This paper seeks to study the methodology of Ibn Hazm, a classical Andalusian Muslim theologian and jurist from the eleventh-century C.E. (Christ Era), in the field of comparative religion with special reference to his master piece entitled al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa’ wa al-Nihal - the Decisive Word on Sects, Heterodoxies, and Denominations.

Effective and safe management of large crowds during Hajj are vital as the statistics of pilgrims or hujjaj are reaching four million per season in the coming years. Capturing the underlying psychological and social factors affecting this crowd type before the Hajj season could yield efficient safety practices, evacuation simulations, and injury pr

The thrust of this paper is to analyze Ismail Raji al-Faruqi’s thoughts on inter-religious dialogue activities between Muslims and others. It discusses al-Faruqi’s thought on DÊn al-FiÏrah (Primordial religion), as a spiritual basis to nurture inter-religious dialogue and beyond between Muslims and others in general and the People of the Book

Apostasy in Arabic word is referred to Riddah or Irtidad; which means “to retreat, to retire, to withdraw from or fall back from . Thus, In Islamic Law it is declared that apostasy is going away from Islam or leaving Religion of Islam to another religion or ism which is not acceptable by Allah. However, if someone changes his religion from Judais

The last decade has witnessed an increasing research trend on foreign language reading anxiety as a skill related to but distinct from foreign language anxiety. However, sources of foreign language reading anxiety have rarely been investigated. Thus, the current study responds to the study by (Saito, Horwitz, & Garza, 1999) and extends the work

Moving from the known to the unknown, creation of devices, and prophecy of the future are the distinguishing features of human species. Throughout the course of history only mankind has been able to comprehend the world and interpret its natural and historical events. On the other hand, the scientific discovery has been possible because the Creator

Electrocardiogram (ECG) based biometric matching suffers from high misclassification error with lower sampling frequency data. This situation may lead to an unreliable and vulnerable identity authentication process in high security applications. In this paper, quality enhancement techniques for ECG data with low sampling frequency has been proposed

The Federal Constitution is the basic document that provides the legal framework of Malaysia. In understanding Syariah courts, it is pertinent to examine the constitutional position of the courts. There is evidence of confusion in case law and scholarship writings regarding the issue for instance where some writers describing the Syariah courts as

In discussing about the administration of Islamic law in Malaysia, one could not avoid but to discuss Syariah courts since Malaysia has adopted the model of parallel court system in applying Islamic law. Not much materials could be found on the courts in existence in the early history of Malaysia. However, looking at the development of Syariah cour

Legal monism namely the idea that there must be one centralised legal system in a state has captivated the legal discourse in the West. The followers of this legal thinking in this part of the world have rehashed the same world view which believes that parallel legal orders would produce uncertainty, inequality and injustice. We could relate such a