Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Curriculum and Instruction -- IIUM Summary: This research sought to explore the factors behind student motivation in the memorization of the Quran as well as to investigate the challenges which hindered student motivation while memorizing the Quran. It also examined how students overcome thes

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Curriculum and Instruction -- IIUM Summary: The current study aimed to explore the effects of 'Community of Inquiry' (COI) pedagogy on ESL learners' writing skill following Fascione's six core critical thinking skills of: interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explan

Subject(s): City and town life -- Malaysia Kuala Lumpur | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Urban and Regional Planning -- IIUM Summary: Where we live influences our lives and, thus, our quality of lives. Therefore, urban environments should be designed as places with the best quality of life – those with the least preventable daily ob

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: In academic writing, the acknowledgment section is considered as a rhetorical section that is obligatory. Thus, it could be considered as a part of academic writing even though it seems a personal piece of writing. Compared to other sections li

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Business Administration -- IIUM Summary: The Islamic banking system is growing and gaining customers' acceptance from all over the world. Many international conventional banks have started to open branches which operate in accordance with the Islamic Shari'ah principles mostly in Isla

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Accounting -- IIUM Summary: Timeliness is an essential characteristic of financial reporting to promote investors' confidence in the capital market and to enable them to make decisions. The delay in releasing the annual financial report, which is highly influenced by the length of the aud

Subject(s): Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: People in the Muslim world are trying to politically transform tyranny to freedom, and arbitration of dictatorship to return to the Islamic Constitution. Due to this, a lo

Subject(s): Federation of Muslim Women's Associations in Nigeria | Muslim women -- Nigeria | Feminism -- Nigeria | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Political Science -- IIUM Summary: The Federation of Muslim Women Association in Nigeria (FOMWAN) is one of the non-governmental organizations with a specific focus on women issues in Ni

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: The relationship between mathematical sciences and music was first established by the Greek philosophers. The Abbasids unveiled this divine secret and helped to preserve it through their aggressive translation of Greek science into

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Curriculum and Instruction -- IIUM Summary: Despite the importance and increasing need for quality teaching methods and their positive impact on Islamic studies students of today, there is a perception that Islamic studies teachers are still using traditional teaching approaches to teach Isla