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Golongan Mangsa Banjir Di Malaysia: Antara Perluasan Tafsiran Asnaf Fi-Sabilillah Dan Ibn Al-Sabil, M.A. Ramli, H.A. Wahid, M.N. Hamdan, M.I.S. Zulkepli

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

Banjir merupakan bencana alam yang terjadi secara tahunan di Malaysia. Ia berlaku sama ada dalam skala kecil, sederhana, dan besar. Berdasarkan skala yang berbeza ini, ia menimbulkan kesan berlainan terhadap manusia dan alam sekitar malah turut mencetuskan implikasi hukum fiqh yang berbeza. Dalam situasi banjir yang sederhana dan besar, berlaku proses pemindahan ke pusat pemindahan, terputus bekalan makanan, kerosakan infrastruktur dan kediaman, kematian binatang ternak dan kerosakan tanaman. Kesannya, ketika banjir berlaku, mangsa terputus hubungan dan bekalan di samping diancam kelaparan, manakala pasca banjir, mangsa mengalami kerosakan harta benda, kerugian dan kehilangan sumber pendapatan. Dalam situasi ini, peranan zakat sebagai …

Issues On Halal Meat In Malaysian And Indonesian Markets, M.A. Ramli, A. Salahudin, M.I.A. Razak, M.A.H. Idris, M.I.S. Zulkepli

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

In recent years, interest in meat issues and research has increased. Many consumers are concerned about the meat they eat because it's a main source of protein in a daily consumption. However in issues pertaining with meat, halal and safety are a vital focus for Muslim consumer, especially in Southeast Asia region. Some of the related issues in halal and safety meat are criminal and terrorist activities, including meat fraudulent such as adulterant substances (adulteration), substitution, livestock stolen, grey market product, smuggling, misrepresentation or mislabelling etc. In parallel with meat fraudulent activities, perpetrator tends to use a harmful and unsafety …

Isu Kutipan Zakat Tanpa Kebenaran: Kajian Dari Perspektif Perundangan Syariah, M.A. Ramli, M.N. Hamdan

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

Zakat merupakan satu ibadat yang berdimensikan kehartaan dalam bentuk mandatori kepada para muzakki yang berkelayakan untuk diagihkan kepada para mustahiq zakat yang memerlukan. Ia merupakan instrumen kewangan alternatif sebagai jaminan sosial di samping instrumen yang lain seperti wakaf, hibah dan wasilah tabarru’at yang lain. Saban tahun, jumlah agihan semakin meningkat disebabkan oleh jumlah asnaf yang bertambah ekoran pelbagai faktor di samping peningkatan jumlah kutipan. Bertitik tolak daripada keadaan tersebut, berbagai pendekatan telah dijalankan oleh pelbagai pihak untuk memacu transformasi zakat negeri, khususnya bagi meningkatkan kadar kutipan zakat dan mengoptimumkan agihannya kepada asnaf. Rentetan daripada strategi dan pendekatan yang digunapakai, timbul …

Isu Kutipan Zakat Merentasi Sempadan Negeri Di Malaysia: Kajian Dari Perspektif Hukum Islam, M.A. Ramli, M.N. Hamdan

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

Isu kutipan dan agihan zakat sentiasa menjadi polemik dalam masyarakat Islam di Malaysia. Di sebalik isu ketidakcekapan dalam agihan zakat yang diwarwarkan, timbul juga isu yang berkaitan kutipan zakat. Akhir-akhir ini terdapat usaha untuk meningkatkan kadar kutipan zakat bagi negeri dengan pelbagai pendekatan dan strategi. Antaranya adalah perlantikan amil/agen sama ada di dalam ataupun di luar negeri dengan jumlah pembahagian dengan peratusan tertentu, misalnya pulangan dalam jumlah 70:30, malah ada institusi zakat yang memperuntukkan pulangan sehingga 50:50. Pendekatan ini dari satu aspek menunjukkan perkembangan yang positif kerana dapat meningkatkan kadar kutipan dan agihan zakat negeri. Namun begitu dari aspek yang …

Konsep Taghyir Khalqillah Menurut Muhaddithin: Analisis Terhadap Hadith Larangan Al-Wasl, Al-Washm, Al-Nams Dan Al-Tafalluj, M.N. Hamdan, M.A. Ramli

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

Taghyir Khalqillah sering digunakan sebagai „illah larangan sesuatu perbuatan yang mengubah bentuk asal tubuh badan manusia. Hujah yang dikaitkan dengan taghyir khalqillah adalah hadith larangan Nabi SAW terhadap al-wasl, al-washm, al-nams dan al-tafalluj. Hadith ini sebenarnya dipetik dari komentar mufassirin terhadap huraian ayat al-Qur‟an mengenai taghyir khalqillah, iaitu surah al-Nisa‟, ayat 119. Menurut sebahagian muhaddithin, empat perbuatan tersebut dilarang kerana mengubah ciptaan Allah SWT, manakala sebahagian pihak pula mengemukan „illah yang lain. Justeru, artikel ini akan membincangkan konsep taghyir khalqillah pada bahasa, di samping definisi, hukum dan „illah larangan al-wasl, al-washm, al-nams dan al-tafalluj. Semua perbincangan muhaddithin dirujuk menerusi huraian …

Significantly Improved Photovoltaic Performance In Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells With Graphene Oxide /Pedot:Pss Double Decked Hole Transport Layer, S. Rafique, S.M. Abdullah, M.M. Shahid, M.O. Ansari, K. Sulaiman

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

This work demonstrates the high performance graphene oxide (GO)/PEDOT:PSS doubled decked hole transport layer (HTL) in the PCDTBT:PC 71 BM based bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic device. The devices were tested on merits of their power conversion efficiency (PCE), reproducibility, stability and further compared with the devices with individual GO or PEDOT:PSS HTLs. Solar cells employing GO/PEDOT:PSS HTL yielded a PCE of 4.28% as compared to either of individual GO or PEDOT:PSS HTLs where they demonstrated PCEs of 2.77 and 3.57%, respectively. In case of single GO HTL, an inhomogeneous coating of ITO caused the poor performance whereas PEDOT:PSS is known …

Zakah On Shares: Theory And Reality In Malaysia, M.I. Rosele, L. Haji Abdullah, A.K. Ali

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

Zakah (Islamic almsgiving) on shares are generally mentioned indirectly in classical fiqh books. This is due to the fact that the practice of shares is relatively new in classical Islamic jurisprudence literature. However, the basis of the debate on shares can be traced its establishment and development in the classical fiqh discourse. Muslim individual and Muslimoperated companies has been involved in investment and share-trading, thus creating the debate of zakah on shares in Malaysia. Therefore, the objective of this study is to highlight the discussion of zakah on shares based on the reality in Malaysia. The focus of the debate …

High Achievers Awards 2017 - Celebrating The Leaders Of Tomorrow, Aga Khan University Examination Board

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Muslim Families In The United States, Trevan Hatch, Loren Marks, David C. Dollahite

Faculty Publications

Jn 2004, we drew attention to the fact that almost all of the social science research on religion and families examined Christian families-and only Christian families (Dollahite, Marks, & Goodman, 2004). Specifically, we noted a "conspicuous" absence of research on both Muslim and Jewish families (p. 422). We have made a pronounced effort to include both Muslim families and Jewish families in the American Families of Faith project, and virtually all of our work includes both along with Christian families from various denominations. Some of our recent work has focused solely on Muslim families or Jewish families (e.g., Alghafli, Hatch, …

Mormons In The Piazza: History Of The Latter-Day Saints In Italy, Mauro Properzi

BYU Studies

James A. Toronto, Eric R. Dursteler, and Michael W. Homer. Mormons in the Piazza: History of the Latter-day Saints in Italy.

Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017.

Alumni Survey Report : 2016, Aga Khan University Alumni Affairs

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Islamic Influence On Spain: Discussion Of Women’S Rights And Islamic Influence, Samreen Uzzama

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Current sentiment in the West surrounding Islam stems from a variety of factors: terror attacks, lack of understanding the Islamic faith and cultures that practice the religion, and stereotypical depictions in the media of Muslims as terrorist or as oppressed women. Arab societies oppress women via laws, such as the law that prevents women from driving or the law that prevents women from being outside of the house without being accompanied by a man, both in Saudi Arabia. These depictions, especially of Saudi Arabian practices or similar practices from other nations, are generally available to the West, via media, web, …

Laying The Foundation For Social Media Prosecutions Under 18 U.S.C. § 2339b, Ronbert H. Schwartz

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

American lawmakers and law enforcement officials face a situation with no precedent, no standard operating procedure, and no end in sight: international terrorism. International terrorism has threatened the American way of life for hundreds of years, but the proliferation of terrorist recruitment through social media platforms has heightened the risk and sheer destruction that global terror attacks create. America must take a role in eliminating this new wave of recruitment and the overall war on terrorism; but the lack of accountability of social media companies hinders America’s ability to fight back. This Article explains and argues that holding social media …

An Improvisation On Margaret Baker's "The Lord Is One", Daniel C. Peterson

BYU Studies

It’s a privilege to be here, and I want to thank Dr. Barker for a really, really interesting, dense, and rich paper. What I’m going to do is not so much add to it or comment on it as do an improvisation based upon it. The thought that came to my mind as I was reading it—and as I was thinking about it just now as she was reading it—was that, first of all, Latter-day Saints are naturally going to be very sympathetic to an attempt to view the temple as a model of the universe, something of a scale-model …

Doors Opening, Anika N. Jensen

The Mercury

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Regifted, Anika N. Jensen

The Mercury

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Algorithmic Aesthetics: Redefining Traditional Islamic Art, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The recent exhibition, “Reverberating Echoes: Contemporary Art Inspired by Traditional Islamic Art,” organized by the Center for the Arts & Religion at the Graduate Theological Union afforded an opportunity for me as curator to reconsider the definition of ‘traditional Islamic art.’ This effort led to the identification of an algorithmic aesthetic of pattern that characterizes artistic production in all media from the 9th through the 12th centuries in what were then Islamic lands, centered in Baghdad, but extending from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East and Iran to Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.

Alloys And Architecture: Periodic And Quasiperiodic Patterns In Sinan's Selimiye In Edirne, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The marble minbar of the Selimiye mosque in Edirne that was designed by the Ottoman architect, Sinan, and completed in 1575, bears a circular medallion of carved and pierced openwork in each of its triangular framing walls. The carved circular patterns are unusual in having radial symmetry with local five-fold and ten-fold rotations, but no periodic repeat. This contribution explores the relationship of this late 16th-century design to a similar array generated by X-ray diffraction of aluminum alloys, identified as a quasiperiodic pattern, which garnered the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The 16th-century appearance of this pattern in an architectural …

Explaining The Rise Of Isis, Anas Alqaed

Political Science Theses and Capstones

In this paper I study the circumstances that led to the rise the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/Daesh) and its economic power. I use articles, testimonies before US House of Representatives and analyze economic data to generate facts and draw conclusions. All references rely on primary source documents that were not released in an official capacity by ISIS. These are documents that have been released online by pro or anti-ISIS activists or information that was gathered and analyzed by research centers and international organizations. It is worth noting that non-officially released documents were very helpful in shedding more …

Middle Eastern Studies Program Newsletter - V9.1, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Middle Eastern Studies Program - Newsletters

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Library As Publisher: New Models Of Scholarly Communication For A New Era, Sarah Kalikman Lippincott

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Why Library Publishing?

In a post on library publishing for the influential Scholarly Kitchen blog, publishing consultant Joe Esposito (2013) asked rhetorically, “Why would anyone want to get into this business when those of us who were already there were trying desperately to get out?” The publishing community has established that publishing is not easy, it is not usually profitable at a small scale, it is in a constant state of “crisis,” and it is dealing with a variety of challenges and tensions, from changes in technology to changes in the marketplace. So why don’t libraries leave this up to …

University Of Nebraska At Omaha 2017-2018 Course Catalog, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Graduate Catalogs

The University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) is a premier metropolitan university that combines the resources of a doctoral research institution with a thriving community in the heart of Omaha.

With a global reach and vision, UNO is large enough to provide opportunities students seek, yet personal enough to include the mentorship they need to achieve academic excellence, creativity, and engaged learningat competitive tuition rates.

UNO is committed to and engaged with the city surrounding it, allowing students unique hands-on opportunities, internships, service learning,applied research, and other collaborative activities that enhance time in the classroom.

This is the ”O” we want …

The Impact Of Efficiency On Islamic Banks’ Performance: A Cross-Country Study, Fatma Ahmed, Khaled Hussainey, Elsayeda Ismail

Economics

This paper contributes to Islamic finance literature by offering large-scale evidence on the impact of efficiency on the performance of Islamic banks all over the world. Our initial sample includes all Islamic banks around the world. Using a sample of 151 Islamic Banks with financial years ending within the period January 2013 and December 2013, we examine, controlling for Bank-specific characteristics and country-specific characteristics, whether high efficiency leads to more profitability in Islamic Banks. We define higher efficiency as the lower Cost-to-income ratio. We find that higher levels of Islamic banks’ efficiency banks (i.e. lower Cost-to-income ratio) are positively associated …

Analisis Keterdedahan Risiko Syariah Syarikat Pengendali Takaful Di Malaysia / Mohd Faiz Bin Mohamed Yusof, Mohamed Yusof Mohd Faiz

Student Works (2010-2019)

Takaful Operator is an Islamic financial institution licensed as a sharī’ah compliant financial institutions by Central Bank of Malaysia. The takaful industry in Malaysia is exposed to sharī’ah risks due to the sharī’ah compliance requirements in all operations and activities of the Takaful Operator. Sharī’ah risk exposures generally occur because of the elements that not comply with sharī’ah requirements such as riba, gharar, gambling, ghubn, ikrāh, taghrīr and ghalaṭ or any element that was not comply with sharī’ah by the sharī’ah regulatory whether Sharī’ah Committee of Takaful Operators or Sharī’ah Advisory Council of Central Bank of Malaysia. However, the complicated …

Pengagihan Zakat Kepada Sektor Pendidikan Di Perak: Kajian Di Majlis Agama Islam Dan Adat Melayu Perak / Khairul Azhar Abdul Aziz, Abdul Aziz Khairul Azhar

Student Works (2010-2019)

Educational funding is one of the most important forms of fundings to the poor and needy recipients because education is one of the most important methods that can change the lives of these people and issue of poverty. There are a few of the less fortunate financially to pursue such as the poor and needy recipients who only rely on obligatory education for school fees paid and receive aid. The aim of this study was to identify schemes and forms of educational assistance given by the Majlis Agama Islam Perak (MAIAMPk) to the recipients in their studies at the school …

Mukjizat Bilangan Dalam Al-Quran: Kajian Perbandingan Antara Bassam Nihad Jarrar Dan ‘Abd Al-Da’Im Al-Kahil / Abu Zaki Ismail, Ismail Abu Zaki

Student Works (2010-2019)

Numerical inimitability is an extension of I‘jāz al-Qur’ān theory which has been observed by researchers from various aspects. It is the result of tadabbur of Quran since it has been guaranteed that Quran is protected from all falsehood. The objective of this study is to identify the origin of the numerical study and the concept of numerical inimitability, to study biography of the main researchers, their works and methodology used and also to develop objective standards for numerical inimitability researches. It focused on the history of theory emergence and two researchers who wrote most on numerical inimitability of Quran who …

Pelaksanaan Dan Masalah Dakwah Ikatan Da’I Indonesia Di Aceh / Azhari Jailani Daud, Daud Azhari Jailani

Student Works (2010-2019)

Aceh is the first entry of Islam into the archipelago of south of east Asia named Nusantara. Admission of Islam was approved as early as the first century AH brought by the Islamic missionaries of Arab and Indian traders. of Aceh, Islam then spread to the rest of the archipelago by peaceful means. The long journey of preaching Islam in Veranda of Mecca’s land gives a very in-depth study of the interaction of Islam as peaceful and blessed religion with local people. Evident from the beginning until now Islam remains the religion and beliefs of the people of Aceh which …

Fighting Extremism: Efforts To Defeat Online Isis Recruitment Methods, Michael Howell

Honors Theses

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its sympathizers utilize social media platforms to disseminate propaganda, radicalize audiences, and recruit foreign fighters. Some Western social media users are susceptible to these efforts. Although personal privacy and freedom of speech is largely protected by complex governmental limitations, the social media use of extremists sparked a national debate on how to protect American citizens. This thesis will discuss the history of ISIS and its social media use, the terrorist group's target audiences, ISIS recruitment strategies, and policy decisions and options aimed at reducing the effectiveness of pro-jihadist propaganda. This paper …

Universal Principles Of Bioethics And Patient Rights In Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Abdulbasit Bukhari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In order to keep pace with international bioethical practices, and with international bioethical declarations, this dissertation will investigate challenges facing patients’ rights discourse in Saudi Arabia, and the adaptation of universal bioethics standards in the Saudi healthcare system. The role of religion and issues of human rights will be discussed further, given that religion and human rights affect patient’s rights profoundly. Specifically, the divergence between religious dictations and the secular language of human rights principles will provide a distinctive perspective on patients’ rights discourse, especially in a country such as Saudi Arabia where religion is integral to the national foundations, …

What If They're All Terrorists?: The Securitization Of Muslims In Post-9/11 Immigration Policy, Kian Vesteinsson

Pomona Senior Theses

This thesis examines U.S. immigrant and refugee policy and policy discourse to understand the formation of Muslims as particular sites of risk as immigrants in the War on Terror. Theorists of international relations theorize securitization as a process in which state actors begin to use the language of security in considering the regulation and governance of a certain policy issue area. I argue that the securitization of various figures who are Muslim or are linked to Muslim-majority countries in post-9/11 immigrant and refugee policy and political discourse contributes to political conditions under which Islam is understood as the only trusted …