This study aims to investigate the attitudes of non-Arabic students towards reading short stories in Arabic at universities in Malaysia, with a focus on three variables: the students’ university, gender, and mother tongue. A mixed-methods approach was employed, using a questionnaire and semi-structured focus group discussion with 58 participants.

Venture capital is commonly defined as medium to long-term equity investment provided for unlisted companies to finance their start up, expansion, survival and change of ownership. The origin of which was traced back to mudharabah; which is commonly translated to Islamic limited partnership. The application of venture capital seems to be abandoned

This paper will investigate the problem faced new Chinese Muslim (convert Muslim). As we know issues involving the converts Muslim are varied and sophisticated. Among them are the challenges of understanding Islam as a faith, welfare and psychological pressure from their family, house and society in addition as psychological pressure to adapt to th

Maldives is a hundred per cent Muslim country that lies in the heart of the Indian Ocean. It has a unique geography consisted on 1,190 islands forming 26 natural atolls spreading over 900 square kilometer. The population of the country is just around 300,000. Maldives is ranked 100 out of 178 countries on the Human Development Index, and is classif

ABSTRACT The blueprint for the establishment of SharÊÑah commercial court in judicial system that addresses legal issues related to Islamic banking and takaful has been included in the Financial Sector Master Plan 2001-2010. The judicial and legal department has taken proactive steps by establishing a special division under the civil court to dea

Establishing the psychometric properties of a measurement tool is paramount in order to determine the validity of any study results. The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS)-21 has preliminary evidence of a good tool in Malaysia. This study among a very big sample size would further strengthen this evidence. Objectives: To validate the DASS-21 Ma

Introduction: The Malay version of Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21-item (M-DASS-21) has been tested in various populations in Malaysia. We are interested to look at the psychometric properties of the M-DASS-21 among Non-Malays in Malaysia. Objectives: This study aimed to analyse its psychometric values among non-Malays based on a big sample size

Islamic banking is a concept which has proven itself to the world. Malaysia is considered as the cranium of Islamic banking and the rest of the world take lessons from Malaysia. The reason for this maybe because Malaysia is the first nation in the world to develop a sophisticated and a systematic legal infrastructure to welcome, develop and sustain

Asymmetric breast tissue has been reported to be depicted on 3% of mammograms and is nearly always benign. Asymmetric breast might be due to a normal variation, postoperative changes or hormonal replacement therapy. However, it may also indicate an underlying breast cancer, especially with a focal asymmetric density that corresponds to a palpable l

SOP yang dijalankan telah memberikan pelbagai kesan khususnya kepada perkembangan masjid dan jamaah sekitarnya. Pertama, jumlah kehadiran bagi solat jamaah berkurangan dan merisaukan. Masjid merupakan suatu institusi agama yang menjadi teras kepada perpaduan ummah. Semenjak SOP dikenakan, masjid menjadi suram meskipun SOP telahpun dilonggarkan sedi