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Social Insurance, Commitment, And The Origin Of Law: Interest Bans In Early Christianity, Jared Rubin

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

Despite the historical importance of ideology-based, economically inhibitive laws, we know little about the economic factors underlying their origin. This paper accounts for the historical emergence of one such law: the Christian ban on taking interest--a doctrine that shaped the evolution of numerous financial contracts and related organizational forms. A game-theoretic analysis and historical evidence suggest that the Church's commitment to providing social insurance for its poorest constituents encouraged risky borrowing, which the Church attempted to limit by banning interest. The analysis highlights the applicability of the rational choice framework to seemingly irrational actions and laws, the role of nonmonetary …

Danny's Story: Uniting Around Our Common Humanity, Judea Pearl

Sacred Heart University Review

Dr. Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at UCLA, is the father of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was executed by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in 2002. In this article Dr. Pearl speaks about Daniel's life as a journalist, and about the Daniel Pearl Foundation which includes people from all religions and cultures—Christians, Jews, and Muslims; Pakistanis, Israelis, and Palestinians—working together to take a stand for tolerance and humanity.

This talk was presented at Sacred Heart University on February 4, 2008, at a colloquium sponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding as part of the undergraduate core …

Videopoetry: Integrating Video, Poetry And History In The Classroom, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney

Literacy, Language and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

VideoPoetry integrates video and poetry to explore historical or geographic subjects. VideoPoetry is both a process and a product. This paper will use a short VideoPoem, "Mary Hallock Foote at Stone House," to demonstrate how students of all educational levels can become engaged in creating VideoPoetry. Each VideoPoem offers students a cross-disciplinary experience that involves research, analysis of information, imaginative writing and video composition leading to a classroom presentation of the final product.

As a process VideoPoetry requires the investigation of a subject, in this case, Mary Hallock Foote, artist and illustrator of the Western United States. Based on the …

South Asian Muslim American Girl Power: Structures And Symbols Of Control And Self Expression, Marcia K. Hermansen, Mahruq F. Khan

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

South Asian Muslim American (SAMA) girls studied ethnographically in Chicago and more broadly in the United States negotiate these three components (South Asian, Muslim, and American) of identity across the spheres of home, Islamic institutions, and the public “American” realm. . Drawing on interviews and fieldwork at an Islamic school and within South Asian families and mosques, the authors illustrate how nascent “girl” power is evidenced in these contexts drawing on media representations, academic sources, and data drawn from participant observation. Sources of SAMA girls’ expressions of confidence and power are selective use of identity markers, increased mastery of Islamic …

Bahan-Bahan Tentang Islam Dalam Koleksi John Bastin, T.A. Denisova

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

John Bastin’s compilations contain a group of books about Malay’s history and culture. His collections consist of more than 3,000 books about history, archeology, economy, cultural, geography, and so on. From all his collections, only 13 books are related to Islam. That books are about the history of Islam in Malay archipelago, history of Islamic preaching, hajj and rituals in Islam, Islamic movement on 20th century and present, etc. Analysis to the John Bastin’s collection as a historiography source unity, is significant in knowledge tradition research and historiography in Malay Archipelago to clarify and deny prejudice as well as decrease …

Dream Palaces Of Law: Western Constructions Of The Muslim Legal World, Haider Ala Hamoudi

UC Law SF International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Al-Zahiriyyah Di Andalusia: Analisis Dari Perspektif Pemikiran Islam, Wan Zailan Kamaruddin Wan Ali

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

This article as the title indicates is to examine the development of al-Zahiriyyah from the very beginning, its thinkers and influenced figures and their thoughts on „Ilm Kalam, its impact and influence towards Islam and also Muslim in Andalusia. Artikel ini difokuskan bertujuan untuk mengkaji dan menyelidiki aliran pemikiran al-Zahiriyyah dari segi sejarah perkembangannya bermula dari peringkat awal sehingga mutakhir, para pemikir yang berpengaruh dan pemikiran mereka khususnya mengenai bidang ilmu Kalam meliputi sumber, metodologi, beberapa persoalan utama dalam bidang ini. Ini kerana lazimnya, mazhab ini disinonimkan sebagai mazhab fiqh dan bukan sebagai mazhab kalam. Justeru, idea dan pemikiran tokoh …

Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 10, 2009, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

No abstract provided.

Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 11, 2009, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

No abstract provided.

Aei Post, Volume 2, Asia-Europe Institute University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

No abstract provided.

Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 13, 2009, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

No abstract provided.

Al-Tamaddun = Journal Of Al-Tamaddun, Volume 4, Number 1, 2009, Academy Of Islamic Studies University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

No abstract provided.

Kekal Abadi, Jilid 27, Bilangan 2, 2009, Library University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

No abstract provided.

Encyclopaedias About Muslim Civilisations, Aptin Khanbaghi

Muslim Civilisations Abstracts

Over the past 150 years, numerous encyclopaedias have been produced on Muslim civilisations, both by Muslims and non-Muslims, with different approaches to the organisation of knowledge and understanding of Muslim beliefs, cultures and societies. Access to and knowledge of these reference works and databases have until now been hindered by language barriers. The first volume in the MCA series seeks to overcome this obstacle by presenting material in three languages: English, Arabic and Turkish.

This is a unique reference catalogue containing 200 annotated bibliographies and abstracts of encyclopaedias published during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Penyusunan Polisi Pembangunan Insan Di Ibu Kota Jakarta : Kajian Dari Aspek Sosial Akhlak / Karebet Widjajakusuma, Karebet Widjajakusuma

Student Works (2000-2009)

Polisi pembangunan insan di Ibu Kota Jakarta dalam jangka masa 2002 - 2007, menitikberatkan pada program-program pemulihan kehidupan sosial dan ekonomi masyarakat serta peningkatan kualiti insan, serta menempatkan aspek sosial akhlak sebagai aspek pembangunan yang bersifat pilihan (optional), bukan wajib (obligatory). Polisi pembangunan ini menghasilkan kemajuan-kemajuan meskipun masih dirasakan belum optimum. Hal ini berdasarkan realiti yang menunjukkan masih banyaknya penduduk yang belum terlepas dari sejumlah masalah sosial, seperti kemiskinan, kehilangan pekerjaan, putus sekolah, meningkatnya angka jenayah, dan lainnya. Jadi, tak dapat dinafikan pembangunan selama 2002 hingga 2007 telah melahirkan jurang pembangunan fizikal dan bukan fizikal (sosial akhlak). Kerana itu, perlu …

Kajian Pelaksanaan Kurikulum J-Qaf Oleh Guru Pelatih Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia Kampus Kent, Tuaran, Sabah / Sabariah Binti Bahrun, Sabariah Bahrun

Student Works (2000-2009)

Kajian ini adalah berbentuk kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Ia bertujuan untuk melihat pelaksanaan kurikulum j-QAF oleh guru pelatih dalam aspek kepentingan, komitmen guru dan pihak sekolah, penggunaan kaedah dan teknik mengajar, penggunaan bahan bantu mengajar, dan aspek-aspek pembelajaran murid. Kaedah kuantitatif menggunakan instrumen soal selidik, manakala kaedah kualitatif secara pemerhatian diaplikasikan bagi menyokong soal selidik. Pemilihan sampel soal selidik adalah seramai 74 orang guru pelatih j-QAF ambilan tahun 2007 di sebuah Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia di Sabah. Manakala pemilihan sampel pemerhatian pula adalah sebanyak lapan buah sekolah rendah. Sebanyak enam soalan kajian telah dikemukakan untuk kajian ini dan analisa data kajian …

Sektor Pendidikan Islam Jabatan Pelajaran Selangor : Kajian Tentang Pelaksanaan Program Dakwah Dan Keberkesanannya / Mohamad Zaki Bin Hamid, Mohamad Zaki Hamid

Student Works (2000-2009)

Fenomena gejala sosial di kalangan murid-murid sekolah dan pelanggaran peraturan sekolah oleh guru-guru perlu dibendung dan dikawal. Pendekatan paling sesuai dan berkesan adalah dengan mengadakan program dakwah kepada guru-guru dan murid-murid tersebut agar dapat membentuk peribadi yang mulia seterusnya melaksanakan tanggungjawab kepada agama dan negara. Oleh itu program dakwah yang berkesan perlu dilakukan secara berterusan dan bersistematik. Persoalannya sejauhmanakah usaha dakwah ini telah dijalankan terhadap pelajar-pelajar dan guru Pendidikan Islam di negeri Selangor? Justeru, kajian ini akan membincangkan program dakwah yang dijalankan oleh Sektor Pendidikan Islam (SPI) Jabatan Pelajaran Selangor (JPS) terhadap pelajar-pelajar dan guru Pendidikan Islam di negeri Selangor. …

Dayah Mudi Mesra Aceh Dalam Perspektif Dakwah / Irhamna Yusra, Irhamna Yusra

Student Works (2000-2009)

Disertasi ini merupakan satu kajian terhadap Dayah Mudi Mesra di Aceh sebagai sebuah institusi agama Islam yang memberikan pengajaran dan kefahaman kepada masyarakat mengenai nilai-nilai agama Islam. Objektif utama daripada kajian ini ialah untuk membahaskan metodologi dakwah yang dilakukan oleh Dayah Mudi Mesra di Aceh, mencakupi da‘wah bi al-hal dan da‘wah bi al-lisan dalam pelbagai aktiviti. Dalam kaitan ini, Dayah Mudi Mesra ditinjau tidak hanya dari kemawjudannya sebagai institusi pendidikan agama Islam sahaja, tetapi secara lebih meluas lagi ia ditinjau pula dari sisi peranan dan fungsi luarannya, yang mencakupi kegiatan sosio-ekonomi dan kesannya terhadap masyarakat tempatan dalam menghadapi pelbagai cabaran …

Hifz Huquq Al-Tifl Fi Al-Islam Halat Al-Harb : Al-Tifl Al-Filastini Namudhajan = Protection Of Children Rights In Islam During War : A Case Study Palestinian Children / Ahmad Sami Al-Qudsi, Ahmad Sami Al-Qudsi

Student Works (2000-2009)

This research intends to show that Islam has maintained the rights of the children at the time of war religiously, mentally, and physically. The study depended in collecting the information on conducting interviews with MPs and officials in the Palestinian ministries, an official from UNRWA, administrators, school and camps headmasters, eyewitnesses, and children. In order to achieve the desired results the study relied on the descriptive, historical, and analytical method, with the help of the scientific research instruments. Finally, the research showed that, Islam has maintained the rights of the Palestinian children at the time of war, and manifested that, …

Tarikh Bani Isra'il Fi 'Ahd Talut : Dirasah Mawdu'iyah Tahliliyah Min Khilal Al-Qur'an Al-Karim = History Of The Children Of Israel In The Period Of Talut (Saul) : An Objective And Analytical Study Via The Holy Quran / Hussein Ali Omar Alzomi, Hussein Ali Omar Alzomi

Student Works (2000-2009)

No abstract provided.

History Newsletter, 2008-2009, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Department Of History

History Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Environmental Literacy And Global Learning Among Honors Students, Liza Davis

Honors in Practice Online Archive

In 2005, the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (NEETF) released a summary of a decade’s worth of research into environmental literacy among Americans, collected in collaboration with Roper Reports. The report included some disturbing statistics: 45 million Americans think the ocean is a fresh-water source, for example, and only 12% of those surveyed were able to pass a basic quiz on energy awareness. As the report’s author laments, “Our years of data from Roper surveys show a persistent pattern of environmental ignorance even among the most educated and influential members of society” (Coyle v). Like most Americans, honors students …

Jihad, Race And Western Media, Post-September 11, Tagg

Societies Without Borders

The article examines jihad within what is loosely referred to as “the Western imagination.” Through the analysis of both popular stereotypes and the broader historical context of religious antagonism and (neo)colonialism, the paper discusses both contemporary political rhetoric and a pair of liberal post September-11 political cartoons. While European and North American political leaders have often stereotyped Muslims in order to justify various “axis of evil” bandwagons and further political and economic interests throughout the Islamic Crescent, I argue here that the liberal media's critiques also often rely on fallacious embodied stereotypes. The pervasiveness of such representations has important implications …

A Religious Oriented Approach To Addressing Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Among The Somali Community Of Wajir, Kenya, Maryam Sheikh Abdi, Ian Askew

Reproductive Health

The Somali ethnic community, in Kenya as well in Somalia, Djibouti, and Ethiopia, has practiced genital cutting for centuries and the practice appears to have remained largely unchanged. The community practices the severest form of FGM/C, type III or infibulation. The Population Council’s FRONTIERS program, with support from USAID/Kenya, carried out two studies to better understand the practice of FGM/C among the Somalis in North Eastern Province so as to inform the design and implementation of interventions that would encourage abandonment of the practice. Both studies collected data through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with community and religious leaders, …

Isyarat Dan Manifestasi Seni Dalam Al-Qur’An: Satu Sorotan, H. Makmur, Y. Abdullah

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Al-Qur’an contains arts literature, full of meanings, has various arts of calligraphy, asking humankind to learn continously, read and write despite of asking people to enjoin good and prevent evil. Apart of being sources in various aspects, al-Qur’an has discusses arts in details, as a manifestation to the world, science, literature, culture, which its writing has become the medium of dakwah, artistic, esthetic and as a way of life in shaping symbols of art which influence human internal and external life. This paper will attempt to discuss the beauty of arts in the Qur’an in its various shape and meaning …

Motivasi, Pembelajaran Pengaturan Kendiri Dan Prestasi Akademik: Satu Kajian Di Kalangan Pelajar Asasi Pengajian Islam Universiti Malaya Nilam Puri, A.M.A. Mohamad, A.Y. Mohd

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

The aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence academic performance among University of Malaya Pre-Academic of Islamic Studies Students. The study also examines the differences between various factors among them. Those factors are intrinsic value, self-efficacy, test anxiety, cognitive strategy and resource management strategy. The study uses a survey method that make use of a questionnaire as an instrument. The samples consist of 110 second semester up to fourth semester students from University of Malaya Pre-Academic of Islamic Studies Students. Pearson correlation, multiple regression analysis and test are used in this study to investigate the influence …

Participation Of Academics In Collection Development At The Islamic Studies Library, A.R. Juhaida

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

No abstract provided.

Perancangan Zionis Ke Arah Pembentukan Negara Israel (Zionist Plan Towards Establishing The State Of Israel), Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor, Nor Dalila Zakaria

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

The official establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 on the land of Palestine was a result of hardworking and strategic planning of Zionists. By using several methods and their continuous effort including the moral boost that they received from the west which always supported Zionists effort, has given a huge advantage to the Zionists. This article will attempt to explore the Zionists plan which they have succeeded in taking over Palestine and established the state that is merely for the Jews.

Sumbangan Sibawayh Kepada Linguistik Bahasa Arab: Kajian Terhadap Metodologi Penulisan Al-Kitab, B.A. Mohd

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

This article is an attempt to analyse the personality of Sibawayh, an Arabic linguistic scholar, who lived in the second century of Hijrah and his contribution to the Arabic’s linguistic in his book, al-Kitab. The debate is focused on the writing methodology of al-Kitab which had made the book well known and highly praise all over the world. The finding is expected to represent himself as the master of syntax and also as the founder of Basrah’s thought (madhhab).

Tuan Tabal (M. 1891) Dan Sumbangannya Dalam Perkembangan Islam Di Tanah Melayu, Z.B. Ahmad, Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Tuan Tabal is one of the Muslim scholars in Malay Archipelago. He has hugely contributed to the development of Islam in this area especially in the field of Islamic Studies. This paper will attempt to focus on and explore his contribution in spreading Islam in Malay Archipelago.