This paper examines the impact of democracy and democratization on contemporary Muslim societies. The institutional and philosophical approaches to democracy and democratization are inseparable. The paper investigates the relationship between the philosophical dimension of Western democracy and the Muslim philosophy of life and concludes that the d
Nowadays, most Higher Education Institutions(HEI) rely on Information and Communication Technology(ICT) for all aspects of their activities such as administration, teaching, learning and research services. Even though the adoption of ICT in higher education has been extensive since mid 1990s, it has failed to produce the radical changes in learning
Classical jurists have rigorously studied siyar (the foreign policy of the Islamic state), describing the nature of the principles and norms that influenced the formulation of siyar. On the basis of these principles and norms, the jurists formulated rulings to describe the nature of the relationship of the Islamic state with others. This study exam
This paper presents the design of two different H∞ robust controllers for a single axis positioning system via two different schemes; The 2 H∞ robust controller, which is suitable for accurate tracking performance and an integrator-H∞ robust controller which can also be tuned for accurate tracking. However, each approach has some certain feat
This introduction examines the various aspects of short stories written by Asian and diasporic writers from different Asian societies in the English language. It also introduces the authors and stories in the collection. Furthermore, the introduction focuses on the past, present and future of literature in English in the Asian societies or among tr
