Discussions pertaining to the various Islamic dimensions are actively being undertaken in the media. Within the academic circle, journal articles are accepted as an effective media in the dissemination of knowledge. Articles with Islamic perspectives can be found in disciplines that include Medicine, Banking, Economics and Finance. However, there is little to suggest of the types and frequencie...

Recently there has been a heightened global concern over ‘contagion’ in the conventional financial markets. Our study is motivated by the desire to test empirically whether this contagion is reflected in the fast growing Islamic financial markets as well. This study is the first attempt at testing whether there has been any contagion among the Shari’ah-compliant stock markets during the most re...

The purpose of this paper is to examine co-creation of non-economic values in Islamic banking services and their significance for service science by comparing Islamic and conventional banking services. Although many scholars have discussed co-creation of values in services, most of them have focused on only economic values. Following Sharia (Islamic principles that are based on Qur’an and Sunna...

In a discrimination experiment on Tashlhiyt Berber singleton-geminate contrasts (i.e., duration contrasts), we find that French listeners are more sensitive to silent closure duration in word-final /t/ than to voiced murmur, or even, frication duration in initial position. Native listeners of Tashlhiyt perform near-ceiling on all these contrasts. We propose that native listeners of French, in w...

Al Haram Al Shrif in Makkah is the holiest spot on the earth to Muslims. Every year about 14 million people are visiting the place from around the world, this number is increasing over the coming years. No author so far has been able to offer a fundamental study on its patterns, although there are many studies on Islamic patterns on other Islamic sites like Al Hambra and Al-Andolothia Mosque in...

Our tendency to name important period of human history is not only a vagary, it briefly characterises main features of an adequate society (or social systems) and its development. This name is a metaphor that help us to better understand this society and affects a perception of its general problems and ways of their solution too. However the used term cannot comprehend elusive changeable and ve...

Kültürel etkileşimler ve değişimler sebebiyle toplum bireyler üzerinde din ahlak ilkelerinin etkisinin azalması, insanların düşünce dünyasında birtakım değişikliklere yol açmaktadır. Özellikle son yıllarda hız kazanan bu anlayış, temel haklar konusunda da görüş farklılıkları meydana getirmiştir. Temel içinde önemli yer tutan yaşam hakkı farklılıklardan etkilenmiştir. Gelinen noktada kişiler seb...