Modernity has been posing serious challenges to the Muslim world and its society since the eighteenth century. However, these challenges took on a more definite shape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The challenges were complex and covered all facets of Muslim life. This paper tries to explore how Muslims can respond effectively to

The concept of self is the most important views to be discussed because it is the central idea of Iqbal’s philosophy on which the rest of his thought-structure is based. For Iqbal, understanding the nature of the self is essential for an understanding of the nature of society and the principle of its growth. Self, according to Iqbal, is an active

Veil architecture applied in Traditional Iranian Courtyard appears to have a reflection of the Islamic values and components of Islamic architecture. This paper will explore how does veil archltecture is interrelated with the Islamic values to build up an ideal Muslim house, without disregarding the climate, religion, social, culture, political and

The Malays and their culture are entwined in every aspect of their lives from birth till death. From the pre-Islamic days to gradual Islamic intervention through trading and missionary quests, the culture assimilated left marks in their built environment implicitly and explicitly. Through literature review and observations, this article thence desc

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Muslim countries were occupied by Western powers that came across the local Muslim culture and traditions. Under the impact of imperialism, Western culture crept into the world of Islam. The Muslim world at that time was thrown into great crisis caused by the conflict between conservatism and modernism. Th

Modernity has been posing serious challenges to the Muslim world and its society since the eighteenth century. However, these challenges took on more definite shape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The challenges were complex and covered all facets of Muslim life. This paper tries to explore how Muslims can respond effectively to th

تناولت هذه الدراسة طرق تعليم مهارة المحادثة لغير الناطقين بالعربية في ضوء المعاصرة، فبيّنت الدراسة مفهوم هذه المهارة لغويًّا واصطلاحيًّا، ومراحل تعليمها؛ ثم تناولت أهميتها في برامج تعليم ال

Solar power is an alternative technology that will hopefully leads us away from petroleum dependant energy sources. The main issue regarding conventional solar panel is about its efficiencies of power absorption. Researches had been conducted and found out that the maximum power absorption happen when the panel is normal to the solar rays [1]. To o

Solar energy is the least polluting and most inexhaustible of all known energy sources. The sun bathers the earth with more energy each minute then the world consumes in one year. In Malaysia, the sun intensity does not vary with season. It is a suitable place to develop the solar cell system. To make solar energy more efficient, the solar panel sy

Uncontrolled urbanization and growing industrialization are major sources of pollutants that affect the urban stormwater quality and, therefore, the receiving aquatic environment. The concentrations of heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, and Zn), and Pb isotope ratios in surface sediment samples obtained from SMART holding and storage ponds l