Modern Islamic family laws in the form of statutory codified fiqh, dated back to Ottoman Law of Family Rights 1917, supposedly was initiated with the prime purpose of overcoming certain juristic doctrines disfavoring women. Nevertheless, from the female perspective, such a statesponsored approach has failed to ameliorate the conditions of women t

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The successive rounds of multilateral trade negotiations have resulted in significant tariff reductions in many countries. Malaysia is no exception as the applied most-favoured-nation tariff rate in her agricultural sector in 2009 is relatively low, averaging at 2.8 percent.Despite the reduction in tariff barrier, the incidence of non-tariff barrie

The successive rounds of multilateral trade negotiations have resulted in significant tariff reductions in many countries. Malaysia is no exception as its trade weighted average tariff rate in 2008 is relatively low at 6.3 percent. Despite the reduction in tariff barrier, the incidence of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in the country’s manufacturing

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Malaysia is a federation ofthinccn Slales.'ll has a total land mass of 329.847 square kilometCTS separated by the South China Sea into two region", namely. Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo.' Mala)'Sia has a di\'l'rs~y ofI'llIC.'CS in a population ofabout 28,5 million in 2010 ofwhich 22,5 million are in the Pe

Development has been, and is, a central concern for many countries for the most part ofthe 20th Century. Over the decades, development has taken a much wider and holistic approach. In 1999 the World Bank introduced the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) which stated that development should be viewed as a multi-dimensional process that covere

This book presents a juridical analytical evaluation of the issues pertaining to zakah as raised and debated by academics with interest on the subject in contemporary time. In articulating these issues from the fiqh perspective, it argues that any discussion of the jurisprudence of zakah based on economic imperatives cannot and should not supersede

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is entrusted by the UNCLOS 1982 with the authority to settle disputes concerning the law of the sea. Although these disputes may be brought to other international courts and tribunals, ITLOS has a core competence to deal with all disputes submitted to it under the Convention. As an internati

This paper analyzes the role and significance of service sector in terms of its contribution to employment in Malaysia. It also discusses the goals of New Economic Policy (NEP) in restructuring the social fabric and employment patterns. A two-sector model is adopted to analyze the growth of service sector in Malaysia. The findings indicate that the