ability to select the index in a tree-like and selective manner and link it to the text, accompanied by a two-way synchronization feature between the text and the index.

- Ability to select the journal issue number and page, along with the option to expand the text and index pages.

- Comparing two texts from one or two different journals simultaneously.

- Limiting the scope of the text and book indices to desired items.

- Ability to save each selected text or index independently for easy access.

* Search:

- Simple and advanced search within the text and indices of the program's books.

- Ability to save each performed search independently for easy access.

- Limiting the search scope to specific desired text(s) along with special capabilities.

- Indexing using general symbols to create dynamic and diverse word lists.

* Dictionary:

- The full text of several series of Arabic and Persian dictionaries with the ability to access word roots and derivatives.

- Linking the vocabulary of the texts to the program's dictionaries for easy understanding of meanings.

* Active Research:

- Linking the text and indices of books to other sections of the program, such as: Display, Search, Quran, Dictionary, or Bibliography.

- Ability to transfer selected text to external memory or the Ms-Word environment.

* Note-taking:

- Ability to transfer the desired text or index to the program's note section.

- Ability to save and edit the transferred text on the note page.

- Transferring text from the note section to the Ms-Word environment.

* Printing:

- Printing the user's desired text or index, accompanied by multiple capabilities.

* Guide:

- Access to useful explanations for better familiarity with the various sections of the program.

* Research Capabilities:

- Indexing, marginalia (footnoting), coloring, and highlighting text for faster information retrieval and recording additional data related to the program's texts.

- Ability for the user to manage the program's research capabilities.

* Additional Features:

- Access to several types of common keyboards and multiple display fonts for easy use of the software.

- Ability to specify a path for saving research projects along with diverse capabilities.

- Ability to show or hide diacritics (Tashkeel) and headers in the program's texts.

It is worth noting that all researchers interested in producing knowledge in the fields of: Legal, Social, Religious, and Jurisprudential studies, can submit their scientific articles (15 to 30 pages) to the journal's office for publication in the specialized quarterly "Tahura."