Department of Community Medicine, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Department of Internal Medicine, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Institute of Education, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Pharmaceutical Chemistry, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Department of Family Medicine,...

will is one of the techniques of prose that states important community issues. will, in the  jahilid period  was according to interpreting minds and personal experience as wills in islamic period was according to quranic style that states islamic ideology. this article will discuss  and compared to two wills , one of the gaheli period and other of islamic period, and makes the result that abuba...

This study aims to conduct a comparative analysis on the impact of the 2007/2008global financial crisis on the Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia. Three performance indicators, namely profitability, liquidity and credit risk of the banking institutions are being considered. The study covers a five-year period from 2006 to 2010, and divides the sample period into before, during, and afte...

a r t i c l e i n f o The Dow Jones Islamic Market indices (DJIMI) are constructed by screening out stocks that are incompatible with Islam's prohibition of interest and certain lines of business. However, as a blunt instrument, the interest rate can affect discounted cash flows of any firm, even a firm with no financial leverage. This study reveals that the aggregate portfolio of Islamic stock...

6th century BCE, probably as part of the expansion into the region of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Lying on one of the main branches of the ancient Silk Roads, which connected Europe and Africa to the Far East, a succession of cities flourished. By the early medieval period these encompassed over 1,000ha (Fig. 1). The great Islamic city of Sultan Kala, capital of the eastern Islamic world, wa...

This paper investigates the question of whether the phenomenon of Islamic finance who based on Shariah, or Islamic law is truly globalizing and spreading as a universal system of finance and banking. The paper also addresses various aspects of the globalization for Islamic finance, among other, the issue of the rise of Islamic banking in the world, Islamic jurisprudence and finance, global stan...

During the Sassanid Empire in Persia (226-652 AD), there was a renaissance of humanistic sciences, including medicine, in the city of Gondi-Shapur. When the Islamic center of power moved to Baghdad in about 750 AD, physicians of Gondi-Shapur, including the dean of the medical school (a Nestorian Christian), gradually moved to Baghdad constructing hospitals and medical schools. Aided by the Pers...

This research reports on the findings of a study that examined the performance of Islamic unit trust funds in comparison with the conventional trust funds in Malaysia. The objectives of the study were to compare the nature and characteristics of both funds, assess their risks and returns profiles, measure the degree of diversification and compare the consistency of performance ranking. The perf...

The Raya port (eighth to 12th centuries) on the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, was one of the important port cities for the Red Sea trade. We performed on-site analyses of Islamic glass vessels (used in eighth to 11th centuries) mainly from this site in Egypt using a portable XRF spectrometer. The aim of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of the chemical compositions of early Islamic gla...

In this paper, we conduct an examination on the causality and relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and economic growth in an Islamic country, namely Malaysia. The study period in this paper is divided into two: from 1960 1982, and from 1983 2004. This is to examine if the contribution of ICT investment varies in different sample periods. The causality result showe...