Janet Holmes defines a compliment as “a speech act which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than the speaker, usually the person addressed, for some „good‟ (possession, characteristic, skill, etc.) which is positively valued by the speaker and the hearer” (485). Compliments vary from one culture to another. As sugge

The pedagogy that responds to the Islamic philosophy is designed to produce better quality of intellectuals, professionals and scholars whose practice/work always refers to the teaching of Islam. Thus, the Islamic values stressed at both the kulliyyahs (faculties) and departmental levels are anticipated to produce insan (human) with acceptable adab

The pedagogy that responds to the Islamic philosophy is designed to produce better quality of intellectuals, professionals and scholars in the sense that the graduates are able to practise their work in accordance to the teaching of Islam. Thus, the Islamic values taught or stressed at both kulliyyahs (faculties) and departmental levels are hoped t

This paper presents the techniques of teaching sustainability in the design studio of the first year by integrating the principles of Islam and ecology. The basis to both principles has been clearly defined in the course outline under the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) Programme. The pedagogy of the design studio has adopted holistic educ

The concept of tragedy is a prevalent theme in Shakespearean works. Al-Attas (1993), one of the renowned Muslim scholars, however, emphasizes that this concept is foreign to Muslims and needs to be eliminated from western texts. Employing al-Attas’s methodology of Islamization of knowledge, Macbeth, the shortest but the most intense Shakespearean

The main aim of this paper is to present on the issues of evaluating the retrieval performance of the multi-script indexing of translated texts of al-Quran. Translations of al-Quran has played a major role in the recitation of al-Quran in its original texts and understanding through the translated words, among the public. Even in querying, non-Arab

Pharmaceutical promotion IS persuaSIve communication (World Health Organization, 2010) which often creates the impression of superior efficacy of a medicine, \vithout a\vareness of the health professionals (Mansfield & Henry, 2004). Doctors often use pharmaceutical promotion as a source of medicines information (Fischer et a1., 2009~ McKinney e

Information on medicines provided to doctors should be of high quality to support the quality use of medicines. Pharmaceutical promotion is used by pharmaceutical companies to disseminate information about their medicines to doctors. Although the companies claim that promotion offers evidence-based information, research shows that pharmaceutical pr

Muslim scholars advocate that Islamic values should be inculcated in every discipline. English language teaching is no exception as it has been infused with the values of the West, as reflected in Western instructional materials. This is inevitable as language is a carrier of culture and therefore, language and culture are intertwined and inseparab

يهدف هذا البحث إلى إثبات سمة للشريعة الإسلامية، وهي تعدد الآراء والمذاهب، وهذه السمة تزود الشريعة بالسعة والمرونة، فتستطيع أن تعطي حلولا مناسبة لكل الظروف والأحوال. ويفند رأي أن هذا التعدد في