University-community engagement (UCE) activities may be side-lined by academics due to the greater emphasis given to research, publication and teaching in promotion and yearly appraisal. Thus, communities close to a university may not receive any benefits from the existence of a university in their larger neighbourhood. UCE is described by Carnegie

As society continued to develop, it naturally transformed itself into a more complex one, making the study of it equally more challenging. Human and social sciences in particular grew out of this particular circumstance. Triggered by continuous changes, human collectivity grew from what was once a single human society into human societies which bec

Work ethics are essential in organisations not only because they are used to guide employees to behave ethically, but they could also affect employees’ performance and efficiency. This reality necessitates a clear and effective strategy for implementation of workplace ethics policies in general and Islamic work ethics in particular. However, litt

In Islamic Law an-nikah is a civil contract. Thus, to fulfil a valid contract all the requisites (arkan an-nikah) should be fulfilled. Majority of Islamic jurists opined guardian (wali) is one of the pillar determining the validity of marriage. Nevertheless, the Hanafi sect view it as a mere condition for a marriage. In Pakistan, a precedent has be

Purpose – This study aims to validate a potential synergistic venture between cash waqf (Islamic endowment) institutions (CWIs) and financial cooperatives (FCs) in the provision of affordable Islamic home financing (IHF) in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopted semi-structured interviews with ten experts to validate the cash

Evidences show rising trend of household debt especially among young Muslims in Malaysia. The literature has cited several reasons for this which covers macroeconomic, socioeconomic, cultural, psychological and demographic factors. Among all determinants, materialism and religiosity deficit seem to be the least researched factors. Studies argue tha

The present society has been sculpted into a continuous data generator. In fact, the massive automatic data collection has generated a new genre of dataset, termed as ‘highdimensional data’, which is characterized by a relatively small number of rows, in comparison to that of large number of columns (or dimensions). Among the vast data mining t

Saraf or Morphology is one of the branches of knowledge in Arabic Linguistic. Towards Technology 4.0 or known as Fourth Industrial Revolutions, the Internet of Things, the researcher believes that, learning Arabic morphology through the design of a computer assisted program by using multimedia via the World Wide Web would greatly help student in le

3D reconstruction from images has undergone a massive revolution in recent years. Despite this rapid development, progress in Malaysia pertaining to digital heritage is rather slow. Documentation of 3D cultural assets is still very much reliant upon conventional techniques such as measured drawings and manual photogrammetry. There is very little pr

Abstract as a summary of a dissertation harbours important information where it serves to attract readers to consider reading the entire passage or to abandon it. This study seeks to investigate the backward translation of abstracts made by 10 randomly selected postgraduate students. This research serves as a guideline for students in composing the