The growth of the Islamic financial market in recent years has been remarkable, but this market has faced growing pains in terms of the struggle with Shari'ah-compliance of its products. A major criticism of Islamic financial products has been their resemblance to conventional financial products. This article explores the developments in the Islamic financial market in regard to equity-based su...

Proponents of the integration of Islam into English literary studies seek, by way of presenting Islamic worldviews in relation to the life-worlds that English texts presumably promote, to inform (Muslim) students and practitioners of the subject about possible untoward influences in order to help them withstand cultural captivity and lifestyle effects. This is part of the wider concept of integ...

This paper investigates the validity of Islamic art as an investment product. We examine the current and future market potential, as well as, performing a hedonic regression analysis on London auction sales from 1998 to 2007. The main findings of the research are; Islamic art returns out performed both the equity and debt markets over the last 10 years; increases in oil prices have a positive e...

Heterogeneous network computing enables the development of a single complex application using a distributed network of possibly dissimilar machines. While heterogeneous networks promise cost-eeective compute cycles, almost no software is available to aid in the design and implementation of their applications. In this paper, we couple the Zoom representation, designed to facilitate development o...

Kertas kerja ini telah dibentangkan di Persidangan Kuala Lumpur Summit yang diadakan Turkiye pada Disember 2022. membincangkan persoalan adakah usaha gerakan Islam Dunia umumnya dan Asia Tenggara khususnya sepanjang satu kurun pertama selepas kejatuhan khilafah merupakan sebuah projek pembangunan peradaban sebenar. Projek lahir daripada kefahaman tentang konsep hadarah sebenar menuntut proses p...

This article is concerned with the representation of al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd’s involvement in Muhallabid revolt (102/720) and third fitna (126–36/744–54) across Arabic-Islamic Christian sources. The contribution makes a case for study “minor figures” as means to contend eulogizing historiographical re-imagining Marwānid past by later ʿAbbāsid compilers. It sheds light on status concubine-born son...

India shares excellent historical, cultural, and diplomatic contacts with the Ottomans. India’s connections Ottoman Empire could be traced at least from capture of Istanbul in 1453. The Sultans functioned as Caliph for nearly 80 million Mohammedans during 19th century, revered their control over holy places such Jerusalem, Mecca, Medina. Mohammedan society within heavily sympathized Turkiye’s c...