The present situation in MENA region represents a challenge to our ability for rethinking the reasons and factors of failure in building an effective regional system, not only due to the new challenges and issues such as the role of superpowers and the crucial division among the regional states, but also due to the fact that the obstacles to cooper

Rapid growth of Islamic finance in general and Sharī`ah compliant stocks in particular arises the question whether Islamic funds/stocks have a better performance or there is no significant difference with the performance of conventional counterparts. This study has twofold objectives, firstly to compare the performance of Islamic and conventional

ماهي بواعث التشكّل الإقليمي؟ وكيف يختلف مفهوم الإقليمية عن الإقليمية الجديدة؟ إنّ الاهتمام المعاصر بالتكتل الإقليمي أو ما يطلق عليه بـالإقليميّة الجديدة - New Regionalism يشكّل بلا شكّ إحدى الاتجاه

Oriental scholars discuss the concept of corporate personality without any reference to Islamic law. A leading proponent of this view is Joseph Schacht; a western scholar of jurisprudence who contended that Islamic jurisprudence is limited to individual personality and devoid of corporate laws, hence, contractual agreements between corporations has

This study aims to highlight the potential role of physicians and healthcare providers in promoting health within the community, especially using preventive medicine. Preventive medicine is defined as practices used to prevent diseases. Doctors have a unique place within the community based on respect and trust. Most often, doctors think of patient

The employment of persuasive technology in education, computing, sales, health, and environment is dramatically increasing. Persuasive technology is powerful in changing the attitudes and behaviours of end users. This paper begins by presenting the ethics of persuasive technology which are relevant to Islamic values and beliefs, and how the concept

Abstract This article discusses the waqf applications on the inheritance of women in Reguiba District of Algeria and aims to reveal the status of women in the society of Reguiba. In Reguiba, the application of endowment of inheritance is only given to males; females are excluded unjustly. There is a need of correcting this corrupt custom according

Internet of Things (IoT) tends to be the next nd expects to deployed small co devices wherever and whenever, and thus such devices often are constrained in processor, memory, and energy. These devices known as sensor nodes which connected with each other to form a network of different nodes. As a matter of fact, routing the data in such environment

This paper proposes a hybrid particle swarm optimization with the fast-simulated annealing (PSO-FSA). The proposed algorithm is meant to solve high dimensional optimization problems based on two strategies, which are utilizing the particle swarm optimization to define the global search area and utilizing the fast-simulated annealing to refine the v

This paper seeks to provide a preliminary profile analysis of investors of Islamic funds based on their underlying motivation to invest, which at present received little interest in the literature. The experience of faith-based and socially responsible investment clearly reveals the heterogeneity of investors with divergent investment motives, and