This study investigates the factors determining consumers’ acceptance of takaful (Islamic insurance) in Nigeria. The main objective is to explore the Shariah view, price, service quality, attitude, awareness, subjective norm, and perceived behavior control of Nigerian citizens towards the acceptance of takaful services in the country. One of the

Saraf or Morphology is one of the branches of knowledge in Arabic Linguistic. Towards Technology 4.0 or known as Fourth Industrial Revolutions, the Internet of Things, the researcher believes that, learning Arabic morphology through the design of a computer assisted program by using multimedia via the World Wide Web would greatly help student in le

Wa‘d (promise) is a concept that is frequently applied in various Islamic financial products. Although this concept has been used widely in Islamic financial products, as a result of the arising Sharī‘ah issues, wa‘d especially wa‘d mulzim (binding promise) in some contemporary practices towards contracts of Islamic financial products, rem

Background: Urinary incontinence (UI) demonstrates major prevalence in women of different population groups. Reduced quality of life (QOL) is observed due to incontinence problems. Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI-6) and Incontinence Impact Quality of Life (IIQ-7) are useful disease-specific questionnaires evaluating the impact of urinary inconti

Malaria remains pandemic globally and continues to threaten half of the current world’s population. In Malaysia, most malaria-related cases are now caused by Plasmodium knowlesi, an emerging zoonotic monkeyborne parasite, which is potentially fatal if remains untreated. Improved strategy in drug discovery is extremely important due to the develop

Emerging technologies in cloud environment have not only increased its use but also posed some severe issues. These issues can cause considerable harm not only to data storage but also to the large amount of data in distributed file structure which are being used in collaborative sharing. The data sharing technique in the cloud is prone to many fla

This paper delves in an aspect of monetary economics, addressing its Islamic wing in general and dinar advocates in particular. It argues that calls to reinstitution of dinar currencies are not only anachronistic and unnecessary, but also counter-productive and potentially unislamic. It further posits that regardless of nature of economy, legal ten

Rehabilitation of river ecosystems is generally initiated when a river is no longer able to provide benefits to humans and other living beings. The major purposes of river rehabilitation projects are improving water quality, conserving nature, rehabilitating fisheries and riparian habitats, flood mitigation, and creating recreational opportunities.

demographic factors such as location, engagement of tax agent, size and type of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) industry in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, using proprietary tax audit data from the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (IRBM) on the 2011 tax returns of SMEs, the authors run a multiple regression analy

In this study, we employ data envelopment analysis to assess the technical efficiency andperformance of real estate investment trusts (REITs) in Singapore, for the years 2009 through 2013. We apply the Malmquist Productivity Index to express the productivity change of the REITs over time. We find that whilst most REITs have experienced efficiency i