This article aims to focus on legal maxims related to financial transactions to explore whether they offer any solutions for Muslims concerned with this dilemma, and to investigate how such legal maxims can be used to shape the way in which Muslims in the West perceive today’s mortgage issues. Some questions raised are the following. When enterin

Leaps and bounds have been made in areas related to river basin management on a global scale, in line with vari- ous technological advances of the 21st century. We review six emerging trends related to water science, research and management. One of the main issues, which have come under the close scrutiny of the W&RBM SG, is international trans

Leaps and bounds have been made in areas related to river basin management on a global scale, inline with various technological advances of the 21st century. This chapter reviews 6 emerging trends related to water science, research and management.Global Trends and Challenges in Water Science, Research and Management Leaps and bounds have been made

BACKGROUND: Sea cucumber (Stichopus vastus) is considered an underutilized resource, since only its stomach and intestines are eaten raw as salad in a few countries and the remaining parts, especially the integument rich in collagen, is discarded.Hence a valuable by-product having potential nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications is wasted. I

Malaysia being a unique capital market, practices dual banking system to capture the disaggregation of conventional and Islamic banking systems. However, like most financial institutions, no bank is isolated from security threats, even if, it comes from within the organization. Thus the objective of this study is to examine bank managers’ experie

The Malaysian night market is commonly regarded as an informal and temporary place where people can buy goods and food at affordable prices. Recent studies acknowledge the contributions of night market to the informal economy, as well as towards keeping local culture alive. Through examining Lorong Tuanku Abdul Rahman (Lorong TAR) night market in K

This study aims to identify problem faced by students in learning and understanding Arabic language. The problem encompass students relationships, attitudes and their interests towards learning the Arabic language. In addition, the study also aims to determine to what extent the role teachers and other contributing factor that could have inadverten

The aim of this study is to analyse font type, font size and line length preferred by Arabic language learners when reading on-screen. Studies done on other languages, especially those using Roman scripts, have shown that font size and type affect ease of reading. In this study, Arabic language learners were asked to identify e-books that were easy

8 names of scholars are listed in chapter 5: Mohd Nor Ibrahim, Mohamd Nasir, Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, Ahmad Ibrahim, Yasin al-Fadani, Aminuddin Baki, S.Osman Kelantan, and Mahmud Saedon Awang Osman.

Water Quality Modeling (WQM) is an integral part of watershed management in Malaysia as well as many other countries in the world. They are employed for various purposes, such as impact assessment due to development, river rehabilitation studies as well as non-point source pollution characterization. This book does not aim to discuss the underlying