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The implementation of Islamic dress code and behavior at universities is a part of the Islamic etiquette which reflects the cultural form and content of the Islamic society. The present study aimed to evaluate the awareness of the faculty members of these regulations and their drawbacks and strengths. For the purposes of the study, the faculty members were asked about the extent of the success in the implementation of those regulations at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences.

This cross-sectional study was carried out using a descriptive approach. The required data were collected through a questionnaire that included demographic information and 33 main questions about the subject. In total, 68 faculty members were selected from all the faculties. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 20) using Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, and Spearman correlation coefficients.

Based on the findings, 72.1% of the professors were aware of the dress code and behavior regulations, while 55.9% of them stated that they were not properly informed about these regulations. Moreover, 48.5% of the professors adhered to these regulations and 17.2%, 46.6%, 31%, and 2.5% of them considered these regulations highly, moderately,  hardly, and very scarcely successful, respectively.

The majority of the professors of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences had a positive attitude towards the implementation of Islamic dress code and behavior at the university and believed that it would maintain the expediency and dispose of the moral harms. Furthermore, they insisted on persuasive and informative attempts as precautionary policies.

One of the medical teachings in Islamic texts is hair care guide. The Islamic scholars and jurisprudents devoted some chapters of their books to the hair and skin disorders followed by treatments. This study presents six important strategies which are of significant importance concerning skin and hair care. The purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions of hair care guidelines and interpretation of Islamic strategies in this regard with an emphasis on medical narrative and concurrent adaption to medical sciences. The present study was conducted base on a documentary and conceptual analysis design. In this regard, hadiths concerning hair care were extracted from authentic books of hadith, such as al-Kafi, Wasa'il-al-Shi'a, Mustadrak al- Wasa'il. Subsequently, weak narratives and reliable narrations were eliminated and identified, respectively. To this end, the dimensions and different aspects of health care were analyzed. According to the results obtained from findings on medical hadiths, there are correlations between different aspects of hair care, such as cleaning, taking showers, dressing, shortening the hair, and brushing and general health direction and spiritual interventions. Islamic approaches to health care can be effective in skin and hair treatments leading to the reduction of medical expenses and the promotion of general health.