This case discusses the issues that arose during the change process in a Kuala Lumpur based Retakaful company, ACR Retakaful Berhad. The chain of catastrophic events in Asia during the years 2010 and 2011 had raised a huge number of claims against the company which went into financial difficulties. The company had no option but to change. A new CEO

Objective To determine the optimal cut-offs of BMI for Malaysian adults. Design Population-based, cross-sectional study. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to determine the cut-off values of BMI with optimum sensitivity and specificity for the detection of three cardiovascular risk factors: diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperc

This research tries to investigate bilateral relationship between the two sister countries in terms of economic cooperation. Although Turk-Malay relations goes back to the 13th century and have great deal of relationship in terms of cultural, political and social, the current economic cooperation is not the desired level. We emphasize that Turkey a

The idea for this work originally goes to back a few years to a critical comment made by an acquaintance with we were conversing on the developments in the area of management from Islamic perspectives. He asked, rather raised, a pointed question: do we have an example of an organization in reality that is run according to Islamic principles? we did

Corporate governance issue emerged with the birth of the corporations. Similarly, the need for Shari’ah corporate governance is given attention by the regulators, industrial players, Shari’ah advisors and researchers with the bloom of Islamic finance. There are limited literature and Shari’ah governance guidelines available for Islamic financ

Since the last few decades, Islamic finance industry has developed tremendously penetrating not only the Muslim countries but surprisingly the non-Muslim countries as well. It has been acknowledged by the scholars on the need for this development to cater for the Islamic banking, Takaful and Islamic capital market industries. These three main indus

Afrika kıtasında beklenilmedik gelişmeler oluyor. Mali sudan sebeplerle işgal ediliyor. Açgözlülerin hırslarını tatmin etmeleri için hiç bir neden ve sebep olmasına bile gerek yok zaten. Tarihte bunun yüzlerce örneğini biliyoruz. Daha önceki işgallerin kan donduran sonuçlarını hep birlikte istemeyerek de olsa seyrettik. Tarih k

Organized by the Standards and Metrology Institute for Islamic Countries (SMIIC), a subsidiary organ of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), this forum was held on November 6-9, 2012, at Turkey’s Cornelia De Luxe Resort in Belek. The 160 delegates, who came from thirty-five countries, represented the National Standardisation Bodies (NSB

The 2nd International Conference on Islamic Economics and Economies of the OIC countries (ICIE 2013) was convened in Kuala Lumpur, 29-30 January 2013. It was jointly organised by the Department of Economics (College of Economics and Management Sciences) of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), the Malaysian Ministry of Finance and t

Issue of the corporate governance has emerged with the birth of the corporation. However, it became an attractive issue due to the financial crisis. Similarly, the issue of Shari’ah compliance in Islamic finance is given the attention when the Islamic finance industry arose. Therefore, renowned international organizations such as Accounting, Audi