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American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 9:1

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

Perhubungan media di Malaysia (Penerbit UM)

Perhubungan media merupakan aspek yang penting dalam strategi komunikasi sesebuah organisasi. Dengan demikian, amat kritikal bagi pengamal perhubungan awam untuk membina hubungan yang berkesan dengan personaliti media. Penulisan ini berfokus pada amalan perhubungan media di Malaysia dengan memberi tumpuan kepada empat isu iaitu polisi organisasi korporat, amalan etika kewartawanan, persepsi editor dan bahan perhubungan media. Kaedah analisis kandungan digunakan untuk menganalisis bahan-bahan siaran media yang diterima oleh dua organisasi media iaitu sebuah akhbar harian dan sebuah stesen televisyen. Selain itu, temubual mendalam dilaksanakan untuk menganalisis pendapat para editor akhbar harian, stesen televisyen dan agensi berita mengenai amalan perhubungan media. Analisis menunjukkan para editor media berpegang kepada polisi organisasi dalam urusan perhubungan media dan seakan-akan tidak dipengaruhi oleh pengamal perhubungan awam. Berdasarkan analisis didapati pihak berkuasa politik dan pengiklan mempunyai pengaruh kuat ke atas polisi organisasi korporat yang mungkin memberi kesan pada amalan perhubungan media. Dapatan menunjukkan para editor berpandu kepada kod etika profesional dalam membuat liputan secara adil dan saksama. Walaupun pemberian hadiah oleh pengamal perhubungan awam kepada para editor dilihat sebagai kebiasaan dalam perhubungan media, namun amalan pemberian ini tidak mempengaruhi keputusan editorial. Analisis juga mendapati para editor mengakui keprofesionalan pengamal perhubungan awam dari segi format dan gaya persembahan bahan siaran media, termasuk kepelbagaian kandungan yang memenuhi jangkaan mereka. Pelbagai faktor mempengaruhi perhubungan media termasuk kurangnya hubungan interpersonal oleh para pengamal perhubungan awam dengan para editor media massa. Oleh itu, hubungan baik perlu dimantapkan dalam usaha memperbaiki liputan aktiviti, dan seterusnya untuk membina kepercayaan publik kepada organisasi.

Combating Fake News with Computational Intelligence Techniques

This book presents the latest cutting-edge research, theoretical methods, and novel applications in the field of computational intelligence techniques and methods for combating fake news. Fake news is everywhere. Despite the efforts of major social network players such as Facebook and Twitter to fight disinformation, miracle cures and conspiracy theories continue to rain down on the net. Artificial intelligence can be a bulwark against the diversity of fake news on the Internet and social networks. This book discusses new models, practical solutions, and technological advances related to detecting and analyzing fake news based on computational intelligence models and techniques, to help decision-makers, managers, professionals, and researchers design new paradigms considering the unique opportunities associated with computational intelligence techniques. Further, the book helps readers understand computational intelligence techniques combating fake news in a systematic and straightforward way.

The Law of Attraction in Islam

What is the Islamic perspective on the Law of Attraction? This is a short article on the subject.

Pathways to Contemporary Islam

This book highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity.

Haiwan Makkah dalam Al-Quran dan Hadis

Enhancing Financial Inclusion through Islamic Finance, Volume I

This book, the first of two volumes, highlights the concept of financial inclusion from the Islamic perspective. An important element of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), financial inclusion has been given significant prominence in reform and development agendas proposed by the United Nations and G-20. The significance of Islamic financial inclusion goes beyond improved access to finance to encompass enhanced access to savings and risk mitigation products, as well as social inclusion that allows individuals and companies to engage more actively in the real economy. It represents one of the important drivers of economic growth. Gender disparity exists within financial access and its extent varies widely across world economies. South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa have the largest gender gaps, with women in these regions being forty per cent less likely than men to have a formal account at a financial institution. Analysing how Islamic financial inclusion can empower individuals, this volume explores the contribution of Islamic microfinance in achieving SDGs and solving income and wealth inequality. Comprising a combination of empirical evidence, theory and modelling, this edited collection illustrates how to improve access to finance, making it essential reading for those researching both Islamic finance and development finance.

Moderasi Islam Dan Kebebasan Beragama Perspektif Mohamed Yatim & Thaha Jabir Al-Alwani

Buku ini adalah hasil terjemahan karya dua tokoh yang berbeda, yakni karya Prof. Mohamed Yatim yang berjudul al-Wasathiyyah wa al-I’tidȃl: Min Ajli Istirȃjiyyah Listȋ’ȃb Fikrat al-Ghuluw wa al-Tatharruf (Beirut: al-Intisyȃr al-‘Arabȋ, 2011), dan karya Prof. Thaha Jabir al-Alwani yang berjudul Lȃ Ikrȃha fi al-Dȋn: Isykȃliyyat al-Riddah wa al-Murtaddȋn min Shadr alIslȃm Hattȃ al-Yaum (Kairo: Maktabah al-Syurûq al-Dawliyah, 2003), dengan konteks penulisan yang berbeda pula. Namun karena ada benang merah yang menghubungkan kedua karya mereka, saya memberanikan diri untuk menyandingkan agar menjadi satu buah tulisan buku yang sama-sama merespons isu aktual keberagamaan masyarakat Muslim dunia dan Indonesia. Isu-isu seperti radikalisme, terorisme, dan intoleransi, sedang hangat dibicarakan karena dinilai telah mengancam kelangsungan tatanan hidup bersama yang penuh diwarnai kerukunan dan perdamaian. Isu-isu tersebut juga dianggap menciderai ajaran luhur agama yang mengajak para pemeluknya untuk menebar kebaikan dan berjuang mewujudkan kemaslahatan hidup umat manusia. Moderasi Islam Dan Kebebasan Beragama Perspektif Mohamed Yatim & Thaha Jabir Al-Alwani ini diterbitkan oleh Penerbit Deepublish dan tersedia juga dalam versi cetak.

Diplomacy Arabic

Elisabeth Kendall and Yehia A. Mohamed's Diplomacy Arabic is a convenient guide for Arabic language learners, featuring over 1,300 common terms and expressions essential for success in diplomatic communication. This book is a must-have for skilled work in international relations in the Middle East.

Beyond Fintech: Technology Applications For The Islamic Economy

Beyond Fintech: Technology Applications for the Islamic Economy is a follow-up to the first-ever Islamic Fintech book by the author (published in 2018) that provided linkages between Islamic Finance and disruptive technologies like the blockchain. In the wake of fintech as a new trend in financial markets, the ground-breaking book stressed the relevance of Islamic finance and its implications, when enabled by fintech, towards the development of the Islamic digital economy. While the earlier work discussed the crucial innovation, structural, and institutional development for financial technologies in Islamic Finance, this new research explores the multiple applications possible in the various sectors of the economy, within and beyond finance, that can be significantly transformed. These revolutionary applications involve the integration of AI, blockchain, data analytics, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices for a holistic solution to tackle the bottlenecks and other issues in existing processes of traditional systems. The principles of accountability, duty, justice, and transparency are the foundation of shaping the framework in achieving good governance in all institutions — public or private, Islamic or otherwise. Technologies like AI, blockchain, and IoT devices can operationalize the transparency and accountability that is required to eradicate poverty, distribute wealth, enhance micro-, small- and large-scale initiatives for social and economic development, and thus share prosperity for a moral system that enables a more secure and sustainable economy.

Islamic Law of Divorce

The objective of this book is to set out the basic rules of the Islamic Law of Divorce in a clear, concise and simple manner. Accordingly, technical terminology has been avoided from the body of the text wherever possible to facilitate understanding and easy reference.It is hoped that this work dispels some of the doubts that have arisen in regard to the law of divorce, and stimulate further research into this interesting field of Law.The second edition of this book incorporates further articles that were written by the author since publication of the first edition in 1983.My sincere thanks to all those who gave me valuable advice in the preparation of the text. Of particular mention are my colleagues DAWOOD KADWA and SHABBIR BANOOBHAI.May the Almighty accept this humble endeavour and render it a source of benefit to all.Mahomed Shoaib Omar

Risk Management in Islamic Financial Institutions

Islamic finance (Capital Markets, Banking and Insurance) has emerged from a niche financial market to the mainstream of finance. The geographic market, clientele served, products base and volume of funds have grown significantly. Furthermore, the players have increased and now include not only pure Islamic institutions but also hybrid players (conventional bank with Islamic Finance windows). Therefore, not understanding the unique risks of the Islamic Finance model (risk sharing and risk pooling) can cause a failure of the model igniting a financial crises with a ripple effect on the Islamic faith. Hence, managing these unique risks is extremely important.

Fiqh Made Easy

Cleanliness is half of imaan, and prayer is what makes a Muslim. This book offers a comprehensive look at both topics - salah and tahara - in a way that's easy for anyone to understand. Learn the strongest opinions for all matters related to worship and purification, while also getting an overview of related rulings from all four Islamic schools of thought. From the basics of prayer, to the steps of wudhu, to the more complex questions of ghusul and combining prayers, Fiqh Made Easy is full of must-know knowledge for any Muslim who wants to perfect his/her worship of Allah.

Modernity and the General Philosophy of

The general philosophy of Islamic law: This book primarily addresses three salient questions. What is the general philosophy of Islamic law: Maqāsid al-Shari'ah? Why do we need the doctrines of the general philosophy of Islamic law today? How do we apply the doctrines of the general philosophy of Islamic law in this modern world? The basic argument of this book is that dramatic social changes are taking place around us in this digital world. So, to relate Islamic teaching into this modern global world, we need not only a comprehensive reading of the divine text, but also, a comprehensive understanding of the contexts of this modern world. We could no longer adhere to the literal interpretation of divine texts in this modern world on certain aspects of Islamic teaching. Neither classical Islamic thought nor the literal legal schools provide ready-made answers for the problems of modern Islamic world. This does not mean we must abandon the divine text as some radical Muslim secularists claim. This does not mean we should ignore 1400 years of intellectual legacies in Islamic history. There is nothing wrong with the divine texts of the Qur'an and the prophetic traditions. Nevertheless, human understanding to the divine texts differ from century to century, place to place and person to person. For the last 14 centuries, different Muslim communities have been reading the corpus of Islamic law differently within their own social contexts. There is no uniformity in human understanding of divine texts. They are prone to different human interpretation for various reasons. The corpus of Islamic law we have today are the collections of the 1400 hundred years of the Islamic legal interpretation of different times and social contexts. Today, to choose some appropriate legal ideas from the 1400 hundred years of Islamic legacy we should have not only a thorough knowledge of Islamic sciences, but we should also contextual understanding of the divine texts. We should know how to relate the divine texts appropriately to the modern social conditions. The principles of the general philosophy of Islamic law are contrived to facilitate the application of the divine texts into different contexts without diluting the primary values of the divine texts. It is argued by many Muslim scholars that the Muslim communities are suffering from intellectual and ideological crises presently. This is reflected in the socio-political and religious thought of the contemporary Muslim communities Today; Islamic universities and colleges are producing thousands Muslim graduates in many Muslim countries. Most of these graduates are trained and educated in Islamic sciences alone without enough professional training and learning in modern sciences. As a result of this, many of them find it difficult to relate what they learn to the modern social issues. It is my firm contention in this book that the Muslim jurists must learn many modern sciences such as politics, geopolitics, economics, phycology, sociology, history, science, and many other areas of human sciences so that they could address the modern social issues that the Muslim community faces today. Otherwise, they would not be able to relate what they learn in Arabic college into modern social conditions. Therefore, I would argue that learning modern sciences is a prerequisite for the students of Islam to become jurists or scholar in Islam. It is also my conviction that many radical Muslim groups do not know how to relate many aspects of Islamic teachings into modern geopolitical and social conditions. They come into some erroneous conclusions in many religious issues. Because, they take the literal meanings of the divine texts and prophetic traditions without due consideration into the modern social conditions of this global world.

Global Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Paths in Islamic Education

The process of curriculum enhancement through various educational approaches aims to enhance quality assurance in the educational process itself. In Islamic education, traditional educational trends are enhanced by expanding the embodiment process on experiential learning to evaluate the achievement in creating outcomes that balance not only spirituality and morality but also quality of cognitive analytical performances. Global Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Paths in Islamic Education is a comprehensive scholarly book that provides broad coverage on integrating emerging trends and technologies for developing learning paths within Islamic education. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as digital ethics, psychology, and vocational education, this book is ideal for instructors, administrators, principals, curriculum designers, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

Blockchain, Fintech, and Islamic Finance

While creating new forms (Shari'ah-compliant standards) to operationalize Islamic values and ethics into the current conventional economic system and banking products is crucial to sustain the Islamic economy as it is today, we also need to develop new strategies to cope with the next economic evolution. The digital revolution in financial services is under way, and digital disruption has the potential to shrink the role and relevance of today’s banks, while simultaneously creating better, faster, cheaper services that will be an essential part of everyday life. This forward-looking book discusses the crucial innovation, structural and institutional development for financial technologies (fintech) in Islamic finance. The authors explain concepts in fintech and blockchain technology and follow through with their applications, challenges and evolving nature. The book provides insights into technology which will enable and enhance actual prescribed Islamic behaviors in modern economic transactions. Case studies highlight how to cope with modern transactional behavior with the advent of global online/mobile markets, shorter attention spans, and impersonal trade exchange.

The Koran (Al-Qur'an)

This Arabic / English side-by-side translation of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) brings together one of the best known translations in the English language - Maulana Muhammad Ali's classic text, juxtaposed with the original Arabic Koran. Mohamed A. 'Arafa, Ph.D. introduces the Koran with a detailed overview of Islam, Islamic law (the Shari'a) and the beliefs of Muslims. His Introduction examines Islam as a religion as well as current issues that Muslims face, practical and policy considerations in addressing terrorism and Islamic law as a positive legal system and a divine legal system. After careful examination, Maulana Muhammad Ali's translation was selected due to its careful fidelity in accurately conveying the meanings of the Arabic while maintaining fluidity in the English. The Arabic text contains all diacritical marks to aid students to master pronunciation in Koran recitation. Mohamed A. 'Arafa (Ph.D., Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law; LL.M., University of Connecticut School of Law; LL.B., Alexandria University School of Law) is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law (Egypt); Adjunct Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (USA); a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Brasília School of Law (Brazil); and a Visiting Professor/Scholar at Cornell University School of Law in New York. He serves as Managing Editor of the Arab Law Quarterly in London.

Islamic Wealth Management

From an Islamic perspective, although the ownership of wealth is with God, humans are gifted with wealth to manage it with the objective of benefiting the human society. Such guidance means that wealth management is a process involving the accumulation, generation, purification, preservation and distribution of wealth, all to be conducted carefully in permissible ways. This book is the first to lay out a coherent framework on how wealth management should be conducted in compliance with guiding principles from edicts of a major world religion.

Islam And Peacebuilding In The Asia-pacific

Islam and Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique backdrop of how native or migrant Muslims interact with communities of other faiths have led to the contemporary treatment of Islam and the Muslim communities in these nations. This book is based on the theme of Islam's presence and development in the Asia-Pacific region, and the concerns faced by Muslims in the region. Section 1 details the current status of peace or conflict between Muslims and practitioners of other faiths in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines, and the role of Muslim institutions in promoting peace in each nation. Section 2 features how Muslims living in cosmopolitan areas such as Australia, Indonesia and Japan engage with people of other faiths. Lastly, Section 3 explores the concerns with the interaction of the religion, state and society in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. A unique collection of the history of Islam in the region, Islam and Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific seeks to provide valuable insight for the global policy community by offering a comprehensive treatment of the issues highlighted.

History and Development of the Arabic Language

History and Development of the Arabic Language is a general introduction for students to the history of the Arabic language. It is divided into two parts; the pre-Islamic language up to the emergence of the first well-known works of Classical Arabic. Secondly, the transition from the pre-Islamic situation to the complex Arabic language forms after the emergence of Islam and the Arab conquests, both in Arabia and in the diaspora. The book focuses on the pre-Islamic linguistic situation, where the linguistic geography and relevant demographic aspects of pre-Islamic Arabia will be introduced. In addition, the book will also discuss the communicative contexts and varieties of Modern Arabic. The book includes readings, discussion questions and data sets to provide a complete textbook and resource for teachers and students of the history of Arabic.