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

This research on low-cost housing is a detailed socio-cultural background of the people living in the apartment-housing in Malaysian context. Purposefully, this research has been done to explore the housing situation in two low-cost apartments located in Gombak, Kuala Lumpur having based on a sample survey of 60 households who were interviewed and

The development and advancement of electronic banking (e-banking) had raised the level competitiveness in the market for financial products and services. More and more banks and other financial institutions adopted such technology to improve service quality and enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty. Despite the increasing number e-banking users

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between sense of community and English perceived learning in the social networking site-Facebook. 27 students from multiple nationalities who were members of English learning page participated in this study. The data were obtained via an online questionnaire with three scal

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

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

Functional life of a zinc oxide arrester block is largely dependent on its energy absorption capability which is an important characteristic in ensuring enhanced reliability of a surge protection system. An arrester block is usually cylindrical in shape with two flat surfaces. Injected energy from the stroke of transient electrical surge into the a

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the outcome of the nonsurgical perio¬dontal treatment in terms of its effect on the hs-CRP and ESR in consecutive subjects diagnosed with chronic periodontitis in order to improve sensitivity and specificity. Methods: 25 systematically healthy subjects diagnosed with chronic periodon¬titis were recr

This study is an alternative plan for temporary replacement of Arabic Placement Test (APT) that could not be implemented during the Movement Control Order (MCO) in the year 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic. The APT is an instrument used to identify students’ proficiency levels in Arabic language and to place them into Quranic Language levels accordi

The design and off-design studies of hypersonic air-breathing engines face many challenges because of the complexity of their internal flows. Mixing and combustion processes in Supersonic-Combustion Ramjet (scramjet) engines involve complicated aerothermochemical features such as interactions between shock-waves and boundary-layer, shock induced-co