Clare Grace, R Begum, S. Subhani, P Kopelman et al.
OBJECTIVE: To understand lay beliefs and attitudes, religious teachings, and professional perceptions in relation to diabetes prevention in the Bangladeshi community. DESIGN: Qualitative study (focus groups and semistructured interviews). SETTING: Tower Hamlets, a socioeconomically deprived London b...
Abu Umar Faruq Ahmad, M. Kabir Hassan
Abstract This article examines current legal and regulatory issues of Islamic banking in Bangladesh. The most important issue in this context is the lack of a well‐defined regulatory and supervisory framework for Islamic banks for their effective functioning in line with the tenets of Shariah. Other...
Abida Sultana, Rachit Sharma, Md Mahbub Hossain, Sudip Bhattacharya et al.
Burnout is a major occupational problem among healthcare providers, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. The frontline health workforce is experiencing a high workload and multiple psychosocial stressors which may affect their mental and emotional health, leading to burnout symptoms. Moreover, s...
Ataur Rahman Belal, Omneya Abdelsalam, Sardar S. Nizamee
Habib Ahmed
The severity of the current financial crisis has shaken the foundations of the capitalist financial system and has led to the search for ideas and solutions. This paper identifies the failure of risk mitigation at different levels as the main cause of the crisis. While following the principles of Is...
Abdul Rahim, Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman
IntroductionMicrofinance means "programme that extend small loans to very poor people for self employment projects that generate income in allowing them to take care of themselves and their families" (Microcredit Summit, 1997).The World Bank has recognized microfinance programme as an approach to ad...
Leela Dube
<p>This is the first sustained effort to compare South and South-East Asia in respect of the situation of women. Arguing that kinship systems provide an important context in which gender relations are located, the study overlooks at three types of kinship system, found in their carious forms i...
Nancy J. Davis, Robert V. Robinson
The authors test two theories linking religion and economic beliefs in predominantly Muslim nations using data from national surveys of Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Moral Cosmology theory posits that because the religiously orthodox are theologically com...
Jonas Preposi Cruz, Paolo C. Colet, Nahed Alquwez, Ergie P. Inocian et al.
INTRODUCTION: Patients undergoing haemodialysis (HD) are frequently troubled by psychiatric disorders and coping problems, which can pose a serious threat to their physical and mental well-being. Using religious and spiritual interventions as a means of coping with physical and mental challenges is ...
Pnina Werbner, Helene Basu
The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite bank...
Sylvia Chant
<b>Background:</b> To develop an effective countermeasure and determine our susceptibilities to the outbreak of COVID-19 is challenging for a densely populated developing country like Bangladesh and a systematic review of the disease on a continuous basis is necessary. <b>Methods:</b> Publicly avail...
Farzana Shain
Challenging western misconceptions and stereoptypes of young Asian girls, this book through the analysis of Asian girls experiences reassesses the role that schooling can play in shaping their identities. It draws on an empirical study with Muslim, Hindu and Sikh schoolgirls of Pakistani, Indian and...
Eklabya Sharma, David Molden, Atiq Rahman, Yuba Raj Khatiwada et al.
Mountains are large landforms raised above the surface of the earth emerging into peaks and ranges. Mountains occupy 22% of the world’s land surface area and are home to about 13% of the world’s population (FAO 2015). While about 915 million people live in mountainous region, less than 150 million p...
Taslima Julia, Salina Kassim
Purpose Environmental degradation has been identified as one of the major impediments for development in Bangladesh. The World Health Organization has ranked Bangladesh fourth among the most polluted countries in the world. Faced with this challenge, the Government of Bangladesh introduced the Green...
Charlotte Vrinten, Jane Wardle, Laura A.V. Marlow
BACKGROUND: Cancer fear and fatalism are believed to be higher in ethnic minorities and may contribute to lower engagement with cancer prevention and early detection. We explored the levels of cancer fear and fatalism in six ethnic groups in the United Kingdom and examined the contribution of accult...