List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge Part I: Values, Structure, and Variation in the Muslim Family 1. Islamic Values among American Muslims Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith 2. Immigrant Palestinian Women Evaluate Their Lives Louise Cainkar 3. Turkish-Americ...
Mohammad Imtiaz Hossain, Kalai Selvi A P Yagamaran, Tanzila Afrin, Nasimuzzaman Limon et al.
The graduate unemployment rate is one of the current issues being discussed by higher education scholars. College and university students often face unemployment after spending their valuable time and money in order to receive educational advantages. It makes them are more vulnerable to unfavourable...
Nazamul Hoque, Abdullahil Mamun, Abdullah Mohammad Ahshanul Mamun
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop traits and model of entrepreneurship development from Islamic point of view. Design/methodology/approach – The study is descriptive, in so far as its goal is to describe a method, and the nature of the paper is conceptual. The study draws on secondar...
Sudipta Roy, Samia Huq, Aisha Binte Abdur Rob
Relationships between religious beliefs, institutions, educational strategies, and delivery pose practical challenges for policy makers in all countries. They have particular significance today in Bangladesh given the national and regional developments that shine light on religious roles within nati...
Nahid Afrose Kabir
In Britain's highly politicised social climate in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings, this book provides an in-depth understanding of British Muslim identity through social constructs — migration history, family settlement, socio-economic status, religion and culture, and the wider societal en...
Ali Mas’ud, Ah. Zaki Fuad, Achmad Zaini
Islamic education in Indonesia and Malaysia stemmed from the very same origin, pondok pesantren . However, they went different ways due to several drives. As madrasah transformed some forms of pondok pesantren , colonial and political context has shaped Islamic education in Indonesia and Malaysia. I...
List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Islam and Politics Shahram Akbarzadeh and Abdullah Saeed 2. The official ulema and religious legitimacy of the modern nation state Abdullah Saeed 3. Saudi Arabia: Re-reading politics and religion in the wake of September 11 Larbi Sadiki 4. The politics of ref...
Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Mohd Izham Mohd Hamzah, T. Subahan Mohd Meerah, Mizan Rahman
In a world of global market competition, the secondary level education has become a part of basic education. Secondary schools are vested with the responsibility of imparting knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for individuals to fit into society and be able to contribute fruitfully to its dev...
Leif Manger
The term 'local Islam' has been coined to describe local responses to the effects of globalisation in the Islamic world. All contributions to this volume present cases of 'local Islam' as well as discussing the term itself. But what all of this group of anthropologists and historians convey is a fee...
K. M. Anwarul Islam, Md. Rezaul Karim Miajee
The point of this paper was "Morals—The Islamic Perspective" is to pre-sent the moral strategy for directors from an Islamic viewpoint.In the advanced world, the western/contemporary school of thought presents different ideas to cover business morals that don't really apply to qualities, ethics, and...
Syed Mohammad Ather, Farid Ahammad Sobhani
Islam is the guide to eradicate all problems in our social life. Allah (Swt) has addressed the believers as Ummah, which implies the necessity of leadership in Islam. Allah says to his Prophet Mohammad (Sm) "...I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favor upon you, and have chosen for ...
Akbar S. Ahmed
Part 1 Introduction: raising questions - Islam and the west locating the key to unlock Muslim society misunderstanding Muslims questions for our age. Part 2 What is Islam? the messenger - the prophet of Islam the message - the holy Quran Sunni and Shia divisions in Islam. Part 3 The challenge of the...
Joe Devine, Timothy Hinks, Arif Naveed
Research into the relation between religion and happiness offers inconclusive evidence. Religion seems to matter but it is not entirely clear how and why. Moreover much of the research to date is rooted in western experiences. This article analyzes primary data from Bangladesh to examine how religio...
Md. Aftab Anwar, Aahad M. Osman Gani, Muhammad Sabbir Rahman
Purpose The aim of this study is to develop a spiritual intelligence scale from an Islamic perspective. In addition, this research explores the relationship of spiritual intelligence from an Islamic perspective with emotional intelligence among the students of higher learning institutions in Malaysi...
Robin Wright
Islam and Liberal DemocracyTwo Visions Of Reformation Robin Wright (bio) Of all the challenges facing democracy in the 1990s, one of the greatest lies in the Islamic world. Only a handful of the more than four dozen predominantly Muslim countries have made significant strides toward establishing dem...