This paper explores the ethical and legal pedagogy of the current debates on “reforming” Muslim societies, whether they claim to reform social and legal systems, reform educational institutions, or liberate Muslim women. Since these debates claim to achieve balance in global or domestic conflicts, I address the foundations of these debates by answering three questions: (1) Are the rationales fo...

PARENTING STYLE AFFECT CHILD DEVELOPMENT AMONG DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES OF MUSLIM CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES Noor A. Rosli, B.A., M.S. Marquette University, 2013 Parenting styles create different social environments in the life of children at home. Countless research can be found about parenting styles, such as, parenting associated with child behavior and cross-cultural parenting (Keels, 2009;...

Systemics Functional Grammar (SFG) has been used to address issues of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) in extensive research, however the aim this article is analyze how instances specific genre, recipe, may present different functional features, well discuss TEFL use genre their work with learners. The paper presents summary relevant theoretical aspects on three Meta Functions SFG...

speakers of different languages have paid attention to the phonetics of their language since ancient times. muslim scientists have also taken into consideration the value of phonological studies and among them there are linguists who are not less important than any western ones like saussure, chomsky and jacobson. some of them are even counted more major than westerners; one of these muslim sch...

the issue of transmission of hadith, in western views, is an influential factor concerning the historical reliability of hadith. many western scholars dealing with muslim tradition assumed that in the main the hadith had been transmitted orally and consequently through the oral transmission process, it has been distorted and changed. the reason for this idea is the existence of some prophetic h...

Religion has been considered as a framework for the sense of meaning and purpose. The aim of the present study was to explore the perception of Muslim students who practice their religion towards meaning of life and to investigate the association between religiosity, personal meaning, and psychological well-being. Respondents were 60 Muslim students studying at University of Southampton and Bir...

TESL 505, Second-language Acquisition, 3 Units This course examines the process of acquiring a language, focusing on second-language acquisition. Questions to be explored include: What is the nature of language proficiency? What regular patterns characterize the process of language acquisition? What strategies do successful language learners employ? How do linguistic, affective, cognitive and s...