Abstract: Khilāfah has been a symbol of the Muslim political system and Islamic politics has often been identified as Khilāfah in the same structure it took form in the past. This study argues that Muslims exhausted their energy on political discourse at the expense of other factors which are important for preparing the ground for political matur

Species diversity has been the hallmark of biosphere and invaluable resource for human being as well as for the natural environment. In order to appreciate and conserve these diverse species, different values have been proffered from different frames of references . This study examines biological diversity from the Qur’anic perspective in an atte

This study inquires into the value system associated with two epistemological conceptual schemes of the Qur’ān, namely, āyah (sign) and ḥikmah (wisdom). In many respects, the rapid accumulation of all types of knowledge and the progress in the predominantly secular science and technology of modern times have marginalised values from scientifi

This study inquires into the value system associated with two epistemological conceptual schemes of the Qur’ān, i.e., āyah (sign) and ḥikmah (wisdom). The claim that knowledge is neutral and that it is the person or society that decides its function has helped dissociate academic endeavours from social and religious values. In many respects,

During the centralization of the Turkish Empire had reached its peak in fifteen and sixteen (XV-XVI) centuries, Ottoman art in Albania was very similar of that in Skopje or Edirne. On the other hand in the seventeenth (XVII) centu- ry, when the influence of the central Ottoman government slowly declined; the local contribution to Islamic buildings

Islam predated Christianity in Yorubaland in south-western Nigeria. Early Muslim preachers engaged in the cultural Islamisation of the followers of the Yoruba traditional religion as early as the Fourteenth Century. Christianity was introduced to Yorubaland some five centuries later in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. In their engagement w

This paper discusses several social and religious aspects of the housing planning and development in Madinah during the Prophet Muhammad’s era. The paper focuses on the housing area that surrounded the Prophet’s mosque which, in turn, functioned as a community development center. The paper concludes that housing played a significant role in dev

With the advent of Islam as a religion in Albania, Islamic architecture was developed in parallel with the events during that time. In the period when the centralization of the Turkish Empire had reached its peak, during fifteen and sixteen (XV-XVI) centuries, Ottoman art in Albania was very significant in religious buildings. The Islamic Architect

This paper presents Islamic architecture through its essence, by grasping its characteristics and the depth of its philosophy for shaping Contemporary Islamic Composition. It focuses on two issues: The unchangeable combination of the essence of Islamic Architecture. Secondly, the issue of addressing the question of how to shape a contemporary desig

Prediction of unsteady aerodynamic loads is still the most challenging tasks in flutter aeroelastic analysis. Generally, the numerical estimation of steady and unsteady aerodynamics of thin lifting surface is conducted based on an integral equation relating aerodynamic pressure and normal wash velocity. The present work attempts to increase the acc