This article examines the unique risks associated with Islamic financial institutions and the secular state’s reticence to directly regulate their religious dimension. It argues that the state’s method of regulating the Islamic financial industry ignores special reputational risks associated with the religious and cultural distinctiveness of Islamic banks. The Financial Services Authority (FSA)...

In the last two decades one of the key questions that has occupied many feminist theorists is how should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and politics of any feminist project. Although this questioning has resulted in serious attempts at integrating issues of sexual, racial, class, and national difference within feminist theory, questions of religious diff...

1Department of Virology, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 14/11/2001; accepted 27/06/2002 ABSTRACT To better understand the annual distribution of influenza virus in our country, we isolated and typed 45 viruses from 1043 patients with acute respiratory illnesses in a 10-year study...

as one of the most fundamental discourses of islamic humanism and islamic education system, inner nature (fiṭra) has always been of interest to muslim thinkers, philosophers, and educators. nevertheless, given the difference of the perspective and position that each thinker has adopted, various, and to some extent, different interpretations of fiṭra have been presented; therefore, the definitio...

Internet users are more likely to ignore Internet content verification and more likely to share the content. When it comes to Islamic content, it is crucial to share and spread fake or inaccurate content. Even if the verification process of Islamic content is becoming easier every day, the Internet users generally ignore the verification step and jump into sharing the content. “How many clicks ...

Several cultural or religious groups claim descent from a common ancestor. The extent to which this claimed ancestry is real or socially constructed can be assessed by means of genetic studies. Syed is a common honorific title given to male Muslims belonging to certain families claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad through his grandsons Hassan and Hussein, who lived 1,400 years ago and wer...

This paper examines the relationship between financial risks and profitability of the conventional and Islamic banks in Malaysia for the period between 1996 and 2005. The measures of profitability that have been used in the study are the return on equity (ROE) and return on assets (ROA) while the financial risks are credit risk, interest rate risk and liquidity risks. This study employs panel d...

The main purpose of the study is to examine the willingness of the Moroccan customers to adopt Islamic banking services and the factors that may influence their decision. A total of 200 questionnaires were randomly distributed to Moroccan banking customers, out of which 146 were properly filled and returned. Multiple regression and one sample t-test were subsequently applied. The results showed...

As with many historical buildings around the world, building façades are of special interest; moreover, the details of such windows, stonework, and ornaments give each historic building its individual character. Each object of these buildings must be classified in an architectural object library. Recently, a number of researches have been focusing on this topic in Europe and Canada. From this s...