Observers of contemporary politics know that Islamic extremism presents ‘the West’ with a serious challenge of national and international security consequent to terrorist events of recent time. In addition to constabulary and military responses, there remains the more fundamental question about how to understand Islamist ideology and how counternarratives might be framed in the interest of law ...

We compare, using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the performance of Islamic and conventional banks prior to, during and immediately after the 2008 financial crisis (2004-2009). There is no significant difference in mean efficiency between conventional and Islamic banks when efficiency is measured relative to a common frontier. A meta-frontier analysis (MFA), new to the banking context, howeve...

Introduction It is submitted that accepting Islamic Banking within the western regulatory framework has encountered many impediments. A conventional bank is an institution that holds a banking license issued by banks' regulatory authorities which authorizes the chartered institution to conduct fundamental banking services such as receiving deposits, making loans, providing and saving account se...

ID: 154 Ten Commandments of Faith-Based Recruiting Author Information: Authors List: Presenting Author: Leanne Lefler Presenting Author: Leanne L Lefler Address: 4301 W. Marikham Little Rock, AR 72034 USA Ph: 5012961939 Fax: Email: [email protected] Institution: U of Ark for Medical Sciences Abstract InformationInformation Presentation Preference: SNRS Symposium Willing To Submit Podium? No Wil...

Ineffective COTS implementation will cost you Adopting commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products or packages like ERP, CRM, and HR management systems to fulfil a range of enterprise functions is a crucial decision involving huge investment. Most implementations do not identify testing as an independent function required during the implementation of the COTS product, while others do not engage te...

SIR Part One If your main aim is to control parturition and protect yourself against legal charges of negligence: 1) Belong to a huge, anonymous medical team, so that the 'patients' don't know you personally. 2) Be as conventional as possible in your medical practice. 3) Control the process of delivery as much as possible. 4) Never allow a labouring woman to be without a professional. 5) Chart ...

In an effort to accelerate the ongoing paradigm shift in fi sheries science from the traditional single-species mindset toward more ecosystem-based approaches, we offer the following “commandments” as action items for bridging the gap between general principles and specifi c methodologies. 1. Keep a perspective that is holistic, risk-averse, and adaptive. 2. Question key assumptions, no matter ...

Each economy functions within a particular social framework, defined by its moral philosophy and legal system. What makes an economy Islamic is Sharīah, the moral/legal discourses of the classical fuqahā’, which defined the economy of classical Islam, shaped its micro and macro institutions, and modulated its actual performance. This economy, which was virtually effaced during the age of Europe...

*) Corresponding Author Abstract: The study was to: 1) generate the appropriate evaluation instrument so that the instrument might be implemented in evaluating the Integrated Islamic Elementary School (SDIT, Sekolah Dasar Islam Terpadu) learning process; 2) identify the effectiveness of the developed evaluation instrument; and 3) identify the description and the criteria in the results of evalu...

The purpose of this empirical study is to analyze and compare the performance of Islamic and conventional banking in Pakistan and to find out which of the banking stream is performing better than other. For this study, sample of 22 conventional banks and 5 Islamic banks were selected. For in-depth understanding and sound comparison, key performance indicators were divided into external and inte...