This paper presents and illustrates planned urban projects in the Al-Baha region with the potential to contribute to developing a sustainable local environment and economy in alignment with Saudi Arabia’s 2030 national vision and future needs....
Among the Saudi Vision 2030 programs is the Green Saudi Initiative, which aims to protect the environment, energy conversion, and sustainability projects to build a sustainable future. In the present paper, Green Infrastructures (GI) were assessed, a...
The documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge is useful for biocultural conservation, preserving the diversity of plants, and drug development. The present study was carried out to compile and document the knowledge and uses of plants in Al Baha Prov...
25 November 2025
Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) presents a significant and escalating public health burden in Saudi Arabia, adversely affecting various dimensions of patients’ well-being. This study aimed to assess the multidimensional quality of l...
Introduction: Prompt diagnosis and initiation of treatment are essential in preventing long-term renal scarring. However, increasing antibiotic resistance may delay the initiation of appropriate therapy. Methodology: A retrospective chart review was...
This cross-sectional observational study with prospectively collected outcome data compared speech recognition in noise and patient-reported outcomes in adults with single-sided deafness (SSD) who had previously received either a Baha Connect or an O...
This article examines the creation of Dr. John E. Esslemont’s seminal work Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era (1923), the first comprehensive introductory book in English on the Bahá’í Faith. Drawing parti...
Due to growing water demands and changing hydro-meteorological variables brought on by climate change, drought is becoming an increasingly serious climate concern. The Al-Baha region of Saudi Arabia is the subject of this study because it is suscepti...
The adherents of various religions have during times of prayer and worship oriented themselves toward a fixed, sacred direction or location. Since ancient times, followers of Judaism have turned in prayer to Jerusalem. Traditionally, Zoroastrians hav...
The theological rendering of economics in the Bahá’í Faith—particularly from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá—advocated progressive taxation, a strong welfare state, the abolition of trusts, and the redistribution of we...
The Bahá’í doctrine of progressive revelation, while universal in principle, has been limited, in scope and application, by what has previously been described as “Arya-Semiticentrism”—with a paradigmatic focus on...
In recent decades, conflicts between hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) and the rapidly growing human population in the mountainous areas of Western, Southwestern, and Southern Saudi Arabia have accelerated. This conflict, historically occurring mai...
This article examines the Bahá’í approach to the equality of women and men, the education, advancement, and rights of women and girls; their application within the Bahá’í community; and the efforts of the Bah&a...
8 September 2025
Background: High national MMR coverage in Saudi Arabia coexists with sporadic measles, mumps, and rubella cases. Local data are needed to describe vaccination coverage among the reported cases and patterns of laboratory-confirmed infections. Objectiv...
The realization of universal peace is a central teaching of the Bahá’í Faith and permeates individual and collective Bahá’í practice. This article explores this teaching through the lens of culture as a constru...
This study traces the profound transformation of the city of ‘Akká in Bahá’í perception, from its early depiction as “the Most Great Prison” and a place of desolation and exile to its reimagining as a holy...
Land cover assessment plays a vital role in both current and future planning and use of natural resources for sustainable development for any country. For the good practice of the vision 2030 in Al Baha region (south-western Saudi Arabia), land cover...
This article examines the works of three iconic Iranian intellectuals of the 1960s—the Muslim thinker Jalál Ál-i-Aḥmad, the Islamist ideologue ‘Alí Sharí‘atí, and the Marxist theorist Iḥ...
The concepts and measurements in psychology of religion often adhere to its Judeo-Christian roots, which causes problems when measuring non-Christian religiosity. In this paper, two successive studies are presented. The first study applied Huber&rsqu...
Human–wildlife conflicts arise from increasing human populations and the growing demand for land for agriculture and urban development. In Saudi Arabia, these dynamics have increased the impact of baboons on human communities, as expanding sett...
This paper discusses the concept of religious conversion in the Bahá’í Faith through conversion narratives of first-generation Bahá’ís. Through life story interviews, the converts narrate their process of becom...
Climate change significantly stresses cold-adapted and stenothermic plant species in high-altitude mountain ecosystems. The diverse plant species at elevations ranging from 1324 to 2527 m above mean sea level (AMSL) provide an ideal setting for inves...
Introduction: Breast cancer (BC) awareness and preventive practices are critical for the early detection and effective management of the disease. This study aimed to assess the level of BC awareness among women residing in Al Baha, Saudi Arabia. Meth...
This study presents a thorough revision of the Malvaceae s.l. (sensu lato) family within the Flora of the Toor Al-Baha District, Lahij Governorate, South Yemen. The documented taxa were subjected to morphological revision alongside an analysis of lif...
This paper aims to examine, from a historical–religious perspective, the significance of the Bahá’í Temple, how it was envisioned by the founder of the religion, Bahá’u’lláh, what it symbolizes for...
Poisoning is a common and severe problem worldwide. Due to significant growth in the agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries over the past few decades, poisoning risks have increased with the use of food, chemicals, and medicines everyw...
Urinary tract infections are among the most common bacterial infections worldwide, with increasing antimicrobial resistance posing a significant public health challenge. This study aimed to determine the demographic distribution, antimicrobial suscep...
Agricultural cooperatives are widely regarded as engines of rural development, yet their role in advancing the economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainability within specialized subsectors such as beekeeping remains empirically underexp...
On 18 September 2023, the Spanish State recognised the Notorio Arraigo (firmly established, or literally, notorious deep rootedness) of the Bahá’í Community of Spain through a Ministerial Order, integrating it into the group of re...
Aqa Musa Naghiev Karbala’i (1849–1919)—an oil magnate from Baku and a significant figure in the modern history of Baku and Azerbaijan—and his multiple identities are the focus of this article. Alongside his National-Azerbaijan...
Since the 1970s, religious charities in Chinese communities have gradually become public and rational, transforming from previously raising donations for the temples or disaster relief. Even in mainland China, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam all be...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing organisms are prevalent in both outpatient and inpatient settings, representing the most often encountered forms of infection. This research aimed to estimate...
Background: Clinical pharmacists play a crucial role in identifying and resolving drug-related problems (DRPs) in hospitals. However, there is limited empirical evidence concerning their effect on service organizations in smaller regional facilities...
This paper seeks to analyze and reassess the reform movement in Isfahan in the years leading up to the Constitutional Revolution in Iran, 1883–1906. In the first period, 1883–1906, two Azalí Bábís from Kirman, Shaykh...
The biodiversity of 12 coffee (Coffea arabica L.) cultivars collected from the Al-Baha region in the southwest of Saudi Arabia was evaluated using 25 morphological variations and genetic diversity as demonstrated by molecular polymorphism generated b...
The ecology and diversity of flowering parasitic plants and their hosts are poorly investigated and usually ignored in Saudi Arabian plant communities. Therefore, this work aimed at assessing the ecology and diversity of parasitic plants and their ho...
Agricultural festivals play a vital role in promoting sustainable farming, local economies, and cultural heritage. Understanding public sentiment toward these events can provide valuable insights to enhance event organization, marketing strategies, a...
Land Use Land Cover Change (LULCC) and urban growth prediction and analysis are two of the best methods that can help decision-makers for better sustainable management and planning of socioeconomic development in the countries. In the present paper,...
Background/Objectives: For patients diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), it is important to follow guidelines addressing dose-adjustments for renally eliminated drugs to avoid complications related to toxicity and subtherapeutic effects. In S...
Different scenarios have been established and simulated based on the Delft3D model to compare and assess the impact of human activities (increased pollutants as oxygen demand, BOD, COD, nutrients, and land reclamation), climate change (rising tempera...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the comparative clinical effectiveness and cost-utility of the active transcutaneous Osia® System versus the passive transcutaneous Baha® Attract System for patients with conductive or mixed hearing loss...
(1) Background: Several types of hearing aids are available for the rehabilitation of vestibular-schwannoma (VS)-related hearing loss. There is a lack of recently published papers regarding this theme. The aim of the present work is to organize curre...
Groundwater depletion coupled with climate change, increasing temperature, and decreasing precipitation, has led to groundwater quality deterioration and diminishing groundwater quantity, subsequently affecting agricultural productivity in arid envir...
This article provides a full English translation of the Du’ā’ al-saḥar or Dawn Supplication for the Islamic month of Ramaḍān. Attributed to certain Imams whom Twelver Shī`ī Muslims regard as the successors...
This text attempts to analyze the competition for the leadership role in the young Bábí religious community after the execution of their leader, Báb (1819–1850). With the elimination of many leaders, a small group stood out...
The Bahá’í Faith is an important case for a discussion on dignity, religion and human rights. Beyond the notions of dignity enshrined in its basic teachings, a core concern of the Bahá’í community is how to bui...
Objectives: (1) To analyze the preferential pathways of sound transmission and sound waves travelling properties in the skull and (2) to identify the location(s) on the skull where bone conduction to the cochlea is optimal. Study design: Basic resear...
The contribution of bee forages in the form of nectar, pollen, and propolis to beekeeping development depends on plant species diversity. The data concerning the increase in honey production in southwestern Saudi Arabia, which was unexpected with the...
Osseous implantology’s material requirements include a lack of potential for inducing allergic disorders and providing both functional and esthetic features for the patient’s benefit. Despite being bioinert, Zirconia ceramics have become...
This article examines the activities of the Bahá’í community in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, challenging the misconception that the community has remained disengaged from societal involvement which arises from a misinterpret...
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