— 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...

Out of the total population of Sri Lanka, the Muslim community constitutes about 8%, while the Buddhist majority makes up 69,1%. Still, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, a Muslim political party, has been a significant player in the Sri Lankan political arena since the early 1990s. This article explores how they managed to gain support as quickly as they did, from the early 1980s to the present, a...

In this paper, I analyze how the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, marked by increased parliamentary power in late 2006 due to unprecedented success in the 2005 elections, impacts female labor force participation in districts in which Muslim Brotherhood candidates won compared to those in which they did not win. I use a difference in differences estimation strategy, using both district a...

In December 1996, TIME magazine published an article titled ‘‘Finding God on the Web,’’ which projected how the Internet would shape information seeking on faith and religion. A decade later, the Web has become a popular tool for gathering religious information as well as information and imagery related to religious travel. Yet there is little research on religious destination imagery online. I...

This article describes about the original dimensions of al-Farabi's Islamic political philosophy by comparing it with Plato's philosophy. The originality philosophical thought in Islam was questioned critically orientalists. Orientalists had claimed that is simply a diversion from Greek However, an elaboration classical thought. In hands Muslim philosophers, reached perfection. So cannot be sai...

The purpose of this manuscript is to present a reliable estimate in form of tables of the Muslim population and its percentage in each country in Africa. This data is summarized to be a reference for other studies and discussions related to Muslim population. The presented data show that about 27% of the population of Africa is Muslim, a total of about 446 million.

vii Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: Review of Literature 7 Definitions of Parenting Styles 7 Scholastic Achievement 10 Authoritative Parenting 11 Permissive and Authoritarian Parenting 14 Learning Autonomy 16 Teaching Styles 19 Chapter 3: Method 26 Participants 26 Procedure 26 Instruments 27 Parental Authority Questionnaire 27 Perceptions of Parents Scales: The College-Student Scale 28 Lea...