The identity and the discourse of post-revolutionary Iranian religious intellectuals

Après plus de cent ans d’une prise de connaissance de la modernité occidentale et de ses réalisations matérielles et intellectuelles, la question de savoir comment faire face à ce phénomène reste toujours une des questions complexes du débat intellectuel dans la société iranienne. Même après la Révolution islamique 1979, cette question se pose mais autrement.Face à ce défi et face aux militants de la culture occidentale et à ceux qui la niaient ardemment en faveur de la culture indigène, certains penseurs s’est mis à chercher une solution conciliante ces deux. Une partie considérable de ces efforts a été réalisée par un cercle de penseur, connu sous le titre des intellectuels religieux. Moins d’une décennie après l’installation du gouvernement islamique, ces penseurs musulmans et partisans de la Révolution islamique ont présenté leurs points de vus basées sur une interprétation de la religion (islam) et de la question de l’identité, permettant à réconcilier de la modernité occidentale et l’islam (en tant qu’un des éléments le plus important de la culture indigène).Les idées des intellectuels religieux, semblent-elles pouvoir être reconnues comme un ensemble intellectuel et comme un discours religio-politique. Ce discours a progressivement commencé à viser le discours idéologique de l’islam, au pouvoir depuis le chut d’anciens régime.After more than a hundred years of obtaining an understanding of Western modernity and its material and intellectual achievements, the question of how to deal with this phenomenon remains a complex question of intellectual debate in Iranian society. Even after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the question arises at its different forms. Faced with this challenge, as well as by facing with the militants of Western culture and those who ardently denied the indigenous culture, some intellectuals began to seek a conciliatory solution to the coexistence of both modernity and the indigenous culture. A considerable part of these efforts was conducted by a thinker circle, known as the religious scholars. Less than a decade after the installation of the Islamic government, the Muslim thinkers and supporters of the Islamic Revolution presented their points of views based on an interpretation of the religion (Islam) and the question of identity, to reconcile of Western modernity and Islam (as one of the most important elements of the indigenous culture).The ideas of religious intellectuals seem to be recognized as an intellectual religious-political discourse as a whole, since the falling down of the former regime

Study of Antibacterial Effects of Different Fractions of Leaves Extract of Ajuga Chamaecistus Ging. Subsp. Scoparia (Bioss) Rech. f. and Bioautography of Effective Fraction

Abstract: Background & Aims: Today, the emergence of antimicrobial resistance against conventional antibiotics is increasing. Many researchers consider plants with antimicrobial properties as a good alternative. In this study, the antimicrobial activity of Ajuga chamaecistus Ging. Subsp. Scoparia (Bioss) Rech. f. on 8 bacterial strains was investigated. Methods: The leaf extract was prepared by methanolic maceration. The concentrated, dried extract was fractionated by different solvents including petroleum ether, dichloro methane, and ethyl acetate. Determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of crude extract was performed using agar dilution method. Disk diffusion method was used for antimicrobial assay of different fractions. Then, the chemical constituents of the most effective fraction were separated on thin-layer chromatography (TLC) plates. Then, the prepared chromatograms were analyzed using immersion bioautography. Results: According to disk diffusion method, ethyl acetate fraction had stronger antibacterial activity against all tested bacteria. Bioautography of this fraction showed antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus in Rf = 0.9. However, all tested bacteria had inhibition spots in the site of fraction loading. Conclusion: Antibacterial activity of ethyl acetate fraction will appear if all components are used together. Keywords: Ajuga chamaecistus, Antibacterial activity, Immersion bioautograph