There is a tendency to regard (English) literature as beyond the pale of religion and conventional morality. Advocates of the postulates of the art for art’s sake school are perhaps predisposed to dismiss academic endeavours of relating Islam to literary discussion. This is despite the fact that there are millions of Muslim students of English li

Marie Carmichael Stopes‟ identity as the pioneer of family planning may come as a shock to many Muslims who regard contraceptive practices as forbidden. Her most influential book Married Love (1918) may cause a double fold negative impression among them as it is both a manual of sexual intercourse and a treatise of birth-control campaign. It puts

Before English literature was given institutional prominence as a subject of study in the colony, Christian missionary activities – that combine religious and educational endeavors – had been used as a tool to desensitize the colonized to the horrors and dehumanizing effects of colonial expansionism. Later, as Terry Eagleton maintains, religion

There is a strong commonality between Islam and the humanities and social sciences in the sense that both encompass heterogeneous aspects of human life and its conditions and experiences. However, divergence between these two entities is palpable, as the conventional humanities and social sciences look at life from a secular perspective. Some disci

In Heterogeneous Network (HetNet), the femtocell (HeNB) has been deployed by the telecommunication industries to provide extensive coverage as well as capacity in an indoor. These HeNBs are Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) which is randomly used in co-channel with macrocell (MeNB) and causes the Co-Tier Interference (CTI) in OFDMA. The effect of CT

The research book has found that both Bangladesh and Malaysia have maintained vibrant party systems throughout their history, though in the case of Bangladesh party politics have experienced military constraints for about a decade. Comparatively, Malaysian political parties maintain a better profile compared to their counterparts in Bangladesh. In

Polycarbonate (PC) material has a variety of applications which offers high resistance to impact loadings. Perforation performance of a projectile striking a PC target is the main character that determines the resistance capability of PC mate-rial. There are three methods to investigate the PC penetration trajectories such as experimental test, num

Sustainability of Waqf institutions for poverty alleviation depends directly or indirectly on the donations received from the donors and the awareness of the society. This conceptual paper is an attempt to construct a model of stakeholder trust that could provide valuable insight on the issues that should be focused by the regulators, the mutawalli

Recently, femtocells (HeNBs) are deployed in heterogeneous network (HetNets) attributable to the addition of coverage, capacity and impeccable spectrum efficiency in private buildings/office complexes surroundings. This unplanned placement of HeNBs creates co-channel interference (CCI) in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). As a

Haddul kifayah can be referred to as a tool applied by administrators of zakat in determining if a particular household is considered as either asnaf faqr or asnaf miskin and subsequently in determining the amount of zakat assistance to be provided to the household. There are various components that form the haddul kifayah among them is the provisi