In March 2008, the journalist Eliza Griswold described a burgeoning “competition” for believers between Muslims and Christians in the country of Nigeria—“God’s Country” according to the article’s title. The description is tragically ironic in light of the carnage that has accompanied this competition in the form of waves of interreligious violence after the implementation of Sharia criminal law...

A fund manager has to abide by a set of business and financial parameters before selecting and including a particular stock in an Islamic fund portfolio. There are various Islamic screening methods followed by stock indices and banks, namely Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (DJIMI), FTSE Global Islamic Index Series, S&P 500, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) and Accounting and Auditing ...

Marriage in principle is for peace society which it forms a joint commitment forming common goal, some are monogamous or have one wife and polygamous, namely more than wife. Polygamy indeed allowed Islam Positive Law, but with conditions that must be met. The state also allows the practice of polygamy met, not much different from religious rules. Therefore, if person wishes to polygamy, he unde...

The security crowdfunding (SCF) provides collective fundraising services for MSMES who have difficulty obtaining funding without collateral based on OJK Regulation No. 16/POJK.04/2021, the SCF investment rules above don’t explicitly discuss activities in sharia-compliant securities halal business financing that are free from Riba, maysir, and gharar elements. purpose of this research is to exam...

We present the Carnegie Mellon University Stat-XFER group submission to the WMT 2010 shared translation task. Updates to our syntax-based SMT system mainly fell in the areas of new feature formulations in the translation model and improved filtering of SCFG rules. Compared to our WMT 2009 submission, we report a gain of 1.73 BLEU by using the new features and decoding environment, and a gain of...

This extended abstract presents a submission to the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) in the Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking task. This submission is mainly based on our previous work on Nonnegative Matrix factorization (NMF) applied to music transcription. It relies on the harmonicity model we used in our previous participation in MIREX [1] and more r...

The Religious Courts are the only legal institution authorized to resolve sharia economic disputes, based on Law Number 3 of 2006 concerning Courts. This is also supported by Supreme Court Regulation 14 2016 Procedures for Settlement Sharia Economic Cases. However, there still many business/shariah banking cases in commercial courts where submissions tug-of-war a dichotomy between absolute comp...

The article focuses on the relationship between laws of religion and custom in traditional Kazakh society role importance oratory judiciary. legal system steppes, level implementation Sharia its impact judiciary, "rules road" peculiarities judiciary are also discussed. A comparative analysis Muslim law is made. carried out terms order rules work people process settlement solution problem such a...

1 Office of the Director, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 4 Wellcome Library, The Wellc...