Editor's note Miss Molkoy, a British Muslim and a trained nurse has been carryingout researchfor the Certiftcate in the Study of Islam at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations. This paper is based on that research. In collecting her evidence on attitudes to medical ethics Miss Molloy explores with her survey sample such topics as contraception, life support machines, ...

Muslims living in the Indonesian archipelago have long placed considerable importance on their travels to and communications with what they saw as intellectual centers for the study of Islam. I trace some of the effects of these “intellectual pilgrimages” to Mecca, Cairo, and elsewhere on Indonesian deliberations about Islam, particularly concerning Islamic law. I argue that these references to...

the rise of political islam and islamism in muslim countries cause a pervasive & contestable controversy among western scholars. today islam has been identified with activism, radicalism, fundamentalism, and etc. yet, there are many questions being propounded; such as, what is political islam? why islamic movements acted against interest of the west? why islamism constructed against the west? t...

Information repositories containing text data of different languages are abundant on the World Wide Web. Digital corpora of sacred text of Islam related to Quran containing Arabic language are also publicly available. The availability of these corpora and intelligent application to analyze them are vital to better comprehend the religious text of Islam. In this paper I propose a method of repre...

— This essay focuses on two questions: How do the current economic systems and institutions of Muslim countries differ from those of other countries at the same stage of economic development? What is the impact of Islam on the economic and social performance of these countries? Employing a cluster analysis I find that there is no special Muslim economic system; moreover, few economic institutio...

This paper reveals that while Muslims have a surprisingly good reputation in Western Europe, the headscarf is opposed by a large majority. Several arguments are developed in this paper to investigate why people make a difference between Muslims as a group and their religious practices. While attitudes towards Muslims hardly vary across countries there is a lot of variation of resentment against...

abstract: comparison of justice in islam and utilitarianism this article is to explain and compare justice in islam and utilitarianism. first, it is pointed to difinition and necessary and divisions of justice in islam: justice is putting of everything in its suit place. because of being absoulatly complete of god, his commands and prohibitions are justicely. knowledge of all human needs and th...

This paper empirically analyses the trend of Islamization in Malaysia using the Islamization Index as an indicator to determine whether the time series dataset of the Islamization index possess deterministic trends or stochastic properties. The result determines the appropriateness of the employment of the Islamization index as a proxy of Islam in the empirical study of Islam and economic perfo...

In dem Beitrag werden die demokratiepolitischen Gefahren des eCampaigning am Beispiel der rechtsradikalen Anti-Islam Kampagne aufgezeigt. Dazu wird die rechtsradikale bottom-up-Kampagne hinsichtlich der Kriterien Ressourcenmobilisierung und Framing untersucht. Entsprechende Elemente des Blogs „Politically Incorrect“ und des sozialen Netzwerks „StudiVZ“ werden dargestellt und auf theoretische Hy...